police", or "chief of police". Cosmonaut See Kosmonavt. County Mountie In Canada in reference to county police officers or sheriffs. Also used by truckers on their CBs to refer to county sheriffs or county police departments in the US. Crusher UK Victorian-era slang term for a police officer, from the slang term "beetle crushers" in reference to that era's heavy boots. Cuntstable Derogatory UK slang term for a police officer, a portmanteau of constable and cunt. D Danthe Slang for police officer (constables of patrol officers) in Nepal. The term is usually used as the police officers are carrying a stick with them. Ds Slang for detectives, police. Dekosuke 凸助/デコ助, Japanese derogatory slang for police. Can also refer to someone with a large/protruding forehead. Applied to police due to the large badges adorning their caps. Dibble The name of fictional police officer in the cartoon Top Cat. "Dibble" has been adopted as a British-English derogatory slang term for police officer, especially one with Greater Manchester Police Dicks Slang for detectives. Apparently originally coined in Canada and brought south by rumrunners during Prohibition. The fictional comic strip character Dick Tracy was given the first name of "Dick" in token of its being a slang expression for "detective". Dickless Tracy is used in Australia as slang for female police officers. Dirty police See also black police. Divvy Van Australian slang for police van (divisional van). The term is confined mostly to Victoria and Western Australia. Dogs Georgian and Polish slang for police; comparable with "pigs". Also a common derogative term for Hong Kong police officers. Donut Patrol or Donut Muncher Refers to unhealthy police officers in the United States. Comes from night-shift officers stopping at doughnut shops for coffee, as they often used to be the only catering establishments open all night long. Double Bubble Refers to Australian highway patrol vehicles with rotating twin blue lights. Discowägeli Derogatory Term for police car in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, loosely translated as "disco cart". Might stem from the fact that some Swiss police use two different sirens on the same car (loud for daytime, muffled for night, or one set for city and one for country corps). F Fakabát An old Hungarian term meaning "wooden-coat". The name originates from WW2 Hungarian army slang, where a wooden coat meant a box-like small wooden shelter at guard posts, just enough for a guard to step