Crims Ain't What They Used To Be

Feeling the collar of a vanished world - with skin-tight white gloves

Some trace the demise of the British way of life to the day when RAC patrolmen stopped saluting. In fact, as Police and Thieves, a marvellous two-DVD collection of historical documentaries on policing and the justice system from the vaults of the Central Office of Information (COI), shows, the rot set inwhen bobbies stopped wearing skin-tight white glov…