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Later in the programme, South Wales Chief Constable tells us that 70 | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
miles an hour is fast enough in motorways. | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1881 seconds | :00:42. | :32:03. | |
And what is the best way to sell Welcome to The Politics Show in | :32:03. | :32:08. | |
Welsh. Coming up, how to tap the economic potential of our young | :32:08. | :32:14. | |
people, and what would be best for the economy - .cymru or .wales? | :32:14. | :32:20. | |
First up, the recent pile-up on the M5, in which several people were -- | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
seven people were killed including a couple from Newport, has reopened | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
debates on the speed limit. The South Wales Chief Constable, Peter | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
Vaughan, has told us he believes the current 70 mph limit is working. | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
He has been talking about that and other issues which I reported, | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
Adrian Browne. My arrival at South Wales Police | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
headquarters in Bridgend came as Peter Vaughan approaches two weeks | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
-- two years heading the force. On his day -- on his first day he | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
pledged to increase confidence in the fours. Not easy with a | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
shrinking budget and police numbers falling. | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
But before we got onto the many issues facing him, my time with | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
Peter Vaughan began with a drive back to the area where he grew up, | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
served as a senior officer and lived, Merthyr Tydfil. We arrived | :33:15. | :33:21. | |
at the police station in time for an officer is briefing. | :33:21. | :33:28. | |
The beat manager's agenda includes burglaries and a sum of money | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
stolen from a safe. As the heavens open, I briefly take to the beat in | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
the town centre. Back in a nice, dry Office, local policing | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
Inspector Clare demonstrates how new technology is being used to | :33:45. | :33:50. | |
back up traditional bobbies on patrol, making it easy to ensure | :33:50. | :33:59. | |
officers are where they need to be at the right time. | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
Returning to Bridgend there is evidence of more modernisation, as | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
Peter Vaughan and his assistant proudly show me the beginnings of | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
what is to become a state of the art call centre, handling all calls | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
across the force area, another way south poles police is seeking to | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
make the service more effective as budgets get tighter. -- South Wales | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
police. I spoke to Mr Vaughan about fear of crime, plans to raise the | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
speed limit, elected police commissioners and whether policing | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
should be involved. I began by asking him what impact the loss of | :34:34. | :34:42. | |
hundreds of officers was having on the service. That is the part of my | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
job I dislike the most, they are real people with real families | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
within our communities, and since the start of the year we have 470 | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
less jobs than when we started. During this Spending Review we will | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
be almost 700 jobs fewer, and it would be disingenuous to suggest | :35:03. | :35:12. | |
this will not have an impact. I could say, I need a 20% cut, and | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
they would not have paid much attention, but I would -- I have | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
been with this organisation for a long time and in some respects we | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
do business the same way now as in 1984, and I threw my chief officer | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
is a challenge - to redesign their operation, what do we do? But then | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
you put the victim, the witness, at the centre of everything you do. | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
But in terms of the public generally, you are confident there | :35:42. | :35:50. | |
is the same effectiveness on the same -- on frontline as ever? | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
as we described, when a police officer arrest someone they will | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
take that person to the custody suite and deal with them from to | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
start to finish. The more effective they are at arresting them, the | :36:02. | :36:12. | |
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less time they spend in our communities. With our help, the | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
winners can be dealt with the Police Staff working within that | :36:16. | :36:22. | |
unit, -- the witness. What is your perception of people's risk of | :36:22. | :36:28. | |
crime, people's risk of being attacked in some form? Has saved | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
our people compare two years ago? For burglary for example, at the | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
moment there are seven forces in the country that are reducing | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
burglary faster than we are. Robbery as well - we are doing | :36:42. | :36:48. | |
really well in reducing robberies. If he were to give us an overall | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
