Dust rose in dervishes across the dun-colored parade ground here, swirling around the legs of almost 60,000 uniformed men and boys from more than 7,000 villages.
Traffic police levels in England and Wales have fallen by 37% from 2002-03 to 2013-14, from almost 7,000 uniformed officers down to 4,356, while overall police numbers have dropped by 3.5%.
Their solution was to deploy almost 100 uniformed officers outside the building prior to the sit-in protesters' arrival.
A group made up of diehard SKV members, ordinary dorm dwellers, and non-student citizens of Pristina planned to stage a sit-in, and the police deployed almost 100 uniformed officers outside the building to await the protesters' arrival.
The Town Hall doors were guarded by a strong force of police, and the crowd in Hoxton Square was almost surrounded by uniformed constables.
And suddenly, within the uniform, uniformed mass, he appears.
There are about 30 uniformed cops surrounding it.
But, in a country where most police officers are still unarmed and uniformed soldiers almost always remain confined to their barracks, the actions she approved marked a break with tradition one that unnerved some liberal observers.
It's only too easy to live in New York, particularly Manhattan, and almost never see a uniformed soldier, let alone talk to one.
