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Plan to ‘enhance’ community policing in place by March 2025

Bedfordshire’s police and crime commissioner (PCC) said a strategy for enhancing community policing will be in place by March next year – if all goes to plan. The PCC, John Tizard...

Top cop endorses Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Plan

Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Plan is aimed at the justice system and improving it for the public, the county’s currently retired top cop has said. The police and crime commissioner (PCC)...

Robber with fake gun who broke into hotel and robbed a fast-food restaurant in Bedford jailed

A man who used an imitation firearm to carry out robberies in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, including one at a Bedford hotel, in a 26-hour crime spree has been jailed for nine years...

Bedfordshire Police officer pleads guilty to paying child for sexual services and other child sexual offences

A Bedfordshire Police officer is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to several offences involving the sexual exploitation of a child. Elliot Wright, 29, carried out the crimes while he was...

Monthly column: local policing matters

When I meet residents, community leaders and councillors in rural and urban areas across Bedfordshire one of the questions I am asked most often is along the lines of “when will have...

National Highways admits A421 will be closed for “several days” to clear 60 million litres of flood water

National Highways has admitted the A421 "is likely to remain closed for a prolonged period that could amount to several days" after heavy rain left the parts of the road submerged in flood water over...

Violence against women and girls a “national emergency” as PCC office unveils new plan

Bedfordshire’s deputy police and crime commissioner (DPCC) has said "more needs to be done" to make it easier to report violence against women after the police and crime commissioner’s (PCC) new Police and Crime Plan...

Bedfordshire Police chief constable to “retire” but will return to role in November

Bedfordshire’s chief constable will “retire” in October before returning to the post, the police and crime commissioner (PCC) has announced. Police officers usually retire after completing three decades with policing, but a scheme...

PCC urged to be realistic about what Police and Crime Plan can achieve

Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), John Tizard has been told to “tell the truth” on what he can achieve with his new plan. But the PCC says his plan needs more work...

Two arrested in connection with sexual assault on teenage girl in Addison Howard Park

Two men have been arrested in connection with an investigation into a sexual assault in Kempston that happened over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Officers from Bedfordshire Police were...

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