Sam Bennett

Personal details:

Name

Mr Sam Bennett

ID

26849

Party

Liberal Democrats

Statement to voters

As South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, I would seek as a top priority to restore community trust, links, and engagements across the South Wales Police area.

We must restore community trust in our police force following riots in both Swansea and Cardiff over the last 5 years. I will seek to reverse cuts to funding for Anti-Social Behaviour interventions and ensure outreach in communities and schools is prioritised to build bridges across our communities, meaning our police are once more visible on our streets.

I will reduce the number of Deputy Commissioners across South Wales Police, reinvest this money in frontline policing, and campaign vigorously for policing to be devolved. These two policies will bring policing closer to the people of Wales. I will immediately launch a programme of community visits to find out what you want the police to do in your area.

It is time to take a more compassionate approach to drug offences, using the Office of Police and Crime Commissioner I will prioritise and push both governments to focus on rehabilitation programmes, an approach which would reduce repeat offending, and reduce pressure on our court system.

As your Police and Crime Commissioner, I would seek to end the use of facial recognition technology because it fundamentally breaches people’s rights to privacy and discriminates against Black, Asian and minority ethnic populations. It is more frequently used in areas of high ethnic minority populations and is poor at identifying people from these backgrounds. This technology must be shelved to restore the trust of our communities.

Prepared by Matthew Palmer (Election Agent) at 68 Brynymor Road, Gowerton, Swansea, SA4 3EZ

This statement was last updated on 19 April 2024 12:32.

Candidacies:

Contested the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales (2 May 2024)

South Wales Police Liberal Democrats
Not elected (17908 votes)
4th / 4 candidates

Contested the Swansea local election (5 May 2022)

Waterfront Liberal Democrats
Elected! (590 votes)
1st / 3 candidates

Contested the Senedd Cymru elections (Constituencies) (6 May 2021)

Swansea East Liberal Democrats
Not elected (1055 votes)
4th / 7 candidates

Contested the Senedd Cymru elections (Regions) (6 May 2021)

South Wales West Liberal Democrats List position 2

Contested the Swansea local election (6 May 2021)

Castle Liberal Democrats
Not elected (694 votes)
2nd / 9 candidates

Contested the Swansea local election (9 April 2020)

Castle (❌ cancelled) Liberal Democrats

Contested the UK Parliamentary general election (12 December 2019)

Gower Liberal Democrats
Not elected (2236 votes)
4th / 5 candidates

Contested the European Parliament (UK) elections (23 May 2019)

Wales Liberal Democrats List position 1
Not elected (113885 votes)
7th / 32 candidates

Contested the Powys County Council local election (4 May 2017)

St Mary Liberal Democrats

Links and social media:

Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/sambennettlibdem

Party candidate page

https://www.libdems.wales/police-crime-commissioners/sam-bennett

Twitter

Bennett_Sam

Wikidata

Q63929169

Demographics:

Gender

Male

Age

34 or 35 (Born: 1990)

Additional information:

Favourite biscuit

Chocolate Hobnob

Photo Credit:

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