| Dafydd Llywelyn | |
| Office: | Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner |
| Term Start: | 12 May 2016 |
| Predecessor: | Christopher Salmon |
| Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
| Nationality: | Welsh |
Dafydd Llywelyn (born November 1976) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician. Since May 2016, he has served as the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner.[1]
Llywelyn started his working life as a procurement officer for SONY Manufacturing UK.[2] In 2001, he joined Dyfed–Powys Police as a management information officer.[3] He moved to the Criminal Investigation Department as an analyst in 2002, and was promoted to chief analyst in 2007. In September 2014, he was appointed a lecturer and teaching fellow in criminology at Aberystwyth University.[4] This appointment came through the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (the Welsh National College) which aims to increase courses taught in the Welsh-language at universities in Wales.
In October 2015, it was announced that Llywelyn would be standing as the Plaid Cymru candidate for the Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) at the 2016 election.[5] On 6 May 2016, he was elected PCC with a total of 75,158 votes (52,469 in the 1st round, plus 22,689 in the 2nd).[6] In 2024 he was re-elected with a total of 31,323 votes.[7]