Commissioner calls on MPs to help police officers get back to policing

Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye called on MPs to help police officers get back to policing during evidence to a parliamentary enquiry. Mr Akinbusoye said cuts to other services had placed “unsustainable” additional demand on officers to take on “non-police police jobs” such as dealing with mental health crises, during his wide-ranging evidence to MPs […]