To remedy this, Murat and other general officers as well as minor agents were sent ahead and instructed to travel through South Germany in plain clothes with a view to collecting information and mastering the topography.
They were much missed, but fifteen years elapsed before Sir James Graham (then home secretary) decided to allot a few constables in plain clothes for that purpose as a tentative measure.
At 4.45 a young black was arrested outside a minicab office in Atlantic Road after a scuffle with a plain clothes police officer.
I like plain clothes but I also love the bohemian style - like lots of necklaces, and kind of loose clothing that's just real- bohemian.
