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*After [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood Three's]] encounter with the [[Brynblaidd villager]]s, the villagers were arrested by police. ([[TW]]: ''[[Countrycide]]'') | *After [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood Three's]] encounter with the [[Brynblaidd villager]]s, the villagers were arrested by police. ([[TW]]: ''[[Countrycide]]'') | ||
*Police had a violent encounter with [[English Civil War]] soldiers when they came through the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[End of Days]]'') | *Police had a violent encounter with [[English Civil War]] soldiers when they came through the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[End of Days]]'') | ||
*In [[2008]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]] was arrested for the kidnapping of [[Luke Smith|"Ashley Stafford"]] (who [[Mr Smith]] had faked evidence to make him appear as the son of [[Dax Fex Fize Slitheen|Jay]] and [[Bloorm Vungah Bart Slitheen|Heidi Stafford]]). Sarah Jane's connections with [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] had her quickly released. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'') | |||
* The [[Torchwood Three]] team pretended to be police while questioning [[Rhys Williams]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Meat]]'') | * The [[Torchwood Three]] team pretended to be police while questioning [[Rhys Williams]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Meat]]'') | ||
*Following a fight, Jack Harkness and the newly-undead Owen Harper were arrested. ([[TW]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'') | *Following a fight, Jack Harkness and the newly-undead Owen Harper were arrested. ([[TW]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'') | ||
Revision as of 18:08, 23 August 2011
Police forces were government organisations charged with the responsibility of maintaining law and order.
The Fourth Doctor compared the Krynoid pods to police as both travelled in pairs. (DW: 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. (DW: Smith and Jones, The Eleventh Hour, SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon)
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. (EDA: The Banquo Legacy)
20th century
- To make sure that Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953 went smoothly, the police hid away people whose faces were consumed by the Wire. (DW: 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. (DW: An Unearthly Child)
- Thanks to the intercession of the temporarily miniaturized Doctor and his companions, police (including PC Bert Rowse) were able to arrest corrupt industrialist Forester for the murder of Arnold Farrow. (DW: Planet of Giants)
- Pursued by the Daleks through time and space, the TARDIS materialized in the yard of a police station in 1965 Liverpool, its scanner malfunctioning. After some trouble with the local police, the Doctor managed to repair the malfunctioning scanner and depart. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)
- When a policeman approached the TARDIS, the Doctor hung a sign reading "out of order" on the front of his ship. The policeman saw the sign and moved on. (DW: The War Machines)
- A policeman spotted the Doctor and his companions on a runway at Gatwick Airport and chased after them. When they scattered, the policeman went after Ben. (DW: The Faceless Ones)
- Two Autons impersonated police in a failed attempt to kill the Doctor and Jo Grant. (DW: Terror of the Autons)
- Gustave Lytton had two robot henchmen which resembled policemen. (DW: 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. (DW: 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 had disguised himself as police, ready to kill anyone associated with the Doctor. (DW: 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. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
- In 2007, Sally Sparrow approached DI Billy Shipton, who had been investigating disappearances at Wester Drumlins. (DW: Blink)
- Gwen Cooper, before she worked for Torchwood Three, had been a police officer, along with most of her friends. (TW: Everything Changes)
- After Torchwood Three's encounter with the Brynblaidd villagers, the villagers were arrested by police. (TW: Countrycide)
- Police had a violent encounter with English Civil War soldiers when they came through the Cardiff Space-Time Rift. (TW: 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. (SJA: The Lost Boy)
- The Torchwood Three team pretended to be police while questioning Rhys Williams. (TW: Meat)
- Following a fight, Jack Harkness and the newly-undead Owen Harper were arrested. (TW: Dead Man Walking)
- Rift activity caused several senior police officers at Andy Davidson's police station to be mauled by Weevil. (TW: 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. (DW: 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. (TW: The New World)
- Rory Williams was mistaken for a plain-clothes policeman by Ambrose Northover in 2020 Cwmtaff. (DW: 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. (K9TV: 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". (DW: New Earth) In 5,000,000,029, the department, and all police authority on New Earth were consumed by the Bliss virus. (DW: 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)
Behind the scenes
- The policeman seen at the beginning of An Unearthly Child has the distinction of being the very first character to appear on Doctor Who.
Apocrypha
- Tom Campbell was a Police Constable from London who witnessed a robbery and burst into Dr. Who's TARDIS. (Film: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)
