Police

Police forces were government organisations charged with maintaining law and order.

The Fourth Doctor compared the Krynoid pods to police because both travelled in pairs. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)

The Judoon and Atraxi were police forces working throughout Mutter's Spiral, though Earth's planetary development level in the 21st century placed it out of their jurisdiction. (TV: Smith and Jones, The Eleventh Hour, TV: Prisoner of the Judoon) In the 26th century the term "police" was considered old-fashioned (PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks)

Instances of police appearance

19th century

• A number of police and detectives were involved in the cases surrounding the suicide of Gordon Seavers and the murders at Banquo Manor. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy)

20th century

• In 1927, New York police shot Jack Harkness and arrested Angelo Colasanto. (TV: Immortal Sins)
• To make sure that Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953 went smoothly, the police hid away people whose faces were consumed by the Wire. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)
• A lone policeman patrolled the Coal Hill area of London in 1963. When passing a junkyard owned by I.M. Foreman, he did not notice the presence of a strange, humming police box. (TV: An Unearthly Child)
• Thanks to the intercession of the temporarily miniaturised First Doctor and his companions, police (including PC Bert Rowse) were able to arrest corrupt industrialist Forester for the murder of Arnold Farrow. (TV: Planet of Giants)
• Pursued by the Daleks through time and space, the Doctor's TARDIS materialised in the yard of a police station in 1965 Liverpool, its scanner malfunctioning. After some trouble with the local police, the First Doctor managed to repair the malfunctioning scanner and depart. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
• When a policeman approached the TARDIS, the First Doctor hung a sign reading "out of order" on the front of his ship. The policeman saw the sign and moved on. (TV: The War Machines)
• A policeman spotted the Second Doctor and his companions on a runway at Gatwick Airport and chased after them. When they scattered, the policeman went after Ben. (TV: The Faceless Ones)
• Two Autons impersonated police in a failed attempt to kill the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
• A policeman witnessed Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and the Third Doctor's high-speed chase of Lupton. (TV: Planet of the Spiders)
• Gustave Lytton had two henchmen who disguised themselves as policemen. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks, Attack of the Cybermen)
• In 1999, the Eighth Doctor stole a motorbike from a policeman in order to reach the beryllium clock in San Francisco. (TV: Doctor Who)

21st century

• In 2006, the police were interviewing Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor when Rose had disappeared for a year (but only a few days from her perspective). In the interim, Mickey had been questioned multiple times for murder. Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen disguised himself as police officer Strickland, in order to get close enough to kill anyone associated with the Doctor. (TV: Aliens of London/World War Three)
• On Christmas 2006, a policeman was reporting on the people with A+ blood ready to jump from roofs of London thanks to the Sycorax's blood control. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
• In 2007, Sally Sparrow approached DI Billy Shipton, who had been investigating disappearances at Wester Drumlins. (TV: Blink)
• Gwen Cooper, before she worked for Torchwood Three, had been a police officer, along with most of her friends. Shortly before Gwen joined Torchwood, she and Andy Davidson looked into John Tucker's murder and were involved with stopping a fight at a pub. (TV: Everything Changes)
• Police were called to investigate Matt Stevens' unusual death. (TV: Day One)
• Mark Goodson had himself arrested by police for protection from the fairies. (TV: Small Worlds)
• After Torchwood Three's encounter with the Brynblaidd villagers, the villagers were arrested by police. (TV: Countrycide)
• Police cordoned off a 200-year-old corpse of a soldier near an Arcateenian transporter. (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts)
• DI Henderson looked into the prevented murder of Carol and Danny. (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts)
• Kathy Swanson's team investigated Max Tresilian's murder of Mark and Sarah Brisco and Alex Arwyn. Her team later helped Torchwood find the right code to break the Torchwood Hub's lockdown. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie)
• Police had a violent encounter with English Civil War soldiers when they came through the Cardiff Space-Time Rift. (TV: End of Days)
• In 2008, Sarah Jane Smith was arrested for the kidnapping of "Ashley Stafford" (who Mr Smith had faked evidence to make him appear as the son of Jay and Heidi Stafford). Sarah Jane's connections with UNIT had her quickly released. (TV: The Lost Boy)
• Police were at the site of a mugger covered in Rift energy. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
• Police called to the crime scene when two burglars robbed Beth Halloran and Mike Lyndon. When they arrived, Beth had unknowingly stabbed one of them and pushed another out of her flat. (TV: Sleeper)
• Police cordoned off the traffic accident that killed Leighton Reynolds. Later, the Torchwood Three team pretended to be police while questioning Rhys Williams, Leighton's manager. (TV: Meat)
• Marie Thomas called the police when the Pharm tried and failed to murder her. Later, police were at the crime scene of the Pharm's murder of Barry Leonard. (TV: Reset)
• Following a fight, Jack Harkness and the newly-undead Owen Harper were arrested. (TV: Dead Man Walking)
• Rift activity caused several senior police officers at Andy Davidson's police station to be mauled by Weevils. (TV: Exit Wounds)
• On Easter 2009, DI Macmillan was on the case for arresting Lady Christina de Souza for robbery. The Tenth Doctor pretended to arrest himself inside a police box for allowing her escape. (TV: Planet of the Dead)
• Following Miracle Day in 2011, the Welsh police helped Rex Matheson to extradite Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper to the United States. (TV: The New World)
• A team of armed police, led by Andy Davidson, rescued Gwen Cooper's family from being held hostage. (TV: Immortal Sins)
• Ralph Finch discovered the category 1 Geraint Cooper hiding in Swansea, and subsequently took him away to Cowbridge Overflow Camp. (TV: The Gathering)
• Rory Williams was mistaken for a plain-clothes policeman by Ambrose Northover in 2020 Cwmtaff. (TV: The Hungry Earth)
• Harry Pike, father of Darius Pike, was one of the last policemen to serve in England, before The Department replaced them with CCPCs. (TV: The Last Precinct)

