The territorial police force for Leicestershire, England, formed in 1839 and headquartered at Enderby. Renamed Leicestershire Constabulary in 1974 (the name it held during the Narborough murders investigation) and Leicestershire Police in 2012. Its 1983 to 1987 murder inquiry, aided by roughly 5,000 voluntary blood samples, produced the first criminal conviction obtained using DNA profiling, Colin Pitchfork.
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Leicestershire Constabulary (the force's name at the time) ran the mass voluntary blood-sampling exercise, led by Detective David Baker, that led to Pitchfork's identification and conviction.
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Leicestershire Police was formed in 1839.
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Leicestershire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland in England.
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is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland in England
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In the murder inquiry, led by Detective David Baker, the DNA contained within blood samples obtained voluntarily from around 5,000 local men who willingly assisted Leicestershire Constabulary with the investigation, resulted in the exoneration of Richard Buckland, an initial suspect who had confessed to one of the crimes, and the subsequent conviction of Colin Pitchfork on January 2, 1988.
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