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->'''Bart:''' Can I see your club?\\
'''Officer Lou:''' It's called a baton, son.\\
'''Bart:''' Oh. What's it for?\\
'''Officer Lou:''' We club people with it.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

Call them truncheons, coshes, billysticks, billy clubs, nightsticks, prods, or what-have-you. Shorter than a MartialArtsStaff, different enough from a generic club to be distinct, the baton is the melee weapon of cops, guards, and their ilk.

Depending on the portrayal of the police force, a baton can be:
# A heroic weapon (for truly righteous cops such as the OldFashionedCopper)
# A standard-issue RedShirt weapon (especially against heavily armed crooks or supernatural menaces)
# A [[PoliceBrutality symbol of fear]] (especially when wielded by a DirtyCop or a KillerCop -- or a whole army of 'em)

Sometimes used to perform a TapOnTheHead; however, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_(law_enforcement)#Target_areas modern UK training discourages it due to the possibility of fatal injury.]] They're not used quite as much as they once were now that more sophisticated less-lethal options are available, but they do still have their uses; pepper-spray can rebound on the user in a confined space or if the wind's against you, and tasers are a lot more likely to do permanent damage than a solid whack on the elbow with a big stick.

The OldFashionedCopper trope in general also tends to invert the brutality aspect of the trope, since the "no-nonsense" versions prefer guns (in works set at the time when British officers could sign them out of the armoury without much trouble), while the amicable Series/DixonOfDockGreen types prefer old-fashioned truncheons. American officers (at least of the uniformed variety; plainclothes detectives won't be carrying them) will tend to have the tonfa-derived side-handle nightstick on their belt. In feudal Japan, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitte jitte]] (basically a metal truncheon with a prong for hooking the opponent or immobilizing a sword before the user can use it) was strongly associated with officers and served as their badge of office.

On the other hand, it can very well lead to TheGreatBritishCopperCapture, when an unarmed police officer encounters an armed criminal and it ends badly.

In more modern times, many police departments have adopted the [[RetractableWeapon expandable baton]] ([[IHaveManyNames also known as collapsible, telescopic, extendable, tactical, or spring cosh baton]]), because of how compact they can become when retracted and the ease to store and carry around. There's also the option of a sturdy, big, and heavy flashlight, which [[ImprovisedWeapon can be just as effective for bludgeoning]], while also giving a less threatening appearance and, of course, being a light source. There's the added benefit that with modern LED technology, a flashlight big and hefty enough to be used as a baton typically has equally big and hefty batteries that [[InfiniteFlashlight last a really long time]].

If a baton is seen in the hands of riot control police, almost always expect it to be used in [[DualWielding tandem]] with [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe a riot shield]], giving the officer not only some protection but two ways to dispense blunt force: either good old bludgeoning with the baton or some simple [[ShieldBash shield bashing]].

Another evolution of this trope is its tendency to crossover with ShockAndAwe to create a ShockStick, especially in more futuristic science fiction settings. This is mostly because the two well-known weapons cops have to subdue perpetrators or suspects in the 21st century are either batons or tasers/stun guns. [[MixAndMatchWeapon So why not combine both?]] Makes the law enforcement agents and their ilk's job of enforcing the law or engaging in some PoliceBrutality much easier.

Compare CarryABigStick, StaffOfAuthority, and BatterUp. Not to be confused with BattleBaton.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/BravePoliceJDecker'': J-Decker's primary melee weapon is a giant baton, though it can also fire electric discharges from a distance to disable enemies.
* In ''Anime/CyberCityOedo808'', the three BoxedCrook protagonists (who are working off their sentences as "special" officers) all carry collapsible red jitte. In the second OVA, Gogul even uses his to identify himself as law enforcement.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Marine Captain/Commodore/Vice Admiral Smoker wields a [[{{BFS}} Big Fancy Jitte]] tipped with [[KryptoniteFactor Seastone]] to better fight Devil Fruit users.
** Luffy from one of the special episodes (set in an AlternateUniverse) also wields a normal-sized one as he takes the role as an inspector. He can even perform a [[RapidfireFisticuffs Gum Gum Gatling]] with it.
