History Characters / SawMetropolitanPoliceDepartment

* FamilyMan: Has a wife and a newborn daughter.

* InternalAffairs: The department's Internal Affairs division takes charge of the Jigsaw case when Hoffman is publicly identified as the wanted second Jigsaw apprentice in ''Saw 3D''. The three named members of the division seen in the film are Gibson (who had a backstory with Hoffman before being moved to the division), Palmer and Rogers.

Gibson's two partners in the Internal Affairs division.

[[folder:Drury]]
!!Drury
->'''Played by:''' K.C. Collins\\

A homicide detective who's one of the many officers who ostracize Zeke.

* FacialHorror: A WhatCouldHaveBeen example. He was going to have a trap in which he had to cut his face off. The trap's scene was cut due to the MPAA deeming it to be too violent.
* NoFullNameGiven: Only his surname is known.

* FacialHorror: A WhatCouldHaveBeen example.

A detective from the Metropolitan Police Department. He was the Spiral Killer's second victim.

* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:And how! Besides the murder mentioned above in AssholeVictim, he also refused to provide backup for Zeke during a shootout as revenge for turning another cop in, which almost got Zeke killed.]]

A forensic pathologist seen in ''Saw IV'', who assists Heffner in John's autopsy.

* OneShotCharacter: He's only present in ceremony for the end of the Jigsaw killings and Hoffman's promotion.

* OneShotCharacter: He's only present in Hoffman's promotion ceremony.

The detective who was assigned to the Jigsaw case before Eric Matthews. After finding evidence pointing to Lawrence Gordon as the Jigsaw Killer, he began to obsess over arresting him, even after Gordon's alibi proved that he couldn't be the killer. After Jigsaw wounded him and killed his partner, Steven Sing, he was discharged from the force.

A supporting character in ''Saw'', and a major one ''Saw II'' and ''III''. Kerry was the first cop assigned to the Jigsaw case, and the self-proclaimed "Jigsaw Expert". She has been tracking this case from the beginning. Unfortunately, her unhealthy obsession with the case draws the ire of the killer...

The protagonist of ''Saw II'', and a supporting character in ''Saw III'' and ''IV''. A cop that is pulled into the Jigsaw case when one of his informants is killed in a Jigsaw trap.

!!Forensic team:

[[folder:Adam Heffner]]
!!Dr. Adam Heffner
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I was the one who examined that body. I've examined every victim of the Jigsaw Killer."'']]

->'''Played by:''' James Van Patten\\
'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SawIV'' | ''Film/SawVI'' | ''Film/Saw3D''

A forensic pathologist who examines victims of the Jigsaw killings found by the police.
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* TheCoroner: He plays a far smaller role in comparison to other characters who fit this trope, and he was first introduced in ''IV'', but he's the one who examined the cause of death of all the dead Jigsaw victims found by the police from the first movie to ''3D''.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:How Hoffman kills him]] in ''3D''.

[[Characters/SawJigsawAndAccomplices Jigsaw and Accomplices]] ([[Characters/SawJohnKramer John Kramer]]) | [[Characters/SawOtherAntagonists Other Antagonists]] | [[Characters/SawLawEnforcemnt Law Enforcement]] ('''Metropolitan Police Department''') | [[Characters/SawOtherCharacters Other Characters]] ([[Characters/SawIToIII I-III]], [[Characters/SawIVToVI IV-VI]], [[Characters/Saw3DToJigsaw 3D-Jigsaw]])-]]]]]

* SWATTeam: The department has several of them, though Rigg is the only known SWAT leader so far.

-> '''Played by:''' Creator/SamuelLJackson\\

Zeke's father. Once the chief of police, he's since stepped down following a brutal altercation with officer Fitch over leaving his son to die out of spite. Due to his son's disgraced status, Marcus' relationship with him is strained but, nevertheless, tries to support him with the Spiral Killer investigation.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:While Marcus isn't as openly horrible as some of the other cops in the precinct, he was a deeply corrupt police chief who enabled the corruption of other officers like Fitch and Peter. He also had no qualms about engaging in PoliceBrutality himself. As a result, he is a case of this when he dies, but see AlasPoorVillain above for how his death is displayed like.]]

