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LIB DEM’S LEAFLET IS MISLEADING CLAIMS PCC BEDFORDSHIRE EDITION
COMMISSIONER CALLS ON MAYOR TO HONOUR HIS COMMITMENT TO WORK TOGETHER
THE LibEraL DEmocraTs on the borough council have been accused of dragging politics into policing bedfordshire.
Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Kathryn Holloway, is calling on the group and their leader Cllr Dave Hodgson, who is mayor, to work with her and the police force, as they promised they would. The PCC met with councillors recently, to outline her proposal to increase the policing precept by a maximum of £2 per month, per Band D home, next year, which will allow an extra 160 police constables to be recruited in the coming year. This was welcomed by all parties on the borough council, as was the intention to reintroduce community policing.
Despite this the Liberal group, through their leaflet, pretending to be a newspaper, the North Bedfordshire Observer, called on her, as a Conservative, to ask the Government for more funding. It said: “Bedfordshire has a Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner and she must also ask her Government to fund our police, at least to the same level of other forces.” Commissioner Holloway said: “I don’t drag politics into policing and I was incredulous, frankly, to read this instruction in a leaflet posted through my own door, as I have been driving the Bedfordshire Police fairer funding message home to the Government and MPs every single week for the whole of my time in office. “I formally wrote to the Mayor and asked for him and his council to write to the Chancellor before the Policing Settlement to throw their weight behind the door to back me in calling for a much better settle-
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ment for Bedfordshire Police this year yet I’ve never seen such a letter. “I have asked the Mayor to set politics aside and work fully with me and Bedfordshire Police to do
what we were both elected to do, protect the public in and around Bedford, and I trust that the two Liberal Democrat members on the panel will now attend and vote for the funding uplift this year.”
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Trust appoints new executive
THe Shuttleworth Trustees are delighted to announce the appointment of Rebecca Dalley as executive Director of the Trust. Dalley brings to the position extensive experience in fundraising, aviation and STeM based museums. As the Head of RAF Centenary Programmes at The Royal Air Force Museum, Dalley played an integral part of the HLF lottery bid and subsequent project that was the museum’s recent transformation programme. She leaves after 10 years with the RAF Museum, having held roles with IWM Duxford and the Science Museum. As executive Director at Shuttleworth, Dalley will provide day-to-day leadership to the organisation, through its visitor attraction and commercial enterprise. Working closely with the board of trustees, Dalley will develop the Trust’s business strategy to achieve its commercial plans and targets, and to fulfil its educational remit. Dalley will be taking up the Shuttleworth appointment from February 18, 2019.
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