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rubber heels; rubber heelers noun the Metropolitan Police internal affairs division at New Scotland Yard UK From the silence and secrecy of its methods.- Just then a couple more rubber heelers comes stamping up the back stairs. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 111, 1964
- — G.F. Newman, Sir, You Bastard, p. 254, 1970
- — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 327, 1970
- I felt like a fucking rubber-heeler. Checking up on him like that. A fellow officer. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 57, 2001
- It was inevitable that we would come to the attention of CIB, the Met’s Internal Affairs Department, known within the force as the “rubber-heelers”. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 127, 2002
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