5,000,000,000 A.D.

• In 5,000,000,023, The New New York Police Department arrested the Sisters of Plenitude after the NNYPD were alerted of experimenting on "the flesh". (TV: New Earth) In 5,000,000,029, the department, and all police authority on New Earth were consumed by the Bliss virus. (TV: Gridlock)

Individual police officers

Humans

• Ola
• Gascoigne
• Crossland
• Trenchard
• Ferguson
• Markham (Black Orchid)
• DuPont
• Zalenby
• Elena
• Burke
• Scene-of-crime officer (Everything Changes)
• Prison governor (Frontier in Space)
• Lunar guard
• Detective Inspector (Logopolis)
• Police officer (Dead Man Walking)
• Police officer (Sleeper)
• Custody sergeant (Small Worlds)
• Category:Metropolitan Police officers
• Gleave
• Category:FBI agents
• Mirana
• Abeland
• Woman police constable (Small Worlds)
• Petersen
• Category:United States Marshals
• Dareau
• Oiquaquil
• Dunston
• Bickerston
• Çelebi
• Prior
• Sharpless
• Amies
• Gormune
• Pallis
• Whitten
• Turnbull
• Blackstock
• Qaren
• Martineau
• Truscott
• Felder
• Quillon
• Bridie
• Military policeman
• Police sergeant (The Silver Turk)
• Wilks
• Manlow
• Smith (Shada)
• Benedict Summerfield III
• Delano
• Lovesey
• Misckiewicz
• Wood (Dead of Night)
• Mercier
• Hoevern
• Smiley Guy
• Atlanta cop
• Sheriff (The Parliament of Fear)
• Turner (Mind of Stone)
• Category:Police officers from the real world
• Morrison (Another Life)
• Mason (Rosa)
• Myers (Bay of the Dead)
• Category:SWAT agents
• Will (Resolution)
• Desk sergeant (Corpse Day)
• Group Commander (The Lie of the Land)
• Jamal (Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets)
• Rowlands (Trace Memory)
• Dawn (Broken)
• Bernstein (Herald of the Dawn)
• Kenneth James Valentine
• Evie's great-grandmother
• Pringle (The Empty Hand)
• Police commissioner (The Empty Hand)
• Julia (See No Evil)
• Sergeant (One Rule)
• Treadwell
• Police sergeant (Beachhead)
• Vlasyuk
• Krylov
• Police officer 1 (The Condemned)
• Police officer 2 (The Condemned)
• Colbourne
• Chief Constable (The Three Monkeys)
• Police officer (Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough)
• Mcutcheon
• Tobolsk
• Paternik
• Inshi
• Tobolski
• Hazeldine
• Halpin
• French police officer (The Return of Mr. Steelman)
• Senior police officer (The Return of Mr. Steelman)
• German police officer (The Return of Mr. Steelman)
• Simms (The Vanishing Ray)
• Police constable (Embankment)
• Gondry
• Terrance (Ashenden)
• Policeman (Madam, I'm)
• Joe (Dr. Who's Time Tales)
• Police officer (TVC 740 Untitled)
• Police officer (TVC 696 Untitled)
• Police officer (The Enemy Beyond)
• Keystone Kops
• Policeman (Who Killed Elias Hoodreim?)
• Monaghan (The Very Real Mystery of Wester Drumlins)
• Frank's father (Alabama's Blue Box)
• Sandy (Resolution)
• Frank's father's captain
• Nicki Owen
• Yrsa Kristjansdottir
• Policeman (Instant Karma)
• Dawn Stratton
• Guy Baker
• Pete Bunton
• Gwen Cooper
• Jake Willis
• Anita Patel
• Paolo (Revolution Man)
• Antonio (Revolution Man)
• Joseph Fouché
• Maxine (The Descendants of Pompeii)
• William Fletcher
• Viktor Vasiliyev
• Bert Rowse
• Dennis (The Three Monkeys)
• Policeman (The Shoreditch Intervention)
• Finch (The Curse of Davros)
• Kathy Swanson
• Andy Davidson
• Nathan Later
• Policeman (Subterfuge)
• Scott Neilson
• Reynolds (The Faceless Ones)
• Robert Muir
• Jana Lee
• Inspector (The Great Silver Robbery!)
• Sergeant (The Great Silver Robbery!)
• Tom Campbell
• Elliot (Dr. Who's Time Tales)
• Sandy (Dr. Who's Time Tales)
• Natalie Blake
• Cotton (The Cars That Ate London!)
• Al Sinclair
• Lee Staniton
• Percy Groom
• Yvonne (Everything Changes)
• Cummings (Black Orchid)
• Doran Curtis
• James Newcombe
• Hugo Lang
• Fabian (The Twin Dilemma)
• Harry McLellan
• Kate Jenkins
• Tony Pratt
• Greg Randall
• Patricia Haggard
• Vince Wilson
• Carter (A Girl's Best Friend)
• Officer (Everything Changes)