[[folder:Adam Heffner]]
!!Dr. Adam Heffner
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I was the one who examined that body. I've examined every victim of the Jigsaw Killer."'']]

->'''Played by:''' James Van Patten\\
'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SawIV'' | ''Film/SawVI'' | ''Film/Saw3D''

A forensic pathologist who examines victims of the Jigsaw killings found by the police.
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* TheCoroner: He plays a far smaller role in comparison to other characters who fit this trope, and he was first introduced in ''IV'', but he's the one who examined the cause of death of all the dead Jigsaw victims found by the police from the first movie to ''3D''.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:How Hoffman kills him]] in ''3D''.
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[[folder:Daniel Rigg]]
!!Daniel Rigg
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's in our nature to save them. It's what we do."'']]

->'''Played by:''' Lyriq Bent\\
'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SawII'' | ''Film/SawIII'' | ''Film/SawIV''

A supporting character in ''Saw II'' and ''III'', and the main protagonist of ''Saw IV''. He's a SWAT sergeant on the local police force who leads the raid to Jigsaw's lair, and has been working hard on the Jigsaw case since Eric's disappearance afterwards. Jigsaw takes issue with his obsession and decides to test him; in reality, Hoffman is looking for an apprentice of his own following John and Amanda's passings, and Rigg is an ideal candidate should he pass his test.

* AntiHero: One of his fatal flaws. To start, he has a temperamental and focused personality, which stems from such situations, where he acted aggressive, and on some occasions, even turned violent, which brought him into conflict with the Internal Affairs Department. Despite this, Rigg is loyal to both his friends and his department, is extremely dedicated to his work and had a strong sense of justice. However, his quest to save and protect everyone turned into an obsession, which proves to be his undoing. See UnwantedAssistance below.
* AscendedExtra: He is a background character in ''Saw II'' and ''III,'' with a total of maybe 3 lines of dialogue between the two movies. In ''IV'', he is the main character.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: The flaw Jigsaw was trying to get him to overcome.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He may have ChronicHeroSyndrome, but he clearly has no sympathy or pity for the cruel serial rapist Ivan.
* FaceHeelTurn: {{Invoked|Trope}}, but {{Subverted|Trope}}. The core of his extremely simple game (which poses practically no harm to Rigg himself) is to subtly brainwash and recruit him into Jigsaw's fold. Rigg rushing in through gets him fatally shot before he can be brainwashed.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The above trope usually results in this. Again, see UnwantedAssistance below.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: He is shot at the end of ''IV'', but is otherwise alive. He is declared dead near the beginning of ''V''.
* SurvivorGuilt: His problem is that everyone around him keeps dying.
* SWATTeam: He used to be the leader of one before his death.
* UnwantedAssistance: Invoked by Jigsaw for his test. His test was to watch people suffer in their traps and seeing them get out of there, or try and help them. By the end of ''IV'', Rigg kills several characters in misguided attempts at saving them.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Rigg wears a white T-shirt during his trial in ''Saw IV'', which gets a good amount of blood stains, though it mostly receives dirt-related ones. While he doesn't die onscreen at the end of the film (he only gets a shot from Eric attempting to prevent him from entering the Ice Block Trap's room), he's declared dead at the beginning of the next one.

[[folder:Adam Heffner]]
!!Dr. Adam Heffner
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I was the one who examined that body. I've examined every victim of the Jigsaw Killer."'']]

