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Detroit Police Department
In general
The privatized police force owned by Omni Consumer Products in this setting.
- Bulletproof Vest: They are always suited with these when on duty outside the police station. Given how violent the streets of Detroit are here, it's completely necessary.
- Last-Name Basis: A standard in this franchise, everyone on the force is usually referred to only by their last names.
- Law Enforcement, Inc.: The Detroit police force has been privatized, which is why OCP wields such an incredible degree of control over them.
- Police Are Useless: A justified example as OCP holds back funds from the department they ensure that cops cannot do their jobs effectively and secretly undermining the police precincts to further their own goals.
Anne Lewis
"Murphy, it's you."
Played by Nancy AllenOriginally Murphy's partner, and first on the scene after his fatal shooting. Remains assigned to work with him after his cyberization.
- Action Girl: She's a competent cop that is no Damsel in Distress, unlike most 80s female leads.
- Badass Driver: Serves as the driver during the van chase at the beginning of the movie, rescues Murphy from an extrajudicial execution in her squad car, and also drives during the climactic shootout at the steel mill.
- Badass Normal: She may not be a superhuman cyborg like Murphy, but they still make a great team. She also saves his life in a Big Damn Heroes moment, and is a pretty good shot ... with a grenade launcher.
- Boyish Short Hair: An intentional choice by the film's creators to give her a bit of an androgynous look, since they felt her gender was not important, though she averts this in the sequels.
- Character Tic: Chewing bubblegum, which alerts one of the gang members to her presence: he incapacitates her so she can't help Murphy when he's cornered.
- Dumb Blonde: Averted. Despite having dirty-blonde hair, she's one of the few people working for OCP who isn't a complete moron.
- Establishing Character Moment: Is introducing by subduing a misbehaving perp with a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Boyish Short Hair in the first film, chin length bob in the second film and shoulder length '80s Hair perm in the third film.
- Female Gaze: She sneaks up on Joe Cox, one of Boddicker's goons while he's relieving himself. He puts his hands up, but then casually nods towards his crotch and asks her if he should "zip this up" first. She doesn't fall for the obvious ruse at first but, unfortunately, she can't resist glancing down, and once she does, Cox catches her off-guard and disarms her.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She spends a lot of the movie being the only person under OCP who treats Robo like a human being rather than Just a Machine, and goes out of her way and disobeys orders to help him.
- Heroic BSoD: She's visibly (and understandably) distraught seeing Murphy's desecrated corpse.
- Killed Off for Real: By McDagget, a
Moral Event Horizon moment for him. - The Lancer: She is Robo's main ally and Only Friend.
- Made of Iron: Survives multiple gunshot wounds from Boddicker towards the end of the first film. Unfortunately she can't repeat the feat in the third.
- The Not-Love Interest: She's the only person who gets close to Robo, she's female, and the way they look at each other sometimes looks like they have feelings for each other, but it never goes far beyond them being partners on the force.
- Only Friend: She's the only police officer who tries to befriend Robo and believes that somewhere in his metallic body, he's still her former partner.
- Oral Fixation: She regularly chews bubblegum.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Her and Alex/Robo are strictly True Companions.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: After slugging her and throwing her off a rail, Joe Cox believes he's killed her and reports such to Boddicker and the rest of the gang. In truth, she survives, although severely dazed upon returning to consciousness and too late to save Murphy.
- Sacrificial Lion: In the third movie.
Killed by Request of actress Nancy Allen. - Sidekick: Averted. They're very much equals, despite the fact that one's now a Nigh-Invulnerable cyborg.
- Stronger Than They Look: Don't be fooled by her feminine features. See Establishing Character Moment.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Is fatally injured by McDagget around halfway in the third movie and dies in Murphy's arms.
- Survivor Guilt: Although it immediately goes away when she realizes RoboCop is Murphy.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She's never without bubblegum.
- Two First Names: Her last name is usually used as a guy's name. Same applies to her actress.
- You Are Too Late: After being knocked out, she arrives right after Murphy has been shot up and is dying.
Sergeant John/Warren Reed
Played by Robert DoQui
"Without cops, this city would tear itself apart!"
The sergeant in charge of Metro West and one of Robocop's strongest allies.
- Berserk Button: Do not mention going on strike in front of him, police do not strike!
- Big Good: His attitude towards the officers under his command resembles A Father to His Men.
