I had a visit many years ago when I gained the retirement extension from a Non-O, I have never seen them since.
Friendly, polite and why shouldn't they be? No reason to be any other, some here are afraid of their own shadow.
Up here ' in the sticks ' it's also common place for uniform police to have photographs taken outside bars and restaurants in the evening,
No, they aren't chasing drink drivers or taking registration plates of customers, they are merely proving to their boss that they have been out and done their jobs, duty and inspections as required.
The only point I am making is that sometimes, as Westerners, we read too much into their actions when most of the time they are innocent and just have a different way of doing things.