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⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[The Croods]

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[Elementary]

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[Final Fantasy XIII]

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[SCP Foundation]

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[Philip Seymour Hoffman]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Richard Armitage]

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[Reign]

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[The Hobbit]

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[Hunger Games]

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[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]

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[Teen Wolf]

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[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]

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i'm assuming that you mean fictional detectives?

Pls don't troll.

There's no discussion.

It's New Scotland Yard.

hth god bles

You are completely wrong! Does your poice have leather jackets?

...No didn't think so:

Are your police brave enough to patrol the streets in custodians?

Check and mate.

(also we're talking about suits - by definition they don't wear uniform)

Nah ours use caps, or hats depending, or riding helmets if they are horse patrol police.

Dude:

(I am pretty sure we call the clothes our police use in Norway a uniform... But do explain!)

Detectives don't wear uniform in the UK. Given their nature historically of being investigation focused rather than response focused they wear suits to blend in.

Alongside the fact that you have very distinct career paths of either staying in a uniform position, or going the detective route you get a pejorative division of 'suits' vs 'uniform' with all the associated headbutting and stereotypes from both sides.

Also we have those kinds of hats. You just wear them if you're going to be in a vehicle for practical reasons

Ah right, I don't even think about detectives*, I wonder if we even have 'em in Norway... Quick look at Wiki and it doesn't seem like we do... If you are in the police you are uniformed. I guess the closest we got is the ones who have studied law in addition to going to the Police Academy, but those are also uniformed.

Being in The UK it is weird for me to see so many different types of uniforms (especially the traffic police made my friend and I double take when we first saw them), as the only thing different with our uniforms are the markings on their shoulders and you don't really notice that.

How can I have grown up watching British crime shows every friday and not ever thought about the fact that you have detectives and we don't is in hindsight pretty stupid...

*Kinda embarrassing thinking of the thread title, but I just made the first comment as a joke.

Edit: I had a slight translation issue, remembered the Norwegian term for detective, then tried to figured out anything about them and it seems they go through basically the same training as the regular police and they are in uniform*. We also don't have a lot of them, and in most cases a "regular" police officer does the job, most of them work for KRIPOS (National Criminal Investigation Service).

*Except the KRIPOS ones who dresses less formally than I would imagine they would in The UK, but in at least a shirt/Jacket.

Edited 2014-02-11 01:27 (UTC)

Re: What country makes the best detectives in the world?

ill_omened - 2014-02-11 03:45 (UTC) - Expand

making_excuses - 2014-02-11 18:44 (UTC) - Expand

Sorry, but none of these uniforms hold a candle to the RCMP's red serge and big ol' hats.

South Korea, no doubt about it.

Police violence and corruption in a faux military state makes for really poor detectives.

And that legacy still remains, because very large amounts of policing is passed down through police culture which is resistant to outside influences.

If it helps, I picked it at random and was being silly.

Hurtful :(

Now if we were talking about Hong Kong you could make a decent argument, or at least a decade or so ago. Things are changing these days for the worse unfortunatley.

Not mine if the Pink Panther is anything to go by

Inspector Gadget? Wherever he's from.

He's pretty terrible at his job though. I mean, his niece is a better detective than him.

That... that was the point.

woosh

I'm sorry, I'm being dumber than usual today

It's so coolio.

It happens to me all the time. No really. Ask anyone here.

Ankh morpork, obvs.

England if you mean fictional, though the U.S. is a close runner up.

If you mean in real life, then I have no clue.

Are we talking about cops or P.I.s?

Belgium, because Hercule Poirot.

Vulcan.

Talking Quality over Quantity some of the best detectives come from all over the multiverse:

AM Produced Sam Vimes
UK Produced Sherlock Holmes
USA Produced Batman
France Produced Dupin
Canada Produced William Murdoch
Belgium Produced Hercule Poirot
Italy Produced Leonardo Da Vinci (Da Vinci's Demons. Why did no one else watch this show?!)

But overall (Quality and quantity) winner would be the USA (and I say this as a brit)

Batman
Harry Dresden
Philip Marlow
Sam Spade (Not so great at detecting, true, but uses guile and cunning to have people just reveal themselves and their role in the mystery so I think he counts)
The Continental Op
Columbo
Cole Phelps
Ed Exley
Rick Deckard (The third san fransiscian in the list... strange)
Indiana Jones (Counts I think)
Jessica Jones
Jamie Maddrox
Mystery Inc (Mostly Fred and Velma to be fair)

The list goes on.