- Continuity Snarl: The subject of his first name. In the scene when Morton, Johnson, and co. and taking RoboCop to Metro West in the original movie, Morton asks who Reed is, to which Johnson replies "Sgt. John Reed", but in the second, following Faxx's tampering with RoboCop, Murphy calls Reed "Warren". While it could initially have been chalked up to Faxx's tampering like butchering age-old sayings was, the comic adaptation of the original script for 3, RoboCop: Last Stand does confirm that "Warren" was intended to be Reed's name as he was addressed there as "Sgt. Warren Reed" with the now-jobless Reed's only rebuttal being he wasn't a cop anymore.
- Da Chief: He is in charge of the Detroit Police Department.
- Desk Jockey: He's mostly seen working at his desk, but he can still hold his own in the field if he needs to.
- Everyone Has Standards: In 3, he's had enough of OCP's BS by the time Johnson and McDaggett order him to force people out of their homes and leads most of the Metro West cops against them.
- A Father to His Men:
- After RoboCop is badly damaged after his encounter with Cain and is taken away by OCP, Reed makes it clear that he expects them to bring "his man" back.
- In RoboCop 3, when he throws down his badge rather than assist the Rehabs in evicting the people of Cadillac Heights, almost every officer in the precinct follows suit.
- Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: Rips off his own badge to demonstrate he won't be a corporate goon anymore.
- Last Stand: Against OCP at the end of RoboCop 3. Saved by Murphy pulling a Big Damn Heroes with his jetpack.
- Manly Facial Hair: He's one of the few undisputed examples of Big Good in the whole franchise, and in the third film is the one who organizes the citizens of Cadillac Heights to fight back against the Rehab/Splatter army that is coming to kick out (or kill) everybody. And in all three films, he rocks a solid mustache.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He opposes OCP's moronic policies that put his officers in danger, and tries to dissuade them from striking.
- Turn in Your Badge: Shown in RoboCop 3, he takes off his badge and drops it to the floor in defiance of Johnson's edict for the station to help clear people out of Cadillac Heights.
- Two First Names: Reed can be used as a given name for guys. His name actually counts as three first names if you take into account the Continuity Snarl of his given name. Four if you count Alpha Commando changing his given name to "Joe". Five if count the novelization of RoboCop 2 where Robocop refers to him as "Bill" when reactivated.
Lt. Hedgecock
Played by Michael Gregory
Voiced by Rex Hagon in the animated series
The captain of the Detroit Police Department SWAT Team in the first film and animated series.
- Arch-Enemy: He is one to Robocop in the animated series, and tries to take him out personally in a few episodes.
- Ascended Extra: Appears in two scenes in the film and becomes a major secondary character in the animated series.
- Fantastic Racism: In the animated series he seemingly is the only member in the entire Detroit Police Department who keeps considering Robocop a Job-Stealing Robot and hates him a whole lot as a result.
- Jerkass: His major scene in the first film is him applying "Just Following Orders" to try to kill Robocop. In the animated series he graduates to full-blown Fantastic Racism, ignoring any and all advice, and suicidal recklessness.
- Just Following Orders: In his big scene in the first film, he leads SWAT into trying to blow away Robocop when Dick Jones calls the police lying that Robo was on a rampage. Two of his fellow SWAT members show repulsion at murdering a fellow cop but Hedgehock mentions they have orders to do it and unhesitatingly tells his crew to open fire afterwards (the cops who spoke up walk away in disgust).
- Named by the Adaptation: The animated series gives him the first name Roger.
- Villainous Valor: In one episode of the animated series, Hedgecock goes through the Detroit Police's Hogan's Alley (which is a full-on Death Course) at its top danger setting and makes it, even setting a new record. And then Robocop goes through himself, taking all of the flamethrowers and gunfire like they were a light drizzle and setting a better record. That makes Hedgecock angry, to put it nicely.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Only appears in the first film and the animated series. According to some sources he was discharged offscreen between 1 and 2.
Officer Manson
Played by Edward Edwards
A cop that has been with Metro West since the first film.
- Shout-Out: He was named after cult leader Charles Manson.
Officer Chessman
Played by John Davies
A cop that has been with Metro West since the first film.
- All Love Is Unrequited: He appears to have a one-sided crush on Lewis in Rogue City, much to the chagrin of his fellow officers.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, the closest we get is in the Police Database in Rogue City which reveals his first name starts with D.
- Shout-Out: He was named after robber, kidnapper, and serial rapist Caryl Chessman.
Officer Kaplan
Played by Del Zamora
A cop that has been with Metro West since the first film.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, the closest we get is in the Police Database in Rogue City which reveals his first name starts with M.
- Shout-Out: He was named after director Jonathan Kaplan, who was attached to direct the first film in its early stages.
