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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Germany"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.5</span> <span>Germany</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Germany-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hong_Kong" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hong_Kong"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.6</span> <span>Hong Kong</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hong_Kong-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-India" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#India"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.7</span> <span>India</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-India-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ireland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ireland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2.8</span> <span>Ireland</span> </div> 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title="Subgenre">subgenre</a> of <a href="/wiki/Procedural_drama" title="Procedural drama">procedural drama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">detective fiction</a> that emphasises the investigative procedure of <a href="/wiki/Police_officer" title="Police officer">police officers</a>, police <a href="/wiki/Detective" title="Detective">detectives</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_agency" title="Law enforcement agency">law enforcement agencies</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonists</a>, as contrasted with other genres that focus on non-police investigators such as <a href="/wiki/Private_investigator" title="Private investigator">private investigators</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>As its name implies, the defining element of a police procedural is the attempt to accurately depict law enforcement and its procedures, including police-related topics such as <a href="/wiki/Forensic_science" title="Forensic science">forensic science</a>, <a href="/wiki/Autopsy" title="Autopsy">autopsies</a>, gathering <a href="/wiki/Evidence_(law)" title="Evidence (law)">evidence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Search_warrant" title="Search warrant">search warrants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Interrogation" title="Interrogation">interrogation</a>, and adherence to legal restrictions and procedures.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While many police procedurals conceal the criminal's identity until the crime is solved in the <a href="/wiki/Climax_(narrative)" title="Climax (narrative)">narrative climax</a> (the so-called <a href="/wiki/Whodunit" title="Whodunit">whodunit</a>), others reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an <a href="/wiki/Inverted_detective_story" title="Inverted detective story">inverted detective story</a>. </p><p>The police procedural genre has faced criticism for its inaccurate depictions of policing and crime, depictions of racism and sexism, and allegations that the genre is "<a href="/wiki/Copaganda" title="Copaganda">copaganda</a>", or promotes a one-sided depiction of police as the "good guys". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_history">Early history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at least the mid-1880s. <a href="/wiki/Wilkie_Collins" title="Wilkie Collins">Wilkie Collins</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Moonstone" title="The Moonstone">The Moonstone</a></i> (1868), a tale of a <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a> detective investigating the theft of a valuable diamond, has been described as perhaps the earliest clear example of the genre.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As detective fiction rose to worldwide popularity in the late 19th century and early 20th century, many of the pioneering and most popular characters, at least in the English-speaking world, were private investigators or amateurs. See <a href="/wiki/C._Auguste_Dupin" title="C. Auguste Dupin">C. Auguste Dupin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sam_Spade" title="Sam Spade">Sam Spade</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miss_Marple" title="Miss Marple">Miss Marple</a> and others. <a href="/wiki/Hercule_Poirot" title="Hercule Poirot">Hercule Poirot</a> was described as a veteran of the Belgian police, but as a protagonist he worked independently. Only after World War II would police procedural fiction rival the popularity of PIs or amateur sleuths.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Treat" title="Lawrence Treat">Lawrence Treat</a>'s 1945 novel <i>V as in Victim</i> is often cited as the first police procedural, by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Boucher" title="Anthony Boucher">Anthony Boucher</a> (mystery critic for the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> Book Review</i>) among others. Another early example is <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Waugh" title="Hillary Waugh">Hillary Waugh</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Seen_Wearing_..._(Hillary_Waugh_novel)" title="Last Seen Wearing ... (Hillary Waugh novel)">Last Seen Wearing...</a></i> 1952. Even earlier examples from the 20th century, predating Treat, include the novels <i>Vultures in the Dark</i>, 1925, and <i>The Borrowed Shield</i>, 1925, by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Enright" title="Richard Enright">Richard Enright</a>, retired <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Commissioner" title="New York City Police Commissioner">New York City Police Commissioner</a>, <i>Harness Bull</i>, 1937, and <i>Homicide</i>, 1937, by former Southern California police officer <a href="/w/index.php?title=Leslie_T._White&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leslie T. White (page does not exist)">Leslie T. White</a>, <i>P.C. Richardson's First Case</i>, 1933, by Sir <a href="/wiki/Basil_Thomson" title="Basil Thomson">Basil Thomson</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Assistant_Commissioner" class="mw-redirect" title="Assistant Commissioner">Assistant Commissioner</a> of <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a>, and the short story collection <i>Policeman's Lot</i>, 1933, by former Buckinghamshire High Sheriff and Justice of the Peace <a href="/wiki/Sir_Henry_Aubrey-Fletcher,_6th_Baronet" title="Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet">Henry Wade</a>. </p><p>The procedural became more prominent after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, and, while the contributions of <a href="/wiki/Novelist" title="Novelist">novelists</a> like Treat were significant, a large part of the impetus for the post-war development of the procedural as a distinct subgenre of the mystery was due, not to prose fiction, but to the popularity of a number of American films which dramatized and fictionalized actual crimes. Dubbed "<a href="/wiki/Semidocumentary" title="Semidocumentary">semidocumentary</a> films" by film critics, these motion pictures, often filmed on location, with the cooperation of the law enforcement agencies involved in the actual case, made a point of authentically depicting police work. Examples include <i><a href="/wiki/The_Naked_City" title="The Naked City">The Naked City</a></i> (1948), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Street_with_No_Name" title="The Street with No Name">The Street with No Name</a></i> (1948), <i><a href="/wiki/T-Men" title="T-Men">T-Men</a></i> (1947), <i><a href="/wiki/He_Walked_by_Night" title="He Walked by Night">He Walked by Night</a></i> (1948), and <i><a href="/wiki/Border_Incident" title="Border Incident">Border Incident</a></i> (1949). </p><p>Films from other countries soon began following the semi-documentary trend. In <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, there was <i><a href="/wiki/Quai_des_orfevres" class="mw-redirect" title="Quai des orfevres">Quai des orfevres</a></i> (1947), released in the United States as <i>Jenny Lamour</i>. In <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Japan" title="Cinema of Japan">Japanese cinema</a>, there was <a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a>'s 1949 film <i><a href="/wiki/Stray_Dog_(film)" title="Stray Dog (film)">Stray Dog</a></i>, a serious police procedural <a href="/wiki/Film_noir" title="Film noir">film noir</a> that was also a precursor to the <a href="/wiki/Buddy_cop_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddy cop film">buddy cop film</a> genre.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">UK</a>, there were films such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Blue_Lamp" title="The Blue Lamp">The Blue Lamp</a></i> (1950) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Arm_(film)" title="The Long Arm (film)">The Long Arm</a></i> (1956) set in London and depicting the Metropolitan Police. </p><p>One semidocumentary, <i><a href="/wiki/He_Walked_By_Night" class="mw-redirect" title="He Walked By Night">He Walked By Night</a></i> (1948), released by <a href="/wiki/Eagle-Lion_Films" title="Eagle-Lion Films">Eagle-Lion Films</a>, featured a young radio actor named <a href="/wiki/Jack_Webb" title="Jack Webb">Jack Webb</a> in a supporting role. The success of the film, along with a suggestion from <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department" title="Los Angeles Police Department">LAPD</a> Detective <a href="/wiki/Sergeant" title="Sergeant">Sergeant</a> Marty Wynn, the film's <a href="/wiki/Technical_advisor" title="Technical advisor">technical advisor</a>, gave Webb an idea for a <a href="/wiki/Radio_drama" title="Radio drama">radio drama</a> that depicted police work in a similarly semi-documentary manner. The resulting series, <i><a href="/wiki/Dragnet_(drama)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragnet (drama)">Dragnet</a></i>, which debuted on radio in 1949 and made the transition to television in 1951, has been called "the most famous procedural of all time" by mystery novelists <a href="/wiki/William_L._DeAndrea" title="William L. DeAndrea">William L. DeAndrea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Katherine_V._Forrest" title="Katherine V. Forrest">Katherine V. Forrest</a> and <a href="/wiki/Max_Allan_Collins" title="Max Allan Collins">Max Allan Collins</a>. </p><p>The same year that <i>Dragnet</i> debuted on radio, <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>-winning playwright <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Kingsley" title="Sidney Kingsley">Sidney Kingsley</a>'s stage play <i><a href="/wiki/Detective_Story_(play)" title="Detective Story (play)">Detective Story</a></i> opened on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a>. This frank, carefully researched dramatization of a typical day in an <a href="/wiki/NYPD" class="mw-redirect" title="NYPD">NYPD</a> <a href="/wiki/Police_station" title="Police station">precinct</a> detective squad became another benchmark in the development of the police procedural. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Dragnet_(1951_TV_series)" title="Dragnet (1951 TV series)">Dragnet</a></i> marked a turn in the depiction of the police on screen. Instead of being corrupt laughingstocks, this was the first time police officers represented <a href="/wiki/Bravery" class="mw-redirect" title="Bravery">bravery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heroism" class="mw-redirect" title="Heroism">heroism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In their quest for authenticity, <i><a href="/wiki/Dragnet_(1951_TV_series)" title="Dragnet (1951 TV series)">Dragnet</a></i>'s producers used real police cars and officers in their scenes.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this also meant that in exchange, the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department" title="Los Angeles Police Department">LAPD</a> could vet scripts for authenticity.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LAPD vetted every scene, which would allow them to remove elements they did not agree with or did not wish to draw attention to.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the next few years, the number of novelists who picked up on the procedural trend following <i>Dragnet</i>'s example grew to include writers like Ben Benson, who wrote carefully researched novels about the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_State_Police" title="Massachusetts State Police">Massachusetts State Police</a>, retired police officer <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Procter" title="Maurice Procter">Maurice Procter</a>, who wrote a series about North England cop <a href="/wiki/Harry_Martineau" title="Harry Martineau">Harry Martineau</a>, and Jonathan Craig, who wrote short stories and novels about New York City police officers. Police novels by writers who would come to virtually define the form, like <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Waugh" title="Hillary Waugh">Hillary Waugh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Evan_Hunter" title="Evan Hunter">Ed McBain</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Creasey" title="John Creasey">John Creasey</a> started to appear regularly. </p><p>In 1956, in his regular <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times_Book_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times Book Review">New York Times Book Review</a></i> column, mystery critic <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Boucher" title="Anthony Boucher">Anthony Boucher</a>, noting the growing popularity of crime fiction in which the main emphasis was the realistic depiction of police work, suggested that such stories constituted a distinct subgenre of the mystery, and, crediting the success of <i>Dragnet</i> for the rise of this new form, coined the phrase "police procedural" to describe it.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>As police procedurals became increasingly popular, they maintained this image of heroic police officers who are willing to bend the rules to save the day, as well as the use of police <a href="/wiki/Consultants" class="mw-redirect" title="Consultants">consultants</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This would allow <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Hollywood</a> to form a friendly relationship with law enforcement who are also responsible for granting shooting permits.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This, however, has garnered criticisms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Written_stories">Written stories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Written stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_roman_policier">French <i>roman policier</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: French roman policier"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>French <i>roman policier</i> <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/roman_policier" class="extiw" title="fr:roman policier">(fr)</a> value induction over deduction, synthesis of character over analysis of crime.