position in terms of crimes in the area, we would hit mid- table. We | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
have not got least crime or the most crime. But the public | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
perception is a little bit different from that, and people | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
perceive that crime is high in the area at the moment. To give you an | :37:06. | :37:14. | |
example, in the Cardiff area, half of the population of the area in | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
which I police is located within Cardiff, just within its its | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
extremities. If we have more than five burglaries per day, we start | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
to get worried. And I think public perception is there will be far | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
more burglaries going on then actually go on. The message from me | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
is we are good at dealing with crime, getting better at detecting | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
more crime than ever, and we are determined to continue trying to | :37:40. | :37:45. | |
achieve that. We had that dreadful pile up on the motorway recently, | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
does that give you some reservations over plans to increase | :37:50. | :37:57. | |
the speed limit from 70 miles an hour to 80 miles an hour? It was an | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
absolutely tragic incident, and my thoughts go out to the family is of | :38:02. | :38:09. | |
those people concerned. We had a family from Newport tragically | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
caught up in that, and it is too early to say whether speed was the | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
cause of that accident or not. Within the Welsh region, the | :38:19. | :38:25. | |
southern Welsh region, we have tried different experiments with | :38:25. | :38:33. | |
Gwent Police, on the Mfor the speed was reduced to 50 miles an hour for | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
Adkins biddable amount of time -- and accidents dropped. I can see | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
why people would call for a reduced speed limit, but for me 70 works at | :38:43. | :38:53. | |
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the moment. Again, it is for Gwent Police, but we will see how the | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
various -- the variable speed limits will have an impact on | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
accident. If I am driving reasonably at 70 miles an hour, and | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
there is a pile up and I am caught up on it, I am more likely to be | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
harmed if I am doing 80 rather than 70. I think the signs of speed is | :39:16. | :39:22. | |
the faster you go, the more impact when you hit an object. -- the | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
science of speed. Personally I think 70 is OK. The plead that I | :39:26. | :39:33. | |
would give his, all too often I am driving on the road and I seek the | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
signs indicating a speed of 40 miles an hour, and people pass my | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
car at 70 or more. The signs on the motorway are there for a reason, to | :39:43. | :39:50. | |
give people advance notice of what is going on in front of them. So I | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
would recommend that when we are aware of something happening, we | :39:54. | :40:01. | |
will port advisory speed limits in, they are they for a reason. There | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
are a lot of things happening politically, one of which is | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
elected police commissioners next year. That will change things a bit. | :40:08. | :40:15. | |
What you make of it as a concept? In November next year we will have | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
a police and crime Commissioner for South Wales. But I personally | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
didn't think what we had was good with in our area, and the reason I | :40:25. | :40:31. | |
say that is that we have got seven local authorities covered by the | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
South Welsh police. Of those seven areas, but our politicians | :40:37. | :40:46. | |
representing those areas. I have got a great mix of diversity, race, | :40:46. | :40:53. | |
gender, previous experience on that Police Authority, individuals that | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
are used to working at a significant level in other | :40:56. | :41:02. | |
organisations, and that provides us with a number of touchstones. We | :41:02. | :41:09. | |
have seen that in the performance in our area improving, and our | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
inspectors regard so it was police as one of the four moths to | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
improving forces in the country. That is my staff doing their job | :41:19. | :41:25. | |
properly, and it is going to be difficult for one person to take on | :41:25. | :41:31. | |
that real mix of experience and diversity. It is an act of | :41:31. | :41:37. | |
parliament, it will happen, and my cup is normally half full, and if | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
we get the right person it will work. From the police service | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
perspective we are determined to make it work, because the stakes | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
are too high if you get it wrong. Because the people that suffer will | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
be the committees of Wales. other thing being talked about, a | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
bit more now, is the possibility of devolving the police to the | :42:00. | :42:07. | |
assembly. Would you be in favour of that. Personally, yes. It seems a | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