->'''Played by:''' James Van Patten\\
'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SawIV'' | ''Film/SawVI'' | ''Film/Saw3D''

A forensic pathologist who examines victims of the Jigsaw killings found by the police.
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* TheCoroner: He plays a far smaller role in comparison to other characters who fit this trope, and he was first introduced in ''IV'', but he's the one who examined the cause of death of all the dead Jigsaw victims found by the police from the first movie to ''3D''.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:How Hoffman kills him]] in ''3D''.
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!!Metropolitan Police Department:

The police department of the unnamed city where the movies take place. Its known divisions include a Homicide Unit, several SWAT teams, a forensic team, a tech team, a bomb squad and an Internal Affairs division.

!!!'''Pre-''Spiral'' officers:'''

[[folder:Matt Gibson]]
!!Matt Gibson
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You've got to give before you can receive in this house, Jill."'']]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChadDonella\\
'''Appearances:''' ''Film/Saw3D''

An officer who became bitter towards his colleague Mark Hoffman when he killed a homeless man who was holding him at gunpoint. He was demoted and re-assigned to the department's Internal Affairs division when he told their boss to enact at least some punishment on Hoffman. In ''Saw 3D'', Jill specifically requests protection from him with Hoffman out for her head.
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* ByTheBookCop: One of the more upstanding cops seen in the series. He previously turned in some of Hoffman's cronies for corruption and is reluctant to help Jill unless she follows the rules. Due to his selfless nature and history with Hoffman, he's the only police officer who Jill believes isn't complicit with Hoffman.
* GoodIsNotNice: While Gibson is genuinely a heroic figure, he repeatedly expresses his disdain for Jill due to her involvement in a murderous conspiracy.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His all-out manhunt for Hoffman is arguably the biggest clusterfuck out of all of this trope's examples in the series. It leads to, among other things, [[spoiler:the deaths of an entire ''police precinct'']].
* TokenTrio: He (white male) forms one with Palmer (white female) and Rogers (black male).
* YoureInsane: He's exasperated when he finds out about Jill's role in placing the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0 on Hoffman.
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[[folder:Palmer and Rogers]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Palmer]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Rogers]]

->'''Played by:''' Kim Scharner (Palmer), Laurence Anthony (Rogers)\\
'''Appearances:''' ''Film/Saw3D''

Gibson's two partners in the Internal Affairs division.
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* MoeGreeneSpecial: [[spoiler:Rogers is killed by Hoffman when the latter shoots him in the right eye.]]
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:How Hoffman kills Palmer.]]
* NoFullNameGiven: Only their surnames are known.
* TokenTrio: They form one with Gibson (white male). Palmer is the white female and Rogers is the black male.
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!!!'''''Spiral'' officers:'''

[[folder:Marcus Banks]]
!!Marcus Banks
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-> '''Played by:''' Creator/SamuelLJackson\\

