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Old bill or Old Bill may refer to: . Slang for the police, used in the United Kingdom; Old Bill (comics), a cartoon character created in 1914–15 by Bruce Bairnsfather The Better 'Ole or The Romance of Old Bill, 1917 stage musical comedy based on the cartoon character
"Old Bill" and Bairnsfather himself continued in popularity between the wars. Many police officers of the time had similar facial hair, and that may have led to British police being referred to as The Old Bill. The Bill was a British t.v. series which shortened the original commonly-used phrase.
Old Bill is a fictional character created in 1914–15 by cartoonist ... One of the explanations of the origin of the London slang term Old Bill, meaning the police, ...
Bill Also Old Bill. The Bill was the title of a television police series in the UK, based in a fictional London borough. Bird US, slang for a police helicopter. See also "Ghetto Bird". Not to be confused with the UK parallel to "chicks", a more modern and now more common use of "birds." [citation needed] Bizzies
A photo of Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer, who served in Detroit Police Department's narcotics unit working with Mayor Coleman Young in 1976, in his office at the Christopher M. Wouters ...
(The Center Square) – The mother of a 12-year-old girl struck and killed by a hit and run driver three years ago was back in Olympia this week testifying in support of a bill to make hit-and-run ...
William Leasure, killer cop, still denies the big crimes, the ones that put him in prison: orchestrating the contract murders of a beauty shop employee and a jazz bassist.
The Bill was originally conceived in 1983 by Geoff McQueen, then a new television writer, as a one-off drama.McQueen had originally titled the production Old Bill. [2] It was picked up by Michael Chapman for ITV franchise holder Thames Television, who retitled it Woodentop as part of Thames's Storyboard series of one-off dramas and broadcast on ITV under the title Woodentop on 16 August 1983. [2]