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This is a cop's cop. He is incorruptible, competent, and feared by evildoers. If he is not [[Da Chief]] it is likely because either he is too young, or his path is blocked by [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Obstructive Bureaucrats]] who fear him for obvious reasons.
He is often a [[By
Very often, he's a [[Determinator]] who is [[Lawful Good]]-- with a strong accent on ''lawful''. Generally a fair cop, though if the protagonist is operating outside the law, he'll pursue him as relentlessly as anyone else. You very much do not want to do something to make him follow you.
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* [[Solomon Kane]], who once pursued a bandit from France into the middle of Darkest Africa.
* Zinc Chandler, a Mountie from Michael Slade's RCMP novels, recited the Mounties' "Get Your Man" slogan repeatedly in his head when he shook off the effects of being rendered nearly unconscious. Nearly all of Slade's Mountie heroes fit this trope, singly or collectively.
* In the ''[[Commonwealth Saga (Literature)|Commonwealth Saga]]'', Paula Myo fits this trope to a T. Genetically engineered to be an incorruptible super-cop, she has been working for the Serious Crimes Directorate for centuries, and in all that time has only failed to solve ''one'' case. Which she is still pursuing, after a century and a half. {{spoiler|When circumstances force her to decide between arresting the [[Well
* Harry Bosch, the hero of many a [[Michael Connelly]] mystery novel, is this with [[Cowboy Cop]] mixed in.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Though they may or may not qualify under the trope, [[Canada, Eh?|the Royal Canadian Mounted Police]], one of those "constabulary [[Badass Army]]" type organizations that have a lot of these kind both in fiction and presumably in [[Real Life]], are the [[Trope Namer|Trope Namers]] here, thanks to the famous motto: "[[Badass Creed|The Mountie always gets his man!]]". (It's not ''really'' their motto--that's "Maintain The Right"--but it's [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|gotten established in pop culture that way.]])
** Even referenced in ''Peabody's Improbable History'' segment of ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' when Peabody and Sherman went back in time to Canada to meet a Mountie who ''always gets his man''. He couldn't arrest a wanted Native American because she's a woman which turns out to be a man in disguise at the end.
* Robert Carrey, an Elizabethan adventurer who served as Warden of the Northern Marches and patrolled the Anglo-Scottish border keeping evildoers at bay. A decent and honest man and too seldom remembered.
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