"bent copper" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From bent (“not straight, corrupt, dishonest”) + copper (“policeman”), a variant of cop. It could also be a pun taken from a bent copper coin.",
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          "ref": "2007, Graham Johnson, Druglord, Mainstream Publishing",
          "text": "Onay remembered that he had placed 40 kilos at the bottom of his wardrobe. That meant approximately three and a half kilos had disappeared during the police raid. Bulent kept quiet but the officers eventually found out and a bent copper was later blamed for the alleged theft.",
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          "ref": "2016 April 28, “Getting to the Truth”, in Line of Duty, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Gill Biggeloe (Polly Walker), archived from the original on 2021-05-17",
          "text": "Anticorruption is a double-edged sword. We need to find just enough bent coppers to avoid accusations of a cover-up, but not so many that the public starts to wonder if the police can be trusted.",
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          "ref": "2019, Alan Jacobs, Me? I Kill People, Troubador Publishing, page 298",
          "text": "He had always been a bent copper. He had joined the police force with the intention of being a bent copper. In that, he had been eminently successful.",
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        "(UK, informal, law enforcement) A corrupt police officer."
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          "ref": "2007, Graham Johnson, Druglord, Mainstream Publishing",
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