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1866: <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gaboriau" title="Émile Gaboriau">Émile Gaboriau</a>: <a href="/wiki/Monsieur_Lecoq" title="Monsieur Lecoq">Monsieur Lecoq</a></li> <li>1905: <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Leblanc" title="Maurice Leblanc">Maurice Leblanc</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ars%C3%A8ne_Lupin" title="Arsène Lupin">Arsène Lupin</a></li> <li>1908: <a href="/wiki/Gaston_Leroux" title="Gaston Leroux">Gaston Leroux</a>: <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Rouletabille" title="Joseph Rouletabille">Joseph Rouletabille</a></li> <li>1931: <a href="/wiki/Georges_Simenon" title="Georges Simenon">Georges Simenon</a>: <a href="/wiki/Inspector_Maigret" class="mw-redirect" title="Inspector Maigret">Inspector Maigret</a></li> <li>1949: <a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Dard" title="Frédéric Dard">Frédéric Dard</a>: "San-Antonio"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1931:_Georges_Simenon">1931: Georges Simenon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1931: Georges Simenon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Inspector_Maigret" class="mw-redirect" title="Inspector Maigret">Inspector Maigret</a></i> novels of <a href="/wiki/Georges_Simenon" title="Georges Simenon">Georges Simenon</a> feature a strong focus on the lead character, but the novels have always included subordinate members of his staff as supporting characters. Simenon, who had been a journalist covering police investigations before creating Maigret, gave the appearance of an accurate depiction of law enforcement in Paris. Simenon influenced later European procedural writers, such as Sweden's <a href="/wiki/Maj_Sj%C3%B6wall_and_Per_Wahl%C3%B6%C3%B6" class="mw-redirect" title="Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö">Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö</a>, and <a href="/wiki/A._C._Baantjer" title="A. C. Baantjer">Baantjer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1940:_John_Creasey/J._J._Marric"><span id="1940:_John_Creasey.2FJ._J._Marric"></span>1940: John Creasey/J. J. Marric</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1940: John Creasey/J. J. Marric"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Perhaps ranking just behind McBain in importance to the development of the procedural as a distinct mystery subgenre is <a href="/wiki/John_Creasey" title="John Creasey">John Creasey</a>, a prolific writer of many different kinds of crime fiction, from espionage to criminal protagonist. He was inspired to write a more realistic crime novel when his neighbor, a retired <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a> detective, challenged Creasey to "write about us as we are". The result was <i>Inspector West Takes Charge</i>, 1940, the first of more than forty novels to feature Roger West of the <a href="/wiki/London_Metropolitan_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="London Metropolitan Police">London Metropolitan Police</a>. The West novels were, for the era, an unusually realistic look at Scotland Yard operations, but the plots were often wildly melodramatic, and, to get around thorny legal problems, Creasey gave West an "amateur detective" friend who was able to perform the extra-procedural acts that West, as a policeman, could not. </p><p>In the mid-1950s, inspired by the success of television's <i><a href="/wiki/Dragnet_(1951_TV_series)" title="Dragnet (1951 TV series)">Dragnet</a></i> and a similar British TV series, <i><a href="/wiki/Fabian_of_the_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Fabian of the Yard">Fabian of the Yard</a></i>, Creasey decided to try a more down-to-earth series of cop stories. Adopting the pseudonym "J.J. Marric", he wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Gideon%27s_Day" title="Gideon's Day">Gideon's Day</a></i>, 1955, in which <a href="/wiki/George_Gideon" title="George Gideon">George Gideon</a>, a high-ranking detective at Scotland Yard, spends a busy day supervising his subordinates' investigations into several unrelated crimes. This novel was the first in a series of more than twenty books which brought Creasey his best critical notices. One entry, <i>Gideon's Fire</i>, 1961, won an <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America" title="Mystery Writers of America">Mystery Writers of America</a> for Best Mystery Novel. The Gideon series, more than any other source, helped establish the common procedural plot structure of threading several autonomous story lines through a single novel. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1952:_Hillary_Waugh">1952: Hillary Waugh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1952: Hillary Waugh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hillary_Waugh" title="Hillary Waugh">Hillary Waugh</a>, in 1952, wrote <a href="/wiki/Last_Seen_Wearing_..._(Hillary_Waugh_novel)" title="Last Seen Wearing ... (Hillary Waugh novel)"><i>Last Seen Wearing ...</i></a>, a commercial and critical success, exploring detailed and relentless police work.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1956:_Ed_McBain">1956: Ed McBain</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1956: Ed McBain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ed McBain, the <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonym</a> of <a href="/wiki/Evan_Hunter" title="Evan Hunter">Evan Hunter</a>, wrote dozens of novels in the <i><a href="/wiki/87th_Precinct" title="87th Precinct">87th Precinct</a></i> series beginning with <i><a href="/wiki/Cop_Hater" title="Cop Hater">Cop Hater</a>,</i> published in 1956. Hunter continued to write 87th Precinct novels almost until his death in 2005. Although these novels focus primarily on Detective Steve Carella, they encompass the work of many officers working alone and in teams, and Carella is not always present in any individual book. </p><p>As if to illustrate the universality of the police procedural, many of McBain's 87th Precinct novels, despite their being set in a slightly fictionalized New York City, have been filmed in settings outside New York, even outside the US. <a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a>'s 1963 film, <i><a href="/wiki/High_and_Low_(1963_film)" title="High and Low (1963 film)">High and Low</a></i>, based on McBain's <i>King's Ransom</i> (1959), is set in <a href="/wiki/Yokohama" title="Yokohama">Yokohama</a>. <i>Without Apparent Motive</i> (1972), set on the <a href="/wiki/French_Riviera" title="French Riviera">French Riviera</a>, is based on McBain's <i>Ten Plus One</i> (1963). <a href="/wiki/Claude_Chabrol" title="Claude Chabrol">Claude Chabrol</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Blood_Relatives" title="Blood Relatives">Les Liens de Sang</a></i> (1978), based on <i>Blood Relatives</i> (1974), is set in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>. Even <i><a href="/wiki/Fuzz_(film)" title="Fuzz (film)">Fuzz</a></i> (1972), based on the 1968 novel, though set in the US, moves the action to <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>. Two episodes of ABC's <a href="/wiki/Columbo" title="Columbo">Columbo</a>, set in Los Angeles, were based on McBain novels.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960:_Elizabeth_Linington/Dell_Shannon/Lesley_Egan"><span id="1960:_Elizabeth_Linington.2FDell_Shannon.2FLesley_Egan"></span>1960: Elizabeth Linington/Dell Shannon/Lesley Egan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1960: Elizabeth Linington/Dell Shannon/Lesley Egan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A prolific author of police procedurals, whose work has fallen out of fashion in the years since her death, is <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Linington" title="Elizabeth Linington">Elizabeth Linington</a> writing under her own name, as well as "Dell Shannon" and "Lesley Egan". Linington reserved her Dell Shannon pseudonym primarily for procedurals featuring LAPD Central <a href="/wiki/Homicide" title="Homicide">Homicide</a> <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant" title="Lieutenant">Lieutenant</a> Luis Mendoza (1960–86). Under her own name she wrote about Sergeant Ivor Maddox of LAPD's North Hollywood Station, and as Lesley Egan she wrote about suburban cop Vic Varallo. These novels are sometimes considered flawed, partly due to the author's far-right political viewpoint (she was a member of the <a href="/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">John Birch Society</a>), but primarily because Miss Linington's books, notwithstanding the frequent comments she made about the depth of her research, were all seriously deficient in the single element most identified with the police procedural, technical accuracy. However, they have a certain charm in their depiction of a kinder, gentler California, where the police were always "good guys" who solved all the crimes and respected the citizenry. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1965:_Sjöwall_and_Wahlöö"><span id="1965:_Sj.C3.B6wall_and_Wahl.C3.B6.C3.B6"></span>1965: Sjöwall and Wahlöö</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1965: Sjöwall and Wahlöö"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Maj_Sj%C3%B6wall" title="Maj Sjöwall">Maj Sjöwall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Per_Wahl%C3%B6%C3%B6" title="Per Wahlöö">Per Wahlöö</a> planned and wrote the <a href="/wiki/Martin_Beck" title="Martin Beck">Martin Beck</a> police procedural series of ten books between the 1960s and 1970s, set in <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a>. The series is particularly renowned for its extensive character development throughout the series.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beck himself is gradually promoted from <a href="/wiki/Detective" title="Detective">detective</a> in a newly nationalised Swedish police force to <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_staff" title="Chief of staff">Chief</a> <a href="/wiki/Inspector" title="Inspector">Inspector</a> of the National Murder Squad, and the realistic depiction, as well as criticism of the Swedish <a href="/wiki/Welfare_state" title="Welfare state">welfare state</a> at the time whilst the tedium of the police procedural continues in the background, is something still widely used today, with authors such as <a href="/wiki/Jo_Nesb%C3%B8" title="Jo Nesbø">Jo Nesbø</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stieg_Larsson" title="Stieg Larsson">Stieg Larsson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The books gave rise to the <a href="/wiki/Scandinavian_noir" class="mw-redirect" title="Scandinavian noir">Swedish noir</a> scene, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Laughing_Policeman_(novel)" title="The Laughing Policeman (novel)">The Laughing Policeman</a></i> earned a "Best Novel" Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1971. The books were translated from Swedish into 35 different languages, and have sold roughly ten million copies. Sjöwall and Wahlöö used <a href="/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">black humour</a> extensively in the series,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and it is widely recognised as one of the finest police procedural series. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970:_Tony_Hillerman">1970: Tony Hillerman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1970: Tony Hillerman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Tony_Hillerman" title="Tony Hillerman">Tony Hillerman</a>, the author of 17 novels involving Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, wrote procedurals in which the procedures were those of the <a href="/wiki/Navajo_Tribal_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo Tribal Police">Navajo Tribal Police</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1971:_Joseph_Wambaugh">1971: Joseph Wambaugh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1971: Joseph Wambaugh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Though not the first police officer to write procedurals, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Wambaugh" title="Joseph Wambaugh">Joseph Wambaugh</a>'s success has caused him to become the exemplar of cops who turn their professional experiences into fiction. The son of a <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, policeman, Wambaugh joined the Los Angeles Police Department after a stint of military duty. In 1970, his first novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Centurions" title="The New Centurions">The New Centurions</a></i>, was published. This followed three police officers through their training in the academy, their first few years on the street, culminating in the Watts riots of 1965. It was followed by such novels as <i>The Blue Knight</i>, 1971, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Choirboys_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Choirboys (book)">The Choirboys</a></i>, 1975, <i>Hollywood Station</i>, 2006, and acclaimed non-fiction books like <i><a href="/wiki/The_Onion_Field" title="The Onion Field">The Onion Field</a></i>, 1973, <i>Lines and Shadows</i>, 1984, and <i>Fire Lover</i>, 2002. Wambaugh has said that his main purpose is less to show how cops work on the job, than how the job works on cops. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Detective_novel_writers">Detective novel writers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Detective novel writers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is difficult to disentangle the early roots of the procedural from its forebear, the traditional detective novel, which often featured a police officer as protagonist. By and large, the better known novelists such as <a href="/wiki/Ngaio_Marsh" title="Ngaio Marsh">Ngaio Marsh</a> produced work that falls more squarely into the province of the traditional or "cozy" detective novel. Nevertheless, some of the work of authors less well known today, like <a href="/wiki/Freeman_Wills_Crofts" title="Freeman Wills Crofts">Freeman Wills Crofts</a>'s novels about Inspector French or some of the work of the prolific team of <a href="/wiki/G._D._H._Cole" title="G. D. H. Cole">G.D.H.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Cole" title="Margaret Cole">Margaret Cole</a>, might be considered as the antecedents of today's police procedural. British mystery novelist and critic <a href="/wiki/Julian_Symons" title="Julian Symons">Julian Symons</a>, in his 1972 history of crime fiction, <i>Bloody Murder</i>, labeled these proto-procedurals "humdrums", because of their emphasis on the plodding nature of the investigators. </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Televised_stories">Televised stories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Televised stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="TV_creators">TV creators</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: TV creators"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Avedon" title="Barbara Avedon">Barbara Avedon</a>, co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Cagney_%26_Lacey" title="Cagney & Lacey">Cagney & Lacey</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_P._Bellisario" title="Donald P. Bellisario">Donald P. Bellisario</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/NCIS_(TV_series)" title="NCIS (TV series)">NCIS</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Magnum,_P.I." title="Magnum, P.I.">Magnum, P.I.</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/JAG_(TV_series)" title="JAG (TV series)">JAG</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Biderman" title="Ann Biderman">Ann Biderman</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Southland_(TV_series)" title="Southland (TV series)">Southland</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Bochco" title="Steven Bochco">Steven Bochco</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues" title="Hill Street Blues">Hill Street Blues</a></i>, the experimental musical police procedural <i><a href="/wiki/Cop_Rock" title="Cop Rock">Cop Rock</a></i>, the longer-lived <i><a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a></i> and short lived <i><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_South" title="Brooklyn South">Brooklyn South</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Bokenkamp" title="Jon Bokenkamp">Jon Bokenkamp</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Blacklist" title="The Blacklist">The Blacklist</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Breckman" title="Andy Breckman">Andy Breckman</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Monk_(TV_series)" title="Monk (TV series)">Monk</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shane_Brennan" title="Shane Brennan">Shane Brennan</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/NCIS:_Los_Angeles" title="NCIS: Los Angeles">NCIS: Los Angeles</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_J._Cannell" title="Stephen J. Cannell">Stephen J. Cannell</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Silk_Stalkings" title="Silk Stalkings">Silk Stalkings</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/21_Jump_Street" title="21 Jump Street">21 Jump Street</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Commish" title="The Commish">The Commish</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Corday" title="Barbara Corday">Barbara Corday</a>, co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Cagney_%26_Lacey" title="Cagney & Lacey">Cagney & Lacey</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Davis_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeff Davis (writer)">Jeff Davis</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Criminal_Minds" title="Criminal Minds">Criminal Minds</a></i>.