Police nicknames - affectionate or otherwise

[Scoop 0]

Now I might be putting a British slant on this in which case select other and educate me if your local lingo isnt there. Interested to know what Plice are called around the world.

I can sense Im gonna wish I hadnt asked for some of these

Edit - Also some pics for your amusement

[namgrunt 0]

many years ago
my FTO (field training officer) who was x-militart gave me my nickname
its BB as in bullet bob

when asked he said i was only officer he knew who had actually shot someone


look up where police names come from can be interesting

SHERIFF =shire riff old english

cop= constable on patrol

PIG= pride integroty guts

just a few i know of

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[masterrig 1]

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many years ago
my FTO (field training officer) who was x-militart gave me my nickname
its BB as in bullet bob

when asked he said i was only officer he knew who had actually shot someone


look up where police names come from can be interesting

SHERIFF =shire riff old english

cop= constable on patrol

PIG= pride integroty guts

just a few i know of

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Sheriff - Shire Rieve (I learned that in one of my Law Enforcement classes) He was the 'head' law enforcement for a particular area... rieve.
PIG - Pride Integrity Guts (Definition made-up by police officers in response to anti-war activists during the Viet Nam War era) My wife, is a cop and uses the term 'PIG' quite often in a 'kidding' way.


Chuck

[Mike111 0]

bobby is wicked

[wartload 0]

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SHERIFF =shire riff old english

I believe it's Shire Reave

cop= constable on patrol

May have also come from Chief of Police.

PIG= pride integroty guts

Naw ... it was plain old "pig," when applied to police in the '60s. They turned it around to that acronym.

[masterrig 1]

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SHERIFF =shire riff old english

I believe it's Shire Reave

cop= constable on patrol

May have also come from Chief of Police.

PIG= pride integroty guts

Naw ... it was plain old "pig," when applied to police in the '60s. They turned it around to that acronym.

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FWIW... I was told, COP came from an old (U.S.) slang in regards to policemen. "Like a dirty penny, they always turn-up!" Hence, copper, dirty copper, cop.


Chuck

[shropshire 0]

How can you recognise a police horse.?









It's got a cu*t in the middle of it's back

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[riggerrob 558]

cop= constable on patrol

May have also come from Chief of Police.
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[shropshire 0]

When I was in the RAF, the one thing that used to be guaranteed to piss off a Snow Drop dog handler at the main gate, was to show your ID to the partner with the most brains...... i.e the dog!



Definition of a Police Dog Handler .... (1)Dope on a Rope... (2) Brain on a chain

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[shropshire 0]

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Cop the noun is almost certainly a shortening of copper, which in turn derives from cop the verb. The London police were called bobbies, after Sir Robert Peel who advocated the creation of the Metropolitan Police Force in 1828. Copper as slang for policeman is first found in print in 1846, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The most likely explanation is that it comes from the verb "to cop" meaning to seize, capture, or snatch, dating from just over a century earlier (1704).

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[riggerrob 558]

Mounties (plural) for Royal Canadian Mounted Police

"QPs" ... as in silly little doll ...
for Quebec Provincial Police

[masterrig 1]

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cop= constable on patrol

May have also come from Chief of Police.
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FWIW... I was told, COP came from an old (U.S.) slang in regards to policemen. "Like a dirty penny, they always turn-up!" Hence, copper, dirty copper, cop.


Chuck

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Definitely "tha fuzz"

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[Scoop 0]

Hehe, reminds me of a Joke...

Two women talking to each other. One asks, "have you ever been pulled by the fuzz?" The other replies "no, but I been swung round by me tits a few times"

[fenceline 0]

Cop came from copper. Nickname recieved by police when they wore long coats with copper buttons. First called coppers, shortened to cop.

Jay