The Police and Crime Commissioner of Bedfordshire (Conservative), Festus Akinbusoye, has been criticised for responding to a comment on the social media platform, X (formerly...
Bedfordshire’s police and crime commissioner said that standing in next month’s parliamentary by-election has not made him a “lame duck” commissioner. By standing as a candidate in the Mid Bedfordshire...
The Bedfordshire Police and Crime Panel has recommended that the police and crime commissioner (PCC) stands down while he campaigns to be Mid-Bedfordshire’s next MP. Last week, the PCC...
I am delighted that the government approved my application for a £6m Special Grant to tackle the growing threat of organised crime gangs in our county. This is in addition to the increase in core funding...
Increasing the number of non-councillor members is one way of addressing Bedfordshire’s all-male police and crime panel, a meeting heard. But, there cannot be positive discrimination in co-opted member selection, the panel’s chair said.
The Bedfordshire...
An absence of female councillors on the Bedfordshire Police and Crime Panel is “disappointing”, a charity campaigning for gender equality and women’s rights has said. The panel challenges, scrutinises and...
Bedfordshire Police is making a conscious effort to use social media to keep the public informed on its actions, its top cop said. The force’s social media use was discussed during April’s PCC and...
As I reach the end of my second year in office as your Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), one thing has become quite apparent to me aside from the heroism of our police officers, and that is, the...
Using out-of-date information to judge the performance of Bedfordshire Police is akin to me using data from 2020 to judge Bedford Borough's performance on planning applications...
Over 100 young people have received specialist intervention as part of the police and crime commissioner’s (PCC) school absenteeism pilot, a report has said...
There is an ongoing police investigation into a suspected historic £236k fraud within the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC), a report has said. Auditors wrote in their report to the...