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further year beyond her term to represent the interests of policing nationally in response to the Covid pandemic, including in a national exercise as a panel specialist in communications. She is a former journalist and broadcaster who reported and presented for national news services including Sky News, ITN, LBC and The Daily and Sunday
Express before launching her own successful Crisis Communications consultancy. Drawing on her media experience and crisis management background, Holloway set about addressing the performance and reputation of Bedfordshire Police which had been assessed as the worst in Britain - uniquely âinadequateâ among the 43 forces of England and Wales - by the police watchdog. Within three years, Holloway was publicly credited along with her two chief constables of the period with a transformation of the force to one that was now âwell runâ and âwell ledâ (HMI Matt Parr, 7 February 2020) who declared Bedfordshire Police to now be âgoodâ in all areas inspected. Notably, Holloway had succeeded in persuading the Home Office, after decades of resistance, of the special policing challenges on her patch, from terrorism and gang violence to organised crime, persuading it to change the qualifications for its Special Police Grants to ease funding and staffing shortfalls to address these, winning four in succession to pay for increased officers and specific operations targeting gun crime and organised crime groups worth ÂŁ16m.
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Assaults Referral Centre for the county, siting it away from a clinical hospital setting, creating dedicated areas for child, teenage and adult victims and co-locating specialist police officers to facilitate interviews in a supportive setting to provide enhanced criminal justice outcomes for survivors of sexual abuse and assault. Holloway drove through transformations in approaches to victims of crime and offenders alike: creating a victim support service known as Signpost with both online and call centre services contacting victims within 24 hours of a crime being logged by police and an online and counselling support service for offenders, constructed with former prisoners of HMP Bedford themselves, known as Direction. Her office negotiated an arrangement with the
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to allow prisoners on release to access same day advice in person in relation to benefits and employment to help them to avoid re-offending. A priority for
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Holloway refused to be a mouthpiece for national party politics during her time as a PCC, citing her oath of impartiality and role as a spokesperson for the public locally in relation to policing and was an outspoken critic of
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