* In ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'', the Ingrams used by the cops of [=SV2=] are armed with electromagnetic batons that can disable hostile [[HumongousMecha Labors]] when thrust into the right spot.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Ex-cop and brutal vigilante Americop in the ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' comics carries a baton as a major part of his arsenal.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': The {{Iconic|Item}} [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]] for Daredevil are [[DualWielding a pair of billy clubs]] that he uses to dispense vigilante justice by night while acting as a lawyer by day. Naturally both activities can crossover with each other.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' carries a large baton, called a daystick, as part of his standard equipment. He's an expert with it, with one rookie noting that when she was failing her Applied Violence course, she found every single video clip of Dredd armed with a daystick she could find in order to brush up. In more recent years, it's been upgraded with a titanium core to counter any attempts to cut through it, and it came in handy against a perp wielding a {{chainsaw|Good}}.
* ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'': While he was working for the Bludhaven PD for his day job, Dick Grayson relied on his baton in situations where every other cop on the force would consider it suicidal to use anything but lethal force. Of course, he's been fighting gun-wielding criminals in this way since he was twelve, even if the baton is a little different from his preferred eskrima sticks.
* One of Jake Gallows' weapons of choice in ''ComicBook/ThePunisher2099'' is a baton that can [[TelescopingStaff extend into a staff]] and has a dial that can set the toughness of the baton's material anywhere from "whiffle bat" (for non-lethal riot use) up to "titanium". Gallows boasted in internal narration once that he ''never'' used the "less-than-lethal" settings.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': This is the entire schtick of Nightstick and Daystick, a pair of thuggish vigilantes from Creator/JossWhedon's run. As their names suggest, they wield batons.
* ''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'' has a supporting character named Nightstick, whose gimmick is a pair of batons strapped to his forearms.
* Inspector Ishida from ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' uses a jitte not only to bludgeon criminals and break swords but also as a badge of authority.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'': Among the accoutrements of Ensign Kate [=McMillan=], a Starfleet Security officer stationed at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, is something called a "stunstick" (a cross between a police baton and a StaticStunGun).
* ''Fanfic/SevenDaysSurvivor'': Midori Komaki often carries a police tonfa under her shirt, even to school. Unusually for this trope, she holds no real attachment to them, as several have broken on her over the course of the story, and she simply gets a replacement.
* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', Smoker gives Cross one in Loguetown. In Chapter 35, Usopp upgrades it with a Thunder Dial, turning it into a [[StaticStunGun Taser Baton]]. Unfortunately, it's [[WreckedWeapon destroyed]] in Chapter 42.
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[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
* ''Anime/LupinIIICrisisInTokyo'' features Inspector Zenigata keeping a Jitte as part of the shrine to his police officer ancestors. He later uses it to arrest the movie's villain.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', a now-incapable-of-violence Alex [=DeLarge=] is left at the mercy of two of his formers Droogs, Georgie and Dim, who have become cops while he was in prison/undergoing TheLudovicoTechnique. They take him to the countryside, maintain his head underwater in a metal trough and beat him up a bit with their batons at the same time, also hitting the trough to have him feel the vibrations in the water.
* In ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', the police force is used mostly to control the ape slaves and all carry big sticks to beat recalcitrant apes with.
* In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', in the future city of San Angeles, the police are armed with batons... [[ShockStick which can discharge electric currents]]. Although due to how non-violent their world is, they don't really have the best idea to use it.
* ''Film/InLikeFlint'': General Carter's Z.O.W.I.E. guards use expandable batons to fight Flint in the document incinerator room.
* In ''Film/AManCalledSledge'', one of the warders threatens Sledge with a truncheon; thinking that Sledge is safely handcuffed. Sledge snatches the club off him and knocks him out with it.
* ''Film/TheManhunt'': The chief guard in the prison carries a baton that he uses to whack Ethan Wayne in the kidneys for any infraction of the rules, [[WardensAreEvil or even if there has been no infraction]].
* One of the weapons used by the Precops in ''Film/MinorityReport'' are Sick-sticks. They're retractable batons that can also cause the target to [[BrownNote uncontrollably vomit upon contact]].
