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Bedfordshire's police and crime commissioner (PCC), Festus Akinbusoye. Image supplied by OPCC

Police and crime commissioner has "no regrets" about standing in by-election

Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye. Image supplied by Bedfordshire OPCC

Letter urging PCC to stand down during MP campaign was "borderline bullying"

Festus Akinbusoye

PCC should stand down while he campaigns to be new Mid Beds MP says crime panel

Beds Police and Crime Commissioner Festus Akinbusoye

More than 100 pupils get 'specialist intervention' in truancy pilot scheme

Bedfordshire Police

Maximum allowed increase agreed for Bedfordshire Police's slice of council tax

Ian Dalgarno

Money being spent on 'unnecessary' deputy police and crime commissioner

Bedfordshire police and crime commissioner Festus Akinbusoye speaks at the meeting

Pilot scheme to tackle truancy in Beds schools has 'really impressive' results

PCC Festus Akinbusoye

PCC says for 'hundredth time' SEND children won't be targeted by truancy policy

PCC Festus Akinbusoye

Bedfordshire's police and crime commissioner defends school absenteeism plan

Naloxone available here stickers (Photo by JEFF J MITCHELL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Bedfordshire Police pilot scheme to help save lives and counter drug overdoses

The PCC proudly holds his new wreath and (right) members of the community who created it. Photos: Bedfordshire Police.

Leighton Buzzard community creates special pompom wreath for PCC
'The guys making the pompoms saw the end result and thought it was pretty cool'

Community policing in Bedfordshire is understaffed

Community policing in Bedfordshire is understaffed by eight team members

Bedfordshire Police is introducing a social media academy

Social media academy set to be introduced for Bedfordshire Police

The PCC said he didn't have any say in where officers were placed

Bedfordshire's Rural Policing Team has just 7 officers and 1 sergeant

PCC Festus Akinbusoye

Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner's reports 'not good enough'

Festus Akinbusoye with Home Secretary Priti Pate during a recent visit to Bedford Academy

Festus Akinbusoye elected as the new Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner

Dr David Michael, Labour’s candidate for the Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) election

'Whatever the plan is, it isn’t working' says Labour PCC candidate about violent...

Voters will choose their first and second preferences in the Beds PCC election

Public encouraged to use postal votes in May's Bedfordshire Police & Crime Commi...

Festus Akinbusoye

Tory candidate in Bedfordshire PCC election announces plans for 12 week drug and...

Beds Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Kathryn Holloway

Have your say on Council Tax rise to help pay for £6.9m extra funding of Beds Po...

Newly elected Bedfordshire PCC Kathryn Holloway

PCC pledges to assess Leighton's fund for extra policing

Kathryn Holloway hosted a public meeting in Leighton Buzzard

Large turnout to Tory PCC candidate's meeting in Leighton Buzzard

PCC Olly Martins

PCC Olly Martins triumphs in trigger ballot to retain Labour selection

PCC Olly Martins

‘Travesty’ of funding offer says PCC Ollie

Saqhib Ali with Ed Balls

Former parliamentary candidate set to be named new deputy PCC

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More plans on joint working for police in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambri...

PCC Olly Martins has repeatedly appealed for more funding

PCC Olly Martins slams MP for ‘talking utter rubbish’ over referendum

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Beds PCC asks for ‘small’ council tax increase
Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Olly Martins is to recommend a ‘small increase’ in the amount of council tax paid for policing.

No PCC Olly Martins alongside the new Chief Constable for Bedfordshire Police, Colette Paul.

PCC ‘confident’ in new Beds Police leadership

Colette Paul.

PCC picks his choice for Beds Chief Constable

PCC: ‘I’m keeping election promises’

VIDEO: Reaction from unsuccessful PCC candidates

VIDEO: Meet police candidate Linda Jack

How clued up are you on police poll?

Police poll - who gets your vote?

Olly’s plan to prioritise policing on our streets