Seeking: a person
Mysterious person does mysterious persony things, police seek help finding mysterious person.
Were the two teenagers girls by any chance? Or did mysterious person select teenage boys as “their” victim?
This is the police. This is the police seeking a man sexually abusing girls in a public toilet, and those police are carefully not being specific about what they’re looking for, because it’s more important to honor and protect the idenniny of the creepy dangerous man in the wig and skirt than it is to protect any teenage girls he might decide to terrorize.
I’d imagine the nature of the genitals and the manner of masturbation can leave much doubt whether this “person” is a man, but I guess they are not allowed to make such a logical leap.
Logical leaps are not exactly Plod’s specialty. They’ve been caught ‘jumping to conclusions’ before. Understandably, they prefer to play it safe.
So first, rule out the possibility that the culprit was not a bloke: she or it coulda been some randy old local Berkshire tart, or maybe an escaped (female?) gorilla from some zoo. So first check all the zoos and wildlife parks in, say, a 500 mile radius of the Theale Station. And so on….
That narrows it down by scientific plod elimination to some person; just maybe to some person impersonating a bloke. Could still be a female person wearing a strap-on dildo or some such, exposing it to persons of any one of the wide variety of genders roaming about these days.
They might also be afraid of provoking the ire of other men in wigs and skirts (and their “allies”, some of whom may also be creepy and dangerous), and we mustn’t have that. Mustn’t give offence, cause upset, or suggest there is any more information of a specific nature that might clarify the reality of the situation. They just can’t be sure, so best not to assume (or communicate) much of anything at all. Vagueness is the better part of valour. Otherwise, they’ll have to arrest themselves. Wouldn’t want to give the impression that all men in wigs and skirts in female spaces are creepy and dangerous. They’re sure that most of them are there for perfectly legitimate, honourable reasons. But it’s certainly the avoidance of the raising of ire that is taking priority here, not the safety of the general public, or teenage girls in particular. That level of concern from the police is reserved for women being untoward towards pedophiles, the posting of dangerous stickers, or the writing of sarcastic limericks.