Llangennech, Bryn and Hendy

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 Ian Francis is originally from the Llanelli area and joined the Met Police in 1987 working in the south east of the city, he then transferred to Dyfed-Powys Police in May 2001.  He has worked at Carmarthen, Llwynhendy, Ammanford and Burry Port and has now been posted as the Neighbourhood Policing Sergeant covering the Llwynhendy and Felinfoel policing areas.

PC Mike Richardson transferred to Dyfed-Powys Police from West Midlands Police in 2005. He worked initially in Milford Haven before moving back to Carmarthen, where after a period working response duties he took up position of Neighbourhood Police Officer for the Llangunnor and Tregynnor area. He began his career in the health service before joining West Midlands in 2001, where he was involved with a variety of police response work in the Oldbury area of Smethwick.

PCSO Steve Lloyd joined Dyfed-Powys Police in October 2006, working from the Llwynhendy office. He previously worked as a primary school teacher in Carmarthenshire, and following a number of years in the classroom decided that it was time to change direction and become a PCSO. He says, “The role appealed to me from a number of fronts, including the fact that it would be diverse in nature, that much of my time would be spent outdoors, and also the fact that it involves meeting and addressing the needs of the community.”

Angharad Thomas was born and bred in Llanelli and attended Glan-Y-Mor Comprehensive before attending Graig College, Llanelli where she studied A Levels. On leaving College Angharad joined Dyfed-Powys Police working as a clerical officer based within the Criminal Justice Department in Carmarthen. She remained in this post for four years.

In December 2011 Angharad applied to become a Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) with Dyfed-Powys Police and commenced training in February 2012. On completion of her training course Angharad was posted to the Llanelli Rural Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) based at Llwynhendy Police Station.

Angharad’s ambition is to become a full time Police Officer and is keen to gain as much knowledge and experience as possible in her current role. Angharad said on appointment “I very much like dealing and helping people and I am keen to get involved within the local community in Llwynhendy to provide the best possible service I can to enhance their quality life.”