Uniform got him for suspended license

[Mike Hussey]

COLIN walks into the office. BROWN and other team members are watching a closed-circuit monitor. The MONITOR shows FITZY sitting in an interrogation room. COLIN is spooked.

Colin: What do you got for me?
Brown: Uniform got him for suspended license. However, he's a subject of an open investigation...
Colin: More than one. He's one of Costello's.

What does "Uniform got him for suspended license" mean?

Source: "The Departed" (a 2006 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan)

 

[Rover_KE]

The uniformed police charged him for working while his license was suspended.

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[Skrej]

'Uniformed' in this context means that the policeman was wearing an official police uniform as opposed to plain clothes (regular civilian clothes). Some police wear plain clothes on duty while doing something like undercover or narcotics detail. For example, detectives often wear regular clothes, although typically they dress semi-formal as opposed to just purely casual.

We can infer from the context that this was also most likey a lower-ranking policeman if he or she was doing routine traffic patrol. To get out of the uniform into plain clothes typically requires some kind of promotion or career advancement.

 

[SoothingDave]

Driving with a suspended driver's license