* ''Film/PoliceAcademy''
** In the first film, Leslie uses a police baton [[TheDogBitesBack to beat on the guys who had been harassing him prior to becoming a cop]].
** In ''Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol'' a nebbishy rookie cop (played by Tim Kazurinsky) uses his police baton to totally destroy a trio of gangbangers.
** In ''Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow'', Tackleberry uses one in a demonstration where he complains that most of his methods are considered "[[PoliceBrutality excessive force]]".
* Rama from ''Film/TheRaid'' uses a [[DualWielding nightstick and combat knife]] to deadly results against one of the many tenants of the apartment. Although he loses both weapons in the struggle.
* In ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal'', the guards of the prison use simple wooden batons when having to quell the riot, although due to how brutal and messy the riot has gotten, both Rama, Uco and some of the prisoners employ them during the fight.
* Inspector Ma from ''Film/ShaPoLang'' uses a telescoping baton, in a rare heroic example.
* ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'': Jim Malone is carrying one when he encounters Elliot Ness in the midst of a HeroicBSOD after his first bungled raid. When he taps Ness with it to make him move along, the wooden baton makes a clunk as it hits Ness' shoulder-holstered firearm. Malone makes no effort to draw his own weapon, as if he has no need at that distance.
* In ''Film/WalkingTall1973'' and [[Film/WalkingTall2004 its 2004 remake]], the sheriff carries a wood stick as an improvised baton and uses it as his primary weapon.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The Provost's Guard in the ''Literature/BekaCooper'' books use short, sturdy batons because they lack the lethal implications of edged weapons.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Commander Vimes receives a truncheon as part of the Watch Commander's regalia; it includes a nameplate reading "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Protector of thee Kinge's Piece.]]" He wonders why it's not a sword and then he realizes that it's not meant to be used; it's simply meant to [[StaffOfAuthority show everyone he's Watch Commander.]] Also, a sword is a deadly weapon, a truncheon is for bringing people in.
--->'''Vimes:''' I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!
** He is rather pleased to note that in spite of being made of fancy materials, the ceremonial truncheon does in fact have the same length, weight, and balance as the standard street-issue truncheon.
** In ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', Vimes completely forbids the watch to carry coshes and blackjacks "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial available from Mrs Goodbody at No. 8 Easy Street, at a range of prices to suit all pockets, and should any of you approach me privately I absolutely will not demonstrate a variety of specialist blows suitable for these useful yet tricky instruments]]."
* In ''Literature/TheIronDream'', truncheons are the favourite melee weapon in Held. Feric Jaggar, their leader chosen by fate, wields the ''[[PhallicWeapon Steel Commander]]''.
-->The shaft as a gleaming rod of some tarnishless metal fully four feet long and thick around as a man's forearm etched all around with rich red traceries of lightning strokes, a motif which made the huge shaft appear as if it had but recently been quenched in blood. The oversize headball was a life-sized steel fist, and a hero's fist at that.
* In the ''Literature/MatthewHawkwood'' novels, Hawkwood carries a heavy tipstaff in the inside pocket of his coat, which he is quite adept as using as a weapon; even using it to hold off an assailant who attacks him with a sword in ''Resurrectionist''. It also doubles as a StaffOfAuthority as it is hollow and contain his warrant of authority as a Bow Street Runner.
* In ''Literature/ThePeripheral'', Inspector Lowbeer has a golden tipstaff that can collapse completely into what looks like a lipstick case. It can also [[MorphWeapon be a gun]] if necessary.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Laurel Lance tries to [[LegacyCharacter take up her sister's legacy]] as the ComicBook/BlackCanary, but without Sara's years of training finds herself unable to handle her bo staff. After getting pummeled in several fights, she changes to a more pragmatic [=PR24=] side-handle baton (possibly also in homage to her father, an officer in the Star City Police Department).
* In one episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a tabletop game invented by Hodges (which features {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed versions of the cast) has a [[PoliceBrutality Brutal]] version of Brass who threatens a suspect with a collapsible truncheon (which he's never been shown with in the series thus far).
* A Season Five episode of ''Series/TheDetectives'' has the hapless duo trying to rescue their boss's grand-daughter from an environmental protest before the Met's Territorial Support Group do a raid. Or as Bob describes them due to their brutality:
-->''"The BYOB squad; Bring Your Own Baton!"''
