Bedfordshire Police

His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary (HMI): Roy Wilsher is HMI for Bedfordshire.

This force is in the Eastern HMICFRS policing region.

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About the force

HMICFRS’s assessment of Bedfordshire Police

Our PEEL (police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy), and other force assessments give you information about how your local police force has performed in several important areas.

In our latest assessments of Bedfordshire Police, we made the following judgments:

Good	Adequate	Requires improvement
Recording data about crime	Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully	Investigating crime
Disrupting serious organised crime	Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
	Responding to the public
	Protecting vulnerable people
	Managing offenders and suspects
	Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
	Leadership and force management

Read our other reports for Bedfordshire Police

A report into the effectiveness of vetting and counter-corruption arrangements in Bedfordshire Police – November 2022

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

477 square miles

Population

0.682m people

12% local 10 yr change

Workforce

92% frontline police officers

92% national level

3.55 per 1000 population

3.69 national level

11% 10yr change in local workforce

5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.06 per person

0.06 national level

7% Local 5 year trend

9% National 5 year trend

Cost

49p per person per day local

59p per person per day national

About the force

Bedfordshire Police provides policing services to the county of Bedfordshire. The police force area covers 477 square miles in the south east of England.

Although there are some areas of deprivation, Bedfordshire is generally affluent.

Around 0.7 million people mainly live in the urban centres which include the towns of Luton and Bedford. The resident population is ethnically very diverse, with 23 percent from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and is increased by university students and the large numbers who travel through the county each year.

The transport infrastructure includes a major airport.

More about this area – What Bedfordshire Police says

Connect with Bedfordshire Police

Bedfordshire Police website

Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s website