



‘Peelers to Pandas’
An Illustrated History
of the
Leicester City Police
(Breedon Publishing Co., 2001)
ISBN 1 85983 231 8
Peelers to Pandas provides a definitive history of the Leicester Borough and City Police Force from it’s inception in 1836 until it’s amalgamation with the Leicestershire & Rutland Constabulary in 1967 .
Packed with over 230 photographs and illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this book gives to both the casual reader and the serious researcher a fascinating insight into Leicester during the 19th and 20th centuries.
A section of over 1,300 names and service details, provides for the first time a searchable database of every officer who served in the force between 1929 and 1967.