</li> <li>Robert Doherty, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Elementary_(TV_series)" title="Elementary (TV series)">Elementary</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Fontana" title="Tom Fontana">Tom Fontana</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street" title="Homicide: Life on the Street">Homicide: Life on the Street</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beat_(TV_series)" title="The Beat (TV series)">The Beat</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Franks" title="Steve Franks">Steve Franks</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Psych" title="Psych">Psych</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Freeman" title="Leonard Freeman">Leonard Freeman</a>, creator and producer of <i><a href="/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O_(1968_TV_series)" title="Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)">Hawaii Five-O</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Fricke" title="Anna Fricke">Anna Fricke</a>, developer of <i><a href="/wiki/Walker_(TV_series)" title="Walker (TV series)">Walker</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryan_Fuller" title="Bryan Fuller">Bryan Fuller</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Hannibal_(TV_series)" title="Hannibal (TV series)">Hannibal</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Glasberg" title="Gary Glasberg">Gary Glasberg</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/NCIS:_New_Orleans" title="NCIS: New Orleans">NCIS: New Orleans</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hart_Hanson" title="Hart Hanson">Hart Hanson</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Bones_(TV_series)" title="Bones (TV series)">Bones</a></i>.</li> <li>Alexi Hawley, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rookie_(TV_series)" title="The Rookie (TV series)">The Rookie</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruno_Heller" title="Bruno Heller">Bruno Heller</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mentalist" title="The Mentalist">The Mentalist</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Gero" title="Martin Gero">Martin Gero</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Blindspot_(TV_series)" title="Blindspot (TV series)">Blindspot</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Goor" title="Dan Goor">Dan Goor</a>, co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine" title="Brooklyn Nine-Nine">Brooklyn Nine-Nine</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Green" title="Robin Green">Robin Green</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mitchell_Burgess" title="Mitchell Burgess">Mitchell Burgess</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Bloods_(TV_series)" title="Blue Bloods (TV series)">Blue Bloods</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Kring" title="Tim Kring">Tim Kring</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Crossing_Jordan" title="Crossing Jordan">Crossing Jordan</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Levinson" title="Richard Levinson">Richard Levinson</a>, co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Columbo" title="Columbo">Columbo</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Link" title="William Link">William Link</a>, co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Columbo" title="Columbo">Columbo</a></i>.</li> <li>Barbara Machin, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Waking_the_Dead_(TV_series)" title="Waking the Dead (TV series)">Waking the Dead</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abby_Mann" title="Abby Mann">Abby Mann</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Kojak" title="Kojak">Kojak</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_W._Marlowe" title="Andrew W. Marlowe">Andrew W. Marlowe</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Castle_(TV_series)" title="Castle (TV series)">Castle</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quinn_Martin" title="Quinn Martin">Quinn Martin</a>, producer of such shows as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Untouchables_(1959_TV_series)" title="The Untouchables (1959 TV series)">The Untouchables</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_F.B.I._(TV_series)" title="The F.B.I. (TV series)">The F.B.I.</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Streets_of_San_Francisco" title="The Streets of San Francisco">The Streets of San Francisco</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoff_McQueen" title="Geoff McQueen">Geoff McQueen</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bill" title="The Bill">The Bill</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jed_Mercurio" title="Jed Mercurio">Jed Mercurio</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Line_of_Duty" title="Line of Duty">Line of Duty</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Bodyguard_(British_TV_series)" title="Bodyguard (British TV series)">Bodyguard</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Milch" title="David Milch">David Milch</a>, co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Murphey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher Murphey (page does not exist)">Christopher Murphey</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Body_of_Proof" title="Body of Proof">Body of Proof</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Nolan" title="Jonathan Nolan">Jonathan Nolan</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)" title="Person of Interest (TV series)">Person of Interest</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shawn_Ryan" title="Shawn Ryan">Shawn Ryan</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shield" title="The Shield">The Shield</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Schur" title="Michael Schur">Michael Schur</a>, co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine" title="Brooklyn Nine-Nine">Brooklyn Nine-Nine</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Simon_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Simon (writer)">David Simon</a>, co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street" title="Homicide: Life on the Street">Homicide: Life on the Street</a></i> and creator of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wire_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Wire (TV series)">The Wire</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Steinberg" title="Hank Steinberg">Hank Steinberg</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Without_a_Trace" title="Without a Trace">Without a Trace</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meredith_Stiehm" title="Meredith Stiehm">Meredith Stiehm</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Case_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold Case (TV series)">Cold Case</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Wambaugh" title="Joseph Wambaugh">Joseph Wambaugh</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Police_Story_(1973_TV_series)" title="Police Story (1973 TV series)">Police Story</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Webb" title="Jack Webb">Jack Webb</a>, creator, producer, and principal actor in <i><a href="/wiki/Dragnet_(series)#Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragnet (series)">Dragnet</a></i>, and co-creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Adam-12" title="Adam-12">Adam-12</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Wolf" title="Dick Wolf">Dick Wolf</a>, creator of the <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order_(franchise)" title="Law & Order (franchise)"><i>Law & Order</i> franchise</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago_(franchise)" title="Chicago (franchise)"><i>Chicago</i> franchise</a>, <a href="/wiki/FBI_(franchise)" title="FBI (franchise)"><i>FBI</i> franchise</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Undercover" title="New York Undercover">New York Undercover</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Yerkovich" title="Anthony Yerkovich">Anthony Yerkovich</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Miami_Vice" title="Miami Vice">Miami Vice</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Yost" title="Graham Yost">Graham Yost</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Justified_(TV_series)" title="Justified (TV series)">Justified</a></i> & <i><a href="/wiki/Boomtown_(2002_TV_series)" title="Boomtown (2002 TV series)">Boomtown</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_E._Zuiker" title="Anthony E. Zuiker">Anthony E. Zuiker</a>, creator of the <a href="/wiki/CSI_(franchise)" title="CSI (franchise)"><i>CSI</i> franchise</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="TV_series">TV series</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: TV series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Australia">Australia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For details see the PhD dissertation by Antony Stephenson (2019).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bellamy_(TV_series)" title="Bellamy (TV series)">Bellamy</a></i> (Network Ten 1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bluey_(1976_TV_series)" title="Bluey (1976 TV series)">Bluey</a></i> (Seven Network 1976–77)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Heelers" title="Blue Heelers">Blue Heelers</a></i> (Seven Network 1994–2006) 510 episodes set in the fictional rural town of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Thomas" title="Mount Thomas">Mount Thomas</a>, Victoria, was produced by <a href="/wiki/Southern_Star_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Star Entertainment">Southern Star Entertainment</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/City_Homicide" title="City Homicide">City Homicide</a></i> (Seven Network 2007–11) Set in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a>. Follows the investigations of six detectives and their two superior officers in the homicide squad of the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Police" title="Victoria Police">Victoria Police</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cop_Shop" title="Cop Shop">Cop Shop</a></i> (Seven Network, 1977–84)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Division_4" title="Division 4">Division 4</a></i> (Nine Network 1969–75) made by Crawford Productions, ran on the Nine Network for 301 episodes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Feds_(miniseries)" title="The Feds (miniseries)">The Feds</a></i> (Nine Network 1993–96)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homicide_(Australian_TV_series)" title="Homicide (Australian TV series)">Homicide</a></i> (Seven Network 1964–76) was an Australian police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network. One of the first commercial TV series produced especially for Australian TV, and the first to depict the operations of a modern-day Australian police force, its historical significance in Australian television is analogous to the importance of <i>Dragnet</i> in the United States.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Link_Men" title="The Link Men">The Link Men</a></i> (Nine Network 1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Arm_(TV_series)" title="The Long Arm (TV series)">The Long Arm</a></i> (Network Ten 1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Matlock_Police" title="Matlock Police">Matlock Police</a></i> (Network Ten 1971–75) was set in a rural town and lasted 229 episodes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murder_Call" title="Murder Call">Murder Call</a></i> (Nine Network 1997–99)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Phoenix_(1985_TV_series)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Phoenix (1985 TV series) (page does not exist)">Phoenix</a></i> (ABC 1992–93)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Police_Rescue" title="Police Rescue">Police Rescue</a></i> (ABC 1991–96)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rush_(2008_TV_series)" title="Rush (2008 TV series)">Rush</a></i> (Network Ten 2008–11) follows the stories of a tactical police unit in Melbourne, Victoria.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Skirts_(TV_series)" title="Skirts (TV series)">Skirts (TV series)</a></i> (Seven Network 1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Small_Claims" class="mw-redirect" title="Small Claims">Small Claims</a></i> (Network Ten 2005–06)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Solo_One" title="Solo One">Solo One</a></i> (Seven Network 1976) a short-lived spin-off from <i>Matlock Police</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Special_Squad_(1984)" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Squad (1984)">Special Squad</a></i> (Network Ten 1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stingers_(TV_series)" title="Stingers (TV series)">Stingers</a></i> (Nine Network 1998–2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Water_Rats_(TV_series)" title="Water Rats (TV series)">Water Rats</a></i> (Nine Network 1996–2001) 177 episodes set in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, focusing on the Sydney Water Police.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/White_Collar_Blue" title="White Collar Blue">White Collar Blue</a></i> (Network Ten 2002–03)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wildside_(Australian_TV_series)" title="Wildside (Australian TV series)">Wildside</a></i> (ABC 1997–99)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Young_Lions_(TV_series)" title="Young Lions (TV series)">Young Lions</a></i> (Nine Network 2002)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Austria">Austria</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Austria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Inspector_Rex" title="Inspector Rex">Inspector Rex</a></i> (1994–2003) is an Austrian homicide detective series a <a href="/wiki/German_Shepherd" title="German Shepherd">German Shepherd</a> police dog named Rex and his owner, Detective-Inspector Richard Moser of the Vienna Criminal Police. Rex was a bomb squad dog whose handler was killed at a crime scene that Moser was investigating. Moser's team consisted of Ernst Stockinger (seasons 1 and 2), and Peter Hollerer (seasons 1 to 4), and Christian Bock (seasons 3 to 6). Dr Leo Graf served as <a href="/wiki/Forensic_pathologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Forensic pathologist">forensic pathologist</a>/coroner throughout the series, who often described autopsy scenes and procedures much to the disgust of the police staff. Moser was murdered by a psychotic serial killer halfway through season 4. Detective Inspector Alexander Brandtner took over Moser's role after his untimely death.