plainclothes's Usage Examples:

to be - but a plainclothes police officer, who is out to get them by hook or by crook.

officers carry their handguns in a visible holster, some officers such as plainclothes detectives or undercover agents, carry weapons in concealed holsters.

Only an unorthodox plainclothes detective named Mitchell (Joe Don Baker) believes that Deaney is guilty of something more than self-defense, but Chief of Police Albert Pallin (Robert Phillips) tells him that Deaney is wanted for every federal law violation in the book and is therefore FBI property.

or plainclothesman, a "shorthand" term for "paramilitary forces in civilian clothes.

African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020, when white plainclothes officers Jonathan Mattingly.

signal used by plainclothes officers of some police departments in the United States.

Harlem resident, was shot to death by Lee Van Houten, a 24-year-old plainclothes policeman, on June 12, 1985 when he was 17 years old.

squad may also refer to plainclothes police officers apprehending individuals, often in a looting situation.

plainclothes detectives or undercover agents, carry weapons in concealed holsters.

Often the plainclothes police officers will.

In 1977 Greater Manchester Police was the first English police force to deploy a plainclothes decoy squad to lure street robbers or muggers into the open.

"Detective Special" suggests, was intended to be a concealed weapon used by plainclothes police detectives.