Dafydd Llywelyn (police commissioner)

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Dafydd Llywelyn
Police and Crime Commissioner
for Dyfed-Powys Police
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Preceded by Christopher Salmon
Personal details
Citizenship United Kingdom
Nationality Welsh
Political party Plaid Cymru

Dafydd Llywelyn is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician. Since May 2016, he has served as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed-Powys Police.[1]

Career

Early career

Llywelyn started his working life as a procurement officer for SONY Manufacturing UK.[2] In 2001, he joined Dyfed–Powys Police as a management information officer.[3] He moved to the Criminal Investigation Department as an analyst in 2002, and was promoted to chief analyst in 2007.[3][2] In September 2014, he was appointed a lecturer and teaching fellow in criminology at Aberystwyth University.[4][5] This appointment came through the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (the Welsh National College) which aims to increase courses taught in the Welsh-language at universities in Wales.[5]

Political career

In October 2015, it was announced that Llywelyn would be standing as the Plaid Cymru candidate for the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) at the 2016 election.[4] On 6 May 2016, he was elected PCC with a total of 75,158 votes (52,469 in the 1st round, plus 22,689 in the 2nd).[6] The turnout was 49.1%,[1] a significan increase from the 15.7% turnout at the 2012 election.[7]

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