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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' - Jim Brass
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' - Mac Taylor

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' - Det. Javier Esposito is a former Green Berets sniper.

* ''Series/{{Dragnet}}'' - Bill Gannon and Joe Friday, WW2 veterans who became LAPD detectives.

* ''Series/TheBridgeUS'' - Inverted and then played straight in one episode. A police officer took leave from work and joined the army so he could serve in Afghanistan. He was wounded and had his foot amputated. When he returns he tries to become a police officer again despite his disability. Frank and the police union end up supporting him after he proves that he is still capable of doing the job even with a prosthetic foot.

* ''Series/TheBridge'' - Inverted and then played straight in one episode. A police officer took leave from work and joined the army so he could serve in Afghanistan. He was wounded and had his foot amputated. When he returns he tries to become a police officer again despite his disability. Frank and the police union end up supporting him after he proves that he is still capable of doing the job even with a prosthetic foot.

* In ''Film/{{SWAT}}'', Officer Jim Street is a former Navy SEAL. He puts his demolition training to good use when the team is delayed by a locked gate.

* In ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShellArise Arise]]'', Bato was a JMSDF commander before joining the Section 9, ironically outranking [[MajorlyAwesome Motoko]] for a full grade.

* The 2017 adaptation of ''Film/{{Ghost in the Shell}}'' has Saito as an ex-Navy SEAL commando before he became a mercenary and later on, joined Section 9.

* As part of his re-imagining in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', Jim Gordon is an Army veteran. As is [[DirtyCop Detective Flass]], who was in special forces. Gordon muses it had been some time before he'd kicked a Green Beret's ass.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' - The titular policeman, Cordell Walker, used to be in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War before joining the Rangers.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' - The titular policeman, Cordell Walker.

Contrast with FromCamouflageToCriminal, when ''outlaws'' have an ex-military background.

* The titular Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker, on ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger''.

* The titular Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker, on ''Series/WalkerTexas Ranger''.

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' - Seeley Booth (Ranger)

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' - James Doakes (Ranger)
* ''Series/{{Dragnet}}'' - Bill Gannon and Joe Friday

* ''Series/{{Justified}}'' - Deputy US Marshall Tim Gutterson was a sniper with the US Army Rangers

** Reese was a Ranger and Green Beret before being recruited by the CIA. After leaving the CIA, he was eventually given a cover identity as a NYPD detective.

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* In the ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' novels, Steve Carella and Bert Kling both served in the army before joining the police. Originally Steve served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and Bert in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. The later novels--due to ComicBookTime--just made vague references to 'the war', with the constant being that Bert's service is more recent than Steve's.
* Literature/HarryBosch, the LAPD homicide cop who is the central character in about 3/4 of Creator/MichaelConnelly's mystery novels, was an Army "tunnel rat" in Vietnam, fighting the NVA in underground tunnels. Bosch's Vietnam experience is key to the plot of debut novel ''The Black Echo'', in which he discovers the corpse of a fellow tunnel rat, and is referred to often in subsequent books. In the TV adaptation, he served in the First Gulf War and in Afghanistan.

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* ''Literature/{{Dexter}}'' - Albert Doakes
* In near-future thriller ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', most of the early [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Christian Marines]] subversives and militiamen are military veterans presently employed as law enforcement officers in some capacity or other. Naturally, this also later aids their infiltration of the police forces.

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* ''Series/NYPDBlue'' creative consultant Bill Clark is a former NYPD detective and served in the Army and later the Army reserves, attaining the rank of Major.

->'''Hondo:''' Where were you deployed?.\\

* In ''Series/BlueHeelers'', Sgt. Tom Croydon served with the Australian army in Vietnam as part of his national Srvice, before returning to Victoria and joining the police.

* [[TheSquadette Iruma]] [[FriendlySniper Hayashi]] from Seinen manga series ''S: The Last Policeman'' was an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Forces_Group_(Japan) Special Forces Group]] operator before being recruited into the NPS. Even afterwards she's still gushing about the JSDF whenever they were involved or brought up in the story.

* ''Series/BodyguardUK2018'' David Budd is an ex-soldier who joined the MPS after he had his honourable discharge. The series deals with his PTSD from the Afghanistan War as he serves as a Principal Protection Officer.