Quote Originally Posted by Xmarksplott View Post
100% correct about the plain clothes police.
And when they were sussed (and they were) even they did not hang about as it was made known to them .
How were customers in the bar able to know if someone was a plain-clothes officer? Because they weren't a regular, were clean-cut looking, dressed more formally than the average punter or because they were drinking alone?

It has happened to me a couple of times (wrongly accused of being a police officer). Once, was when I was drinking in the Carpenter's Arms, Rumney and the other time was when I was in the Big Windsor, down the docks. In both cases they were adamant that I WAS a copper - and no, I didn't leave...