Will the real Cagney and Lacey please stand up? Top marks for banter AND public safety! Others – take heed! pic.twitter.com/eqCxo2w49J — UK Cop Humour (@UKCopHumour) January 14, 2014

A reveller who got so drunk he could barely walk woke up with more than a sore head after running into the police on his way home.

The man, known only as David, avoided a night in the cells last Saturday after two officers escorted him home and left a note explaining what had happened.

‘We found you staggering in the road on your way home from Watford,’ read the letter, written on Hertfordshire Constabulary notepaper.

‘You were so drunk we were worried you wouldn’t get home in one piece! So we gave you a lift home.


‘Please don’t get that drunk again.’



The ‘comedians’ didn’t leave their real names, instead signing the letter Cagney and Lacey, referencing the popular American TV cop drama of the same name from the 1980s.

More than 40,000 Facebook users have liked the note, written at 2:20am on January 12 and posted on the UK Cop Humour page.

It was later retweeted by the official Hertfordshire Police Twitter account, asking the real Cagney and Lacey to ‘please stand up’.