funny place sometimes to be one of the few public services that are | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
not devolved, and we constantly work with devolved services, the | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
fire service, the ambulance service, our local authorities, all looked | :42:21. | :42:28. | |
towards Cardiff Bay. We are not in that position at the moment, the | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
Welsh chief Constable's really enjoy the relationship we have got | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
with the assembly members within Cardiff Bay. We get a lot of access | :42:38. | :42:42. | |
to those individuals, and we are able to make our points to them in | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
a way that we wish that we could do with Parliament. There are some | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
advantages of being controlled by the Home Office, and also working | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
closely with the Welsh Government, but I personally think that we | :42:55. | :43:02. | |
would benefit from being devolved. Thank you very much. | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
That was Adrian Browne putting the questions to Peter Vaughan. Of the | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
many gloomy indicators generated by the global financial crisis, high | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
youth unemployment is a common concern. The sharp rise in the | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
jobless young has hit most countries including us here in | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
Wales. But the latest figures due next week, have fears that the | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
trend is reversed. This generation could find it harder to get on than | :43:27. | :43:33. | |
the last. James Williams reports. 330 miles from their starting point | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
in general in the North is England, a group of the young unemployed | :43:38. | :43:44. | |
completed the final leg of their epic march. Charing -- channelling | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
the spirit of the original Jarrow marchers who delivered a petition | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
to the Government of the day, the core group of 20 matches were | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
joined by hundreds of people from across the UK, to call for action | :43:57. | :44:04. | |
on rising youth unemployment. 24, an unemployed chef. If there | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
were jobs, people would be working. They were put money back into the | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
economy. The latest figures show there are more than 27,000 young | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
people in Wales on jobseeker's people in Wales on jobseeker's | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
allowance. 3,500 more than the same time last year. Of those unemployed, | :44:20. | :44:23. | |
time last year. Of those unemployed, the number claiming for more than | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
six months has increased by more than 40%, however the picture is | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
than 40%, however the picture is than 40%, however the picture is | :44:29. | :44:29. | |
than 40%, however the picture is than 40%, however the picture is | :44:29. | :44:29. | |
than 40%, however the picture is than 40%, however the picture is | :44:29. | :44:30. | |
than 40%, however the picture is complicated by the fact that at the | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
same time there are almost 30,000 same time there are almost 30,000 | :44:34. | :44:36. | |
unfilled vacancies in Wales. Not every young person finds themselves | :44:36. | :44:43. | |
in this situation. Jonathan it is a 4th year apprentice toolmaker. | :44:43. | :44:50. | |
have just finished my apprenticeship, and it was pretty | :44:50. | :44:57. | |
good. Every day is different, and I'm still learning. Happy in his | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
chosen career, Jonathan nonetheless feels that his schooldays could | :45:00. | :45:08. | |
have better prepared him for the real world. They could do with more | :45:08. | :45:14. | |
people coming in from work places, to give people experiences and get | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
people to ask questions and learn more about them. Since I left | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
school and came into working environment, it was totally | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
different to what I expected. this lack of exposure in formal | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
education to the world of work that some see as the root problem. This | :45:32. | :45:38. | |
company has been offering Apprenticeships to people -- young | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
people for all the 40 years. But they feel their needs to be a major | :45:41. | :45:47. | |
attitude changed in order to bridge the divide. 12 years ago, when the | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
Blair administration set out the target of 50% of young people going | :45:51. | :45:56. | |
to university, what it did do was reinforce some of the negative | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
behaviour that said to young people, if you do not go to higher | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
education, you have been hurriedly failed. We must get a balanced | :46:04. | :46:09. | |
message right. The head of a body representing | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
Welsh businesses also agrees that greater collaboration is needed. | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
There certainly needs to be much closer working towards the world of | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
work and employment and schools. Government can facilitate that. | :46:21. | :46:27. | |
There is a lot going on, individually between companies and | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
individual schools. A lot of employers try to offer work | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
experience to young people, but an think we need to make it more | :46:34. | :46:42. | |
