History Main / DirtyHarriet

* The title SpaceCop of ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty: Decode'' does this in episode 5 to figure out who was behind a terrorist attack.
* In ''Manga/CatsEye'', police officer Mitsuko Asatani was once disguised as a bartender wearing PlayboyBunny suit.

* ''Literature/CopCraft'': Tilarna is sent to infiltrate a "dating club" in episode 7 and winds up being paired with an up-and-coming politician. She is less than pleased at how long the other cops take to bust in.

* In ''LightNovel/NinjaSlayer'', supporting protagonist Nancy Lee one time masquerades as a prostitute to try to gain easy access inside a Syndicate facility. It works a little too well, in fact.

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' has a fleeting scene where Catholic nun Esther is used as a bait to catch a criminal. Blatant fanservice, that.

Note that while this ''does'' happen in reality, it's very controversial, and legally and morally delicate. It has a very high chance of going spectacularly wrong and can easily turn into the sort of situation where a would-be arrestee is suing the city or the state or the feds for entrapment or worse. The real-life prostitution stings shown on various cop documentaries usually entail the undercover officer doing just the absolute minimum to make it absolutely clear that the client is really buying sex, and once money has changed hands excuse herself while her colleagues (who have been monitoring the situation from the next room or a parked car) storm in and make the arrest.

*** Maria [=LaGuerta=] agrees to be part of a sting to catch a DirtyCop by suggesting a sexual liason. This creates tension with her husband Batista since he [[MistakenForCheating mistakes the whole thing for an affair]] she's having with an IAD officer.

** In season 5, SpicyLatina officer Cira Manzon is chosen to impersonate a club thot as part of a sting to apprehend a dangerous gang leader.

* [[Creator/PamGrier Pam Grier's]] character in ''Film/{{Coffy}}'' goes undercover as a call girl for a local drug dealer/pimp in order to infiltrate the criminal underworld, although she's a vigilante, not a police officer.

* ''Series/{{Trace}}'' has Oksana Amelina, show's resident FairCop[=/=]HotScientist being used to work undercover as prostitute, stripper or simply seductive woman in nightclubs.

* ''LightNovel/CopCraft'': Tilarna is sent to infiltrate a "dating club" in episode 7 and winds up being paired with an up-and-coming politician. She is less than pleased at how long the other cops take to bust in.

* ''Series/{{Trace}}'' has Oksana Amelina, show's resident FairCop / HotScientist being used to work undercover as prostitute, stripper or simply seductive woman in nightclubs.

* ''Series/WithoutATrace'':

->''"I know what you're thinking. Did she serve up six bottles or only five as part of her lap dances? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a 1944 Magnum, the most expensive wine in the joint, and will blow my bikini clean off if we have it in stock, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, hunk?"''

** Elena. [[MsFanservice Samantha]], the obvious choice, has already been to the club as an FBI agent, so can't do it. If you can't have a voluptuous blonde, a [[LatinLover Latina]] does the job just as well.

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Note that while this ''does'' happen in reality, it's very controversial, and legally and morally delicate. It has a very high chance of going spectacularly wrong and can easily turn into the sort of situation where a would-be arrestee is suing the city or the state or the feds for entrapment or worse. The real-life prostitution stings shown on various cop documentaries usually entail the undercover officer doing just the absolute minimum to make it absolutely clear that the client is really buying sex, and once money has changed hands excuse herself while her colleagues (who have been monitoring the situation from the next room or a parked car) storm in and make the arrest. It's also regionally dependent; while common in the US, in other countries with legalized prostitution, arresting people for the "crime" of paying for sex is seen as [[ValuesDissonance incredibly backwards]], so it doesn't translate well in imported works of fiction either.

* In the first season of the 1980s cop show ''Series/{{Hunter}}'', Hunter's partner Dee Dee [=McCall=] poses as a streetwalker quite often (from the very first moment we see her, actually), usually to gather information rather than as a part of a sting operation. In later seasons she [[DownplayedTrope doesn't do it as often]], but it still happens. Somewhat unusually, this is not played for fanservice, at least not in the case of [=McCall=] herself - she tends to wear considerably more clothes than her supposed "colleagues".

* ''Film/UndercoverHeat''. DirtyHarriet police officer Cindy Hannen (Athena Massey) goes undercover in a high-class whorehouse to catch a murderer. She discovers the fake clients set up for her cannot be relied upon and when faced with real tricks decides to sew her "Wild oats" and enjoy a sexual adventure as a real prostitute, transforming from tomboy into FairCop via a GirlinessUpgrade, essentially BecomingTheMask. Also played with when she does a roleplay as a (dominatrix-y) cop for one of her unwitting clients and indulges in AThreesomeIsHot with an attractive married couple.

* The 1985 TV movie ''Film/OperationJulie'' opens with a roomful of undercover police watching film footage of them pretending to be hippies to investigate drug selling at a pop festival. They especially appreciate the shots of their female colleagues walking around topless.
* In ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'', Co poses as a prostitute to get inside the prison camp where Rambo is held.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In the original plan for the second episode, Kate Lockley was to be introduced as a police officer infiltrating a prostitution ring. In the [[ExecutiveMeddling version that made it to air]], she was investigating disappearances from (or hanging out at) a popular singles bar.

* ''Angel'': Beautiful FairCop LAPD police detective Kate Lochley serves as both potential love interest and occasional atagonist for Angel Investigations over the course of the series.

* ''Film/UndercoverHeat''. DirtyHarriet police officer Cindy Hannen (Athena Massey) goes undercover in a high-class whorehouse to catch a murderer. She discovers the fake clients set up for her cannot be relied upon and when faced with real tricks decides to sew her "Wild oats" and enjoy a sexual adventure as a real prostitute, transforming from tomboy into FairCop via a GirlinessUpgrade, essentially BecomingTheMask. Also played with when she does a roleplay as a (dominatrix-y) cop for one of her unwitting clients.