- John May
Superintendent John May was the first commander of the Metropolitan Police A Division, which policed the Whitehall area of London. Since the divisional station house was adjacent to the offices of the Joint Commissioners, Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne, May began to serve as unofficial second-in-command of the force, providing a link between the Commissioners and their men.
- Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a columnist for "The New York Times". She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
- Daniel Faulkner
Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955-December 9, 1981) was a police officer in the American city of Philadelphia who was shot and killed in the line of duty. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist, political activist, and member of the Black Panther Party and supporter of MOVE, was arrested and convicted of Faulkner's murder. Abu-Jamal's conviction has since led to a decades-long controversy.
- Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey), frequently referred to simply as Shaq (pronounced "shack"), is an American professional basketball player, generally regarded as one of the most dominant in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He starts at center for the Miami Heat, after previous stints with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Orlando Magic. O'Neal has been on four NBA Championship teams, most recently in 2006, …
- John Gibson
Detective John Michael Gibson was a United States Capitol Police officer assigned to the dignitary protection detail of Congressman Tom DeLay. He was shot and killed after confronting Russell Eugene Weston Jr., who had shot and killed officer Jacob Chestnut seconds earlier. Detective Gibson, who was in plainclothes, was shot after the suspect entered the office of Congressman DeLay.
- Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848-January 13, 1929) was an American farmer, teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, and miner. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his brothers, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp. Wyatt Earp is the major subject of various movies, TV shows, biographies and works of fiction.
- John Carter
Lieutenant-Colonel John Fillis Carré Carter CBE (1882-14 July 1944) was Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police, responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938 to September 1940. Carter was the son of a Captain in the Royal Engineers. He was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst. Having passed out as Queen's Cadet, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant into the Indian Staff Corps on 28 July 1900.
- David Young
David Young was a former police officer who took over the Cokeville Elementary School in Cokeville, Wyoming in 1986. The incident was recorded in "When Angels Intervene to Save the Children" and later dramatized in the NBC movie "To Save the Children".
- Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. (October 2, 1937 - March 29, 2005) was a defense attorney best known for his role in the legal defense for O.J. Simpson during his highly publicized murder trial. Cochran also represented Sean "Diddy" Combs (during his trial on gun and bribery charges), Michael Jackson, actor Todd Bridges, football player Jim Brown and rappers Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg as well as Reginald Oliver Denny, …
- Cory Maye
Cory Maye, sometimes spelled Corey Maye (born September 9, 1980) is a prisoner in the U.S. state of Mississippi. He was convicted of murder in the 2001 death of Prentiss, Mississippi police officer Ron W. Jones during a drug raid on the other half of Maye's duplex. Maye has said he thought that the intruders were burglars and did not realize they were police. He pleaded not guilty at his trial, citing self-defense.
- Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi is an Indian police officer and is the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972. She was born on 9th June 1949 in Amritsar, Punjab state, India, and is one of the most celebrated and widely known police officers who ever served the Indian Police Force. Kiran Bedi is the second of the four daughters of her parents, Prakash Lal Peshawaria and Prem Lata Peshawaria.
- Sharon Beshenivsky
Police Constable Sharon Beshenivsky (14 January 1967-18 November 2005) was a West Yorkshire Police constable shot dead during a robbery in Bradford, England. She was the eighty-ninth police officer and the sixth female officer to die in the line of duty in England and Wales, the second female officer to be fatally shot (the first was Yvonne Fletcher in an incident involving the Libyan Embassy in 1984), and the first female officer to die in an ordinary gun crime.
- Bruce McKay
Corporal Bruce McKay was a Franconia, New Hampshire police officer shot and killed in the line of duty 11 May 2007 by 24-year-old Liko Kenney, who was then in turn shot and killed by Gregory W Floyd.
- J. D. Tippit
J. D. Tippit was a police officer with the Dallas, Texas Police Department who, according to several witnesses, the Warren Commission, and the conclusions of other government investigations, was slain by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- John Mahoney
John Mahoney (born June 20, 1940) is an English actor known for playing the retired police officer father, Martin "Marty" Crane, of Kelsey Grammer's character, Dr. Frasier Crane, in the popular American TV series "Frasier" (NBC, 1993-2004).
