Holding Bedfordshire police to account
Bedfordshire Police Performance
The Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information) (Amendment) Order 2021 was implemented in May 2021. This Order provides that information relating to a police force’s performance against the Government’s published national priorities for policing, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) performance reports on the force, and complaint handling must be published.
A statement on how Bedfordshire Police Force is performing in relation to key national priorities for policing.
A critical element of Home Secretary’s strategic priority for there to be a relentless focus on cutting crime are the new National Crime and Policing Measures, which set out the Government’s key national priorities on crime. These measures fall under the following headings:
- Reduce murder and other homicides
- Reduce serious violence
- Disrupt drugs supply and county lines
- Reduce neighbourhood crime
- Tackle cyber crime
- Improve satisfaction among victims – with a particular focus on victims of domestic abuse
Information and statistics about performance for Bedfordshire Police including case length, stop and search, police workforce diversity, police financial reserves, 999 performance data and comparisons to similar policing areas as well as nationwide data are below:
Digital tool gives Bedfordshire residents clearer picture of crime.
A new crime information pack which aims to give residents a clearer picture of crime in their local area was launched nationally in June 2023.
The Digital Crime and Performance Pack (DCPP) is intended to bring greater transparency and accountability to the public to understand their local police force performance.
The DCPP was first published on 13 June 2023 and includes published data on homicide, serious violence, neighbourhood crime and VAWG. Users are able to filter by time periods, view maps and graphs for all crime types and, for neighbourhood crime, view at Community Safety Partnership (CSP) level.
Updates will be provided following the publication of quarterly crime statistics by the Office of National Statistics.
You can access the Digital Crime and Performance Pack (DCPP) here.
Useful links
- Beating Crime Plan (GOV.UK)
- Data sources and comparators, including most similar groups (HMICFRS)
- Recent HMICFRS assessments of police force performance (PEEL assessments)
- Reports from HMICFRS’s rolling programme of crime data integrity inspections
- Criminal justice system (CJS) delivery data dashboard – an overview of the justice system (GOV.UK)
- Police.uk – the national website for policing (data on 999 call answering times, stop and search, workforce diversity, and crime rate data at a force and local neighbourhood level)
- Office for National Statistics
Data tables