Fair Funding for Wales’s Police Forces
By stealth, the Conservative UK Government has transferred the burden of paying for the Police from a central responsibility to local people. This is clearly unfair.
There has been a decade of Tory cuts in which Wales’s police forces have been increasingly under-funded by the Police Funding Formula at Westminster.
Wales gets less than its fair share of police funding, per head of population. The impact of this is that we in Wales have had to increase the policing element of council tax by greater than inflation, just to maintain the same services.
While policing remains in the control of the Westminster Government, Plaid Cymru will make the case that policing must be properly funded in order to do its job properly of preventing crime as well as catching and convicting criminals.
Given Cardiff’s status as a capital city, Plaid Cymru believes that there should be additional funding to recognise the higher profile events which take place there, and the security arrangements required to police these. This already happens in other UK capitals.