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* Downplayed in ''Film/TheFirstPower''. Tess Seaton runs a profitable psychic consultancy for yuppies and helps Detective Logan because the killer has added her to his list of potential victims, after she gave the detective an anonymous tip off about the satanic serial killer he's hunting. "I spend most of their time helping people with their love live, or telling them if their favourite TV show is going to be renewed."
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* Downplayed in ''Film/TheFirstPower''. Tess Seaton runs a profitable psychic consultancy for yuppies and only helps Detective Logan because the satanic killer has added her to his list of potential victims, after she gave the detective an anonymous tip off about the satanic serial killer he's hunting.how to catch him. "I spend most of their time helping people with their love live, or telling them if their favourite TV show is going to be renewed."
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* Downplayed in ''Film/TheFirstPower''. Tess Seaton runs a profitable psychic business and only helps the police out of reluctance, largely because the killer has added her to his list of potential victims.
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* Downplayed in ''Film/TheFirstPower''. Tess Seaton runs a profitable psychic business consultancy for yuppies and only helps the police out of reluctance, largely Detective Logan because the killer has added her to his list of potential victims.victims, after she gave the detective an anonymous tip off about the satanic serial killer he's hunting. "I spend most of their time helping people with their love live, or telling them if their favourite TV show is going to be renewed."
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* Downplayed in ''Film/TheFirstPower''. Tess Seaton runs a profitable psychic business and only helps the police out of reluctance, largely because the killer has added her to his list of potential victims.
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* Greg Mandel in the trilogy by Creator/PeterFHamilton is a former British Army psychic whose skillset involves GutFeeling and LivingLieDetector. He works as a private investigator for [[HonestCorporateExecutive Julia Evans]], CEO of [[MegaCorp Event Horizon]]. The second novel ''A Quantum Murder'' is the only time he works directly with the police, but even they know that [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Event Horizon is calling the shots]].
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* Greg Mandel in the trilogy by Creator/PeterFHamilton ''Literature/GregMandelTrilogy'': The titular protagonist is a former British Army psychic whose skillset involves GutFeeling and LivingLieDetector. He works as a private investigator for [[HonestCorporateExecutive Julia Evans]], CEO of [[MegaCorp Event Horizon]]. The second novel ''A Quantum Murder'' is the only time he works directly with the police, but even they know that [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Event Horizon is calling the shots]].
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* In the ''Series/BanjunDrama'' episode "Trap", Hye-bin uses {{Psychometry}} to help the detectives investigate the murder of their boss. Her visions lead her to narrow down the culprit to [[spoiler:Kyung-seok, but as she could not see the face of the real killer (combined with the fact the killer happened to be wearing the same clothes as the culprit), she never ended up realizing the one who delivered the final blow was Min-woo.]]
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* Magi-Chan from ''{{WebComic/Sonichu}}'' is an incredibly powerful psychic-type {{Franchise/Pokemon}}, a part of the [[{{Sentai}} Chaotic Combo]], and capable of traveling through time at will. What does he use his powers for, the viewer may ask? Mostly help the [=CWCville=] police round up anyone committing [[FelonyMisdemeanor heinous crimes]] such as [[CureYourGays having gay sex]], smuggling cigarettes, or trolling the mayor online.
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* The ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E18Pure Pure]]" features Sebastian Ballentine, a psychic who steps in to offer the detectives at SVU a hand with their latest case of a missing teenager by offering visions of her location. His powers are called into doubt by the unit, [[spoiler:and it is eventually revealed that he is not only a fraud, he is actually the episode's perpetrator, as his routine is ruined by his wife and her attempts to perform tasks for him while he is teasing the detectives. Part of his thrills come from offering his "services" to the police, knowing full well that they will fail to catch him]].
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* The ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E18Pure "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E18Pure Pure]]" features Sebastian Ballentine, a psychic who steps in to offer the detectives at SVU a hand with their latest case of a missing teenager by offering visions of her location. His powers are called into doubt by the unit, [[spoiler:and it is eventually revealed that he is not only a fraud, he is actually the episode's perpetrator, as his routine is ruined by his wife and her attempts to perform tasks for him while he is teasing the detectives. Part of his thrills come from offering his "services" to the police, knowing full well that they will fail to catch him]].
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* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. VampireDetective Nick Knight works with a psychic to solve a kidnapping in "Dying to Know You". Unfortunately she keeps seeing visions of Nick's true nature, confusing the issue. Eventually Nick takes the risk of telling her he's a vampire so she'll know she can still trust her visions.
