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Some names for the Police include:
- Bogies
- Bluebottles
- Fuzz
- Bill
- The Law
- Jocks or Jockey - British slang for detective
- Bobbies - named after Sir Robert Peel
- Copper
- Flatfoot - referring to the bipedal gait of a walking patrol officer. Also know as "Flatties". - 1930's
- Peeler - named after Sir Robert Peel
- Constable - from Roman days meaning "head of 


the stables".
- Tithingman (also Tithing or Hundred-man)
- Watchman
- Chancemen (Temp Police Officers or Auxiliaries)
- Charleys or Old Charlies - pejorative name for 1730's NY City watchmen
- Chut Chai (Chinese slang for Police)
- Leatherhead - late 1820's- NYPD wore outdated firemens leather hats without the front plate instead of a uniform.
- Roundsman - daytime counterpart to the night watch
- Fuzz -dates to 1929 - reference to the whiskers that police officers often had.
- 50 (pronounced five O)
- Pig
- G Men - reputedly coined by George "Machine
Gun" Kelly when captured in his bed by the FBI
- The Man
- Judy Scuffer - British slang for policewoman
- The Finest - mid 1870's ambiguous term by New Yorkers who viewed the police as corrupt
- Bear
- Smokey
- Countie Mountie
- Asphalt Cowboy
- Barney
- Lighthorse - Term assigned to Indian police in Indian Territories
- The heat
- Grunter - British slang
- Kripo - short for the German Criminal Police
- LEO
- Horney’s – Colonial day slag for Sheriff
- Gestapo - referring to the Nazi state secret police
- Po po - pronounced poe poe
- Cozzer - Hebrew word for pig used by English barrow boys 1930"s
- Dick -slang for Detective
- Dickless Tracy - Contemptuous slang for women police officers
- Dogberry - from William Shakespeare's "Much ado about Nothing"
- Keystone Kops - 1912 first appearance in film in
"Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
- Fla Yiu - Chinese slang meaning "flowery waist".
- FLIC - French slang.
- Thief-takers
- Shadows - 1850's term for detectives
- Ratelwacht - German for nightwatchman
- Gendarnes - slang in reference to a French police 
officer
- Mole - or Cave Cop referencing NYPD transit police
- The Met - slang for the London Metropolitan Police
- Patterrollers - 17th century U.S. slave patrols
- Shoofly - also Pipers - internal affairs officers (1903)
- T-Men slang for U.S. Treasury Agents