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Wrexham University students can now experience what it’s like to work in the custody unit of a police station thanks to a novel recycling scheme by North Wales Police and the region’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Andy Dunbobbin.

On 26 September, North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Andy Dunbobbin visited Flint High School to see how community sports sessions are being organised for young people using money taken from criminals.

North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Andy Dunbobbin has been consulting with the region’s residents since July to create a plan for North Wales Police to fight crime in the area over the next four years. The survey that will form the basis for the plan closes on Friday 27 September and the PCC is calling on residents to make sure they have their say on how they want to see their neighbourhoods policed before the end of the consultation period.

The Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales, Andy Dunbobbin, in collaboration with key partners including local authorities, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, North Wales Police, North Wales Fire & Rescue Service, probation services, and youth offending teams is today announcing that he has commissioned independent consultancy firm Wavehill to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of the serious violence funding interventions commissioned by Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) throughout North Wales since 1 September 2024.

As students start their new terms at colleges and universities across North Wales, Get Safe Online – a service commissioned by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner and North Wales Police to share helpful information and advice with the people of the area – is launching a ‘Safer Students’ campaign to encourage those in education to stay safe online.

On 27 August, Minister for Social Partnership in the Welsh Government, Jack Sargeant MS, and North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Andy Dunbobbin visited Boots on Bangor High Street to learn more about measures underway to ensure retail staff are protected from verbal and physical abuse. 

On 22 August North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Andy Dunbobbin visited CPD Bangor 1876 at their free soccer skills session in Maesgeirchen, Bangor.

North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Andy Dunbobbin and North Wales Police are holding their first ever online advice surgery via Microsoft Teams on 10 September 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm as part of the PCC's mission to bring policing closer to the people of the region.

A year ago, North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Andy Dunbobbin fulfilled a key manifesto pledge with the creation of a Victims’ Panel for North Wales. The PCC’s mission was to set up the panel to give an “opportunity for victims and survivors to tell us what can be done better and to hold the PCC, the police and wider agencies to account.

On Wednesday, July 17, Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales, Andy Dunbobbin, met representatives from Holywell Town Council at the town’s Leisure Centre to learn more about the success of their antisocial behaviour prevention project. The initiative, funded by the Your Community, Your Choice fund, has been making a positive impact on the local community for over a year.