Felinfoel, Dafen and Swiss Valley

Inspector James Davies has over twenty years police service, most recently within Carmarthenshire at Llanelli and Carmarthen and as neighbourhood policing inspector covering the Towy-Gwendraeth area, he is also a trained police public order commander. He has previously worked in the control room at Police Headquarters in Llangunnor, and has also served in Powys and with the Metropolitan Police in London, where he worked for the first 8 years of his police career, working primarily in the West and South London areas.

Sergeant Eddie Donnelly joined Dyfed-Powys Police in 1983, He was originally posted to Llanelli where worked as a police Constable and then Detective Constable before being promoted to Sergeant at Carmarthen in 1989. Following on from this he has worked at Cross Hands, Burry Port, Llanelli, Ammanford. He was posted to Felinfoel in 2006 and then was given responsibility for both Llwynhendy and Felinfoel. At the end of May 2010 he was asked to undertake responsibility for Neighbourhood Policing for Llwynhendy and Felinfoel. He lives locally and is married with two sons.

PC Steve Kettle joined Dyfed-Powys Police in 2006 having previously served in the Metropolitan police in Hounslow borough, and beginning his policing career in Greater Manchester police in the Moss Side district. Before policing, Steve worked for the Benefits Agency and was a scuba dive instructor. The majority of Steve’s service has been on response teams, but he has also worked on crime squads and CID in London tackling street crime, drugs and burglary. Steve was initially posted to Llanelli town, but in early 2007 went to Felinfoel. He says “Having worked in the area for the past few years as a response officer, I am aware of the problems and issues affecting the community. For me, this is what policing is all about - speaking to people in the community and working with them and partner agencies to make the community a better and safer place to live.”

PCSO Gary Payne joined Dyfed-Powys Police in 1985 and was posted to Llanelli. After several years he became a member of CID at Llanelli and remained in that department until he was promoted to uniform sergeant and then served in the Carmarthen / Llanelli / Ammanford areas, in various operational roles. He retired from the police in March 2010 and rejoined as a PCSO as he enjoys walking and talking to people in the community. He is a keen rugby supporter and supports the Newport Gwent Dragons as he is originally from Newport.

SC Catrin Rees joined Dyfed-Powys Police in May 2006 and was first stationed in Llanelli town where she worked alongside the regular officers and assisted them with their crime enquiries and other police duties.  In April 2008, Catrin moved to Felinfoel police station where she joined the Felinfoel neighbourhood policing team.  Catrin’s full time job is as an admin officer also working within a department in Dyfed-Powys Police. She says, “Since joining the neighbourhood policing team I have enjoyed getting involved in a wide range of community initiatives such as the Blue Light Disco, property marking, crime prevention days, Special Constable recruitments days, carnivals and the Christmas lights switch-on.  I also enjoy helping to solve local issues that affect the community the most”