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{{quote|'''Fraser:''' [slams jail cell door on fugitive] That's the last time ''he'll'' fish over the limit.|''[[Due South]]''}}
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
He is often a [[By-The-Book Cop]], though some versions have a bit of [[Cowboy Cop]] in them. If he is an [[Inspector Javert]], he will be portrayed sympathetically as a [[Worthy Opponent]] and he is only on the opposite side by an unfortunate error in the system or else because the protagonist is a [[Villain Protagonist]]. Often, because [[Elites Are More Glamorous]], this kind of Cop belongs to a famous law enforcement organization: effectively the constabulary equivalent of a [[Badass Army]].
Very often, he's a [[Determinator]] who is [[Lawful Good]]
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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
** 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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