Mayor Dave Hodgson has launched a high profile campaign to stop our local police force being subsumed within a larger merged force. He fears that residents of Bedford Borough won't get a police service that puts our local needs first.

Plans are being drawn up to merge Bedfordshire police with Hertfordshire. It is thought that a second stage could even be a further merger with Cambridgeshire.

Dave Hodgson said “I want us to have a Bedfordshire Police Force that puts tackling crime and antisocial behaviour in Bedfordshire first. Decisions about what policing we need should be made here, not in Hertfordshire. We don't want to lose police officers to deal with problems in Hertfordshire.”

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