* ''Series/DixonOfDockGreen'' strongly averts the PoliceBrutality aspect of the trope, only using his truncheon to protect the public and generally being an all-around NiceGuy.
* The ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' rendition of Franchise/SherlockHolmes practices [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlestick singlestick]] for self-defense, considering it a simple and elegant fighting style. He makes use of it with a collapsible metal baton in "M." to capture the SerialKiller who [[spoiler:he thought]] killed Irene Adler. Joan Watson also takes up singlestick when she becomes a detective and by the second season has acquired her own telescopic baton. In season 3 Joan works out that Kitty Winter is working for Sherlock because she too uses a baton and singlestick moves.
* ''Series/Forever2014'': A museum guard uses a telescoping baton to attack Henry in "The Last Death of Henry Morgan," having previously attacked [[spoiler: but not killed]] a murder victim with the same weapon.
* ''Series/{{Hostages}}'' has Sandrine Renault a.k.a. Maria Gonzales use a collapsible baton to restrain the Sanders patriarch in the first episode by hitting the back of his head.
* ''Series/InspectorGeorgeGently'': In "Gently Between the Lines", police with truncheons charge to disperse a group of protesters. After one of the policemen is injured in the ensuing melee, a group of three coppers are shown menacingly brandishing their truncheons as they return to the fray, looking to inflict some serious payback on anyone they can find.
* ''Series/NewTricks'':
** One episode has Jack trying to reconcile with an old friend who has never forgiven Jack for joining The Met and cites the massed baton charges employed by said force during the UK miner's strikes of the mid-'80s.
** In "Last Man Standing", the VictimOfTheWeek was a DirtyCop who was Gerry's old boss. He was done in by a blow to the head from Gerry's truncheon, which was planted next to the body.
* Each Correctional Officer (CO) in ''Series/{{Oz}}'' carries a tonfa-style baton. Although they're supposedly carried for defense, there are quite a few instances of brutality against inmates, most notably when [[spoiler:Ryan manipulates three [=COs=] into beating Jia to death with their batons.]]
* The deputies in ''Series/Reno911'' are quite fond of engaging in what Deputy Garcia calls "stick time."
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai''/''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** In ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'', the Gold Ranger pairs a jitte with a mechanical paper lantern as a secondary weapon set. They can grow and combine into a HumongousMecha.
** The team weapon of the Patrangers in ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVSKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'', is the [="Pat MegaBo"=] a strange weapon that [[MixAndMatchWeapon combines]]] a [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerrangers/images/7/74/KSP-Pat_MegaBo_%28Megaphone_Mode%29.png megaphone]] with a [[RetractableWeapon extendable]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerrangers/images/6/6b/KSP-Pat_MegaBo_%28Baton_Mode%29.png baton.]] their SixthRanger, Patren X, uses [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerrangers/images/8/8e/KSP-X_Rod_Sword.png a jitte]] mode for his X Rod Sword. If that wasn't enough the Pink Patranger's ''[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerrangers/images/a/ab/KSP-Trigger_Machine_3.png Trigger Machine 3gou]]'' also has [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerrangers/images/1/16/Trigger_Machine_3gou_Attack_Mode.png a giant retractable baton as it's main weapon]] when combining into the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerrangers/images/9/9f/KSP-PatKaiser.png Keisatsu Gattai PatKaiser.]]
* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "Old Wounds", Vera's team investigates a cold case when a girl's remains are found in the woods twenty years after she disappeared. The murderer was a police officer policing the picket lines during the miner's strike, who killed her by cracking her skull open with his baton.
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/BigBossMan, Ray Traylor, whose [[WrestlingDoesntPay gimmick was that of an ex-prison guard]] (which Traylor was in real life), who spoke loudly and carried a big stick. When he was a {{Heel}}, he would sometimes draw heat by destroying a {{Jobber}} in a match, then handcuff the poor sod to the ring ropes, and beat them mercilessly to the delight of Wrestling/BobbyHeenan.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Arbites squads (local ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' {{exp|y}}ies) from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' carry shock batons, applied with considerable enthusiasm against rioters, mutants, and other undesirables.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
* The PAX guards in ''VideoGame/{{Anachronox}}'' all carry batons which they are [[PoliceBrutality all too happy to crush your head with]].
