'Time to devolve policing in Wales', says former top cop
It is time to devolve policing in Wales to the Welsh Government, according to the former Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Dr Timothy Brain. Dr Brain will put the case for devolving policing in a guest lecture at the Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs Annual lecture which is being organised by the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University on Thursday 23 February. The lecture takes place at 7.00 p.m. in room C22 in the University’s Hugh Owen Building. Speaking ahead of the lecture, Dr Brain said: “The decision not to devolve policing may have been sound enough when devolution first happened, but with the maturity of the Welsh Government, which after all looks after such important functions as health and education, there is no longer any reason for not devolving policing as well.” “The arguments against no longer stack up. England and Wales share the same legal system, but that’s no reason for not devolving policing, especially since the Ministry of Justice has ...