Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers (a) have been recruited nationally in the last 12 months and (b) she plans to allocate to Bedfordshire constabulary in the next 12 months.

The Government is delivering on the people’s priorities by recruiting 20,000 additional police officers over the next three years.

In October 2019 Home Office confirmed officer allocations for every force in England and Wales in the first year of the uplift. Bedfordshire Police has been allocated 54 officers in year one of the uplift, to be recruited by the end of March 2021. Decisions on the allocation of officers for years two and three are yet to be taken.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift

From April 2020 the Home Office will publish quarterly updates outlining the progress on delivering the police uplift.