Crime Detection Mugs

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

'We subpoenaed all of 'Mr. Big's' electronic messages. They're in morse code.'

"I feel like bad guys aren't as scared of me in the summer."

"It's not the first time he'd been warned about wearing a long tie when leaning over the shredder."

"That's not a knife crime initiative. That's a knife crime initiative!"

"Don't you think you're taking this whole, 'neighbourhood watch' thing a little too serious, dear?"

'Who was the murderer? Well Watson, that's the killer question.'

Fred Dinsdale - Forensic expert.

'Then my brother said he'd like to bury the hatchet...'

Before the riots/after the riots

'I'm afraid we're going to have to let you go, Richter. The crime rate has dropped.'

"The DNA sample from the mink fibres found in the suspect's car matched the DNA sample from the mink coat found at the scene of the crime, so I'm thinking, maybe these minks were twins?"

Cop Shop: Bulk, dried blood, shaved hair, ground teeth, assorted body parts and bone fragments.

'Apparently my DNA had guilt written all over it.'

Newton's Law and Order.

"I'm sorry- when you said 'bad' cop, I assumed you meant incompetent."

Dog detectives

"All the salmon has disappeared yet every door to the house was locked. Oh, it's a mystery all right."

Phone Hacking Explained - 50 p.

"According to stomach content analysis he'll be dead in half an hour."

'I have a bad feeling about this place, Watson... and I smell a rat!'

Bribery and Corruption.

Police man stands guard at a murder scene in Egyptology department of a museum.

Mystery Writing 101 - Mailbox: The butler did it, the gardener, the chauffeur.

"... and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling forensic pathologists."

"My client was across town at the time of the murder, as a quick sniff of Exhibit A will demonstrate."

"Wear a wire? Oh, no, all of our police informants have gone wireless."

"They've solved the cause of death of Richard III."

'We want more police on our streets!' 'WHAT?! Do you have any idea how dangerous it is out there?'