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* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. ''Series/ForeverKnight'': VampireDetective Nick Knight works with a psychic to solve a kidnapping in "Dying to Know You". Unfortunately she keeps seeing visions of Nick's true nature, confusing the issue. Eventually Nick takes the risk of telling her he's a vampire so she'll know she can still trust her visions.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' features Martin Short stepping in to offer the detectives at [=SVU=] a hand with their latest case of a missing teenager by offering visions of her location. His powers are called into doubt by the unit [[spoiler:and it is eventually revealed that he is not only a fraud, he is actually the episode's perpetrator, as his routine is ruined by his wife and her attempts to perform tasks for him while he is teasing the detectives. Part of his thrills come from offering his "services" to the police knowing full well that they will fail to catch him.]]
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* The ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E18Pure Pure]]" features Martin Short stepping Sebastian Ballentine, a psychic who steps in to offer the detectives at [=SVU=] SVU a hand with their latest case of a missing teenager by offering visions of her location. His powers are called into doubt by the unit unit, [[spoiler:and it is eventually revealed that he is not only a fraud, he is actually the episode's perpetrator, as his routine is ruined by his wife and her attempts to perform tasks for him while he is teasing the detectives. Part of his thrills come from offering his "services" to the police police, knowing full well that they will fail to catch him.]]him]].
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* ''Literature/TheSecretHistory'' is a ReverseWhodunnit, which begins with a group of friends committing a murder. During the investigation, a psychic is brought in. Narrator Richard thinks nothing of it, but his superstitious friend Henry thinks that if they are to get caught, this will be how it happens.
-->''The psychic was a young mother from upstate New York. An electrical shock from some jumper cables had put her into a coma from which she emerged, three weeks later, able to "know" things by handling an object or touching a stranger's hand. The police had used her successfully in a number of missing-person cases. Once she had found the body of a strangled child by merely pointing to an area on a surveyor's map.''
-->''The psychic was a young mother from upstate New York. An electrical shock from some jumper cables had put her into a coma from which she emerged, three weeks later, able to "know" things by handling an object or touching a stranger's hand. The police had used her successfully in a number of missing-person cases. Once she had found the body of a strangled child by merely pointing to an area on a surveyor's map.''
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Awakened are heavily in demand with law enforcement. [[UnequalRites Depending on their magical speciality]], Awakened can use anything from AuraVision, the ability to summon and interrogate spirits, or active divination spells to help solve mundane crime.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Awakened are heavily in demand with law enforcement. [[UnequalRites Depending on their magical speciality]], Awakened can use anything from AuraVision, the ability to summon and interrogate spirits, or active divination spells to help solve mundane crime. In the UCAS and CAS, Supreme Court precedents have even been set for how magic interacts with the Bill of Rights, such as whether or not mind-reading someone is a violation of their Fifth Amendment rights (it is, at least without the proper authorization given).
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E13CartmansIncredibleGift Cartman's Incredible Gift]]": Cartman is mistaken for a psychic after he awakens from a coma and deduces some very obvious things from his surroundings. A gullible cop thoroughly believes he is psychic and hinges on his intuition to make an arrest, which makes Cartman famous. It turns out there is a whole slew of local PhonyPsychic detectives.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E13CartmansIncredibleGift Cartman's Incredible Gift]]": Cartman is mistaken for a psychic after he awakens from a coma and deduces some very obvious things from his surroundings. A gullible cop thoroughly believes he is psychic and hinges on his intuition to make an arrest, which makes Cartman famous. It turns out there is a whole slew of local PhonyPsychic detectives. Later on, Kyle, getting sick of the police being complete idiots, stages the same accident as Cartman for himself and pretends to have gotten psychic powers to give the police the (incredibly obvious) answer to the crime.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' features Martin Short stepping in to offer the detectives at [=SVU=] a hand with their latest case of a missing teenager by offering visions of her location. His powers are called into doubt by the unit [[spoiler:and it is eventually revealed that he is not only a fraud, he is actually the episode's perpetrator, as his routine is ruined by his wife and her attempts to perform tasks for him while he is teasing the detectives. Part of his thrills come from offering his "services" to the police knowing full well that they will fail to catch him.]]
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* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Recurring guest character Avalon Harmonia is a bit CreepyGood, but gains insight from her tarot cards and sometimes [[ISeeDeadPeople the corpse on the table]] to advise on the case of the week. And play ShipperOnDeck for the office romances.
