Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 23 March 2021.
Community safety in Flintshire and across north Wales requires joined-up multi-agency working with communities themselves and the role of North Wales Police is central to this. With community safety being a devolved matter, Welsh Conservatives would continue to support and fund police community support officer numbers in Wales, working alongside the UK Conservative Government programme to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales by March 2023. How do you therefore propose to ensure partnership working between the Welsh and UK Governments on this agenda, where the actual uplift in additional police officers in England and Wales has already reached 6,620 by 31 December 2020, including 302 extra officers in Wales, and 62 in north Wales, with further increases to follow in the next two years, recognising that community safety in north Wales is entirely dependent upon north Wales's established integrated working with their adjacent partner police forces in north-west England?