Woodentop

In the British Police, "Woodentop" is a slang term used by Criminal Investigation Department detectives to refer to uniformed police officers. It may be a reference to the wooden construction of a bobby's pith helmet.

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It was also the name of the one-off drama which inspired the long-running television programme The Bill.

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British Police: The British police are a group of similar but independent police services which operate in the United Kingdom. Most of these police forces operate in defined territorial areas, typically counties, groups of counties or larger metropolitan areas, but some, such as the British Transport Police, have ...

Slang: Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. It is a type of neologism. Slang can be described as deviating away from standard language use. Slang functions in two ways; the c...

Criminal Investigation Department: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of all British Police forces to which plain clothes detectives belong. It is thus distinct from the Uniformed Branch and the Special Branch. CID officers must have spent at least two years as uniformed officers before applying to transfer to ...