</li></ul> <dl><dd>Rex frequently saved the team's necks during pursuits and catching criminals, sniffing out clues, rescuing child victims, as well as occasionally being a nuisance around the office or while interviewing suspects. The show mixes serious themes with occasional comedy, such as Rex's penchant for ham rolls (wurstsemmeln), demanding to buy many dog toys, and interfering with Moser's and Brandtner's erratic love lives.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Canada">Canada</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allegiance_(Canadian_TV_series)" title="Allegiance (Canadian TV series)">Allegiance (Canadian TV series)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Detail" title="The Detail">The Detail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flashpoint_(TV_series)" title="Flashpoint (TV series)">Flashpoint (TV series)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order_Toronto:_Criminal_Intent" title="Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent">Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rookie_Blue" title="Rookie Blue">Rookie Blue</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="France">France</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Les_dossiers_secrets_de_l%27inspecteur_Lavardin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Les dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin (page does not exist)">Les dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_dossiers_secrets_de_l%27inspecteur_Lavardin" class="extiw" title="fr:Les dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin">fr</a>]</span></i> (1988–1990) – a French TV series created by Dominique Roulet and <i><a href="/wiki/Claude_Chabrol" title="Claude Chabrol">Claude Chabrol</a></i>, broadcast on TF1. It follows the films <i><a href="/wiki/Cop_au_Vin" title="Cop au Vin">Cop au Vin</a></i> (1985) and <i><a href="/wiki/Inspecteur_Lavardin" title="Inspecteur Lavardin">Inspecteur Lavardin</a></i> (1986) by <i><a href="/wiki/Claude_Chabrol" title="Claude Chabrol">Claude Chabrol</a></i>, who already feature <i><a href="/wiki/Jean_Poiret" title="Jean Poiret">Jean Poiret</a></i> in the role of Lavardin.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monster_Buster_Club" title="Monster Buster Club">Monster Buster Club</a></i> (TF1: 2008–2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Petits_Meurtres_d%27Agatha_Christie" title="Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie">Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie</a></i> (France Télévisions: 2009–2012; 2013–present) – based on <a href="/wiki/Agatha_Christie" title="Agatha Christie">Agatha Christie</a>'s detective fiction; Series One is set in France in the 1930s, Series Two in the mid-1950s to 1960s. Series Three, announced in 2019, is to be set in the 1970s.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Germany">Germany</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Derrick_(TV_series)" title="Derrick (TV series)">Derrick</a></i> is a German TV crime series produced between 1974 and 1998.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Polizeiruf_110" title="Polizeiruf 110">Polizeiruf 110</a></i> ("Police call 110") is a long-running German-language detective television series.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tatort" title="Tatort">Tatort</a></i> (Crime scene) is a German television series running since 1970 with Austria's and Switzerland's national broadcasters in a joined production pool.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Fox" title="The Old Fox">The Old Fox</a></i> (original German title "Der Alte", lit. "The Old One") is a German crime drama which premiered on April 11, 1977.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hong_Kong">Hong Kong</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Hong Kong"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Police Cadet</i> trilogy (TVB; 1984–88) consisting of <i><a href="/wiki/Police_Cadet_%2784" title="Police Cadet '84">Police Cadet '84</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Police_Cadet_%2785" title="Police Cadet '85">Police Cadet '85</a></i> and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Cadet_%2788&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Cadet '88 (page does not exist)">Police Cadet '88</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E7%B4%AE%E5%B8%AB%E5%85%841988" class="extiw" title="zh:新紮師兄1988">zh</a>]</span></i>. Starring <a href="/wiki/Tony_Leung_Chiu-wai" title="Tony Leung Chiu-wai">Tony Leung Chiu-wai</a>, it center on his character, Cheung Wai Kit, rise from Cadet School to a working detective.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="India">India</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/C.I.D._(India_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="C.I.D. (India TV series)">C.I.D.</a></i> (1995–2018) – an Indian crime detective series that airs on Sony TV. It is about a team of detectives belonging to the Criminal Investigation Department in Mumbai. The protagonists of the show are played by <a href="/wiki/Shivaji_Satam" title="Shivaji Satam">Shivaji Satam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aditya_Srivastava" title="Aditya Srivastava">Aditya Srivastava</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dayanand_Shetty" title="Dayanand Shetty">Dayanand Shetty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dinesh_Phadnis" title="Dinesh Phadnis">Dinesh Phadnis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hrishikesh_Pandey" title="Hrishikesh Pandey">Hrishikesh Pandey</a>, Vivek Mashru, <a href="/wiki/Jasveer_Kaur" title="Jasveer Kaur">Jasveer Kaur</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ansha_Saeed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ansha Saeed (page does not exist)">Ansha Saeed</a>. The forensic experts are played by <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Gupta_(actor)" title="Narendra Gupta (actor)">Narendra Gupta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shraddha_Musale" title="Shraddha Musale">Shraddha Musale</a> respectively.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ireland">Ireland</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Michael_Feeney_Callan" title="Michael Feeney Callan">The Burke Enigma</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89" title="RTÉ">RTÉ</a> 1978.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DDU:_District_Detective_Unit" title="DDU: District Detective Unit">DDU: District Detective Unit</a></i>, (1998–99) was made by RTÉ, set in Waterford City and starring <a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_McGinley" title="Seán McGinley">Seán McGinley</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Single-Handed_(TV_series)" title="Single-Handed (TV series)">Single-Handed</a></i> (2007–) is set in the west of Ireland.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Proof_(2004_TV_series)" title="Proof (2004 TV series)">Proof</a></i> (2003–04) set in Dublin and starring <a href="/wiki/Orla_Brady" title="Orla Brady">Orla Brady</a>.</li> <li><i>Na Cloigne</i> (The Heads) a 2010 three-part supernatural police procedural produced for <a href="/wiki/TG4" title="TG4">TG4</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Italy">Italy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Italy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Inspector_Montalbano_(TV_series)" title="Inspector Montalbano (TV series)">Il commissario Montalbano</a></i> is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Donna_Leon_(TV_series)" title="Donna Leon (TV series)">Commissario Guido Brunetti</a></i> is a German television series based on the books of <a href="/wiki/Donna_Leon" title="Donna Leon">Donna Leon</a>. It has been produced since 2000 by the <a href="/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster)" title="ARD (broadcaster)">ARD</a> in Germany. This TV series is also shown in Spain. Music: <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Rieu" title="André Rieu">André Rieu</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Japan">Japan</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Japan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Taiy%C5%8D_ni_Hoero!" title="Taiyō ni Hoero!">Taiyō ni Hoero!</a></i> (NTV 1972–1986) The longest series of Japan.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Seibu_Keisatsu" title="Seibu Keisatsu">Seibu Keisatsu</a></i> (TV Asahi 1979–1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patlabor:_The_TV_Series" title="Patlabor: The TV Series">Patlabor: The TV Series</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Nippon_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Nippon TV">Nippon TV</a> 1989–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/You%27re_Under_Arrest_(manga)" title="You're Under Arrest (manga)"><i>You're Under Arrest</i></a> (<a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Broadcasting_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Tokyo Broadcasting System">TBS</a> 1996–1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bayside_Shakedown" title="Bayside Shakedown">Bayside Shakedown</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/AIBOU:_Tokyo_Detective_Duo" title="AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo">AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo</a></i> (TV Asahi 2003–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Galileo_(Japanese_TV_series)" title="Galileo (Japanese TV series)">Galileo</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Fuji_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Fuji TV">Fuji TV</a> 2007–2013)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Malaysia">Malaysia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Malaysia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gerak_Khas_(TV_series)" title="Gerak Khas (TV series)">Gerak Khas</a></i> (RTM; 1999–present)</li> <li><i>Roda-Roda Kuala Lumpur</i> (RTM; 1998–99, 2008–13)</li> <li><i>Metro Skuad</i> (RTM; 2012–13) similar to <i>Gerak Khas</i>, <i>Metro Skuad</i> centers on various criminal cases including <a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gangster" title="Gangster">gangsterisms</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acid_attack" title="Acid attack">acid throwing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robbery" title="Robbery">robberies</a> and others.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Netherlands">The Netherlands</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: The Netherlands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Baantjer" title="Baantjer">Baantjer</a></i> (1996–06) – set in Amsterdam and starring <a href="/wiki/Piet_R%C3%B6mer" title="Piet Römer">Piet Römer</a>. The series is based on the novels of writer <a href="/wiki/A._C._Baantjer" title="A. C. Baantjer">A. C. Baantjer</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flikken_Maastricht" title="Flikken Maastricht">Flikken Maastricht</a></i> (2007–present) – set in Maastricht and starring <a href="/wiki/Angela_Schijf" title="Angela Schijf">Angela Schijf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Victor_Reinier" title="Victor Reinier">Victor Reinier</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_Zealand">New Zealand</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: New Zealand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mortimer%27s_Patch" title="Mortimer's Patch">Mortimer's Patch</a></i> (1980–84) – set in provincial New Zealand and starring <a href="/wiki/Terence_Cooper" title="Terence Cooper">Terence Cooper</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sean_Duffy_(actor)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sean Duffy (actor) (page does not exist)">Sean Duffy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Selwyn" title="Don Selwyn">Don Selwyn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Hickey_(broadcaster)" title="Jim Hickey (broadcaster)">Jim Hickey</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shark_in_the_Park" title="Shark in the Park">Shark in the Park</a></i> (1989–92) – set in Wellington and starring <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Thomas_(actor)" title="Jeffrey Thomas (actor)">Jeffrey Thomas</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Duggan_(TV_series)" title="Duggan (TV series)">Duggan</a></i> (1997–99) – set in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds and starring <a href="/wiki/John_Bach" title="John Bach">John Bach</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Plainclothes_(TV_series)" title="Plainclothes (TV series)">Plainclothes</a></i> (1995) – set in Auckland and starring <a href="/wiki/Alan_Dale" title="Alan Dale">Alan Dale</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brokenwood_Mysteries" title="The Brokenwood Mysteries">The Brokenwood Mysteries</a></i> (2014–) – set in a fictional small town in the north of New Zealand and starring <a href="/wiki/Neill_Rea" title="Neill Rea">Neill Rea</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Philippines">Philippines</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Philippines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/May_Bukas_Pa_(2009_TV_series)" title="May Bukas Pa (2009 TV series)">May Bukas Pa</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/ABS-CBN" title="ABS-CBN">ABS-CBN</a>; 2009–2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pilyang_Kerubin" title="Pilyang Kerubin">Pilyang Kerubin</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/GMA_Network" title="GMA Network">GMA Network</a>; 2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Noah_(TV_series)" title="Noah (TV series)">Noah</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/ABS-CBN" title="ABS-CBN">ABS-CBN</a>; 2010–2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ikaw_ay_Pag-Ibig" title="Ikaw ay Pag-Ibig">Ikaw ay Pag-Ibig</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/ABS-CBN" title="ABS-CBN">ABS-CBN</a>; 2011–2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aso_ni_San_Roque" title="Aso ni San Roque">Aso ni San Roque</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/GMA_Network" title="GMA Network">GMA Network</a>; 2012–2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kailangan_Ko%27y_Ikaw_(TV_series)" title="Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw (TV series)">Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/ABS-CBN" title="ABS-CBN">ABS-CBN</a>; 2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ang_Probinsyano" title="Ang Probinsyano">Ang Probinsyano</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/ABS-CBN" title="ABS-CBN">ABS-CBN</a>; 2015–2022) – based on the <a href="/wiki/Ang_Probinsyano_(film)" title="Ang Probinsyano (film)">1997 film of the same name</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Fernando_Poe,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Fernando Poe, Jr.">Fernando Poe, Jr.</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flower_of_Evil_(Philippine_TV_series)" title="Flower of Evil (Philippine TV series)">Flower of Evil</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Kapamilya_Channel" title="Kapamilya Channel">Kapamilya Channel</a>; 2022) – based on the <a href="/wiki/Flower_of_Evil_(South_Korean_TV_series)" title="Flower of Evil (South Korean TV series)">2020 South Korean drama series of the same name</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mga_Lihim_ni_Urduja" title="Mga Lihim ni Urduja">Mga Lihim ni Urduja</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/GMA_Network" title="GMA Network">GMA Network</a>; 2023)</li> <li><i>Jack and Jill sa Diamond Hills</i> (<a href="/wiki/TV5_Network" title="TV5 Network">TV5</a>; 2023–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Walang_Matigas_na_Pulis_sa_Matinik_na_Misis" class="mw-redirect" title="Walang Matigas na Pulis sa Matinik na Misis">Walang Matigas na Pulis sa Matinik na Misis</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/GMA_Network" title="GMA Network">GMA Network</a>; 2023–present) – based on the 1994 film of the same name.