{"id":679860,"date":"2026-07-08T06:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679860\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:16:15","slug":"bedfordshire-pcc-says-safety-planning-in-place-for-universal-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679860\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedfordshire PCC says safety planning in place for Universal park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of those collaborations is the management of shotgun licences, but Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz9vnljjzzyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticised earlier this year<\/a> for &#8220;significant&#8221; backlogs in dealing with applications for those weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary found more than 2,000 unanswered emails from applicants and issued an &#8220;accelerated cause of concern&#8221; saying the collaboration&#8217;s management of licensing was not keeping the public safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tizard said: &#8220;I think we all owe a big apology to those who hold guns legally for what has been a failure of service for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased to say the backlog is falling, but needs to fall in a responsible way as we don&#8217;t want to simply issue licences quickly if we&#8217;re not making the right checks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are putting AI technology in which will help speed up the process considerably and there&#8217;s a new national firearms scheme being introduced by the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of those collaborations is the management of shotgun licences, but Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire were criticised earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}