We know you like cars! Did you know that we have two response level vehicles on our fleet?

These are used for our Leicestershire Police Specials on our Safer Roads Team as well as new starters to the RPU!

This capability increases our ability to attend incidents and keep the roads safe 🚨

At Gateway College today with Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust National Highways: East Midlands Road Safety completing Road Safety talks and road traffic collision reconstructions. Great engagement and thanks for having us!

#partnership #roadsafety #community

Partnership working on the M69 this afternoon with National Highways: East Midlands following a collision. Thank you for your patience if you were caught up in the backlog…… fortunately no injuries! #teamwork #partnership SPC 5114

Tackling community #roadsafety concerns in #Leicester Adam Clarke 🌹 Melissa March 🌹 Geoff Whittle 🇺🇦 Dr Lynn Moore

Following speed enforcement in the City, the RPU Leicestershire Police Specials went to the motorway network for some speed checks! Nice to see us being spotted on Google Maps

The M1 and M69 are regularly patrolled and in 2024, will be even more visible!

Leicestershire OPCC Road Safety CC Rob Nixon QPM

Wow! Now this is a heavy one!! Officers from the Commercial Vehicle Unit stopped this van travelling on the M1. It's 89% overweight on the gross weight & 64% overweight on the rear axle! 6.6tonne in a 3.5 tonne van! £600 fine issued. #drivelegally #watchyourweight 332/179

#optramline Today a number of car and lorry driver's committing #fatal4 offences. This driver was texting looking at his mobile in a 44 tonne lorry. Driver issued ticket. @nationalHways @highwaysemids #distracteddriving

#RPU were involved in a pursuit with a vehicle in Leicestershire after a spree of Op Pioneer (tool theft from van) offences. Vehicle found abandoned but full of suspected stolen tools. Enquiries are now ongoing to identify victims.
#OpPioneer #runbutyoucanthide
#yousaidwedid 👍🏻

Yesterday a member of the #Drone team and an #RPU pilot attended a report of a missing 4 year old boy. We launched the Drone and found the little chap in less than 2 minutes!! Once located on our cameras, we talked ground units in to his location. 🙂 #result #teamwork 332/622

Leics Police Drone Team supported by the RPU deployed to a Missing Child earlier today. Within minutes of launching the Child was located by the Drone and safely re-united with parents. #PoliceDrones #OneTeam 1977

Today, as a result of Drone flying duties for a high risk missing person we had to have a 'working lunch' which involved sharing a 'picnic in the park' on the bonnet of the car ... 😃 Policing, a job like no other! #Drone #RPU #alfrescolunch 👍🏻 332/1903

Was great to attend Ocado Group Dordon for their open day! It’s great to see a logistics company with passion to deliver road safety messages! Working with their Trainers and Driving Instructors we engaged with hundreds of staff and family members #sharetheroads #A5partnership

This morning one of our #SCIU sergeants stopped a van containing a large shipment of 'coke'!! Fortunately it was Coca Cola, but the van was 45% over its maximum plated vehicle weight!! RPU issued a hefty fine to the driver & load transfered into another van! #teamwork 👍🏻 332

Our summer road safety patrols continue ( #Fatal4 ) - Officers will be out & about engaging with drivers- In meantime we are grateful for Ford UK for the use of a Mach -E demo vehicle on display at our HQ ... it isn't ours but gives a glimpse of the future? DI Kilsby - SCIU🚓

It’s great to see EMICS Dr Matt Woods be nominated for the BBC Leicester Make a Difference awards! One clear winner here! Thank you Dr Woods and the whole team at EMICS for all the work to do saving lives. Pic below is Dr Woods at work! #volunteering #goodluck

To the absolute (enter appropriate word here 😉) who threw a brick at one of our #RPU cars today during a pursuit, fortunately you're a rubbish aim and missed the windscreen & my driver's window, but remember, our cars record, so we'll hopefully catch up with you soon! 😉 👍🏻 332

A busy day for #Bshift #RPU . A fantastic 'policeman's nose' moment this afternoon led to some amazing teamwork in a pursuit and all resulting in baddies being arrested!! A great example of 'you can run but you can't hide' and us depriving criminals the use of the roads! 👍🏻😃 332

Early this morning the RPU assisted National Highways: East Midlands with a HGV driving erratically on the M1. The driver was found to be over the limit for alcohol (2.3 times the legal limit), charged and remanded to court today - banned for 20month and fined. #Fatal4 #RPU 1977

Out and about in what might be described as a vintage classic today. It's still running well though! I know VW conversions are very popular these days, but you don't see many with these sort of decals or with an extendable flood light system!! 😜 #SCIU #T5 #RPU 332

Great to see the force investing in our department’s SPC’s. We now have all our SPC’s trained in CED (Taser) so they can effectively support the department and force! 👏 #denyingcriminalsuseoftheroads