History Characters / SawMetropolitanPoliceDepartment

** In the first film, Tapp and Sing are seen using a map with the layout of UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. Also, Gordon's medical degree is from Indiana State University, implying that the city could be within the Rust Belt (if Gordon didn't move from Indiana to another state), a statistical region defined by high economic depression and vacant industrial properties, similar to the CrapsackWorld status the city is implied to be in; additionally, both Illinois and Ohio are two of the eight US states with the most serial killers.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The department is part of the government of an unnamed American city, with the only clear hint to the location being the TV network WNKW, implying that it's east of the Mississippi River.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The department is part of the government of an unnamed American city, which is the setting for the movies, with the only hint as to the location being the TV network WNKW, implying that it's east of the Mississippi River. The license plates seen in the movies deliberately leave off the name of the state, although their style resembles that of [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]] ones. In the first film, Tapp and Sing are seen using a map with the layout of Washington, D.C. ''Jigsaw'' further establishes that the city isn't Cleveland, as Eleanor is offered the position of medical examiner in that city. That said, most fans believe that the city is somewhere on the East Coast, specifically around UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, whose skyline was used in establishing shots of ''Spiral''.

* 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.]]

* 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.

->'''Played by:''' Al Sapienza\\

* NewMeat: Of the Metropolitan Police Department. Zeke even refers to him as such. [[spoiler:He invokes it in a horrifyingly literal fashion when he fakes his death, making everyone think he was flayed and left on a meathook in a butcher shop.]]

* NewMeat: Of the Metropolitan Police Department. Zeke even refers to him as such. [[spoiler:Made all the more ironic after he's flayed and left on a meat-hook in a butcher shop.]]

* NewMeat: Of the Metropolitan Police Department. Zeke even refers to him as such.

* PragmaticVillainy: Despite [[spoiler:refusing Zeke backup]], the second shots are fired, he has an OhCrap moment and rushes to his location. This isn't because he [[spoiler:cares about Zeke]], but because he [[spoiler:knows [[PapaWolf Marcus]] will go ballistic (i.e. kill him) if his son died because of him]].

* 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.

* 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.]]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The department is part of the government of an unnamed American city, which is the setting for the movies, with the only hint as to the location being the TV network WNKW, implying that it's east of the Mississippi River. The license plates seen in the movies deliberately leave off the name of the state, although their style resembles that of [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]] ones. ''Jigsaw'' further establishes that the city isn't Cleveland, as Eleanor is offered the position of medical examiner in that city. That said, most fans believe that the city is somewhere on the East Coast, specifically around UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, whose skyline was used in establishing shots of ''Spiral''.

* MinorMajorCharacter: As the chief at the time of the first seven films, it should go without saying that he must have given particular attention to the notorious Jigsaw killers, especially once they rack a good body count and show themselves to be competent enough to outsmart the police. However, he's only seen at the ceremony held to announce the supposed end of their killing spree, not even returning once further games pop up or Hoffman is exposed as the killer who's been holding them since that moment.

* MinorMajorCharacter: As the chief at the time of the original Jigsaw killings, it should go without saying that he must have given particular attention to the notorious Jigsaw killers, especially once they rack a good body count and show themselves to be competent enough to outsmart the police. However, he's only seen at the ceremony held to announce the supposed end of the spree, not even returning once further games pop up or Hoffman is exposed as the killer who's been holding them since that moment.

* MinorMajorCharacter: As the chief at the time of the original Jigsaw killings, it should go without saying that he must have given particular attention to the notorious Jigsaw killers, especially once they rack a good body count and show themselves to be competent enough to outsmart the police. However, he's only seen at the ceremony held to announce the supposed end of the spree, not even returning once further games pop up or Hoffman is exposed as one the killer who's been holding them since that moment.

* FlayedAlive: [[spoiler:He is kidnapped and brutally skinned alive by the Spiral Killer in a departure from the Jigsaw M.O.]]

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Smokes at least four times, once during his argument with Daniel after the latter was busted for shoplifting, and again while calling his son to apologize for their argument the day earlier.

* 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.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the church, when Zeke asks him if he's trying to get sober again, Pete replies: "Alcohol's not my problem. The glass and the bottle can kill." [[spoiler:Later in Zeke's game, Pete appears in a trap involving broken glass.]]

* TongueTrauma: One of the most Exaggerated examples. 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.

* BlatantLies: He makes a pathetic attempt to justify shooting Charlie Emmerson by saying it was in self-defense.

* 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.

* DirtyCop: Hoo boy, is it full of them. The department has had several {{Cowboy Cop}}s and plenty of officers who framed people, commited torture, shot suspects in the back or (in the case of the commanding ones) covered evidence regarding cases of corruption. One of them was even an actual Jigsaw killer (who attempted to recruit Rigg into the role as a bonus point), and another is a copycat.

* 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. John doesn’t even have a retort to Eric’s “putting a gun to someone’s head and forcing them to pull the trigger” analogy; all he does is turn it back towards Eric.

* DirtyCop: Hoo boy, is it full of them. The department has several {{Cowboy Cop}}s and plenty of officers who framed people, commited torture, or shot suspects in the back. One of them is even an actual Jigsaw killer (who attempted to recruit Rigg into the role as a bonus point), and another is a copycat.