* In the modern times, the Abstergo guards in ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' games, are usually armed with these. If fighting unarmed, Desmond can disarm one of the guards of his baton and use it much the same way Ezio can use a sword or mace in the historical segments of the games.
* In ''VideoGame/AstralChain'', you wield a device known as an X-Baton, a MorphWeapon that can change between a Baton, a pistol, and a large {{BFS}}.
* In ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHardline'', the baton is the QuickMelee weapon for Nick Mendoza in single-player and the police in multiplayer.
* Alyssa from ''VideoGame/CosmicStarHeroine'', an API officer, fights enemies using various quarterstaffs. Crushing the enemies isn't their only function; Alyssa can also stun foes, shoot lasers and cast [[MakingASplash water magic]] using these staffs.
* While not a cop, Simon can grab a nightstick in ''VideoGame/CryOfFear'', although this is played straight in the Co-Op campaign where the player characters are law enforcement and they can also use the nightstick.
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' has two variants: a simple collapsible baton, and [[ShockStick an electric stun prod]] that is one of the player's starting weapons. Both of these are non-lethal weapons, completely neutralising the target but not killing them as far as characters are concerned.
* Zhuge Dan uses a nightstick in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8''. Fitting for a strategist with authority.
* Glas in ''VideoGame/FearEffect'' uses a baton as his melee weapon of choice.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', most melee-type enemies of the Corps (military/police organization of Cocoon) category wield batons in battle. Some higher-level PSICOM (e.g. Huntress) and Sanctum (e.g. Inquisitrix) enemies have them, as well.
** Jihl Nabaat in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' wields a [[StaffOfAuthority swagger stick]] as a weapon but isn't fought until a DLC battle in the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 the sequel]]
** Shinra Infantrymen wield police batons in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' alongside their assault rifles. The Turk Reno also wields a collapsible shock baton befitting his corporate thug image.
* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' and ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' games, Rolento the ex-soldier fights with a baton and an acrobatic, speedy style.
* Law enforcement in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series often use nightsticks at the lowest Wanted level to try and arrest the PlayerCharacter. This is more common in the 3D universe,[[labelnote:list]]''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto3'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' and ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'', and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''[[/labelnote]] as cops in the HD universe[[labelnote:list]]''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''[[/labelnote]] (excluding ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars Chinatown Wars]]'') will instead hold you at gunpoint and shoot you if you resist arrest.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': Combine Civil Protection officers wield stun batons that they use when dishing out their [[PoliceBrutality particular brand of justice]]. After [[OneManArmy Gordon Freeman]] dons his HEV suit and crushes the skull of a baton-wielding CP with his {{crowbar|Combatant}}, they switch to their pistols and are never seen using their batons again. Worth noting that the one stun baton you get off said CP is collectable [[UnusableEnemyEquipment not as a weapon]], but as a battery for your suit's armor.
* You can get one in ''VideoGame/Hitman2016''. It's useful as it allows for quiet non-lethal takedowns, and the baton itself won't be detected if you're frisked.
* [[NunTooHoly Priere]] from ''VideoGame/LaPucelle'' uses a baton to beat the crap out of her enemies. This carries to her appearances as an Overlord in later Creator/NipponIchi games.
* Some of the Infected (police Commons and riot armor Uncommons) in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' are still carrying tonfa-like nightsticks on their belts when they encounter the survivors. They are too mindless to actually make use of the nighstick, but you can loot it off them after they die and use it in lieu of the pistol. It's widely seen as a problematic weapon thanks to its unreliable hit detection, and has been voted [[ScrappyWeapon the worst melee weapon in the game]] as a result.
* Appears a lot in the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' franchise when law enforcement or anything related to their ilk pops up. Batons and nightsticks are also weapons the PlayerCharacter can use.
** Kaoru from ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' uses a retractable baton. Notably, she pulls one out when attacking [[spoiler:Ryo Takashima]] in the finale.
