Police officer
Police officers were employees of the police force. They were also called cops, coppers, bobbies, Fed, policemen or policewomen.
Yasmin Khan preferred the term "police officer" over "policewoman", and frequently had to correct her father over this matter. (TV: Arachnids in the UK [+]Loading...["Arachnids in the UK (TV story)"])
By 2018, some police forces fitted their officers with uniform cameras, as part of their uniforms, in case of lawsuits and for data records. (TV: The Tsuranga Conundrum [+]Loading...["The Tsuranga Conundrum (TV story)"])
Constable was a rank of police officer, (TV: Everything Changes [+]Loading...["Everything Changes (TV story)"], The Cambridge Spy [+]Loading...["The Cambridge Spy (TV story)"], et al.) as was Sergeant. (PROSE: Long Time Dead [+]Loading...["Long Time Dead (novel)"])
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Mason was a police officer in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama. (TV: Rosa)
In 1965, a police officer active in Los Angeles informed Amos Burke about the recent death of Wall Street tycoon Elias Hoodreim. (COMIC: Who Killed Elias Hoodreim? [+]Loading...["Who Killed Elias Hoodreim? (comic story)"])
On 31 December 1999, in San Francisco, the Eighth Doctor and Grace Holloway were chased by a police officer on a motorcycle. The officer entered the TARDIS and moments later sped out in shock. (TV: Doctor Who)
On 6 March 2006, a police officer interrogated the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler over Rose's year long disappearance. (TV: Aliens of London)
During the Slitheen family's attempt to trick the people of Earth into starting World War Three, Sip Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen used the skin of senior police officer Strickland as a disguise. (TV: Aliens of London/World War Three)
Gwen Cooper was a police constable before joining Torchwood Three. (TV: Everything Changes)
Andy Davidson, Gwen's former police partner, and ally to Torchwood, (TV: Adrift, The Blood Line, AUDIO: More Than This, et al.) was promoted to Sergeant by the time he resigned from the force. (AUDIO: The Empty Hand, PROSE: Long Time Dead)
When she met the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan was a junior police officer with Hallamshire Police, in her second year of probation. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth) By the 31 October 2021, Yaz was no longer employed as a police officer. (TV: The Halloween Apocalypse [+]Loading...["The Halloween Apocalypse (TV story)"])
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)
Two police officers, including Robert Hargis, rode ahead of John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine on the day of his assassination. (TV: Rose)
When the Eleventh Doctor returned for her in 2008, Amy Pond donned a police officer uniform. (TV: The Eleventh Hour) This outfit later found its way into the hands of River Song who used it to imitate the police in 1963. (AUDIO: An Unearthly Woman)
