Very nice Count Bogro
takes me back to my days as a policeman in Glasgow. By the way it is very common for British police uniforms to be a mixture of dark blue and black. A lot of custodian helmets ( the bobby helmet) are still deep blue, whereas the trousers, tie and epalettes will be black. When i worked in Glasgow, we were issued two Nato style pullovers that were dark blue and everything else was black apart from my epalettes (shoulder boards). Traditionally the British police colour is dark blue or midnight blue, but stores and clothing suppliers issued clothing in black.
Abbot Hamilton