Leicestershire Police

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Leicestershire Police
Leicestershire Police logo.svg
Leicestershire Police logo
MottoProtecting our communities
Agency overview
Formed1839, 1967 (merger)
Employees3256
Annual budget£169.6 million
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction Leicestershire, Leicester, Rutland, UK
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Map of Leicestershire Police's jurisdiction
Size2,538 km2 (980 square miles)
PopulationOver 1 million
Operational structure
Overviewed by
Headquarters Enderby
Sworn members2,089 (of which 304 are Special Constables) [1]
Police and Crime Commissioner responsible
Agency executive
  • Rob Nixon, Chief constable
Child agency
Local policing units15
Website
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Leicestershire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland in England. Its headquarters are at Enderby, Leicestershire.

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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 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

As of November 2022 the chief constable is Rob Nixon. [6] [ failed verification ]

The chief constables of Leicestershire have been: [7]

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

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An officer on patrol in 2012
Leicestershire Police Vauxhall Insignia pictured in 2019 Leicester Police - Mat Fascione (cropped).jpg
Leicestershire Police Vauxhall Insignia pictured in 2019

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]

 OutstandingGoodAdequateRequires ImprovementInadequate
2021/22 rating
  • Recording data about crime
  • Preventing crime
  • Protecting vulnerable people
  • Treatment of the public
  • Managing offenders
  • Developing a positive workplace
  • Good use of resources
  • Investigating crime
  • Responding to the public

See also

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  13. 1 2 "Police display their 'new look'". Enderby Eye. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
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