Zeke's father. Once the chief of police, he's since stepped down following a brutal altercation with officer Fitch over leaving his son to die out of spite. Due to his son's disgraced status, Marcus' relationship with him is strained but, nevertheless, tries to support him with the Spiral Killer investigation.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Despite everything Marcus has done throughout his career, his death is painted in a somber light. Having made the selfless choice of sending Zeke after catching the fleeing killer over attending to him, Marcus consequently dies and Zeke is completely distraught over his death.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:While Marcus isn't as openly horrible as some of the other cops in the precinct, he was a deeply corrupt police chief who enabled the corruption of other officers like Fitch and Peter. He also had no qualms about engaging in PoliceBrutality himself. As a result, he is a case of this when he dies, but see AlasPoorVillain above for how his death is displayed like.]]
* BeardOfEvil: He had a nice full stache during his days as a corrupt police chief.
* DeadpanSnarker: Zeke takes it after him. Since he's played by Samuel L. Jackson, this is also a given.
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Revealed to be one during his time as police chief, covering up crimes committed by other corrupt cops.]]
* PapaWolf: He is this to Zeke. During the flashback scene that shows Zeke getting shot due to his calls for backup being ignored not once, but ''three times'', Marcus is rightfully furious, laying into the other officers at the scene. And upon learning that Fitch, the cop nearest Zeke’s location at the time, was the one who ignored his calls for backup, Marcus attacks him for putting his son’s life at risk.
-->'''Marcus:''' Where the fuck were all of you, huh?! My son called for backup ''three times in 8 minutes'', and none of you motherfuckers could get here?! Nobody?! Nothing? Crickets. Alright, this is what I’m gonna do; I’m gonna call dispatch, and find out who was closest available, and when I do, I’m going to take this gun and shoot that motherfucker. We clear?\\
(''{{Beat}} as Fitch looks away and clears his throat'')\\
'''Marcus:''' Fitch, it was you?! (''jumps him and starts pistol whipping him'') You fucking with my son again?! God damn you, son of a bitch! (''is pulled off of Fitch by other officers'') Get off me! You’re done, motherfucker, you hear me?! You’re fucking done! Don’t let me see your face again!
* ParentalNeglect: During his childhood, Marcus had a distant father who only cared about his work. He would later treat Zeke the same way, rarely giving him fatherly advice and being fairly distant.
* PoliceBrutality: As chief, he had no qualms roughing up random people [[EvilIsPetty if he was in a bad mood.]] When Zeke nearly dies as a result of Fitch, he also threatens he'll kill whoever was responsible for denying his son backup. When he finds it out it was Fitch, [[PapaWolf he]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch beats the hell out of him.]]
* SoProudOfYou: While usually cold or dismissive to Zeke, he admits in his delirious final moments that Zeke always did the right thing compared to the rest of his department.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: Schenk's trap forces Marcus into a position where he brandishes a weapon directly at the SWAT team racing to their location. They waste no time completely unloading their assault rifles and shotguns into Marcus, who was already bleeding to death.]]

[[folder:Angie Garza]]
!!Angie Garza
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-> '''Played by:''' Creator/MarisolNichols\\

Zeke's boss and a captain of the force. During the days of Marcus as chief, she was his closest cohort in covering up the brutal and unjust actions of the Metropolitan Police Department's officers.

* AssholeVictim: Downplayed. [[spoiler:While Angie was deeply complicit in a conspiracy to allow police corruption to run rampant, she is one of the less malevolent of the bunch. Her absolutely ''horrific'' death was fairly disproportionate, to say the least.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Her game forces her to sever her spinal cord by pressing the back of her neck into a blade far enough to stop a contraption from pouring boiling wax onto her face. As she fails, she literally gets her face melted off before suffocating to death.]]
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:She was the number two of Marcus in a large-scale conspiracy to grant police officers more power regardless of what they did.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: While she's reluctant to put Zeke in charge of the new Jigsaw homicides, Angie lashes out at the disdain the other cops have for her decision, stating a life has been lost and to get over themselves and catch the killer.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She calls out Zeke on his stubbornness on not following police protocol, stating regardless of his circumstances, it jeopardizes his life and creates even more problems.

[[folder:Marv Bozwick]]
!!Marv "Boz" Bozwick
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->'''Played by:''' Dan Petronijevic\\

A detective from the Metropolitan Police Department. He was the Spiral Killer's first victim. Notably, while corrupt, Boz was said to be a kind man, and his death is a large part of why Zeke is so determined in stopping the killer.

* AssholeVictim: Despite being one of the only cops who were nice to Zeke, he was still a corrupt cop whose false testimonies put innocent people in prison.
* DirtyCop: He has taken the witness stand in court many times, and his lies have put innocent people in jail.
* LudicrousGibs: All that's left of Boz after his test is unrecognizable gore splattered across the subway tracks.
* PetTheDog: He was possibly the only one in the department who remained friends with Zeke, even after he turned one of them in. He used to go to games with him and play with his son.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He dies in the opening, but his death kickstarts the plot and we retroactively learn more about him.
* SymbolicMutilation: In the Subway Trap, Boz is forced to rip his tongue out for lying about innocent people being criminals.
* TongueTrauma: Taken UpToEleven. His trap has his body hoist up into the air, his tongue trapped by a device. Boz must jump off a platform to avoid getting hit by a subway train, losing his tongue in the process. He does so, but too late, and he not only takes his whole tongue with him but gets ran over anyways.

