Inspector Lederle focuses on community policing in Wrexham Rural after his move from Patrol Inspector.
Lederle and Sergeant Aled Hughes are a team. They want to be visible in local neighborhoods and plan to focus on stopping crime by targeting activity to reduce it.
He has already started working with Wrexham City, handling issues around Rhos, Ponciau, and Johnstown, where there has recently been an increase in bad behavior. He says his team is now more visible, addressing recent problem behavior, and even launched something called Operation Lampoon.
Finding long-term solutions to problem acts is key for Lederle, and he wants to work with others on these solutions. This may include working with families, with the goal of supporting them too.
He is forty-seven years old and from London. Previously, he worked as a patrol inspector and has worked in various areas in the east, joining the force a year after moving.
His first job was as a response officer in Deeside. For ten years, he served in Flintshire North, during which time he was on the local policing team and looked after Deeside Industrial Park. He later became a Sergeant in Wrexham city.
After that, he moved to police the rural parts of Wrexham and also spent some time as a custody Sergeant. Afterward, he joined the OIP program, where he took on a temporary Inspector role and helped restructure the force custody suites in an improvement plan that took two years.
During the pandemic, he worked in Flintshire South as a local policing Sergeant at that time. Then, in 2021, he became a Patrol Inspector, a role he held for three and a half years.
Lederle wants the community to feel safe, knowing the area includes many types of people. Happy officers are key to good police work.
The team is talking to people and local leaders, addressing concerns from the area. They are working together to make things safer. Operation Protect is addressing domestic abuse, taking a zero-tolerance approach, and they also fight serious organized crime. They will help vulnerable adults and children who’ve been taken advantage of, ensuring officers will always do what’s right.