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pira-Pirasong_Paraiso" title="Pira-Pirasong Paraiso">Pira-Pirasong Paraiso</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/TV5_Network" title="TV5 Network">TV5</a>/<a href="/wiki/Kapamilya_Channel" title="Kapamilya Channel">Kapamilya Channel</a>; 2023–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Rider_(TV_series)" title="Black Rider (TV series)">Black Rider</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/GMA_Network" title="GMA Network">GMA Network</a>; 2023–)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Russia">Russia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Streets_of_Broken_Lights" title="Streets of Broken Lights">Streets of Broken Lights</a></i> (1995–2017) – Russian criminal drama-detective TV series anthology about police work in Saint-Petersburg.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deadly_Force_(TV_series)" title="Deadly Force (TV series)">Deadly Force (TV series)</a></i> (2000–2006) – Russian TV series, which first appeared on television in 2000. It was released by <i><a href="/wiki/Channel_One_Russia" title="Channel One Russia">Channel One Russia</a></i> simultaneously as a spin-off series from <i><a href="/wiki/Streets_of_Broken_Lights" title="Streets of Broken Lights">Streets of Broken Lights</a></i> and as its direct competitor.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Investigation_Held_by_ZnaToKi" class="mw-redirect" title="Investigation Held by ZnaToKi">Investigation Held by ZnaToKi</a></i> – The popular Soviet detective series from 1971 to 1989 was continued in two Russian TV series (2002 and 2003).</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cop_Wars&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cop Wars (page does not exist)">Cop Wars</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B" class="extiw" title="ru:Ментовские войны">ru</a>]</span></i> (2005–2018) – Russian television series based on scripts by retired police colonel Maxim Esaulov and criminal journalist Andrei Romanov.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Glukhar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glukhar (page does not exist)">Glukhar</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C_(%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB)" class="extiw" title="ru:Глухарь (телесериал)">ru</a>]</span></i> (2008–2011) – The series tells about the employees of the fictional police department "Pyatnitsky" in Moscow.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khrustalnyy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khrustalnyy (page does not exist)">Khrustalnyy</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_(%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB)" class="extiw" title="ru:Хрустальный (сериал)">ru</a>]</span></i> (2021) – The series tells about a Moscow detective investigating the case of the murder of children in the small mining town of Khrustalny.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Singapore">Singapore</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Singapore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/C.L.I.F." title="C.L.I.F.">C.L.I.F.</a></i> (MediaCorp Singapore 2011–16)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Triple_Nine_(TV_series)" title="Triple Nine (TV series)">Triple Nine</a></i> (Television Corporation of Singapore 1995–99)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="South_Korea">South Korea</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: South Korea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_Evil_(TV_series)" title="Beyond Evil (TV series)">Beyond Evil</a></i> (2021) – South Korean television series follows the story of two fearless policemen from the Manyang Police Substation.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Soviet_Union">The Soviet Union</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: The Soviet Union"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Investigation_Held_by_ZnaToKi" class="mw-redirect" title="Investigation Held by ZnaToKi">Investigation Held by ZnaToKi</a></i> (1971–1989) – a popular Soviet series, the main characters are investigator Pavel Znamenski, detective Alexandr Tomin and laboratory analyst Zinaida Kibrit, who were acting together under a group name ZnaToKi (translated as "Experts").</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fabian_of_the_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Fabian of the Yard">Fabian of the Yard</a></i>, (1954–55) – possibly the first police drama to be made for British TV, this series, based on the memoirs of real-life Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, had a lot in common with <i><a href="/wiki/Dragnet_(series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragnet (series)">Dragnet</a></i>. Just as <i>Dragnet</i> had been the first network drama series with continuing characters to be shot on film, so <i>Fabian of the Yard</i> was one of the first British series to be filmed. Both shows featured voice-over narration by the main character; both fictionalized stories derived from real-life cases; and both ended with an epilogue that revealed the ultimate fate of the criminals. On <i>Fabian</i>, this took the form of a medium-shot of Bruce Seton, who played Fabian in the series, seated at a desk. The shot slowly dissolved into one of the real-life Fabian in the same pose at the same desk. At that point, the actual Fabian stood up and told the audience what happened to the criminal he'd caught in the real-life case that had just been dramatized.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dixon_of_Dock_Green" title="Dixon of Dock Green">Dixon of Dock Green</a></i>, (1955–76) – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Warner_(actor)" title="Jack Warner (actor)">Jack Warner</a> reprised the role of <a href="/wiki/Constable" title="Constable">Constable</a> George Dixon, the uniformed beat cop he had played in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Blue_Lamp" title="The Blue Lamp">The Blue Lamp</a></i>, despite the fact that the Dixon character had been tragically murdered in that film. During the course of this somewhat gentle series, Warner's character became, for many, the living embodiment of what every British "bobby" was supposed to be. As the series progressed, Dixon went through several promotions, eventually winding up as the <a href="/wiki/Station_Sergeant" class="mw-redirect" title="Station Sergeant">Station Sergeant</a> at his local division. By the final season, with Warner now over 80, Dixon retired and the focus shifted to the younger officers he'd trained up over the years.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Hiding_Place" title="No Hiding Place">No Hiding Place</a></i>, (1957–67) – Produced with the cooperation of Scotland Yard, this long-running series featured Raymond Francis as high-ranking Met detective Tom Lockhart. During its run, the series went through several title changes. When it began in 1957, it was known as <i>Murder Bag</i>, referring to the <a href="/wiki/Murder_bag" title="Murder bag">bag of investigative tools</a> that <a href="/wiki/Superintendent_(police)" title="Superintendent (police)">Superintendent</a> Lockhart carried with him whenever he was called to a case. In 1959, with Lockhart promoted to <a href="/wiki/Chief_Superintendent" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Superintendent">Chief Superintendent</a>, it became <i>Crime Sheet</i>. Later in 1959, the series was given its final and best-remembered title, <i>No Hiding Place</i>, which lasted until the series ended in 1967.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Z-Cars" title="Z-Cars">Z-Cars</a></i>, (1962–78) – a police drama about two teams of uniformed constables (<a href="/wiki/Brian_Blessed" title="Brian Blessed">Brian Blessed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brady_(actor)" title="Joseph Brady (actor)">Joseph Brady</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Ellis_(actor)" title="James Ellis (actor)">James Ellis</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Kemp" title="Jeremy Kemp">Jeremy Kemp</a>) assigned to "Crime Patrol" duties in a pair of powerful <a href="/wiki/Ford_Zephyr" title="Ford Zephyr">Ford Zephyrs</a>, under the supervision of Detective Sergeant John Watt (<a href="/wiki/Frank_Windsor" title="Frank Windsor">Frank Windsor</a>) and Detective <a href="/wiki/Chief_Inspector" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Inspector">Chief Inspector</a> Charlie Barlow (<a href="/wiki/Stratford_Johns" title="Stratford Johns">Stratford Johns</a>). A franker, and often less flattering portrait of police work than audience were used to seeing on <i>Dixon of Dock Green</i>, the show was an immediate hit, its popularity generating spin-offs like <i><a href="/wiki/Softly,_Softly_(TV_series)" title="Softly, Softly (TV series)">Softly, Softly</a></i> (1966–76), <i><a href="/wiki/Barlow_at_Large" title="Barlow at Large">Barlow at Large</a></i> (1971–75), and <i><a href="/wiki/Second_Verdict" title="Second Verdict">Second Verdict</a></i> (1976).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gideon%27s_Way" title="Gideon's Way">Gideon's Way</a></i>, (1965–66) – a crime series produced during 1964/65 and based on the novels by <a href="/wiki/John_Creasey" title="John Creasey">John Creasey</a> (as J. J. Marric). The series was made at Elstree in twin production with <a href="/wiki/The_Saint_(TV_series)" title="The Saint (TV series)">The Saint</a> TV series. It starred Liverpudlian <a href="/wiki/John_Gregson" title="John Gregson">John Gregson</a> in the title role as Commander George <a href="/wiki/George_Gideon" title="George Gideon">Gideon of Scotland Yard</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Davion" title="Alexander Davion">Alexander Davion</a> as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Reginald_Jessup&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reginald Jessup (page does not exist)">Reginald Jessup</a> as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre (nicknamed Lemmy), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ian_Rossiter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ian Rossiter (page does not exist)">Ian Rossiter</a> as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and <a href="/wiki/Basil_Dignam" title="Basil Dignam">Basil Dignam</a> as Commissioner Scott-Marle.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Scotland_Yard_(TV_series)" title="New Scotland Yard (TV series)">New Scotland Yard</a></i>, (1972–74) – a police drama series produced by <a href="/wiki/London_Weekend_Television" title="London Weekend Television">London Weekend Television</a> (LWT) for the <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> network between 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Investigations_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal Investigations Department">Criminal Investigations Department</a> (CID) in the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police" title="Metropolitan Police">Metropolitan Police</a> force headquarters at <a href="/wiki/New_Scotland_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="New Scotland Yard">New Scotland Yard</a>, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sweeney" title="The Sweeney">The Sweeney</a></i>, (1975–78) – a drama series focusing on the <a href="/wiki/Flying_Squad" title="Flying Squad">Flying Squad</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police" title="Metropolitan Police">Metropolitan Police</a> and their twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job of catching some of the most dangerous and violent criminals in London. The <a href="/wiki/Television_program" class="mw-redirect" title="Television program">television program</a> featured <a href="/wiki/Detective_Inspector" class="mw-redirect" title="Detective Inspector">Detective Inspector</a> Jack Regan (<a href="/wiki/John_Thaw" title="John Thaw">John Thaw</a>) and other tough-talking hard-drinking members of his elite unit, both on and off duty. With its high level of violence, location filming, bold frankness, and well written scripts, <i>The Sweeney</i> revolutionized the genre. The series was so phenomenally popular that two feature-length movies, <i>Sweeney!</i> (1976) and <i>Sweeney 2</i> (1978) were released to theatres during the show's original broadcast run.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gentle_Touch" title="The Gentle Touch">The Gentle Touch</a></i>, (1980–84) – a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Juliet_Bravo" title="Juliet Bravo">Juliet Bravo</a></i>, (1980–85) – a British television series, which ran on BBC1. The theme of the series concerned a female police inspector who took over control of a police station in the fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Taggart_(series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Taggart (series)">Taggart</a></i> (1983–2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bill" title="The Bill">The Bill</a></i>, (1984–2010) – a drama series focusing on both the uniformed and plain-clothes police officers working out of a fictional inner-London police station. The original conception of this series was as purely procedural, with an almost fly-on-the-wall approach that survived to an extent throughout.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Prime_Suspect_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Suspect (UK TV series)">Prime Suspect</a></i> series, (1991–2006) – featuring <a href="/wiki/Helen_Mirren" title="Helen Mirren">Helen Mirren</a> as Detective Chief Inspector (later Chief Superintendent) Jane Tennison, which focused on the police investigations and on Tennison's conflicts with her fellow officers as a prominent female detective in a heavily male-dominated work environment, as well as her personal problems concerning her family and after-work life.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cracker_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cracker (UK TV series)">Cracker</a></i> (1993–95) – hard-hitting drama series following dysfunctional criminal psychologist Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by <a href="/wiki/Robbie_Coltrane" title="Robbie Coltrane">Robbie Coltrane</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/McCallum_(TV_series)" title="McCallum (TV series)">McCallum</a></i> (1995–98)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamish_Macbeth_(TV_series)" title="Hamish Macbeth (TV series)">Hamish Macbeth</a></i> (1995–97) – police drama-comedy set in the west coast Highlands of Scotland, starring <a href="/wiki/Robert_Carlyle" title="Robert Carlyle">Robert Carlyle</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cops_(British_TV_series)" title="The Cops (British TV series)">The Cops</a></i> (1998–2000) – perhaps the most realistic police drama series yet seen on British TV, noted for its documentary-style camerawork and uncompromising portrayal of the police force.