- Ronnie Flanagan
Sir Ronald Flanagan, GBE, QPM, (born 25 March, 1949 in Belfast) was the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland since its creation in 2001 to 2002, and had been Chief Constable of its predecessor, the Royal Ulster Constabulary until 2001. He joined the RUC in 1970 while studying Physics at Queen's University of Belfast. He resigned in 2002, and was replaced by Hugh Orde.
- Hugh Orde
Hugh Stephen Orde joined the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 1977 and initially served in Central London. On promotion to Sergeant he moved to Brixton followed by further promotion to Inspector. He then took up various posts in South and South East London. As Chief Inspector he was appointed as Staff Officer to Deputy Assistant Commissioner (South West London) and then took command of the Territorial Support Group as a Superintendent.
- David Mack
David Mack (born 1960) is one of the central figures in the LAPD Rampart police corruption scandal. Mack was arrested for masterminding the November 6, 1997 robbery of $722,000 from a South Central Los Angeles branch of Bank of America. He was sentenced to 14 years and three months in federal prison. Mack has never revealed the whereabouts of the money.
- Andrew Scipione
Andrew Scipione is the next Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force. This was announced by the Premier of NSW on the 26th June, 2007, and will commence the position upon the retirement of the current Commissioner Ken Moroney.. Commissioner Moroney will retire on 1 September 2007.
- Cressida Dick
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick (born 1960) is a senior officer in London's Metropolitan Police. Prior to 2005 she was a largely unknown figure, but became well-known as a result of being the officer in command of the operation that led to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. In September 2006, she was promoted to the rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner.
- Ronnie Coleman
Ronald Dean Coleman (Born:May 13 1964 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA) is an American bodybuilder and an eight-time Mr. Olympia title winner. He is known mainly as "Ronnie Coleman", and he won the Mr. Olympia contest from 1998 to 2005. Coleman is an affiliate of the International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB) and is signed to an endorsement contract with BSN. Alongside his eight Olympia wins as a professional bodybuilder, …
- Wild Bill Hickok
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 - August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. After fighting in the Union Army during the American Civil War, he became a famous army scout, and later, a lawman and gunfighter.
- Filippo Raciti
Filippo Raciti (17 January 1967 - 2 February 2007) was an Italian police officer ("ispettore capo di polizia") who died in violence between Calcio Catania supporters and police officers. Born in Catania, Sicily, Raciti joined the Italian police in the June 1986, and was included in the local flying squad in late 2006. He lived in Acireale, in the Catania neighbourhood, with his wife and two children, aged 15 and 9. A week before his death, …
- Paul Stephenson
Paul Stephenson QPM is the Deputy Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, and as such is second-in-command. He was appointed in 2005 from his position as Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary. He has also served as Deputy Chief Constable in Lancashire and Assistant Chief Constable in Merseyside Police. He joined the police service in 1975.
- Ann Rule
Ann Rule (born October 221935 in Lowell, Michigan) is a popular American true crime writer. She came to prominence with her first book, "The Stranger Beside Me", about the Ted Bundy murders. At the time she started researching the book, the murders were still unsolved. In the course of time, it became clear that the killer was Bundy, her friend and her colleague as a trained volunteer on the suicide hotline at the Seattle, Washington Crisis Clinic, …
- Nathan Gale
Nathan Gale (September 11 1979 - December 8 2004) was a native of Marysville, Ohio, USA, who was killed by a police officer after he murdered several people at a concert, including heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott.
- James Hall
James Hall (born February 13, 1973) is an actor and producer, most notable for his role in the soon to be released "Shattered Heroes" as the True Grit Top SGT, Rick Maddison. Mr. Hall is also one of the producers of this film, as well as the casting director and stunt coordinator.
- Shirley McKie
Shirley McKie is a former Scottish police officer. Experts from the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO) accused DC McKie of leaving her thumb print on the bathroom door frame of a murder crime-scene on January 14, 1997. But she denied ever having been inside the house in Kilmarnock of murder victim Marion Ross, whose body was discovered on January 8, 1997.