Officer Starkweather
Played by Tyress Allen
A cop that has been with Metro West since the first film.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, the closest we get is in the Police Database in Rogue City which reveals his first name starts with F.
- Shout-Out: He was named after spree killer Charles Starkweather.
Officer Ramirez
Played by Yolanda Williams
A cop that has been with Metro West since the first film.
- Action Girl: One of the few women who is a part of the Detroit Police Department.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, the closest we get is in the Police Database in Rogue City which reveals her first name starts with E.
- Shout-Out: She was named after serial killer Richard Ramirez.
Cecil the Clerk
Played by Laird Stuart
A clerk at the Detroit Police Department Metro West precinct.
- The Bus Came Back: Was one of the few cops in the first film to return for RoboCop 3.
- Due to the Dead: In Rogue City, along with Robocop he hangs up a photo of Officer Briggs on the memorial wall in DPD Headquarters after his death.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, the closest we get is in the Police Database in Rogue City which reveals his first name starts with A.
- Non-Action Guy: As a clerk he is never seen outside the police station.
Officer Jerry
A cop that is part of Metro West in the first film.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Only appears in one scene, with Anne Lewis as they were carrying an arrested one-eyed man into the department when Lewis saw Robo Cop walking down the corridor.
Frank Frederickson
An officer gunned down by Clarence Boddicker and his gang alongside a few fellow officers. He managed to survive and identified Boddicker before his death at Henry Ford Memorial Hospital.
- Action Survivor: Managed to survive being gunned down by Boddicker and his gang, and identified him before he died.
- Alliterative Name: Frank Frederickson.
- Ascended Extra: Sort of. The novelization of the first film covers his encounter with Boddicker and gang.
- The Ghost: Was never visually depicted until Rogue City, where a photo of Fredrickson appears in Metro North's computer database.
- Posthumous Character: He was barely holding on by a thread at the start of the movie and is announced dead before Murphy officially starts his first day at Metro West Precinct.
Officer Estevez
Played by Wanda De Jesus
A cop from the Metro North precinct introduced in the second film.
- Action Girl: One of the few women who is a part of the Detroit Police Department.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, but in the last level of Rogue City set in the precinct, Robo can find a letter where she rejects a job offer from MagnaVolt and signs it "Angela Estevez."
Officer Stef
Played by Mark Rolston
A cop from the Metro North precinct introduced in the second film.
- The Bully: In Rogue City, he is the main cop who bullies newbie Officer Ulysses Washington as he believes him to be an OCP spy.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, the closest we get is in the Police Database in Rogue City which reveals his first name starts with R.
Officer Whitakker
Played by Roger Aaron Brown
A cop from the Metro North precinct introduced in the second film.
- The Bully: In Rogue City, he is usually the one who joins Officer Stef in bullying Officer Ulysses Washington.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, the closest we get is in the Police Database in Rogue City which reveals his first name starts with J.
Officer Duffy
Played by Stephen Lee
A cop from the Metro North precinct introduced in the second film.
- Dirty Cop: He was a corrupt, Nuke-addicted individual who supplied police information to the Nuke Cult so Cain could stay one step ahead of the law, and in return, Duffy was paid in money and Nuke.
- Fat Bastard: Is notable more pudgy than his fellow officers.
- Last-Name Basis: As standard for all cops in this franchise, the closest we get is in the Police Database in Rogue City which reveals his first name starts with E. Though the novelization of RoboCop 2 gives his first name as Ambrose.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He was one of the few officers who refused to participate in the police strike, giving him a superficial appearance of an officer who placed the law and devotion to duty over personal benefits. In actuality, Duffy was a corrupt man who addicted to Nuke. His decision not to strike was likely that given the police force was stretched thin, he would be entrusted with more duties and likely more juicy intelligence to pass onto Cain.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He was lured to a backstreet surgery where Cain had him eviscerated alive as punishment for double-crossing him. This was so brutal even Hob and Angie could not bear to witness it.
Officer Donnelly
Played by Shane Black
A cop from the Metro West precinct introduced in the third film. He is partnered with Jensen.
- Those Two Guys: With Jensen in RoboCop 3.
Officer Jensen
Played by John Nesci
A cop from the Metro West precinct introduced in the third film. He is partnered with Donnelly.
- Those Two Guys: With Jensen in RoboCop 3.
Starkweather the Dispatcher
Played by Randall Taylor
A cop from the Metro West precinct introduced in the third film. He is a dispatcher.
- Names The Same: Not to be confused with Officer Starkweather from the first film.
- Non-Action Guy: Is never seen outside the police station.
