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Safer Streets, Safer Bedfordshire
I very much welcome the government’s new Crime and Policing Bill. This will make our streets safer and provide the police with new and stronger powers and resources needed to tackle crime.
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Monthly column: Stop and Search charter
Monthly column: Stop and Search charter
Stop and Search is an important tool in policing that must be used proportionately and very carefully. When it is not, trust and confidence in the police can be seriously eroded.
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Monthly column: Striving for high standards in policing
Monthly column: Striving for high standards in policing
The Bedfordshire Police Service was inspected by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) in the autumn. This is also known as a PEEL inspection. The inspectors consider performance in nine areas of policing, and their report will be published in the next few weeks.
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Monthly column: Funding effective police services
Monthly column: Funding effective police services
As your Police and Crime Commissioner, it is my duty to ensure that our county is a safe place for all. Today, good policing is not just about the number of officers on neighbourhood teams.
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Monthly column: Time to crack down on anti-social behaviour
Monthly column: Time to crack down on anti-social behaviour
There is not a neighbourhood or village in Bedfordshire which does not experience anti-social behaviour. Frankly, this is unacceptable. No community should have to experience any form of anti-social behaviour or what some may describe as “petty crimes”.
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Monthly column: A collaborative approach to combatting retail crime
Monthly column: A collaborative approach to combatting retail crime
Theft from shops and businesses and assault on retail workers in Bedfordshire and beyond have become an epidemic that leaves staff afraid to go to work and customers afraid to shop. Town centres and shopping parades are suffering from the effect of serious and continuous shoplifting and associated anti-social behaviour. This is not tolerable.
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Monthly column: local policing matters
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 more community police officers.”
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