Leicestershire Police

Leicestershire Police[2] is the territorial police force responsible for policing Leicestershire and Rutland in England. Its headquarters are at Enderby, Leicestershire.

Leicestershire Police
Leicestershire Police logo
MottoProtecting our communities
Agency overview
Formed1839, 1967 (merger)
Employees3256
Annual budget£169,600,331
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionLeicestershire, Leicester, Rutland, UK
Map of Leicestershire Police's jurisdiction.
Size2,538 km²
Population1+ million
Operational structure
HeadquartersEnderby
Sworn members2,089 (of which 304 are Special Constables)[1]
Police and Crime Commissioner responsible
Agency executive
  • Simon Cole, Chief Constable
Child agency
Local policing units15
Website
www.leics.police.uk

The current Chief Constable is Simon Cole.[3]

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'.[4]

In 1965, Leicestershire and Rutland Constabulary had an establishment of 748 officers and an actual strength of 659.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7]

Local Policing Units
An officer on patrol

The local policing units for Leicestershire Police are as follows:

City:

  • City Centre - Mansfield House
  • Euston Street - Freemen’s Common
  • Spinney Hill Park (in the Highfields)
  • Hinckley Road
  • Keyham Lane
  • Beaumont Leys
  • Loughborough
  • Market Harborough
  • Hinckley
  • Melton Mowbray

Counties:

Equipment

Aircraft

Vehicles

Firearms

Roads Policing Unit

The roads policing unit drive marked BMW 5 series estates and BMW X5s. They have various unmarked Skodas, Audis, and BMWs. They also have a number of Yamaha motorcycles.

Uniform
  • Black operational shirt for Constables and a blue operational shirt for PCSOs[8]
  • Epaulettes (black for Officers and blue for PCSO's) showing name and collar number
  • Black operational combat trousers
  • White operational shirt for senior officers and ceremonial use[8]
  • Peaked cap or PCSO flat cap (male officers)[9]
  • Custodian helmet being replaced by a baseball style bump cap
  • Pathfinder cap (female officers) being replaced by a baseball style bump cap
  • Reflective or black protective body armour vest[10]
  • Modular carriage system for body armour OR tactical belt to carry equipment

Chief Constables

Chief Constables of Leicestershire have been[11]

  • 1839–1876: Frederick Goodyer (first Chief Constable of Leicestershire)[12]
  • 1876–1889: Captain Roland Vincent Sylvester Grimston[12]
  • 1889–1928: Edward Holmes
  • 1928–1949: Major Cecil Eagles Lynch-Blosse[13]
  • 1950–1972: John A Taylor[13]
  • 1972–1986: Alan Goodson
  • 1986–1993: Michael John Hirst[13]
  • 1993–1997: Sir Keith Povey[13] (knighted in the 2001 Birthday Honours)
  • 1997–2001: David Wyrko[13]
  • 2001–2010: Sir Matthew Baggott (knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours)
  • 2010–: Simon Cole QPM

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 lists and commemorates all British police officers killed in the line of duty, and since its establishment in 1984 has erected over 38 memorials 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, since the turn of the 20th century:[14]

  • PCs Bryan Reginald Moore and Andrew Carl Munn, 2002 (fatally injured when their vehicle was rammed during a police pursuit)
  • Sergeant 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).

See also

References
  1. "Tables for Police workforce, England and Wales". Office for National Statistics. 31 March 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  2. "About Us". Leicestershire Police. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  3. "Chief Constable". Leicestershire Police. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  4. "Police force slammed for 'pointless' name change". Leicester Mercury. 24 October 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  5. The Thin Blue Line, Police Council for Great Britain Staff Side Claim for Undermanning Supplements, 1965
  6. "Police forces 'to be cut to 24'". BBC News. 20 March 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
  7. Martin, Alexander J. (11 June 2015). "Cops turn Download Festival into an ORWELLIAN SPY PARADISE". The Register. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  8. "Police display their 'new look'". Enderby Eye. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. Pinecrest
  11. "Leicestershire Police" (PDF). Leicestershire Police. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  12. Clifford R. Stanley. "A centenary tribute to Frederick Goodyer, Leicester's first Chief Constable 1836-1876" (PDF). Leicestershire Archeological and Historical Society. Retrieved 15 June 2018 – via University of Leicester.
  13. "Part of your community for 180 years" (PDF). Leicestershire Police. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  14. "Leicestershire Constabulary and the former constituent forces". Police Roll of Honour Trust. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
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