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{{quote|''I wished I was one of those private eyes in books; they've all got a friend on the force.''|''[[Andrew Vachss|Mask Market]]''}}
A [[Friend
A supertrope for [[Cop Boyfriend]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* Jet Black from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' still has friends inside the ISSP.
* [[Gunsmith Cats|Rally Vincent]] has Roy Coleman.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''. Private detective Eddie Valiant has Lieutenant Santino, who calls him in on the Acme murder and shows up at the end with the rest of the police. (One may come to conclusion that the Valiants and Santino graduated together from Police Academy).
* ''[[Rear Window]]''. When LB Jeffries suspects one of his neighbors has murdered his wife, he calls in his old war buddy Doyle, now a police detective, to investigate.
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* On the West Coast, [[Shell Scott]] is friends with Captain Phil Samson, LAPD.
* [[Philip Marlowe]] from the novels by [[Raymond Chandler]] has Bernie Ohls, chief investigator for the DA's office.
* [[
* [[Phryne Fisher]] has Detective Inspector John "Call me Jack" Robinson.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
** Lampshaded at one point in season 3. Pressed on where he got some info, Angel reveals that he hired a detective agency with some friends on the force. The rest of the team bemoans how pathetic that looks for their own agency, don't they have their own friends or something? Angel agrees it's not ideal, but reminds them that Kate got canned (mainly as a result of her association with Angel Investigations cluing her in on [[The Masquerade]], and how bonkers she sounds to other cops as a result).
* ''[[
* [[Magnum,
* [[Marcus Didius Falco]]'s best friend, Petronius, is a member of the Vigiles.
* ''[[Monk]]'': Lieutenant Disher and Captain Stottlemeyer.
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* [[Simon and Simon|Rick and A.J. Simon]] have "Downtown" Brown, a plain-clothes/undercover cop.
* [[The Rockford Files|Jim Rockford]] is friends with Sergeant Dennis Becker.
* Toby from ''[[
** And since she died, they found a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] for her in the form of Sergeant [[Mc Cluskey]].
* ''[[
* This trope + [[UST]] = ''[[Castle]]''.
* ''[[Leverage]]'' has FBI agents [[Those Two Guys|Taggart and McSweeten]] and [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Massachusetts State Police Detective Captain]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Patrick Bonano]].
* ''[[Campion (TV series)|Campion]]'': Albert Campion has Detective Inspector Oates, a competent cop who often takes Albert's arrests and investigations.
* ''[[Due South]]'': Ray performs this function for Benton who has no jurisdiction in Chicago.
* ''[[Tracker]]'' had Mel's on again-off again boyfriend Detective Vic Bruno. She makes use of him a few times during the series. (Trust,A Made Guy)
* The BBC ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[
* ''[[Tex Murphy]]'' has Mac Malden.
* Lewton, the [[Private Detective]] in the ''[[Discworld Noir]]'' computer game, has Nobby Nobbs as his buddy on the force. Which only really goes as far as Nobby giving him several useful pieces of gossip and convincing Vimes to arrest {{spoiler|Carlotta}} at the end.
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' has Detective Gumshoe, who starts out as an annoyance but later becomes essentially a friend to Phoenix (while remaining an annoyance). He even helps Phoenix a bit on the sly in the second and third games, despite technically being on "the other side".
** Gumshoe serves this purpose in a more formal capacity in ''Ace Attorney Investigations'', since he's Edgeworth's partner. Likewise, Detective Badd was the partner to Prosecutor Faraday {{spoiler|in more ways than one. No, not [[Ho Yay|that way.]] A [[Collective Identity|different way.]]}}
* [[Inverted Trope]] towards the end of [[LA Noire]], where Jack Kelso plays the part of Cole Phelps' friend off the force, as an investigator for California Fire and Life.
* ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The [[
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