Leicestershire Police is the

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responsible for policing

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

and

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. Its headquarters are at

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History

Leicestershire Police was formed in 1839. In 1951 it amalgamated with Rutland Constabulary to form Leicestershire and Rutland Constabulary and in 1967 merged with

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to form Leicester and Rutland Constabulary. After the

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came into force in 1974 it was renamed Leicestershire Constabulary. In 2012 it changed to Leicestershire Police to be 'in keeping with modern policing'. In 1965, Leicestershire and Rutland Constabulary had an establishment of 748 officers and an actual strength of 659. Proposals made by the

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on 20 March 2006, would have seen the force merge with the other four

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forces to form a strategic police force for the entire region. These plans were dropped in 2007. In 2015, the force attempted to carry out a covert

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surveillance operation at the

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, in which festival-goers would have their faces compared with a database of custody images, and only informed about the surveillance afterwards. The operation was inadvertently revealed in the magazine ''Police Oracle'' before the festival took place. The aim of the operation was to identify organised gangs of pickpockets deliberately targeting festivals across Europe.

Chief constables

the chief constable is Rob Nixon. The chief constables of Leicestershire have been: * 1839–1876: Frederick Goodyer (first Chief Constable of Leicestershire) * 1876–1889: Captain Roland Vincent Sylvester Grimston * 1889–1928: Edward Holmes * 1928–1949: Major Cecil Eagles Lynch-Blosse * 1950–1972: John A Taylor * 1972–1986: Alan Goodson * 1986–1993: Michael John Hirst * 1993–1997:

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* 1997–2001: David Wyrko * 2001–2010:

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* 2010–2022: Simon Cole * 2022present: Rob Nixon

Officers killed in the line of duty

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and

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list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984, the Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers. The following officers of Leicestershire Police are listed by the Trust as having died attempting to prevent, stop or solve a crime: * PCs Bryan Reginald Moore and Andrew Carl Munn, 2002 (fatally injured when their vehicle was rammed during a

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) *

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Brian Dawson, 1975 (shot dead upon arrival at reports of a man firing into the street) *PC William Adiel Wilkinson, 1903 (shot dead in ambush by men who bore police a grudge) *PC Thomas George Barrett, 1886 (beaten to death by a man he spoke to about non-payment of a fine).

Local Policing Units

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The local policing units for Leicestershire Police are as follows: City: *

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– Mansfield House *City South – Euston Street *City East – Highfields, Keyham Lane *City West – Beaumont Leys, Hinckley Road County: *

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– Coalville * Charnwood – Loughborough * Melton &

– Melton Mowbray *

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& Blaby – Braunstone, Hinckley *

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– Market Harborough * Oadby and Wigston – Wigston

Uniform

* Black operational shirt for Constables and a blue operational shirt for PCSOs * Epaulettes (black for Officers and blue for PCSOs) showing name and collar number * Black operational combat trousers * White operational shirt for senior officers and ceremonial use *

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for constables and sergeants * Peaked hat or bowler for PCSOs * White peaked cap for officers attached to the Roads Policing Unit (RPU) * Peaked caps or bowlers for senior officers * Bump caps for all officers * Reflective or black protective body armour vest * Modular carriage system for body armour or tactical belt to carry equipment

PEEL inspection 2022

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(HMICFRS) conducts a periodic police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy (PEEL) inspection of each police service's performance. In its latest PEEL inspection, Leicestershire Police was rated as follows:

References

External links

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