Police in Wales can no longer attend major events or M4, deal with minor incidents on the highway warned their Chief Constable.
In an interview with BBC Wales, Barbara Wilding explains that a funding could mean loss in next year's budget, that the power could no longer afford to its current level of service from April.
Ms. Wilding explains that in England, the Highways Agency responds to incidents such as fog and debris on motorways and, that is the cost for this service from the budgets of the police - but Welsh Assembly had not ?2 million approved costs for setting up a similar agency for Wales.
"I decided, because I know how important is the M4 to the economic well-being of Wales, we would lead on the motorway policing", said Ms. Wilding.
"So we respond to pollution, we respond to accidents on the highway."
But while Ms. Wilding made it clear, that the power which has lost last year 186 staff would continue to respond to any crime along the added: "we will be build to say a business case to the Welsh Assembly ' if to us on the motorway policing, respond to [questions like fog and debris], then have numbers for it.'"
"" "If you can't, figures for it we no longer do it."
However, a Welsh Government spokesman said WalesOnline.co.uk: "financing of police forces is not transferred and a matter for the Home Office."
"All four chief inspectors in Wales have been fully included in the latest development of the road policing manifest."
"An idea that is already proposed the conferring of powers of police to highways agencies to improve the efficiency of the road and police for law enforcement tasks freely to."
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