Leicestershire Police Explained

Agencyname:Leicestershire Police
Logocaption:Leicestershire Police logo
Motto:Protecting our communities
Formedyear:1839, 1967 (merger)
Employees:3256
Budget:£169.6million
Country:United Kingdom
Countryabbr:UK
Divtype:Police area
Divname:Leicestershire, Leicester, Rutland
Map:England Police Forces (Leicestershire).svg
Sizearea:2538km2
Sizepopulation:Over 1 million
Oversightbody:
Headquarters:Enderby
Sworn:2,089 (of which 304 are Special Constables)[1]
Electeetype:Police and Crime Commissioner
Minister1name:Rupert Matthews, (CON)
Chief1name:Rob Nixon
Chief1position:Chief constable
Officetype:Local policing unit
Officename:15

Leicestershire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland in England. Its headquarters are at Enderby, Leicestershire.

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 Leicester City Police to form Leicester and Rutland Constabulary. After the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974 it was renamed Leicestershire Constabulary. In 2012 it changed to Leicestershire Police to be 'in keeping with modern policing'.[2]

In 1965, Leicestershire and Rutland Constabulary had an establishment of 748 officers and an actual strength of 659.[3]

Proposals made by the Home Secretary on 20 March 2006, would have seen the force merge with the other four East Midlands forces to form a strategic police force for the entire region. These plans were dropped in 2007.[4]

In 2015, the force attempted to carry out a covert CCTV face recognition surveillance operation at the Download Festival, 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.[5] 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.[6]

The chief constables of Leicestershire have been:[7]

Officers killed in the line of duty

See also: List of British police officers killed in the line of duty. The Police Roll of Honour Trust and Police Memorial Trust 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:[12]

Local Policing Units

The local policing units for Leicestershire Police are as follows:

City:

County:

Uniform

PEEL inspection 2022

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (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:[15]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tables for Police workforce, England and Wales . 31 March 2013 . . 29 May 2014.
  2. News: Police force slammed for 'pointless' name change . 24 October 2011 . . 21 January 2017.
  3. The Thin Blue Line, Police Council for Great Britain Staff Side Claim for Undermanning Supplements, 1965
  4. News: Police forces 'to be cut to 24' . . 20 March 2006 . 21 June 2009.
  5. Web site: Cops turn Download Festival into an ORWELLIAN SPY PARADISE . Martin . Alexander J. . 11 June 2015 . . 3 January 2016.
  6. Web site: Summaya Mughal - UK's longest serving chief constable to retire from policing - BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk.
  7. Web site: Leicestershire Police. Leicestershire Police. 15 June 2018.
  8. Web site: A centenary tribute to Frederick Goodyer, Leicester's first Chief Constable 1836-1876 . Clifford R. Stanley . Leicestershire Archeological and Historical Society . University of Leicester. 15 June 2018.
  9. Web site: Part of your community for 180 years. Leicestershire Police. 15 June 2018.
  10. Web site: Chief Constable . Leicestershire Police . 5 August 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150722012722/https://leics.police.uk/about-us/our-people/chief-constable . 22 July 2015 . dead .
  11. Web site: Chief Constable Rob Nixon QPM . Leicestershire Police . 19 December 2022.
  12. Web site: Leicestershire Constabulary and the former constituent forces . Police Roll of Honour Trust . 21 January 2017.
  13. Web site: Police display their 'new look' . 6 June 2012 . Enderby Eye . 21 January 2017.
  14. Web site: Bringing back the helmet for the Crown. 1 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220610025753/https://www.leics.police.uk/news/leicestershire/news/2022/june/bringing-back-the-helmet-for-the-crown---reintroduction-of-iconic-headgear/. 10 June 2022.
  15. Web site: PEEL 2021/22 Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy: An inspection of Leicestershire Police . . 28 April 2022 . 1 May 2022.

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