After the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974 it was renamed Leicestershire Constabulary.

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

[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.