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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:58:02PM +0200, Julian Stacey wrote:

> Policemen here are never seen on their own, they always go around 2 upward.

Same everywhere. Mostly for evidential reasons - they can back each other 
up, and if they're being naughty, conflicts in their stories can highlight 
their evilness when interviewed later.

The only policemen I do so walking around on their own, are funnily enough, 
the guys with the machine guns. 

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Paul Robinson