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In fiction, police psychics will usually provide legitimate insight and clues, but not only will they have to interpret these signs, they also need to get the skeptical force to trust their powers. However, some people may ''claim'' they have psychic powers to help law enforcement, but are actually just [[ColdReading very good at analysis and deduction]] -- if they're not [[PhonyPsychic faking it all to scam the authorities]], that is. In RealLife, self-proclaimed psychics have involved themselves in several prominent cases, although their use is often controversial due to the lack of evidence regarding their reliability: often, "mediums" make serious mistakes in predicting case outcomes, such as declaring a missing person dead (after which they would be found alive). As a consequence, many police forces have policies banning their employment, although some field detectives still use them unofficially.
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In fiction, police psychics will usually provide legitimate insight and clues, but not only will they have to interpret these signs, they also need to get the skeptical force to trust their powers. However, some people may ''claim'' they have psychic powers to help law enforcement, enforcement but are actually just [[ColdReading very good at analysis and deduction]] -- if they're not [[PhonyPsychic faking it all to scam the authorities]], that is. In RealLife, self-proclaimed psychics have involved themselves in several prominent cases, although their use is often controversial due to the lack of evidence regarding their reliability: often, "mediums" make serious mistakes in predicting case outcomes, such as declaring a missing person dead (after which they would be found alive). As a consequence, many police forces have policies banning their employment, although some field detectives still use them unofficially.
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* ''ComicBook/TopTen'' had the title police station call in a mind reader to help with a particularly troublesome suspect during interrogation. Justified because this was a universe where super powers were an objective part of reality.
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* ''Series/TheInBetween'': Protagonist Cassie can commune with the dead, who are in the titular "[=InBetween=]". Her foster father is an FBI agent, and so Cassie starts aiding law enforcement with her visions.
* The premise of ''Series/Lucifer2016'' has [[{{Satan}} the Devil himself]] Lucifer Morningstar join LAPD Detective Chloe Decker as a "consultant" for a homicide. Lucifer's contributions usually involves either using his wealth and extensive connections to get them into places or using his CompellingVoice to get people to admit their guilt or their seediest wants.
* The premise of ''Series/Lucifer2016'' has [[{{Satan}} the Devil himself]] Lucifer Morningstar join LAPD Detective Chloe Decker as a "consultant" for a homicide. Lucifer's contributions usually involves either using his wealth and extensive connections to get them into places or using his CompellingVoice to get people to admit their guilt or their seediest wants.
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* The premise of ''Series/Lucifer2016'' has [[{{Satan}} the Devil himself]] Lucifer Morningstar join LAPD Detective Chloe Decker as a "consultant" for a homicide. Lucifer's contributions usuallyinvolves involve either using his wealth and extensive connections to get them into places or using his CompellingVoice to get people to admit their guilt or their seediest wants.
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* ''Series/VampireProsecutor'': Min Tae-Yeon works alongside the police as part of a special joint unit, his particular talent known only to one other team member: As a vampire, he can drink a small amount of a victim's blood and see the last few moments of their life and then uses that knowledge to help push the police in the right direction.
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* ''Series/VampireProsecutor'': Min Tae-Yeon works alongside the police as part of a special joint unit, his particular talent is known only to one other team member: As a vampire, he can drink a small amount of a victim's blood and see the last few moments of their life and then uses that knowledge to help push the police in the right direction.
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-->"Where is the sky? I can't see the sky any more...all of these people here in the same dark place...all of these bodies..."
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* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': The VASCU are an FBI unit which make use of a form of psychic powers called Teleinformatics, which focuses on {{Telepathy}}, information gathering and information analysis to help and find them catch spree killers, serial killers and slashers.
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It’s not a subversion since the show never presents him as genuine in the first place. It’s Exploited because Shawn is starting pretending in order to evade suspicion.
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* Subverted on ''Series/{{Psych}}''. Shawn Spencer is a consultant to his local police department as a 'psychic', because he has helped them crack difficult cases on more than one occasion. However, he doesn't actually have psychic powers, but instead a PhotographicMemory and [[SherlockScan supreme deductive reasoning skills]]. He does not really try to shed the psychic label, however, as he does enjoy crime solving but couldn't make himself become a police officer.
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* Subverted on ''Series/{{Psych}}''. ''Series/{{Psych}}'': Exploited by Shawn Spencer is who works as a consultant to his for the local police department as a 'psychic', because he has helped them crack difficult cases on more than one occasion. However, he doesn't actually have psychic powers, but instead a PhotographicMemory and [[SherlockScan supreme deductive reasoning skills]]. He does not really try to shed the psychic label, however, as he does enjoy crime solving but couldn't make himself become a police officer.
