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Aled Griffiths

Aled Griffiths

Head of Community Safety at Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service; road safety and fire prevention expert featured on the "My Role in The Safe System" podcast.

Jun 12, 2026

JamesHOST
5:06
Just give us some sort of idea of the challenges that come with having to look after such a big area.
5:15
Okay, well, I know the people who are listening can't look on the map, but we've got a huge map of Wales in front of us, and you can see where our stations are, and you can see the dots on the map being our locations.
5:28
We cover two-thirds of the landmass of Wales, so that itself is a challenge.
5:34
The types of stations, we've got a varying range of employees with regards to some being workers, on-call, something, we've got 224 stations, day-crowd stations.
5:46
So, again, these are all things we need to consider.
5:48
We've got some busy stretches of roads.
5:51
We've got lots of roads where motorcyclists who don't live in the Midwest Wales area, a lot of them live in Manchester, Birmingham, they come.

11 MINS LATER

JamesHOST
16:47
But what do you do ahead of that? What do you do to stop crashes happening in the first place? Because that's an area that you're much more involved with than before, isn't it?

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