Constable and Sherlock

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Constable noun - A member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level.

Usage example: reported the crime to the local constable

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Sherlock and constable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sherlock" instead a noun "Constable".

Sherlock noun - A person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons.

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Constable and sherlock are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Constable" instead a noun "Sherlock".

In Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (Hollywood's horrible travesty of "The Musgrave Ritual"), Nigel Bruce's caricatured Watson is hustled out by a constable who does not believe he is Dr. Watson.

Source: And I'm the Queen of Sheba aka: And I Am The Queen Of Sheba
Most notably (although it also doubles as Characterization Marches On), Rom is described early on as "an idiot" even by Constable Odo, who has a Sherlock Holmes level of attention to detail.

Source: Genius Ditz

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