Did you notice this notice? - the police notice puzzler answers

Yesterday I set a challenge to find as many inaccuracies as possible in this notice put in the window of Isle of Dogs Police Station, in Tower Hamlets, London.

How did you do? Did you get all seven? Here they are:

1. The first mistake is in the location of the station.

Whoever wrote the notice did not realise the police station is on the Isle of Dogs, not “Dog”, despite the name being written in big letters across the top of the building.

2. Mistake number two.

Well, this is actually eight errors, but in the interest of time I have condensed them  into one.

There is no such thing as 06:00pm. There is 6pm or 18.00, but no 06:00 pm.

And by the same rule there is no 02:00pm or a 03:00pm.

3. “Please arive” - arrghh.

It’s like nails being dragged across a black board.

Do the Met really not know how to spell the word “arrive”?

4. Mistake number four.

Another 24 hour misusage - 05:45pm. Although randomly they have put both the ‘p’ and the ‘m’ in capitals instead of the bizarre ‘Pm’ in the previous box.

5. Howler number five is the best one of the lot -”to be scene”.

How one earth did this one slip through?! Although, judging by the standard of grammar so far, I don’t think this masterpiece was proof read by William Wordsworth. 

“To be seen” -surely?!

6. Goof number six.

A bit harder to spot this one, but is it still there if you look hard enough, like a truffle just waiting to be snuffled out by a eager pig.

“In a emergency” - of course it should be in an.

7. The next one is harder, and I almost forgive the Met for overlooking it ... almost.

“non-emergency” is a compound adjective and so should be hyphenated.

That’s seven altogether, two more than I first spotted when I posted the picture yesterday.

And that is not including the sporadic use of capital letters throughout.

I wonder if the writer of this notice will be learning the correct spelling of “P45” any time soon.