I take a slightly different view to Tigerfish on the 'names we call ourselves' but thinking about it he is strangely right about 'Cops' ..... the Americans are 'Cops' but we never were..... not sure that would actually insult me any more than Pigs, Scuffers or a million others that assailed my ears over 30 years. Then again for both Tiger and I more than a decade has passed since we gave up the cloth so perhaps the pressure of US TV has taken its toll and 'Cops' it is?
That said there were lots of names we took on board as our own, and they were generational .... we started in the 1960s as 'Dixon' to some but I doubt that gets an airing these days; Plod perhaps being the modern one that sat easily alongside such as Trumpton for the fire brigade. Even pilots were downgraded to mere 'drivers' but I do not recall them getting hot under the collar over it.
Its not about names its about attitudes.
