What is "plainclothesmen"

Usage examples of "plainclothesmen".

With looks of unspeakable resentment, the two plainclothesmen climbed into the rear.

Social relations had not improved when two plainclothesmen at last came into the foyer.

Hoddan finished his breakfast, and the bright and watchful new plainclothesmen were very much on the alert outside.

The ostentatiously loafing plainclothesmen could look in and see the waiting parcels loaded on them.

The plainclothesmen would look after the pickpockets who selected that hour to get busy.

Have uniformed chaps concentrated in Piccadilly Circus, and plainclothesmen in Soho.

Yeah, sure enough, my guy emerged, flanked by two plainclothesmen airport security?

Two plainclothesmen and three more uniformed officers were onto them before the constable was brought down.

Ryan saw the two Seventh Squad plainclothesmen in the street about twenty yards away, and beyond them a squad car with its flashers spinning blocking the intersection and the cops getting out, hurrying this way.

It was parked at the curb on the corner of Hyde and Pacific, an ordinary street cruiser with engine idling, two uniformed men in front and two plainclothesmen in the rear.

It was not pulling over to the side, it was not obeying the plainclothesmen, it was not delivering Dortmunder into their clutches.