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heartbeat_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heartbeat (UK TV series)">Heartbeat</a></i> (1992–2010) is made by <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkshire Television">Yorkshire Television</a> at <a href="/wiki/The_Leeds_Studios" title="The Leeds Studios">The Leeds Studios</a> for broadcast on <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a>. It lasted 18 series. Set in 1960s <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>, in the fictional town of Ashfordly and the nearby village of Aidensfield in the <a href="/wiki/North_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="North Riding of Yorkshire">North Riding of Yorkshire</a>, the motorcycle-riding Aidensfield village bobby was originally played by <a href="/wiki/Nick_Berry" title="Nick Berry">Nick Berry</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rebus_(2000_TV_series)" title="Rebus (2000 TV series)">Rebus</a></i> (2000–2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inspector_George_Gently" title="Inspector George Gently">Inspector George Gently</a></i> (2007–2017) is an adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Alan_Hunter_(author)" title="Alan Hunter (author)">Alan Hunter's</a> George Gently series of novels. Starring <a href="/wiki/Martin_Shaw" title="Martin Shaw">Martin Shaw</a> as Gently, and set in the 1960s, it is a combination of police procedural and period drama. It was produced by <a href="/wiki/Company_Pictures" title="Company Pictures">Company Pictures</a> for <a href="/wiki/BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_UK" title="Law & Order: UK">Law & Order: UK</a></i> (2009–2014) is an adaptation of the <a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order_(franchise)" title="Law & Order (franchise)"><i>Law & Order</i> franchise</a> for the British market. The programme is financed by <a href="/wiki/Kudos_Film_and_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Kudos Film and Television">Kudos Film and Television</a>, Wolf Films (a company owned by <a href="/wiki/Dick_Wolf" title="Dick Wolf">Dick Wolf</a>, the creator of the franchise) and <a href="/wiki/NBC_Universal" class="mw-redirect" title="NBC Universal">NBC Universal</a> and airs on <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a>. The show is adapted from scripts and episodes of the original U.S. <i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order" title="Law & Order">Law & Order</a></i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Suspects_(TV_series)" title="Suspects (TV series)">Suspects</a></i> (2014–present) is an East London-based police procedural shot in a stripped-back documentary style using improvised dialogue,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and follows DS Jack Weston (<a href="/wiki/Damien_Molony" title="Damien Molony">Damien Molony</a>), DC Charlie Steele (<a href="/wiki/Claire-Hope_Ashitey" class="mw-redirect" title="Claire-Hope Ashitey">Claire-Hope Ashitey</a>) and their superior DI Martha Bellamy (<a href="/wiki/Fay_Ripley" title="Fay Ripley">Fay Ripley</a>) as they investigate various crimes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Offence" title="No Offence">No Offence</a></i> (2015–present) is a <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>-based police procedural created by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Abbott" title="Paul Abbott">Paul Abbott</a>. The show follows a team of detectives from Friday Street police station, a division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police (a fictionalised version of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester_Police" title="Greater Manchester Police">Greater Manchester Police</a>), and stars <a href="/wiki/Joanna_Scanlan" title="Joanna Scanlan">Joanna Scanlan</a> as Detective Inspector Viv Deering.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mallorca_Files" title="The Mallorca Files">The Mallorca Files</a></i> (2019–present) is set on the Spanish island of <a href="/wiki/Mallorca" title="Mallorca">Mallorca</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Elen_Rhys" title="Elen Rhys">Elen Rhys</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Julian_Looman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julian Looman (page does not exist)">Julian Looman</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Looman" class="extiw" title="de:Julian Looman">de</a>; <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Looman" class="extiw" title="nl:Julian Looman">nl</a>]</span> as English and German detectives investigating crimes for the island's police force.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_States">United States</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dragnet_(series)#Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragnet (series)">Dragnet</a></i> (1951–59, 1967–70, 1989–91 and 2003–04) was a pioneering police procedural that began on radio in 1949 and then on television in 1951. <i>Dragnet</i> established the tone of many police dramas in subsequent decades, and the rigorously authentic depictions of such elements as organizational structure, professional jargon, legal issues, etc., set the standard for technical accuracy that became the most identifiable element of the police procedural in all media. The show was occasionally accused of presenting an overly idealized portrait of law enforcement in which the police (represented by Sgt. <a href="/wiki/Joe_Friday" title="Joe Friday">Joe Friday</a>) were invariably presented as "good guys" and the criminals as "bad guys", with little moral flexibility or complexity between the two. However, many episodes depicted sympathetic perpetrators while others depicted unsympathetic or corrupt cops. Further, though Jack Webb may have seemed to go to extremes to depict the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department" title="Los Angeles Police Department">Los Angeles Police Department</a> in a favorable light, most depictions of cops at the time of <i>Dragnet'</i>s debut were both unsympathetic and unrealistic.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Webb's depiction was meant to offer balance. Also, the show benefited from the unprecedented technical advice, involvement, and support of the LAPD, a first in TV, which may also have been an incentive to depict the Department favorably. After the success of <i>Dragnet</i>, Webb produced other procedural shows like <i>The DA's Man</i>, about an undercover investigator for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_County_District_Attorney" title="New York County District Attorney">Manhattan District Attorney</a>'s Office, <i><a href="/wiki/Adam-12" title="Adam-12">Adam-12</a></i>, about a pair of uniformed <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Police_Department" title="Los Angeles Police Department">LAPD</a> officers patrolling their beat in a radio car, and <i><a href="/wiki/O%27Hara,_U.S._Treasury" title="O'Hara, U.S. Treasury">O'Hara, U.S. Treasury</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/David_Janssen" title="David Janssen">David Janssen</a> as a trouble-shooting federal officer.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Adam-12" title="Adam-12">Adam-12</a></i> (1968–1975) is a television police procedural drama that follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they ride the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12. The series was created by Robert A. Cinader and Jack Webb, the latter of whom also created Dragnet. It starred Martin Milner and Kent McCord and purported to realistically capture a typical day in the life of police officers. The show ran from September 21, 1968, through May 20, 1975, and helped to introduce police procedures and jargon to the general public in the United States.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Untouchables_(1959_TV_series)" title="The Untouchables (1959 TV series)">The Untouchables</a></i> (1959–63) fictionalized real-life Federal Agent <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Ness" title="Eliot Ness">Eliot Ness</a>'s ongoing fight with prohibition-era gangs in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> and elsewhere. Originally a two-part presentation on the anthology series <i><a href="/wiki/Desilu_Playhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Desilu Playhouse">Desilu Playhouse</a></i>, it made such a splash that a series was launched the following fall. That two-part pilot, later released to theaters under the title <i>The Scarface Mob</i>, stuck comparatively close to the actual events, with Ness, as played by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stack" title="Robert Stack">Robert Stack</a>, recruiting a team of incorruptible investigators to help bring down <a href="/wiki/Al_Capone" title="Al Capone">Al Capone</a>. Later episodes showed Ness and his squad, after Capone, going after just about every big name gangster of the era, and when the writers ran out of real-life figures to pit against Ness, they created new ones. <a href="/wiki/Quinn_Martin" title="Quinn Martin">Quinn Martin</a>, who would become closely associated with police and crime shows like this, produced the series during its first season, leaving to found his own company, QM Productions, which would go one to produce police procedural shows like <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Breed_(TV_series)" title="The New Breed (TV series)">The New Breed</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_F.B.I._(TV_series)" title="The F.B.I. (TV series)">The F.B.I.</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dan_August" title="Dan August">Dan August</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Streets_of_San_Francisco" title="The Streets of San Francisco">The Streets of San Francisco</a></i> over the next twenty years. The success of the series led to an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Award</a>-winning <a href="/wiki/The_Untouchables_(1987_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Untouchables (1987 film)">motion picture</a> in 1987, and a new TV <a href="/wiki/The_Untouchables_(1993_TV_series)" title="The Untouchables (1993 TV series)">series</a> that was syndicated to local stations in 1993.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Police_Story_(1973_TV_series)" title="Police Story (1973 TV series)">Police Story</a></i> (1973–78) was an anthology series set in Los Angeles created by <a href="/wiki/LAPD" class="mw-redirect" title="LAPD">LAPD</a> Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh. Hard-hitting and unflinchingly realistic, its anthology format made it possible to look at LAPD police work from many different perspectives, what it was like to be a woman in a male-dominated profession, an honest cop suspected of corruption, a rookie cop, an undercover narc, a veteran facing retirement, or a cop who had to adjust to crippling injuries incurred in the line of duty. Despite its anthology format, there were a number of characters who appeared in more than one episode, including Robbery/Homicide partners Tony Calabrese (<a href="/wiki/Tony_Lo_Bianco" title="Tony Lo Bianco">Tony Lo Bianco</a>) and Bert Jameson (<a href="/wiki/Don_Meredith" title="Don Meredith">Don Meredith</a>), vice cop turned homicide detective Charlie Czonka (<a href="/wiki/James_Farentino" title="James Farentino">James Farentino</a>), and stakeout-surveillance specialist Joe LaFrieda (<a href="/wiki/Vic_Morrow" title="Vic Morrow">Vic Morrow</a>). Several series were spun off from the show, including <i><a href="/wiki/Police_Woman_(TV_series)" title="Police Woman (TV series)">Police Woman</a></i>, <i>Joe Forrester</i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/David_Cassidy:_Man_Under_Cover" class="mw-redirect" title="David Cassidy: Man Under Cover">Man Undercover</a></i>. During its last two seasons, the show appeared as an irregular series of two-hour <a href="/wiki/TV_movies" class="mw-redirect" title="TV movies">TV movies</a> rather than a weekly one-hour program. The show was revived for a season in 1988, using old scripts reshot with new casts when a writers' strike made new material inaccessible.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kojak" title="Kojak">Kojak</a></i> (1973–78, 1989–90) created by <a href="/wiki/Abby_Mann" title="Abby Mann">Abby Mann</a>, focused on a veteran New York City detective-lieutenant played by <a href="/wiki/Telly_Savalas" title="Telly Savalas">Telly Savalas</a>. Its exteriors were filmed at New York's Ninth Precinct, the same place where <i><a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a>'</i>s exteriors would be filmed. In 1989, Savalas returned to the role briefly for five two-hour episodes, in which Kojak had been promoted to <a href="/wiki/Inspector" title="Inspector">inspector</a> and placed in charge of the Major Crimes Squad. It rotated with three other detective shows on <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>. A 2005 remake for the <a href="/wiki/USA_Network" title="USA Network">USA Network</a> starred <a href="/wiki/Ving_Rhames" title="Ving Rhames">Ving Rhames</a>. Kojak's most memorable character trait was his signature lollipop.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues" title="Hill Street Blues">Hill Street Blues</a></i> (1981–87) featured a number of intertwined storylines in each episode, and pioneered depiction of the conflicts between the work and private lives of officers and detectives on which the police procedural was centered. The show had a deliberate "documentary" style, depicting officers who were flawed and human, and dealt openly with the gray areas of morality between right and wrong. It was set in an unidentified east coast or Midwestern US city. The show was written by <a href="/wiki/Steven_Bochco" title="Steven Bochco">Steven Bochco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kozoll" title="Michael Kozoll">Michael Kozoll</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cagney_%26_Lacey" title="Cagney & Lacey">Cagney & Lacey</a></i> (1982–88) revolved around two female NYPD detectives who led very different lives. Christine Cagney, played by <a href="/wiki/Sharon_Gless" title="Sharon Gless">Sharon Gless</a>, was a single-minded, witty, brash career woman. Mary Beth Lacey was a resourceful, sensitive working mom. <a href="/wiki/Loretta_Swit" title="Loretta Swit">Loretta Swit</a> was the original choice for Cagney [she played the role in a TV movie]; however, she could not get out of her contract on <i><a href="/wiki/M*A*S*H_(TV_series)" title="M*A*S*H (TV series)">M*A*S*H</a></i>. During the first season, <a href="/wiki/Meg_Foster" title="Meg Foster">Meg Foster</a> played the part of Cagney, while <a href="/wiki/Tyne_Daly" title="Tyne Daly">Tyne Daly</a> played Lacey, the role she had originated in the pilot. <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> canceled the series claiming low ratings. It was brought back due both to a letter-writing campaign which drew millions of letters nationwide and because the ratings went <i>up</i> during summer reruns. A <i><a href="/wiki/TV_Guide" title="TV Guide">TV Guide</a></i> magazine read "Welcome Back". Daly continued as Lacey, but Foster was replaced with Gless, who would become the actress most identified with the part. It had 36 nominations and 14 wins during its run. Four TV movies were broadcast after the series ended.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Miami_Vice" title="Miami Vice">Miami Vice</a></i> (1984–90) and <i><a href="/wiki/21_Jump_Street" title="21 Jump Street">21 Jump Street</a></i> (1987–91) showed the MTV style of Police procedurals.