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 “well run” and “well led” (HMI Matt Parr, 7 February 2020) who declared Bedfordshire Police to now be “good’ in all areas inspected.
Holloway’s work to address serious youth violence and knife crime, including winning funding for a Violence and Exploitation Reduction Unit, for which she personally recruited the local head of emergency medicine and families of knife victims to work directly with young people, was credited with bringing about a reduction in hospital admissions: with 200 young people said to be alive or living without life changing injuries at March 2020, based on data from the previous year.
Her achievements included personally designing every aspect of a new Sexual 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.
Her office negotiated an arrangement with the Department for Work and Pensions 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.
At the final meeting of the Police and Crime Panel who held her to account, Holloway was congratulated by opposition politicians for her record as PCC, particularly with regard to her support for victims of domestic violence.
Tributes paid to outgoing PCC including from chief constable and opposition politicians Bedford Independent 2021 4.
Achievements and fighting for £16m funding - Bedfordshire Independent 23 March 2021 also praise from Labour opposition Tributes paid to outgoing PCC, Kathryn Holloway 10.