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Another PPC candidate to be investigated after campaign material complaints

Just weeks after we revealed that complaints had been made about the use of certain images in one PCC candidate's campaign material, another is also now being investigated for...
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PCC candidates respond to Government “crack down” on retail crime

Candidates to be Bedfordshire’s next police and crime commissioner have responded to the prime minister’s action to “crack down on retail crime and protect UK high streets”. The plans announced by...
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Just four candidates for 2024 Bedfordshire PCC elections

The four candidates for next month’s Bedfordshire police and crime commissioner election have been announced. There are four candidates for the role of representing Bedfordshire...
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Lib Dems stick with Jas Parmar for PCC candidate

Bedfordshire's Liberal Democrats have re-selected Jas Parmar as their candidate in the forthcoming Police and Crime Commissioner elections in the area. The former police officer was selected for...
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Jas Parmar - Liberal Democrat Bedfordshire PCC Candidate 2021

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections: Candidate Interviews – Jas Parmar

LibDem candidate, Jas Parmar, is 63-years-old and has lived in the mid-Bedfordshire village of Clifton for over 33 years. He served as a police officer in the Metropolitan Police and as well as...
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Four-and-a-half years jail for £12,000 theft from vulnerable man and robbery of blind man

A man who plundered more than £12,000 from the post office account of a vulnerable man with learning difficulties and stole money from a blind man in the street in Bedford has been jailed for four-and-a-half years...
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Bedfordshire PCC Candidates 2021 (l-r) Jas Parmar (LD), Patrick Hamill (IND), Festus Akinbusoye (CON), David Michael MBE (LAB)

Rescheduled Police and Crime Commissioner husting to take place on Friday

To kick off our coverage of the election of Bedfordshire Police's new Police and Crime Commissioner, the Bedford Independent will be live streaming the first online husting this Friday (16 April)...
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Bedfordshire PCC Candidates 2021 (l-r) Jas Parmar (LD), Patrick Hamill (IND), Festus Akinbusoye (CON), David Michael MBE (LAB)

Husting to launch election of next Police and Crime Commissioner

On Thursday 6 May, the election of Bedfordshire’s new Police and Crime Commissioner will take place to choose Kathryn Holloway’s replacement. The 2020 election was postponed due to the global pandemic...
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Lib Dems announce Jas Parmar as PCC candidate

Former Conservative mayoral candidate, Jas Parmar has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner...
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