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order_(franchise)" title="Law & Order (franchise)"><i>Law & Order</i> (franchise)</a></i> which started with the long-running series <i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order" title="Law & Order">Law & Order</a></i> (1990–2010, 2022–present), focuses on the two 'halves' of a criminal proceeding in the New York City criminal justice system: the investigation of the crime by the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" title="New York City Police Department">New York City Police Department</a> homicide detectives and the subsequent prosecution of the criminals by the <a href="/wiki/New_York_County_District_Attorney" title="New York County District Attorney">New York County District Attorney</a>'s office. The success of the original <i>Law & Order</i> inspired ten other <a href="/wiki/Spin-off_(media)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spin-off (media)">spin-off</a> series in four different countries: <ul><li>Six in the U.S.: <i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit" title="Law & Order: Special Victims Unit">Law & Order: Special Victims Unit</a></i> (1999–present), which focuses on sex crimes such as rape and child molestation, <i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Criminal_Intent" title="Law & Order: Criminal Intent">Law & Order: Criminal Intent</a></i> (2001–11), focusing on major crimes from the point of view of the criminal and capturing them from a psychological side, <i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Trial_by_Jury" title="Law & Order: Trial by Jury">Law & Order: Trial by Jury</a></i> (2005–06), which focuses more on the trial from both the prosecution and the defense teams' points of view, <i><a href="/wiki/Conviction_(2006_TV_series)" title="Conviction (2006 TV series)">Conviction</a></i> (2006), <i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_LA" title="Law & Order: LA">Law & Order: LA</a></i> (2010–11) and <i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Organized_Crime" title="Law & Order: Organized Crime">Law & Order: Organized Crime</a></i> (2021–present). <i>Special Victims Unit</i>, <i>Criminal Intent</i>, <i>LA</i> and Organized Crime series focused more on the police procedurals than <i>Trial by Jury</i> and <i>Conviction</i>.</li> <li>Two in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>: Adaptations of <i>Special Victims Unit</i> (2007) and <i>Criminal Intent</i> (2007), both set in Moscow.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paris_enqu%C3%AAtes_criminelles" title="Paris enquêtes criminelles">Paris enquêtes criminelles</a></i> (2007), a French adaptation of <i>Criminal Intent</i> set in Paris.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_UK" title="Law & Order: UK">Law & Order: UK</a></i> (2009–2014), a British adaptation of the original <i>Law & Order</i> set in London.</li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd>Aside from being its depiction of police investigation, this program also relates to the <a href="/wiki/Legal_drama" title="Legal drama">legal drama</a> and "forensic pathology" subgenres, and has inspired such other programs as the <i><a href="/wiki/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation" title="CSI: Crime Scene Investigation">CSI</a></i> <a href="/wiki/CSI_(franchise)" title="CSI (franchise)">series</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></dd></dl> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street" title="Homicide: Life on the Street">Homicide: Life on the Street</a></i> (1993–99; TV movie in 2000), a police procedural focusing on the homicide unit of the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> city police department. Critically praised<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> (although frequently struggling in the ratings), the show was more of an ensemble piece, focusing on the activities of the unit as a whole (although significant characters such as Detective <a href="/wiki/Frank_Pembleton" title="Frank Pembleton">Frank Pembleton</a> and Detective <a href="/wiki/John_Munch" title="John Munch">John Munch</a>, who has also appeared on the various <i>Law & Order</i> shows, among others, became popular with viewers). The show (particularly in its first three seasons) used long-form arcs to depict ongoing criminal investigations, such as the investigation of a murdered child in the first season, which ran through 13 episodes but ended without an arrest or conviction, or even conclusive proof of who committed the crime. The show also heavily featured the complex internal politics of the police department, suggesting that rising through the ranks has more to do with personal connections, favors and opportunism than genuine ability.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NYPD_Blue" title="NYPD Blue">NYPD Blue</a></i> (1993–2005) explored the internal and external struggles of the assorted investigators of the fictional 15th Precinct of Manhattan. The show gained notoriety for profanity and nudity never previously broadcast on American network television. <i>NYPD Blue</i> was created by genre veteran <a href="/wiki/Steven_Bochco" title="Steven Bochco">Steven Bochco</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Milch" title="David Milch">David Milch</a>. The cast of <i>NYPD Blue</i> included actor Dennis Franz, who previously played Detective Buntz on <i>Hill Street Blues</i>, as well as on a spin-off series, <i>Beverly Hills Buntz</i>. Another cast member, David Caruso, would later play Lt. Horatio Caine on <i>CSI: Miami</i>.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/CSI_(franchise)" title="CSI (franchise)">CSI (franchise)</a></i> which started with <i><a href="/wiki/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation" title="CSI: Crime Scene Investigation">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</a></i> (2000–2015) and eventually spawned two spin-offs focused on solving ordinary crimes using forensics, <i><a href="/wiki/CSI:_Miami" title="CSI: Miami">CSI: Miami</a></i> (2002–2012) and <i><a href="/wiki/CSI:_NY" title="CSI: NY">CSI: NY</a></i> (2004–2013). Produced by <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Bruckheimer" title="Jerry Bruckheimer">Jerry Bruckheimer</a>, these three shows focus on three groups of forensic scientists in Las Vegas, Miami and New York City who investigate how and why a person has died and if it is a murder or not by investigating not only <a href="/wiki/Whodunit" title="Whodunit">whodunit</a> but also howdunit. A third spin-off, <i><a href="/wiki/CSI:_Cyber" title="CSI: Cyber">CSI: Cyber</a></i> (2015–2016), focused on cybercrime and its impact on modern society.</li> <li>The CSI franchise inspired other forensic shows such as <i><a href="/wiki/Body_of_Proof" title="Body of Proof">Body of Proof</a></i> (2011–2013), <i><a href="/wiki/Bones_(TV_series)" title="Bones (TV series)">Bones</a></i> (2005–2017) and <i><a href="/wiki/Crossing_Jordan" title="Crossing Jordan">Crossing Jordan</a></i> (2001–2007).</li> <li>The CSI franchise also inspired other crime dramas involving teams solving crimes but not relying on forensics; these include victim and witness memory for cold cases and missing people in <i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Case_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold Case (TV series)">Cold Case</a></i> (2003–2010) and <i><a href="/wiki/Without_a_Trace" title="Without a Trace">Without a Trace</a></i> (2002–2009) respectively, psychological profiling in <i><a href="/wiki/Criminal_Minds" title="Criminal Minds">Criminal Minds</a></i> (2005–2020), using <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Numbers_(TV_series)" title="Numbers (TV series)">Numbers</a></i> (2005–2010) and using deception in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mentalist" title="The Mentalist">The Mentalist</a></i> (2008–2015).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shield" title="The Shield">The Shield</a></i> (2002–08) is about an experimental division of the Los Angeles Police Department set up in the fictional Farmington district ("the Farm") of Los Angeles, using a converted church ("the Barn") as their police station, and featuring a group of detectives called "The Strike Team", who will do anything to bring justice to the streets. Michael Chiklis (Chiklis previously played the title character in the TV series <i>The Commish</i>) has top billing with his portrayal of Strike Team leader Detective Victor "Vic" Mackey. The show has an ensemble cast that will normally run a number of separate story lines through each episode. It was on the <a href="/wiki/FX_network" class="mw-redirect" title="FX network">FX network</a> and was known for its portrayal of police brutality and its realism. The show inspired other shows similar to <i>The Shield</i> such as <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Blue_(TV_series)" title="Dark Blue (TV series)">Dark Blue</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Southland_(TV_series)" title="Southland (TV series)">Southland</a></i>. <i>The Shield</i> was created by writer/producer <a href="/wiki/Shawn_Ryan" title="Shawn Ryan">Shawn Ryan</a>.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/NCIS_(franchise)" title="NCIS (franchise)">NCIS (franchise)</a></i> which was spun off from the CBS series <i><a href="/wiki/JAG_(TV_series)" title="JAG (TV series)">JAG</a></i> in 2003. The original series, <i><a href="/wiki/NCIS_(TV_series)" title="NCIS (TV series)">NCIS</a></i> (2003–present) follows the Major Case Response Team of the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Criminal_Investigative_Service" title="Naval Criminal Investigative Service">Naval Criminal Investigative Service</a>, as they investigate crimes related to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">Marine Corps</a>. <i>NCIS</i> has been among the top scripted series on U.S. television, and has received three spin-offs; <i><a href="/wiki/NCIS:_Los_Angeles" title="NCIS: Los Angeles">NCIS: Los Angeles</a></i> (2009–2023) deals with an LA-based branch dealing in special undercover assignments, <i><a href="/wiki/NCIS:_New_Orleans" title="NCIS: New Orleans">NCIS: New Orleans</a></i> (2014–2021) focuses on a small group of agents who handle cases from the Mississippi River to the Texas Panhandle and <i><a href="/wiki/NCIS:_Hawai%CA%BBi" title="NCIS: Hawaiʻi">NCIS: Hawaiʻi</a></i> (2021–2024) which focuses on agents working out of the Pearl Harbor Field Office.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Castle_(TV_series)" title="Castle (TV series)">Castle</a></i> (2009–2016), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mentalist" title="The Mentalist">The Mentalist</a></i> (2008–2015), <i><a href="/wiki/Monk_(TV_series)" title="Monk (TV series)">Monk</a></i> (2002–2009) and <i><a href="/wiki/Psych" title="Psych">Psych</a></i> (2006–2014) feature quirky investigators with their own distinct methods of solving crimes and are equally comedic shows as they are police procedurals.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_(franchise)" title="Chicago (franchise)"><i>One Chicago</i></a> is a multi-genre franchise that focuses on the <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> <a href="/wiki/Chicago_P.D._(TV_series)" title="Chicago P.D. (TV series)">Police Department</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Fire_(TV_series)" title="Chicago Fire (TV series)">Fire Department</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Med" title="Chicago Med">Medical branch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Justice" title="Chicago Justice">Justice System</a> respectively.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine" title="Brooklyn Nine-Nine">Brooklyn Nine-Nine</a></i> (2013–2021) is a single-camera police sitcom focusing on Detectives in the 99th precinct in Brooklyn.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/FBI_(franchise)" title="FBI (franchise)">FBI (franchise)</a></i> (2018–present)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Comic_strips_and_books">Comic strips and books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Comic strips and books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy" title="Dick Tracy">Dick Tracy</a></i> is often pointed to as an early procedural. </p><p><i>Tracy</i> creator <a href="/wiki/Chester_Gould" title="Chester Gould">Chester Gould</a> seemed to be trying to reflect the real world. Tracy himself, conceived by Gould as a "modern-day <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a>", was partly modeled on real-life law enforcer Eliot Ness. Tracy's first, and most frequently recurring, antagonist, the <a href="/wiki/Alphonse_%22Big_Boy%22_Caprice" title="Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice">Big Boy</a>, was based on Ness's real-life nemesis Al Capone. Other members of Tracy's <a href="/wiki/Recurring_characters_in_Dick_Tracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Recurring characters in Dick Tracy">Rogues Gallery</a>, like Boris Arson, <a href="/wiki/Flattop_Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="Flattop Jones">Flattop Jones</a>, and Maw Famon, were inspired, respectively, by <a href="/wiki/John_Dillinger" title="John Dillinger">John Dillinger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_%22Pretty_Boy%22_Floyd" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd">Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ma_Barker" title="Ma Barker">Kate "Ma" Barker</a>. </p><p>Once <i>Tracy</i> was sold to the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i> syndicate, Gould enrolled in a criminology class at <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a>, met with members of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department" title="Chicago Police Department">Chicago Police Department</a>, and did research at the department's crime lab, to make his depiction of law enforcement more authentic. Ultimately, he hired retired <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> policeman Al Valanis, a pioneering forensic sketch artist, as both an artistic assistant and police technical advisor. </p><p>The success of <i>Tracy</i> led to many more police strips. While some, like Norman Marsh's <i><a href="/wiki/Dan_Dunn" title="Dan Dunn">Dan Dunn</a></i> were unabashedly slavish imitations of <i>Tracy</i>, others, like <a href="/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett" title="Dashiell Hammett">Dashiell Hammett</a>'s and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Raymond" title="Alex Raymond">Alex Raymond</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Secret_Agent_X-9" title="Secret Agent X-9">Secret Agent X-9</a></i>, took a more original approach. Still others, like Eddie Sullivan's and Charlie Schmidt's <i><a href="/wiki/Radio_Patrol_(comic_strip)" title="Radio Patrol (comic strip)">Radio Patrol</a></i> and Will Gould's <i>Red Barry</i>, steered a middle course. One of the best post-<i>Tracy</i> procedural comics was <i><a href="/wiki/Kerry_Drake" title="Kerry Drake">Kerry Drake</a></i>, written and created by Allen Saunders and illustrated by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Andriola" title="Alfred Andriola">Alfred Andriola</a>. It diverged from the metropolitan settings used in <i>Tracy</i> to tell the story of the titular Chief Investigator for the District Attorney of a small-town jurisdiction. Later, following a personal tragedy, he leaves the DA's Office and joins his small city's police force in order to fight crime closer to the grass roots level. As both a DA's man and a city cop, he fights a string of flamboyant, Gould-ian criminals like "Stitches", "Bottleneck", and "Bulldozer". </p><p>Other syndicated police strips include <a href="/wiki/Zane_Grey" title="Zane Grey">Zane Grey</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/King_of_the_Royal_Mounted" title="King of the Royal Mounted">King of the Royal Mounted</a></i>, depicting police work in the contemporary Canadian Northwest, Lank Leonard's <i><a href="/wiki/Mickey_Finn_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mickey Finn (comics)">Mickey Finn</a></i>, which emphasized the home life of a hard-working cop, and <i>Dragnet</i>, which adapted stories from the pioneering radio-TV series into comics. Early <a href="/wiki/Comic_books" class="mw-redirect" title="Comic books">comic books</a> with police themes tended to be reprints of syndicated newspaper strips like <i>Tracy</i> and <i>Drake</i>. Others adapted police stories from other mediums, like the radio-inspired anthology comic <i><a href="/wiki/Gang_Busters" title="Gang Busters">Gang Busters</a></i>, Dell's <i>87th Precinct</i> issues, which adapted McBain's novels, or <i>The Untouchables</i>, which adapted the fictionalized TV adventures of real-life policeman Eliot Ness. </p><p>More recently, there have been attempts to depict police work with the kind of hard-edged realism seen in the novels of writers