Stereotypes: Policemen in US & UK

In the US there is a stereotype that police officers sit in places that sell doughnuts all night, and eat too much while they are waiting for a police job to do. In the UK the old-fashioned stereotype of a policeman is of a friendly man who walks along the street
and helps people, for example by telling them how to get to a place, or by telling them the time.

Did you know?

The term bobby is used to refer to a London policeman, from Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), Home Secretary of England, who introduced the new Police Act in 1828.