• Finn Dargo
• Laura Efston
• Patricia Menzies
• Oscar Henderson
• Baker (The Banquo Legacy)
• Motorcycle policeman
• Policeman (Meat)
• Freddie Miller
• Tom Cutler
• Anjak Forrester
• Ralph Finch
• Lucy Hayward
• Wilson (End of the Road)
• Policeman (Planet of the Spiders)
• Henderson (Greeks Bearing Gifts)
• Policeman (Reset)
• Huw (Countrycide)
• Tessa Mancuso
• James McIlveen
• Breen (Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
• Cooper (Cat's Cradle: Warhead)
• Yokel (The Time of the Daleks)
• Doyle (The Reaping)
• Policeman (The Faceless Ones)
• Creed McIlveen
• Tertullian Medford
• Ellis (The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Welland (The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Blessed (The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Windsor (The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Alexander Cromwell
• Barbara Redworth
• Morrison (The Tao Connection)
• Robert Lines
• Brown (64 Carlysle Street)
• Sheriff (A Town Called Eternity)
• Paul (A Town Called Eternity)
• Ruby Porter
• Hellic Dansard
• Vostok (The Broken Man)
• Gordon Galloway
• Bradshaw (The Crimes of Thomas Brewster)
• Marco Phillips
• Wilson (The Farmer's Story)
• George Mullens
• Ed Byers
• Joe Marquez
• Craig (The Nuclear Option)
• Derek Mortimer
• Michael Green
• James McNeil
• Mulligan (The Duke of Dominoes)
• Dexter Braughtigan
• Hopkins (The Purpura Pawn)
• Malliao Gerlacht
• Policeman (Deep Breath)
• Wilson (The Crystal Throne)
• Carter (The Crystal Throne)
• Reg (The Crystal Throne)
• Sung-Chi Li
• Frank Spiggot
• Matthew (The Caretaker)
• Forrest (Flatline)
• Graham Stevens
• Dale Wingsworth
• Alphonse Chardalot
• Policeman (Set in Stone)
• Ernie Miller
• Knight Marshal
• John Carlson
• Gordon Davidson
• Captain (Kill the Mouse!)
• Jimmy Mitchell
• Albert Briggs
• Jeffries (The Face-Eater)
• Therése Gavalle
• Hughes (Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark)
• Ellis Andrews
• Burrows (The Foe from the Future)
• Robert DeValley
• Herbert Arthur Jones
• Keith Hartridge
• Marcel (The Death of Art)
• Anton Jarre
• Johnson (The Tao Connection)
• Dennis Reilly
• Anthony Ruthy
• George Lowcock
• Harris (Bad Therapy)
• Bill Stringer
• Jenkins (Mind Games)
• Daniel (The Sphere)
• Spartan (Midwinter Murders)
• Neil Judd
• John Luther
• Davis (Logopolis)
• Madlen Xel
• Stuart Halton
• Angela Melocati
• Dixon (Certificate of Destruction)
• Abernathy (Certificate of Destruction)
• Harry Attrill
• Hawthorne (Project: Twilight)
• Ilona Hingis
• Bernard Faversham
• Donald Seagrave
• Sheriff (From the Horse's Mouth)
• Derek Carver
• Jasper Adeola
• Bob Franklin
• Kruger (The Shadow Vortex)
• Bob Slater (Deadly Reunion)
• Fred (Psi-ence Fiction)
• Dobbs (Verdigris)
• Sheriff (Heritage)
• Katie Siao
• Mark Sing
• Quick (Illegal Alien)
• Wilson (The Delightful Bag)
• Whitney (The Delightful Bag)
• Orr (Revolutions of Terror)
• Edwards (The English Way of Death)
• Jill Sveinsdóttir
• Lukas Ryan
• Pete Goran
• Lars Ronick
• Tam Kartryte
• Clancy Tilson
• Kala Mandell
• Laurie Aldrich
• Makenzie Shaw
• Quick (The Year of the Bat)
• Policeman (For the Man Who Has Everything)
• Adam Docherty
• Maggie Cortez
• Tony Moxham
• Mariana Lopez
• Yasmin Khan
• Ramesh Sunder
• Fred (Doctor Who and the Robot)
• Jenkins (Doctor Who and the Robot)
• Bill (Doctor Who and the Robot)
• Sergeant (Doctor Who and the Robot)
• Superintendent (Doctor Who and the Robot)
• Tom Streeter
• Superintendent (The Disintegrator)
• Bob Valentine
• Police sergeant (The Disintegrator)
• Megan Kostinen
• Ann Kelso
• Dubert Willocks
• Dolores Cortez
• Daniel Powell
• Jack Flowers
• Heinz (The Bitter Cold Dish)
• Daniel Manson
• Gemma Rayner
• Stanley (Chronomancer)
• PC Oswald
• Ace
• Flemming (The Longest Night)
• Young policeman (Everything Changes)
• Policeman (The Great White Hurricane)
• Policeman (Fanfare for the Common Men)

