Leicestershire Police has carried out 43 warrants, arrested 38 people and made safeguarding visits to more than 20 vulnerable people during a national week of action targeting drug dealing and supply. Officers also recovered cash, drugs and weapons as a result of the warrants carried out across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland during County Lines Intensification Week from Monday 9 October to Sunday 15 October 2023. The intensification week is designed to disrupt the sup

Leicestershire police force has a new team of volunteers on horseback who have been recruited to spot and report crime in the...

A murder investigation has been launched by detectives from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) after a 59-year-old man was stabbed in Conduit Street. East Midlands Ambulance Service contacted police at approx.1930hrs to Conduit street as they were treating a patient with stab wounds at the location. A man, aged 59, was treated at the scene but sadly was pronounced dead a short time later. Police arrested a man, aged 29, near to the scene on suspicion of murder

A murder investigation has been launched by detectives from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) after a man was stabbed in Narborough Road. Police were called to the scene – between Harrow Road and Norman Street – by the East Midlands Ambulance Service at around 9.45pm yesterday (Wednesday 27 September). A man in his 50s was reported to have suffered a stab wound injury and was taken to hospital, but he was pronounced dead a short time later. Three people – an 1

Michaela Kerr is the force’s new Assistant Chief Constable (Crime, Intelligence, Criminal Justice) and joins us from Greater Manchester Police. In her 27 years in policing, ACC Kerr has spent the majority of her career in core CID roles. She joined West Midlands Police in 1996 and became a detective inspector in the Major Investigations Team and Head of Public Protection for Walsall and Wolverhampton Local Authority areas. She’s also worked in professional standards, intelli

Breaking News Police are appealing for information from the public following the death of a 48-year-old man who was found in Pluto Close, Highfields. Police were called at approx. 2pm on Sunday 13 August to reports of a seriously injured man lying in the road near to Framland House, in Pluto Close, Highfields. The ambulance service attended but sadly, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are in the process of contacting his next of kin and confirming his identity.

Four people have been found guilty of the “callous and cold-blooded” murder of two men after their car was rammed off a dual carriageway during a high-speed chase. Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, died instantly when their vehicle was rammed off the A46 near Six Hills, Leicestershire, during the early hours of 11 February last year crashing into a central reservation barrier and a tree. Mr Hussain, who was a passenger in the car, had made a 999 call just

Motorists are being reminded of the dangers of drink drug driving following the latest national figures which show that the number of...

Ease off, before it kicks off’ – the message of Leicestershire Police’s new behaviour change campaign which aims to reduce and prevent violent crime within the night time economy caused by cocaine use. Designed by police colleagues and behaviour change experts, the data-led campaign, which is aimed at men aged between 18 and 40-years-old, encourages men using cocaine on a night out to get support and take back control. Launching today (Tuesday 1 August), #CharlieIsInControl c