Hmm...
“Any person who, not being a constable, wears any article of police uniform in circumstances where it gives him an appearance so nearly resembling that of a member of a police force
.....(but not being a supermarket / shopping mall security guard, local authority parking attendant, medical first aid /animal cruelty voluntary aid society operative, debt recovery bailiff, private contractor prisoner transport officer, border force officer and various other rag-tag-togged lookee-likees....)
Because: just like the legislation north of the border, it all really hinges upon:
as to be calculated to deceive shall be guilty of an offence
(I *hate* to think how much more seriously complicated the whole inferentially-disinformative uniformary situation must be in North America, beyond just the UK catch-all listing above: Copoids round every corner)
Well we often end up following what the Americans do
There is a statistical & etymological inevitability about this. USE (United States English/Universal Standard English) is always a slicker, simplified, reduced-vocabulary-set more-dynamic cool younger sibling version of Bringlish. Vive la difference, as they say south of Yorkshire (but give it time, and they'll all be talking Texan).
A bugbear of mine is calling British tv shows seasons.
If you're meaning the miscalling of television "series" as a 'season', then I'm totally with you. And I'll hold-up the other end of your placard on our march. But there will eventually just be you and me...because, like 'film' or 'photograph', everyone under 40 in the Anglosphere calls them movies and pics. We're on our walking frames in the departure lounge, along with our VHS tapes, Filofaxes and senses of humour.
This one is puzzling. A police man in glasses seen since the 60s.
The inferred evidence statements from the cops allegedly spotting a ghostly police officer that was so clear they could see the three pips of his Chief Inspector rank is intriguing. Whilst this might superficially-appear to be a clincher element of confirmatory detail, I cannot help but pedantically point-out that the low-res 'shade' ghost of a British & Commonwealth Marines or Army Captain would be indistinguishable from the uniform style & epaulette rank of a Chief Inspector.
Which actually raises within me a sudden horrifying Eureka moment of insight, that is both seminally-significant and substantially off-topic:
where are the legions of military ghosts, generated in their millions from the slaughter of 1914-1945? Why is it that we tend to societally-see Roman legionaries and not the ghosts of brave long-dead uniformed Army Captains (and Corporals & all), poor Tommies getting back to Blighty just in spirit, and in final spite of the Kaiser?