BEDFORDSHIRE Police has defended spending more than £1 million on consultants, arguing that they are helping it deal with funding cuts.

A Freedom of Information request submitted by a member of the public has revealed that since January last year, the force spent £1.13m on employing consultancy firms to work on various projects.

Reported by Luton on Sunday. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.