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In the 1980s there was a strong suspicion that the Thatcher government was about to privatise the police service. In a pre-emptive move a private security force was constructed by cloning well loved television japester Jeremy Beadle. They would be expected to either use his avuncular charm to dissuade wrongdoing, or that his keen abilities to construct complex practical jokes to thwart hardened criminals who would never even suspect he was behind their downfall until he revealed himself at the end by removing is disguise of a beard and glasses.
A few private enterprises did take up a few of these "beadles" for security but the scheme was not a real success as the wholesale police privatisation was undertaken in secret so no one would be alarmed by the fact that we are now policed by a subsidiary of Toy-R-Us. Also the cloning process was unreliable, in fact the one that was used to replace Jeremy Beadle on telly, while the real one retreated to a life of idle luxury on a private Caribbean island, had to be prematurely terminated when people started noticing the telling hand size discrepancy. The real Jeremy Beadle has since moved and now lives in an underground complex on the moon.