 In 2019-2020 the Leith High Constables Officer bearers and members, had their annual dinner on the Royal Yacht Britannia , the annual dinner continued in 2020, members and guests will next year mark 410 years of an honourable tradition.The history of the Port of Leith and the City of Edinburgh developed separately with Leith becoming a Burgh in 1833, and then, despite local opposition, amalgamating with Edinburgh in 1920.The High Constables were collaborating to resolve criminal and civil disorderly behaviour in the streets of the capital or the nearby burgh of Leith, and the in-between areas, for some two hundred years before the establishment of the current statutory Police Services.