History Characters / SawMetropolitanPoliceDepartment

* CorruptCop: Hoo boy. The department has multiple Cowboy Cops, multiple cops who frame people, commit torture, shoot suspects in the back, and two of their number are actual Jigsaw killers, along with Rigg, who is forced into the role.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Rigg physically assaults at least one suspect, and in ''Saw II'' encourages Eric to beat the answers they want out of John, implying that this is standard practice for the department.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He may be a DirtyCop and RabidCop, but few can dispute Eric makes a damn good point when he points out that John, no matter how he tries to justify the deaths in his games, is a murderer.

'''Eric''': Yeah, well, putting a gun to someone's head and forcing ''them'' to pull the trigger is still murder.

* TheAllegedExpert: Downplayed. Zeke is so insistent that he's the best detective ever, and would logically have plenty of experience since he has served in the department for at least two decades, but not once in the actual film is he ever shown doing well on his own merits outside the case regarding the Spiral Killer. For one, the very first thing he's seen doing is an undercover drug bust ''at a five-star hotel'', wherein he attempts to use a car in the hotel's garage to get away. Bonus points when Angie says that he's been doing this for a year.

* TheAllegedExpert: Downplayed. Zeke is so insistent that he's the best detective ever, and would logically have plenty of experience since he has served in the department for at least two decades, but not once in the actual film is he ever shown actually doing well on his own merits outside the case regarding the Spiral Killer. For one, the very first thing he's seen doing is an undercover drug bust ''at a five-star hotel'', wherein he attempts to use a car in the hotel's garage to get away. Bonus points when Angie says that he's been doing this for a year.

'''Appearances:''' ''The Scott Tibbs Documentary''

** Played with most of the time. Alongside the FBI, the department isn't necessarily incompetent and is always active in the Jigsaw case, but they never manage to capture any of the Jigsaw killers and accomplices they know about (only getting their corpses after being killed by someone else), or even discover certain {{Closed Circle}}s like the Nerve Gas House (which includes the infamous Bathroom) and the barn (which [[spoiler:somehow went unnoticed for ''over a decade'']]).

* 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.

* TongueTrauma: 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.

* EvilIsPetty: He once murdered a man for ''flipping him off.''

* 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.

* EvilIsPetty: UpToEleven. He once murdered a man for ''flipping him off.''

* 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.

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DannyGlover (movies)\\
'''Voiced by:''' Earl Alexander (video games)\\

'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SawIII''

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

[[caption-width-right:350:The department's seal and logo from ''Saw II'' to ''3D'', as seen in a police station.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The department's seal and logo from ''Spiral'' as seen in another police station.]]

!!In General:

* {{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.

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

* 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.