Metropolitan Police Service

• Strickland
• Crabtree
• McMillan
• Dennison
• Lestrade
• Police officer (Fear Her)
• Police commissioner (Army of Ghosts)
• Desk sergeant
• Smitty
• Lange
• Carpenter (The Stone House)
• Turner (The Stone House)
• Inspector (A Dog's Life)
• Delaney
• Chief Constable (The Lonely Assassins)
• Policeman (An Unearthly Child)
• Kyle (The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• Billy Shipton
• Alfred Mackenzie
• Price (World War Three)
• Bishop (The Idiot's Lantern)
• Vincent Russell
• Policeman (Aliens of London)
• Policeman (The Christmas Invasion)
• Ian Jenner
• Percival Quick
• Harry McLellan
• Policeman (The Invasion)
• Ian Stratford
• Harry Pike
• Bates (The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack)
• Arnold Porter
• Constable (The Cambridge Spy)
• Frederick Abberline
• Policeman (The Lions of Trafalgar)
• Foster (The Eight Doctors)
• Sanders (The Eight Doctors)
• Ballard (The Eight Doctors)
• Bates (The Eight Doctors)
• Charles Warren
• Smith (P.C.)
• Lewis (Ripper's Curse)
• Dave Sacker
• Reg Cranfield
• Gregson (Vastra Investigates)
• George Duncan Stringer
• MacDonald (All-Consuming Fire)
• Patrick Mullen
• Lee (The Similarity Engine)
• Reggie Hawkins
• Appleby (Encore of the Scorchies)
• Policeman (The Evil of the Daleks)
• Jack Hayes
• Perkins (Doorway to Hell)
• Quick (The Year of the Bat)
• Edward Ransgard

Behind the scenes

Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

In NOTDWU: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., a film not considered a valid source by this wiki, Tom Campbell was a police constable from London who witnessed a robbery and burst into Dr. Who's TARDIS.

Other matters

• The policeman seen at the beginning of An Unearthly Child has the distinction of being the very first character to appear on Doctor Who.