DYFED-Powys residents could be shaping the future of police stations this summer, by making their opinions and ideas known.

Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Christopher Salmon wants residents’ opinions as he prepares to improve the way police buildings are used.

An online survey, with images of design concepts, is now live to enable Dyfed-Powys police to discover how to change the images of stations, to make them more welcoming and more suited to the resident's needs.

The survey is announced just weeks after Dyfed Powys confirmed they would be buying Ammanford Police Station, freeing them from a crippling £21m Private Finance Initiative loan, which left it forking out some 18 per cent of its entire annual estates budget on the station.

The Foundry Road Station, had been empty for a time, with front desk services moved to a mobile "police station" but had recently re-opened to the public. The survey will allow local residents a say on the how the station will work in the future.

Mr Salmon said: “Local people know what designs will best suit their communities. Many of our police buildings aren’t welcoming places for the public; I want to change that.”

Mr Salmon is showing householders interior and exterior design concepts as part of a summer-long consultation.

They include views of police station approaches, frontages, front desks and colour schemes.

Public preferences will be considered when the Commissioner begins to roll out a long-term £15m estate strategy from the autumn.

His questions can be answered online, by post or face-to-face with the Commissioner’s staff at summer shows such as the Royal Welsh and the National Eisteddfod.

To take part in the online survey – and to see all the design concepts- visit: www.bit.ly/Survey-Summer15