Cairn Frederick Newton (6 April 1991), known as Cairn Newton-Evans, is a former Welsh volunteer police officer and academic.

Personal life

Newton-Evans was born in

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, and was brought up in the former coal mining Amman Valley in

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, attending Brynamman County Primary School and Ysgol Dyffryn Aman (Amman Valley School). After graduating from

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(now University of Wales Trinity Saint David) with a HND in Technical Theatre and working for theatre companies such as

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, Volcano Theatre Company and Swansea City Opera, Newton-Evans married Dafydd Llyr Evans on 14 August 2015.

Career

Newton-Evans joined the Special Constabulary after being the victim of a violent homophobic hate crime which left him requiring surgery to fix his injuries and was Chief Officer of

Dyfed-Powys Police Dyfed-Powys Police (; DPP) is the territorial police force in Wales policing Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire (which make up the former administrative area of Dyfed) and the unitary authority of Powys (covering Brecknockshire, Ra ...

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before being forced to resign under gross misconduct charges after an investigation by the Dyfed-Powys Police Professional Standards Department in November 2019 found he had sexually assaulted a number of colleagues during a night out on 8 November 2019. He is banned from serving in the police in the future. After graduating with a first class honours degree in Law and Public Services, Newton-Evans worked as a lecturer in Law, Policing and Public Services at

University of Wales Trinity Saint David The University of Wales Trinity Saint David () is a public university with three main campuses in South West Wales, in Carmarthen, Lampeter and Swansea, a fourth campus in London, and learning centres in Cardiff, and Birmingham. The university ...

until June 2020.

Awards

In 2012, Newton-Evans was awarded for an Outstanding Contribution to Policing at the All-Wales Special Constabulary Awards for his work in engaging with diverse communities across a large rural area within South West Wales. In 2015, he was recognised for great and valuable services to the communities of the Shrievalty of

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for his continued work alongside the police service and the LGBT community across the Dyfed-Powys Police area of Wales. In 2017, he was the proud recipient of the Welsh Government’s St David Award for Citizenship in the National Awards for Wales and returned in 2018 and 2019 to join the St David Award's advisory committee on behalf of the First Minister of Wales. On 28 December 2018 he was the honoured to have been gazetted as the recipient of a British Empire Medal in the 2019 New Year Honours List for services to Policing and the LGBT Community across Wales and joined the list of British Special Constables awarded honours by the sovereign.

Honours

References

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