What are they there for then, Michael? Are they "walking advertisment boards" with their t-shirts? Do they want to lure you into "certain" clubs?
I like this photo, and if the background was busy, well then ... in a photojournalistic approach you have to take what you can get, I say.
(To me, who I am living in a country where temperatures are kind of moderate all year round, a policeman in shorts looks a little ... erm ... cough-cough ... ridiculous, to me it seems long trousers make persons seem more respectable than shorts... just a side thought I'm having).