like Wambaugh, such as <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel's</a> four-issue mini-series <i>Cops: The Job</i>, in which a rookie police officer learns to cope with the physical, emotional, and mental stresses of law enforcement during her first patrol assignment. With <a href="/wiki/Superhero" title="Superhero">superheroes</a> having long dominated the comic book market, there have been some recent attempts to integrate elements of the police procedural into the universe of costumed crime-fighters. <i><a href="/wiki/Gotham_Central" title="Gotham Central">Gotham Central</a></i>, for example, depicts a group of police detectives operating in <a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Gotham_City" title="Gotham City">Gotham City</a>, and suggested that the caped crime-fighter is disliked by many Gotham detectives for treading on their toes. Meanwhile, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolis_SCU&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Metropolis SCU (page does not exist)">Metropolis SCU</a></i> tells the story of the Special Crimes Unit, an elite squad of cops in the police force serving <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_(comics)" title="Metropolis (comics)">Metropolis</a>. </p><p>The use of police procedural elements in superhero comics can partly be attributed to the success of <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Busiek" title="Kurt Busiek">Kurt Busiek</a>'s groundbreaking 1994 series <i><a href="/wiki/Marvels" title="Marvels">Marvels</a></i>, and his subsequent <i><a href="/wiki/Astro_City" title="Astro City">Astro City</a></i> work, both of which examine the typical superhero universe from the viewpoint of the common man who witnesses the great dramas from afar, participating in them tangentially at best. </p><p>In the wake of Busiek's success, many other writers mimicked his approach, with mixed results – the narrative possibilities of someone who does not get involved in drama are limited. In 2000, however, <a href="/wiki/Image_Comics" title="Image Comics">Image Comics</a> published the first issue of <a href="/wiki/Brian_Michael_Bendis" title="Brian Michael Bendis">Brian Michael Bendis</a>'s comic <i><a href="/wiki/Powers_(comics)" title="Powers (comics)">Powers</a></i>, which followed the lives of homicide detectives as they investigated superhero-related cases. Bendis's success has led both Marvel Comics and <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a> to begin their own superhero-themed police procedurals (<i><a href="/wiki/District_X" title="District X">District X</a></i> and the aforementioned <i>Gotham Central</i>), which focus on how the job of a police officer is affected by such tropes as secret identities, superhuman abilities, costumes, and the near-constant presence of <a href="/wiki/Vigilante" class="mw-redirect" title="Vigilante">vigilantes</a>. </p><p>While the detectives in <i>Powers</i> were "normal" (unpowered) humans dealing with super-powered crime, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gene_Ha" title="Gene Ha">Gene Ha</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Top_10_(comics)" title="Top 10 (comics)">Top 10</a></i> mini-series, published by <a href="/wiki/America%27s_Best_Comics" title="America's Best Comics">America's Best Comics</a> in 2000–01, centered around the super-powered police force in a setting where powers are omnipresent. The comic detailed the lives and work of the police force of Neopolis, a city in which everyone, from the police and criminals to civilians, children and even pets, has super-powers, colourful costumes and secret identities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Masculinity_and_racism">Masculinity and racism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Masculinity and racism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The police procedural is considered to be a male-dominant genre which very often portrays the <a href="/wiki/Masculine" class="mw-redirect" title="Masculine">masculine</a> hero dedicated to the professional realm. The introduction of women as protagonists is commonly attributed to either adding <a href="/wiki/Sexual_appeal" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexual appeal">sexual appeal</a>, introducing gendered issues like investigating <a href="/wiki/Sex_crimes" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex crimes">sex crimes</a>, or delving into the personal relationships of the characters.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also often portrays <a href="/wiki/Rape_myths" class="mw-redirect" title="Rape myths">rape myths</a>, such as that rape is more often committed by strangers rather than a known acquaintance of the victim, that the majority of rape claims are false, and that rapes only happen to "bad girls".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The portrayal of the criminal justice system also under-represents issues of race and <a href="/wiki/Institutional_racism" title="Institutional racism">institutional racism</a>. A report by <a href="/wiki/Color_of_Change" title="Color of Change">Color of Change</a> Hollywood and the USC Annenberg <a href="/wiki/Norman_Lear_Center" title="Norman Lear Center">Norman Lear Center</a><sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> identified that in these shows there was a severe lack of portrayal of racial bias in the criminal procedure, discussion about <a href="/wiki/Criminal_justice_reform" title="Criminal justice reform">criminal justice reform</a>, and victims who are women of color. There is also little representation of people of color in the creation of these shows. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Biased_narratives">Biased narratives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Biased narratives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The police procedural genre is becoming increasingly popular and has accounted for about 22% of all scripted shows on US <a href="/wiki/Broadcast_network" title="Broadcast network">broadcast network</a> in the last 10 years.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This prevalence implies that viewers are often facing <a href="/wiki/TV_series" class="mw-redirect" title="TV series">TV series</a> that place <a href="/wiki/Police_officers" class="mw-redirect" title="Police officers">police officers</a> at the center of the story, showing exclusively their vision of the world. This approach has been denounced as enforcing the idea that the life and views of policemen are more important than the ones of the communities being policed.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In police procedurals, police officers are more often than not presented as the "good guys" or even close to superhuman, leading to a potentially biased narrative.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Illegal practices are often presented as a necessary decision made in the <a href="/wiki/Common_good" title="Common good">general interest</a>. A report by <a href="/wiki/Color_of_Change" title="Color of Change">Color of Change</a> Hollywood and the USC Annenberg <a href="/wiki/Norman_Lear_Center" title="Norman Lear Center">Norman Lear Center</a> revealed that police procedural shows were normalizing unjust practices such as <a href="/wiki/Search_and_seizure" title="Search and seizure">illegal searches</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surveillance" title="Surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coercion" title="Coercion">coercion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Intimidation" title="Intimidation">intimidation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abuse" title="Abuse">abuse</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Misrepresentation_of_reality">Misrepresentation of reality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Misrepresentation of reality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Criticisms have been raised against the genre for its unrealistic depiction of crime. Particularly, police procedurals have been accused of possessing an unrealistic preoccupation with incidents such as <a href="/wiki/Homicide" title="Homicide">homicide</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the United States, plot points involving murder investigations appear at more frequent rates than those involving <a href="/wiki/Theft" title="Theft">theft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Substance_abuse" title="Substance abuse">substance abuse</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Domestic_violence" title="Domestic violence">domestic violence</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which citizens are more likely to personally experience.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Police procedurals have additionally portrayed attempted terrorism incidents at unrealistically high rates since the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> and the start of the <a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror">war on terror</a>, prompting accusations of <a href="/wiki/Racial_profiling" title="Racial profiling">racial profiling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fear-mongering" class="mw-redirect" title="Fear-mongering">fear-mongering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The manner in which crime has been portrayed in the media has subsequently been linked with discrepancies both in popular perception of <a href="/wiki/Crime_rates" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime rates">crime rates</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Sentencing" class="mw-redirect" title="Sentencing">sentencing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2005 study conducted on the <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German public</a>, it was found that despite a decline in total offences between 1992 and 2003, "the German public believes or assumes, on balance, that crime has increased".<sup id="cite_ref-:3_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been further posited that the distorted public perception arising from the prevalence of police procedurals has been a factor in influencing sentencing rates. Countries such as the US, UK and Germany—while experiencing declines in crime rates—reported increases in the volume and severity of <a href="/wiki/Incarceration" class="mw-redirect" title="Incarceration">incarceration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recent_efforts_and_developments">Recent efforts and developments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_procedural&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Recent efforts and developments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alongside protests against <a href="/wiki/Police_brutality" title="Police brutality">police brutality</a> in the United States and abroad, and debates on the role of entertainment in the portrayal of law enforcement in society,<sup id="cite_ref-:3_26-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the genre has been facing increased scrutiny.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, some <a href="/wiki/Television_networks" class="mw-redirect" title="Television networks">television networks</a> have been making an effort to address and correct the aforementioned criticism. In August 2020, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> writing staff would partner with 21CP Solutions, an advisory group on <a href="/wiki/Public_safety" class="mw-redirect" title="Public safety">public safety</a> and <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement">law enforcement</a>, on the network's <a href="/wiki/Legal_dramas" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal dramas">legal dramas</a> and police procedurals.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CBS producers stated that the team, including <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a> experts, lawyers and police veterans, would fix issues with CBS police procedurals to make them more realistic and accurate.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span 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"TVPD: The generational diegetics of the police procedural on American television." <i>Canadian Review of American Studies</i> 41.1 (2011): 75–95.</li> <li>Bolger, P. Colin, and Glenn D. Walters. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047235219300029">"The relationship between police procedural justice, police legitimacy, and people's willingness to cooperate with law enforcement: A meta-analysis."</a> <i>Journal of criminal justice</i> (2019).</li> <li>Brunsdale, Mitzi M. <i>Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes</i> (2 vol. ABC-CLIO, 2010).</li> <li>Cummins, Ian, Marian Foley, and Martin King. <span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'...And After the Break': Police Officers' Views of TV Crime Drama." <i>Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice</i> 8.2 (2014): 205–211.</li> <li>Cummins, Ian, and Martin King. <span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'Drowning in here in his bloody sea': exploring TV cop drama's representations of the impact of stress in modern policing." <i>Policing and society</i> 27.8 (2017): 832–846. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/38760/1/Drowning%20June%2015%20without%20image%20%282%29.pdf">online</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200306084315/http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/38760/1/Drowning%20June%2015%20without%20image%20%282%29.pdf">Archived</a> 6 March 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li>Davis, J. Madison. "He do the police in different voices: The rise of the police procedural." <i>World Literature Today</i> 86.1 (2012): 9–11.</li> <li>García, Alberto N. "Baltimore in The Wire and Los Angeles in The Shield: Urban landscapes in American drama series." <i>Series-International Journal of TV Serial Narratives</i> 3.1 (2017): 51–60 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://series.unibo.it/article/download/7144/6912">online</a>.</li> <li>McGovern, Alyce, and Nickie D. Phillips. "Police, media, and popular culture." in <i>Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice</i> (2017).</li> <li>Primasita, Fitria Akhmerti, and Heddy Shri Ahimsa-Putra. "An Introduction to the Police Procedural: A Subgenre of Detective Genre." <i>Humaniora</i> 31.1 (2019): 33+</li> <li>Roberts, Les. "Landscapes in the frame: Exploring the hinterlands of the British procedural drama." <i>New Review of Film and Television Studies</i> 14.3 (2016): 364–385. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3001406/1/LesRoberts_Landscapes%20in%20the%20Frame_2016_%28LiverpoolElements%29.pdf">online</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220217092655/https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3001406/1/LesRoberts_Landscapes%20in%20the%20Frame_2016_%28LiverpoolElements%29.pdf">Archived</a> 17 February 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li>Sabin, Roger, with Ronald Wilson, et al. <i>Cop Shows: A Critical History of Police Dramas on Television</i> (McFarland, 2015). viii, pp. 219.</li> <li>Saunders, Robert A. <i>Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir: What Television Series Tell Us about World Politics</i> (Routledge, 2020).</li> <li>Scheg, Abigail G. and Tamara Girardi, eds. <i>Hero or Villain?: Essays on Dark Protagonists of Television</i> (2017) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Villain-Essays-Protagonists-Television-ebook/dp/B076YG6Z4H/">excerpt</a></li> <li>Stephenson, Antony. "Kinds of blue: The representation of Australian police and policing in television drama and reality television." (PhD dissertation, Charles Sturt University, Australia, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/71301461/">online</a></li> <li>Stephenson, Antony. 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