[[folder:Fitch]]
!!Fitch
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->'''Played by:''' Richard Zeppieri\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Spiral2021 Spiral]]''

A detective from the Metropolitan Police Department. He was the Spiral Killer's second victim.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The biggest in the whole movie. Fitch was a sociopathic monster who once murdered a man for flipping him off when ordered to raise his hands. He also treated Zeke with nothing but contempt and once nearly left him to die out of spite. It's telling that of all the cops that die in the movie, Zeke feels absolutely nothing for Fitch upon discovering his remains.]]
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:And how! Besides the murder mentioned above in AssholeVictim, he also refused to provide backup for Zeke during a shootout as revenge for turning another cop in, which almost got Zeke killed.]]
* DirtyCoward: While feeling smugly satisfied with denying Zeke backup, Fitch turns into a nervous wreck fidgeting around suspiciously when he witnesses Marcus' wrath at the situation.
* EvilIsPetty: UpToEleven. He once murdered a man for ''flipping him off.''
* {{Fingore}}: Fitch is trapped in a tub slowly filling up with water, with exposed electrified wires hung over the edge, and a motor binding his fingers down. To escape, he must bite a mechanism that'll activate the motor, which will rip all of his fingers off. He ultimately can't do so in time and ends up electrocuted to death.
* HighVoltageDeath: He fails to remove his fingers in time, and thus, is fried to a crisp when the water in his trap reaches the electrical cords.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's always treating Zeke like shit, due to him turning another cop in. He once refused to provide backup for Zeke during a shootout, despite being the nearest cop to him, which almost got Zeke killed.
* NoFullNameGiven: His first name is never stated.
* PragmaticVillainy: Despite refusing Zeke backup, the second shots are fired, he has an OhCrap moment and rushes to his location. This isn't because he cares about Zeke, but because Fitch knows [[PapaWolf Marcus]] will go ballistic (i.e, kill him) if his son died because of him.
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[[folder:Pete Dunleavy]]
!!Peter "Pete" Dunleavy
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->'''Played by:''' Patrick [=McManus=]\\
'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Spiral2021 Spiral]]''

A former officer from the Metropolitan Police Department, who was discharged after Zeke turned him in for the murder of Charlie Emmerson. He's since been reduced to a pathetic bum living under a church and drowning his sorrows with booze.
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* TheAtoner: After becoming homeless and miserable, he seems to have lapsed into this after living under a church. He claims he seeks God's forgiveness regularly and has a serious HeelRealization about how out of control he and the department was. That said, it's made clear he still deeply resents Zeke for turning him in, indicating a certain degree of lasting irresponsibility.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:His death at the hands of the Spiral Killer is horrifying, but he previously murdered Charlie Emmerson to prevent him from testifying against a fellow officer. And for all his gestures at atonement, Pete still remained a bitter asshole to Zeke and never realized he was in the right in testifying against him. This is even lampshaded by Schenk, expressing Pete had it coming for ruining not only his life but Zeke's as well.]]
* BlatantLies: He makes a pathetic attempt to justify shooting Charlie Emmerson by saying it was in self-defense.
-->'''Zeke''': The ''witness'' pulled a gun on you?
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Besides Angie, he gets arguably the worst of the victims in the movie. Pete is chained up above a platform in front of a machine that will grind up rounds of glass bottles and pelt their shards at his body. The only way he can survive this is if Zeke finds the key to free him, but he's slowed down by being forced to take cover between the grinder taking breaks and firing. Pete agonizingly takes multiple rounds of this before expiring.]]
* DirtyCop: Ex-dirty cop, to be more specific. He killed Charlie Emmerson to prevent him from testifying against another officer, then tried to make it look like he shot him in self-defense. Zeke didn't buy it and turned him in, getting him kicked out of the force.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His murder of Charlie Emmerson made his son William take revenge against dirty cops like him as the Spiral Killer.]]
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