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Thea, I don't think 'busy' or 'plod'(for police/policeman) are in common use at all nowadays, but words live on for many years in crosswordland.

Ta Malone
Hi Trevor
Hope you are keeping fit and dry
Thea

Hi Thea
i've been neither for quite a while now.
i am dry, as in not wet tho.
hope you're good (as in well). be naughty!

The youth of today have gone transatlantic and use the charming sobriquet "feds" for our boys in blue .
I first came across "bizzy" in Merseyside/Manchester tv dramas and have heard it used on the streets of my native Newcastle.
Whilst I'm aware of "plod" I've never actually heard it used .
There are of course other terms used to describe the constabulary ...