systematic. Make it better quality, more vigorous. It -- so that it is | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
a bigger part of what schools feel the need to do for. | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
One factor has been the introduction of business backed | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
colleges offering technically orientated courses. There are too | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
technical colleges up and running in England, including this academy | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
in Staffordshire. But is the Welsh Government planning on introducing | :47:01. | :47:07. | |
something similar in Wales? No, we are very committed to working with | :47:07. | :47:13. | |
our further education sector, I think we have had extraordinary | :47:13. | :47:15. | |
success in further education. It has been the sector which has | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
responded most actively to the Welsh Government's agenda, and we | :47:19. | :47:22. | |
want to work closer with business to make sure we have the right | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
range of skills available. Beyond the basic skills, employers are | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
also concerned about the job readiness of young people. I am | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
concerned we have a real focus on literacy and numeracy, and also | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
that we explain to young people the importance of developing key social | :47:39. | :47:47. | |
skills, but jollity, politeness, customer services. -- punctuality. | :47:47. | :47:53. | |
Implementing these lessons will be the best -- the big test for | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
decision-makers. For the young, the March may be over, but the struggle | :47:57. | :47:59. | |
against being a lost generation continues. | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
What is in an name, especially an on-line name? There is debate over | :48:04. | :48:11. | |
what would be best for a Welsh domain name -- Carwyn Jones is | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
supporting the .cymru name all over the .wales name. He says he will | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
support the name that will bring the most benefits for Wales. | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
A domain name for Wales on the Web, is the dream for campaigners. | :48:26. | :48:33. | |
Originally there was a call for Welsh took -- Wales to adopt .cymru, | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
but Wales was overtaken by the Cayman Islands who took that domain. | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
Some campaigners are worried the .cymru address will not be favoured, | :48:43. | :48:50. | |
and .wales will be the address for the future. Can you confirm your | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
Government will only be able to accept an application that includes | :48:56. | :49:02. | |
.cymru and .wales? No, it is important week secured any domain | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
that gives the best economic boost to Wales. | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
The this has been a massive blow to the .cymru campaign. I did not | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
think I would see the date when the Prime Minister of Wales says he was | :49:16. | :49:22. | |
against having a domain, .cymru. What is the point of having a Welsh | :49:22. | :49:32. | |
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Prime Minister if he does not fight for the one thing that separates | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
people from the outside world, that shows we are a unique culture which | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
we has to which we want to share? Were what governments say they are | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
committed to supporting a top-level domain name for Wales, and that | :49:45. | :49:53. | |
they will shortly invite people to submit their proposals. One company | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
believes there may be a bilingual proposal that works. | :49:59. | :50:06. | |
Whether it is practically possible in relation to what -- Harrow | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
Internet domains are run, is another matter. It may not be | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
possible, but we will track our best to ensure that there was a | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
bilingual aspect. If it is a tall practical. | :50:19. | :50:25. | |
But what would be best for the Welsh economy - .cymru or .wales? | :50:25. | :50:31. | |
It depends on the type of organisation. In the cultural side, | :50:31. | :50:39. | |
.cymru could work very well. But in Welsh, they may want an impact on | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
tourism and heritage, and a different format may also work. It | :50:43. | :50:47. | |
will depend therefore in the organisation, the customers, | :50:47. | :50:53. | |
creating that immediate impact. We can also think of brands, and | :50:53. | :50:59. | |
mention the imagery altogether. The company hats asked the .cymru | :50:59. | :51:05. | |
campaign to work with them, but that has been refused. The final | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
proposal will be presented to the body that runs International de | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
Bains next year. It is Remembrance Sunday today, | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
with services being held across Welsh. The service at the Wales | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
National War Memorial at Cathays Park was attended by Cheryl Gillan, | :51:20. | :51:27. | |
Rodney Berman and Carwyn Jones. thing we sometimes do is forget | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
about what has happened in the past and forget the lessons that were | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
taught us in the past. We should never forget the sacrifice made by | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
so many, and use that to make sure that in the future we give our on | :51:39. | :51:44. |