- Aubrey Hawkins
Aubrey Wright Hawkins (1971 - December 24, 2000) was an Irving, Texas police officer who was shot dead at age 29 by the Texas 7 at a robbery of a sports store in Irving on December 24, 2000. Aubrey had been with the department for fourteen months before his death. He was eating a Christmas Eve dinner with his wife and 9-year-old son when he got a call about the robbery. Hawkins came to the Oshman's that was being robbed in three minutes.
- Colin Smith
Colin Smith, CVO, CBE, QPM (born 1939) is a British Police officer. He became the first head of the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department in 1983. He was appointed Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police on March 26, 1985, and was in post at the time of the Hungerford Massacre.
- John Nelson
John Nelson was the founding father of the SWAT special forces. His idea was presented to Inspector Darryl F. Gates in the 1960s and he gained approval to create a special weapons and tactics group to deal with unusual and difficult situations.
- Colin Smith
Colin John Ogilvie Smith is a Scottish cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He made his début for the Scottish cricket team against Surrey on 23 June 1999 and has played for Scotland 119 times in all. This includes three one-day internationals, his first coming against Pakistan in June 2006. He has also played for Sussex and Warwickshire at second XI level. Smith is a police officer away from cricket.
- Massad Ayoob
Massad F. Ayoob (born July 20, 1948) is an internationally-known firearms and self-defense instructor. He is the Director of the Lethal Force Institute in Concord, New Hampshire, has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense in numerous venues since 1974, and has appeared as an expert witness in several trials. He has served as a part-time police officer in New Hampshire since 1972 and currently holds the rank of Captain in the Grantham, …
- Lillo Brancato Jr.
Lillo Brancato, Jr. (born August 19, 1976) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role of Calogero Anello in Robert De Niro's 1993 directorial debut, "A Bronx Tale." He also played a young wannabe mobster on "The Sopranos". In December 2005, Brancato was charged with second-degree murder for his role in a burglary in the Bronx in which an off-duty police officer, Daniel Enchautegui, was fatally shot.
- Allen Williams
Allen Williams (born October 1st, 1966) is an American police officer from Arkansas, best known for his service on international assignments with the International Police. Williams began his law enforcement career with the Arkadelphia police department, leaving there in 1999. He is best known as an original member of the 'UNTAET Crime Scene Detachment' (ca 1999) in East Timor, during which he took part in the exhumation of several hundred victims of homicide.
- Yvonne Fletcher
Woman Police Constable (WPC) Yvonne Joyce Fletcher (1959-17 April 1984) was a British police officer who was shot and killed in London's St James's Square during a protest outside the Libyan embassy. The shooting resulted in a police siege of the embassy which lasted for eleven days, and the breakdown of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Libya. Her death was the third murder or manslaughter of a British policewoman on duty, only 18 months after the first.
- John Ferguson
Major Sir John Frederick Ferguson CBE OStJ (c.1891 - 27 May 1975) was a senior British police officer. Ferguson passed out from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Durham Light Infantry on 14 February 1912. He retired from the Army with the rank of Major in 1933 and joined the Metropolitan Police, being appointed Chief Constable in the Commissioner's Office on 1 November 1933.
- Peter Ryan
Peter James Ryan was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police from 1996 until 2002. He was recruited to the position from an international pool of applicants following the controversial Wood Royal Commission into Corruption of the NSW Police that ran from 1995 to 1997. Ryan was appointed by the state Labor government of Premier Bob Carr.
- Eddie Money
Eddie Money (born Edward Joseph Mahoney, March 2 1949) is an American rock musician and singer who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 hits and platinum albums. His musical style is characterized by his recognizable vocals and catchy rhythms, and his numerous MTV music videos throughout the 1980s. After following in his father's footsteps and training to be a police officer in the early 1970s, …
- Steve Wilkos
Steve Wilkos (born Steven J. Wilkos on March 9, 1964), originally from Chicago, Illinois, is the director of security on The Jerry Springer Show. On many occasions he substitutes for Springer as host of The Jerry Springer Show. On January 17, 2007, it was announced that Steve Wilkos will be set to leave "The Jerry Springer Show" and will host a talk show of his own, set to be produced by NBC.