Winston Roddick
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Winston Roddick CB QC |
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| North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner | |
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In office 15 November 2012 – 5th May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Position Established |
| Succeeded by | Arfon Jones |
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George Winston Roddick 2 October 1940 Caernarfon, Wales |
| Political party | Independent |
George Winston Roddick, CB, QC (born 2 October 1940 in Caernarfon) is a Welsh barrister, and the former North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner. At the time he was a member of the Liberal Democrats, but ran as an independent and on election resigned from the Party. Roddick was the first person to hold the post.
Roddick was born and raised in Caernarfon, educated at the Royal Naval School Tal-Handaq, Malta and the Sir Hugh Owen Grammar School, Caernarfon.
After training and working as a police officer in Liverpool, he undertook a law degree at University College, London.
He then trained as a barrister, appointed to the bar in 1968, and then became a Crown Court recorder. One of Wales's leading barristers, he took silk in 1986, and was appointed as the first Counsel General for Wales in 1998, the most senior legal adviser to the Welsh Assembly, during which time he advised on the creation and legislative passing of the Welsh Language Act 1993.
Roddick has twice stood for the Liberal Party unsuccessfully in Parliamentary elections: in Anglesey at the 1970 general election, and in Cardiff South and Penarth in 1983. He also served as Chairman of the Welsh Liberal Party in the early 1980s.
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