History DirtyCop / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': The Amaterasu Corporation Peacekeepers are a private security firm consisting of corrupt enforcers who abuse their authority to mastermind all kinds of crime and attempted murder and warp the truth to suit Amaterasu's interests. While the main Peacekeepers are already corrupt as is, Yomi Hellsmile, their leader and TheHeavy of the story, takes it the extra mile by not only driving out any real detectives from Kanai Ward [[spoiler:by executing them to save himself]] or brainwashing them into becoming part of his army, but also [[spoiler:conducting a plot to manipulate the main detective agency's chief, Yakou Furio, into killing Amaterasu's head researcher, Dr. Huesca, for trying to escape Amaterasu.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'', the fourth main boss Marcus is the leader of the CityGuards and made a fortune selling drugs to the community, then arresting and fining his customers before confiscating his own product to sell again later.

* ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'': Don Morello had the whole Lost Heaven police department on his payroll. Until, [[spoiler:He was killed by Tommy Angelo.]]

%%* [[spoiler:Chase Linh]] in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUndercover''.

* ''VideoGame/Skullgirls2ndEncore'': The character Big Band was once a police officer by the name of Ben Birdland. Unfortunately, he was the only clean cop on the force, since his colleagues were all on the payroll of the Medici Mafia. One day, he was beat nearly to death by his colleagues (including one who was actually an anthropomorphic pig), which caused him to become what is essentially the lovechild of Inspector Gadget, RoboCop, an iron lung, and an entire orchestra.

** Officer Frank Tenpenny from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', the main BigBad of the game, is one of the most iconic (and [[RealismInducedHorror horrific]]) examples of a DirtyCop in the history of video games. Tepenny likes to think of himself as a "KnightTemplar", but at his core, he's nothing more than a thug in uniform who uses his police badge, his influence, and his connections for his own criminal and corrupt purposes. Since his actions are not productive at all, Tenpenny is far from someone who wants to do good, not even in an extreme or twisted way. In fact, his way of dealing with gangs is more reminiscent of how a [[TheDon mob boss]] would do it than that of a police officer.

** Creator/SamuelLJackson's character Officer Frank Tenpenny in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' uses his position to get rich off the drug trade and keep all the gangs in Los Santos under his thumb and on his payroll. He threatens to hurt Carl's loved ones to force him to eliminate a case pending against him and his colleagues for his corruption. He murders two of his partners for growing a conscience and trying to expose him. When the case against him is dropped due to lack of evidence and witnesses (which he destroyed or killed throughout the game), the outrage causes a city-wide riot. Unusually, he claims to be a WellIntentionedExtremist trading in small crimes to prevent larger ones, but the events of the game don't bear it out.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'': Multiple:

* Shows up in varying degrees in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series, since cooperation between organized crime syndicates and the police is a necessity in Japanese society.
** Masayoshi Tanimura, one of the protagonists from ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', is far from squeaky-clean: he plays mah-jongg on company time and shakes down businesses exploiting migrant work (the latter of which he does to support his extended family in Little Asia). When push comes to shove, however, he's definitely heroic, especially compared to [[spoiler:his mentor Suguichi, who's a Yakuza mole and Deputy Commissioner Munakata, who has been using resources to build secret prisons]].
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'', it turns out that [[spoiler:the Osaka Detective that shows up in all of the characters stories is actually [[TheDon the Chairman]] of the Omi Alliance]].
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'', Homare Nishitani has the cops of Sotenbori in his pocket to the point that he uses a cell in the local PD as a hideout. Of course, since they're only loyal to his money it also means that [[spoiler:they quickly turn against him when Dojima Family lieutenant Shibusawa hires them to kill him]].
** In ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', Juro Horinouchi is the Deputy Commisioner of Tokyo who rose to his position via witness tampering that kept an innocent man in jail (who eventually committed suicide) and is a political lackey of the corrupt Governor of Tokyo Ryo Aoki. He serves as the personal nemesis of Koichi Adachi, who was the man who tried to save said innocent man and got demoted to a desk jockey at a DMV for getting in Horinouchi's way.
** Kazuya Ayabe from the spinoff ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'' accepts bribes from criminals and leaks sensitive information for the right price, acting as Yagami's informant into the investigation on [[SerialKiller the Mole]]. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the Mole is actually Ayabe's superior Mitsuru Kuroiwa, who started as an info broker like Ayabe before deciding murder and aiding in a massive cover up of a failed Alzheimer's drug was more his speed]].
** A major reveal in ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'' is that [[spoiler:Kazuki Soma, the boss of the RK gang, is actually an undercover cop/government spy who created the gang partly to centralize organized crime under the thumb of the government. However, he's also a cold-blooded sadist who has no problems murdering civilians to keep his cover and his actual purpose is to enforce the will of his superior Bando, a bureaucrat in the police force looking to get his hands on the Japanese retirement fund]].