So who is your favorite cop?

[JonathonWally]

Johnny Utah and Angelo Pappas
Frank Serpico
Hanson and Penhall

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Also, Joel Stevens and Fearless Bobby Smith from Boomtown. (Anyone remember that show?)

 

[Kegek]

Since people have begun to bring movies into play, I'm rather partial to Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil.

Doakes.

Second favorite. I avoided mentioning him due to not having seen S2 of Dexter, so don't anyone elaborate.

Fair enough. Haven't seen it either - doesn't air until July.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Francis Xavier Furillo. He knew all the dirty games cops can play but insisted on running a clean house.

 

[highlander]

The one and only detective John Munch.

I'm a big Munch fan myself. It's really cool watching him in the Homicide re-runs. He is really good in "the box". Almost as good as Frank.

 

[ElScoob]

The one and only detective John Munch.

I'm a big Munch fan myself. It's really cool watching him in the Homicide re-runs. He is really good in "the box". Almost as good as Frank.

I gotta second both Frank and Munch. But especially Frank.

"Okay, here's the deal; I'm gonna take Mary home right now, and then I'm gonna find Lewis. And when I find him, I'm gonna kill him. I'm a very clever detective, and I will kill him in such a way, I will not be caught; he will simply disappear, and like all sphincters before him...he will not be missed."

Words cannot describe how much I love that speech, and how much I love Andre Braugher's delivery thereof. Beauty.

 

[Cicero]

Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard, from Poirot.

 

[WillsBabe]

Bodie and Doyle.

 

[The Lady Eve]

The late, great Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe and the late, great John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector Morse.

Both actors died too young.

 

[JonathonWally]

I can't believe I forgot to mention perhaps the best cop of all time Inspector Jacques Clouseau

 

[Kegek]

I can't believe I forgot to mention perhaps the best cop of all time Inspector Jacques Clouseau

Yeah... he's certainly up there.

 

[Rincewiend]

Some good mentions i agree with...
Some more:
Inspector Jack Frost from A Touch Of Frost...
Constable Benton Fraser and Detective Raymond "Ray" Vecchio from Due South...
Police Chief Clancy Wiggum from The Simpsons...

 

[stj]

Joe Friday, Columbo, Cagney and Lacey, Pembleton and Bayless, Raines, Brenda Johnson

 

[Angel4576]

Vic Mackie.

Although, I appreciate any nominations for Michael Garibaldi as well!

 

[little_chris]

The one and only Gene Genie

 

[BigFoot]

From shows that are still on the air, I'd have to go with Seeley Booth (Bones) and Jack Carter (Eureka).

 

[Star Wolf]

Superintendant Albert Tyburn (In the Heat of the Sun TV movies)

Officer/Detective Faith Yokas (Third Watch)
Detective/Sergeant/Lietenant Carver (The Wire)
'Lietenant/Major/Colonel/Deputy Commissioner Cedric Daniels (The Wire)

 

[A beaker full of death]

Officer/Detective Faith Yokas (Third Watch)

Always annoyed the piss out of me. Couldn't make a decision with a firecracker up her ass.

 

[Captain Gandalf]

 

[Capn Flukie]

Barney Fife.