It's funny that the poster of these thinks well dressed Italian policemen are gay, because they are probably corrupt as hell and used to beating the shit out of people for looking at them the wrong way. I once asked a policeman in Italy for directions (being British I thought I would get a smile and and he'd be happy to help) but he just looked at me like he was going to kill me. He did reply, in Italian of course, I think I might have been told to fuck off. That was in Genoa, a rough town.