PCC joins College of Policing board of directors
Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Festus Akinbusoye has been invited to join the College of Policing’s board to ‘boost professionalism, improve leadership and drive consistency’. The commissioner will join College of Policing Chief Executive Officer Andy Marsh, Lord Nick Herbert and Gwent PCC Jeff Cuthbert as a member of the College of Policing’s Board […]
Bedfordshire PCC launches innovative emergency services access terminals
PCC Festus Akinbusoye continues to deliver on community policing promises with investment in new access terminals across Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Festus Akinbusoye has launched the county’s first ‘public access terminals’ that aim to improve residents’ accessibility to policing and statutory services. Situated in key locations, the first terminal was installed in […]
Highest number join Bedfordshire Police as 999 call handlers
Bedfordshire Police has recruited its largest ever single cohort of staff into its force control room as part of Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye’s pledge to invest in improving public contact. Nineteen new police staff members have started training with the force ahead of joining the nerve centre of policing in the county where […]
Almost 200 additional police officers for Bedfordshire as PCC delivers on recruitment pledge
Bedfordshire Police has this week announced it has exceeded its three-year target to recruit more than 650 additional officers. The force has increased its base number of officers by 198 since it launched its biggest ever recruitment drive in 2020, as part of the Government’s national police uplift programme. The force celebrated surpassing the target […]
PCC sets another record investment for victim support services
PCC sets another record investment for victim support services More than £2.6 million is being put into victim support and other services by Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye this year. The funding will support a whole range of prevention and early intervention services to support victims of crime and prevent things like domestic […]
PCC hails second successful youth conference
Hundreds of teenagers have attended conferences organised by Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye this week as part of a major drive to raise awareness about issues like knife crime and violence against women and girls. Nearly 300 year nine students attended the events which were delivered in partnership with agencies such as Bedfordshire’s […]
Officers set to move to new police hub in Leighton Buzzard
The force’s community policing team is to start making the move to Bossard House over the coming weeks as the new policing facility in West Street begins to take shape.
PCC’s school absenteeism pilot helps over 100 young people
More than 100 young people have engaged with a pilot project led by Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner to help schools tackle persistent absenteeism in the county. Festus Akinbusoye has made the absenteeism project one of his flagship projects in a bid to reduce the number of young people that could become vulnerable to exploitation […]
Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye has backed efforts to tackle violence against women and girls during a national awareness week.
The Commissioner highlighted programmes such as Safer Streets as well as his increased investment in police’s Professional Standards Department to showcase his commit to improving women’s safety. This work coincides with the start of It’s Not Okay week, which launched on Monday (6 February) to raise awareness around rape and sexual abuse as well as […]
Police and Crime Panel supports increase in Council Tax
Festus Akinbusoye, Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Bedfordshire, has welcomed support from the Bedfordshire Police and Crime Panel to increase the police precept for 2023/24 Panel members from Bedford Borough Council, Luton Borough Council, Central Bedfordshire Council, and the independent members voted to increase the precept that helps to fund Bedfordshire Police with seven […]