** Saito from ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'' and his fellow guards uses collapsible batons. Saito's also one sadistic prison guard, using the baton to heavily punish or outright kill the prisoners under his watch. His fellow guards also add in [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter wooden katanas]] into their melee arsenal.
** Koichi Adachi or any male party member that takes the ''"Enforcer"'' Job (including Adachi) are armed with batons as their weapons (the latter job uses it in conjunction with [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe a riot shield]]). Adachi has the ''"Detective"'' as his default job which allows him to use different batons or anything that can be used as a baton in a fight.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'', at the start of the boss fight against [[spoiler:Mitsuru Kuroiwa]], he uses a blackjack sap club to take on [[spoiler:Yagami before the latter disarms him]].
** When Yagami has another boss fight against a member of the law enforcement in ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'' (this time [[spoiler:Kisuke Watanabe]]), the latter pulls out an expandable baton to fight him.
* Cerberus Assault Troopers and Centurions in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' use batons for their melee attacks.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** Kurtis Stryker utilizes a nightstick alongside other conventional weapons like his handguns and even uses it like tonfas in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon Armageddon]]''.
** Cassie Cage, the local MilitaryBrat, uses an expandable nightstick as her weapon.
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', the cyborg {{Dirty Cop}}s in Denver use these.
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'' is an FBI agent (for a [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction fictional branch]] called MIST that deals with mutated monsters). The weapons you start off with are a pistol and a police baton (which also happens to be the only exclusively melee weapon in the game).
* The PR-24 tonfa-style baton appears in the ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest1InPursuitOfTheDeathAngel''. It's kept in Sonny's assigned patrol car when he's not on duty and he's not allowed to carry it into the station. It's used to deal with some unruly bikers who get violent when asked to move their bikes.
* One of the bosses of ''VideoGame/RoboArmy'' is a burly robot policeman who swings a laser-firing baton at you.
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': One variety of Breen {{mook|s}}, the Ak'ched Guard, likes to get up close and personal with a neural truncheon. They're one of the more common varieties of mooks at Breen slave labor camps during the "Breen Invasion" arc.
* The Imperial Agent's NonPlayerCompanion SCORPIO in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' fights using customized electrostaffs that look like police batons, since she is essentially a [[WardensAreEvil robotic prison warden]] who spent most of her existence herding criminals on the prison planet of Belsavis.
* ''VideoGame/{{Strider}} Hiryu'' uses a cipher, which is a LaserBlade that resembles the tonfa-style baton.
* In ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'', Aiden Pierce uses a collapsible baton as a melee weapon. It seems to be more for functionality than anything since it's an easily concealable weapon that can take out enemies quickly, relatively quietly, and less lethally.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', because it's TheFuture, the cops have {{laser b|lade}}atons. They look and sound like [[Franchise/StarWars lightsabers]] but are really just overglorified {{Retractable|Weapon}} batons.
* Stryker from ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'' not only has his trusty nightstick, it also works as a device that can close Outworld portals, very convenient and handy.
* Shows up occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', with "Springfield's Finest" usually using them for PoliceBrutality.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E3Chickenlover Chickenlover]]", Cartman is handed a baton when he's deputized. He uses it indiscriminately on whoever doesn't "respect my authoritah!"
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E5MermaidManAndBarnacleBoyIVDoingTime Doing Time]]" features Officers Nancy O'Malley and John Slugfish appearing to be beating the hell out of someone to "straighten [them] out". Their victim is revealed to be a crooked parking meter.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', the Mandalorian police carry electrified stun batons, which look just like an American police officer's side-handle nightstick, because under the pacifist government of the era lethal weapons like blasters are forbidden.
* The titular ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' has Alice as it's sole top prison guard (although Jailbot sometimes helps out too) and befitting her occupation she has a liking for batons, specifically nightsticks and has used them to [[PoliceBrutality brutalize the inmates]] from time to time. She even [[DualWielding wielded two of them]] when taking part in a secret fighting ring where she shoves them into the eyes of her poor opponent. Her DistaffCounterpart, [=UltraPrison=]'s Bruce makes use of a retractable baton instead, save for one time when he pulled out a massive nightstick [[TrouserSpace out of his trousers]] ([[PhallicWeapon mostly to compete]] [[CompensatingForSomething with Alice]]).
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