Mr Sheldon is an ex-detective inspector and a former senior lecturer in policing, criminal justice and terrorism at Teesside University.

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There's plenty in the poll - from confirmation that those who raise taxes are rarely as popular as those who spend the money raised, that Carwyn Jones is nearly as popular as Boris Johnson (more popular than Alex Salmond in Scotland comes one suggestion?) and that more people agree with, than disagree with him that policing and criminal justice should be devolved to the Assembly.

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Disarmament of paramilitary groups is meant to happen in parallel with the establishment of new political structures and a wide-ranging reform of policing, equality measures and criminal justice, which would also include the progressive disarmament of the security forces.

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