Crime & Public Safety

Being the victim of crime is a shattering experience. Flintshire People’s Voice wants to see crime tackled, both before and after it occurs.

We will focus relentlessly on preventing crime by tackling its root causes. Throughout this manifesto we have set out our commitment to strengthening our communities, building our local economy, and providing opportunity for everyone. Doing so is the most effective way to reduce the number of victims of crime, because even with the best funded police force, policing is and will always be reactive to crime once it has occurred, rather than proactive in preventing it.

Our police force in North Wales is, however, not well funded. At every stage, the criminal justice system is creaking. Police patrols are absent from many of our communities, courts have long backlogs meaning victims are denied prompt closure, and after sentencing the probation service and youth justice service have been cut to the point where the aim of preventing reoffending has been lost in a desperate struggle to provide the statutory minimum level of service.

FPV is committed to supporting the adequate funding of our criminal justice system, delivering justice swiftly. An FPV-run council will press this point relentlessly to the UK Government, with whom responsibility for policing and justice lies in Wales, and will play its own part by properly funding the parts of the criminal justice system that are run by the council, such as the youth justice service.