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Police Funding Formula

All of Bedfordshire's MPs met with the minister for policing on a Teams call. Image: the office of Mohammad Yasin MP

Bedfordshire MPs meet Minister for Policing to demand improved police funding formula

The inadequacy of police funding for the county of Bedfordshire was the subject of a cross-party meeting between Bedfordshire MPs, police chiefs and the Minister for Policing last month...
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Monthly column: Nobody thinks police funding formula is working

This week in Parliament, I joined fellow Bedfordshire MPs in raising the issue of Bedford’s defective police funding formula. I wrote to the Minister for Crime and Policing, Chis Philip to ask if his...
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Chief Constable Trevor Rodenhurst. Image: Bedordshire Police

Bedfordshire Police awarded “above average” funding settlement but shortfall remains

Bedfordshire Police has been awarded an above average government funding settlement, but it is still waiting to discover how much it will receive in special grants. The force’s chief constable said...
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Mid Beds Tory candidate hits back at Labour claims

Mid Bedfordshire’s Conservative by-election candidate, who is also the county’s police and crime commissioner, has hit back at comments made by Luton South MP, Rachel Hopkins...
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Monthly column: Police funding formula is stuck in the past

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...
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Conservative PCC candidate, Festus Akinbusoye

Letters: PCC’s government has created the funding gaps he’s raising Council Tax to plug

I'm pleased to see that the Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner agrees with me that his Government need to fund our force properly...
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Festus Akinbusoye at his desk when he was the Police and Crime Commissioner in Bedfordshire

PCC grateful that Bedfordshire MPs have raised force’s funding concerns in Parliament

Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has said he is grateful that the issue of inadequate funding for police has been raised in Parliament...
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“Fix police funding formula before raising council taxes” says Bedford & Kempston MP

The MP for Bedford and Kempston raised a question in the House of Commons today, urging the Policing Minister, Kit Malthouse, to commit...
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