Why Brown Oxfords matter in the police force - The Tribune
THE uniformed services speak even before they act. Their language is not words, but turnout, bearing, manners and protocol — a grammar borrowed by the police from the Army, perfected over centuries. That grammar is now breaking. What look like small lapses — a bouquet here, a jutti there — is actually a cultural dilution that tells the citizen that we are no longer a disciplined force, but a festive crowd in khaki.