Ex-rugby chief joins Force

Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Christopher Salmon has made two senior appointments for his Office.

Tim Burton has been recruited as Deputy Commissioner and Carys Morgans has been appointed Chief of Staff in the Commissioner’s Office. Both have started in their new roles.

Mr Burton, Executive Board member and Head of Operations for the Welsh Rugby Union Group from 2005-10, will help Mr Salmon scrutinise the way in which the region’s police force is run.

Mrs Morgans will manage the Commissioner’s Office on a day-to-day basis. She was Temporary Chief of Staff for a month having been Assistant Chief Executive of the Commissioner’s Office and of the former Dyfed-Powys Police Authority.

Both have experience of managing change at senior level.

Mr Salmon said: “My office has a pivotal role in assisting everybody across Dyfed-Powys to help the police prevent and tackle crime.

“Scrutiny of Dyfed-Powys Police will be vitally important in this process and Tim will have a major role to play in that. He brings great experience, drive and determination to succeed.

“He shares my vision for improving policing and crime prevention services. He has great imagination and enthusiasm. His appointment followed a thoroughly democratic and meritocratic recruitment process.

“A thoroughly professional support staff is crucial to me achieving my objectives and I’m confident that Carys’s organisational and leadership abilities will see her lead that team with enormous skill.

“Together, we will work on behalf of communities at a time of exciting opportunity and change in this vital public service.”

Mr Burton’s full-time role, a political appointment, was advertised on the Commissioner’s website and in other locations. It carries a salary of £53,000. Mrs Morgans’ full-time politically neutral role carries a salary of £56,580.

Both posts are accounted for in Mr Salmon’s 2013-14 Office budget of £794,000. This represents a £149,000 drop from 2011-12’s £943,000 budget of the Dyfed-Powys Police Authority, the body replaced by the Commissioner’s Office in November.