‘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.