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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 on the Force''' is a regular police officer whom a [[Private Detective]] or [[Amateur Sleuth]] is friendly with that provides assistance to the Private Detective. The '''Friend on the Force''' often acts as the official with the authority to arrest the criminals that the [[Private Detective]] identifies. Compare to [[Inspector Lestrade]], which is a detective that is incapable of solving crimes without the help a [[Great Detective]].
A supertrope for [[Cop Boyfriend]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] has Lieutenant Murphy. Because of [[The Masquerade|the nature of]] [[Crapsack World|the world]] she rarely gets to make any arrests on cases he's involved in, but the cases still get closed... one way or another.
* [[Ellery Queen]] helps his father, the chief of police. One wonders why they even ''have'' police detectives when Ellery can (and does) solve all the cases.
* In addition to Lestrade, [[Sherlock Holmes]] has Inspector Gregson, with whom he is more friendly.
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* [[The Maltese Falcon|Sam Spade]] is friends with detective Tom Polhaus. His relationship with Lieutenant Dundy is much more antagonistic.
* [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] has Inspector Charles Parker, who later becomes his brother-in-law.
* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Coruscant Nights Trilogy]], the hero Jax Pavan, who "finds things" and has a rather complicated, never defined job that does involve investigation, has a slightly antagonistic but ultimately friendly relationship with Pol Haus, a police prefect on Coruscant. Of course, there's never anyone to lock up, since Pavan's enemies strongly tend to be Dark Jedi who [[Never Found the Body|vanish]], Inquisitors working with the Empire, and ''Darth Vader''. Mostly Haus and Pavan just meet to trade information. Haus suspects that Pavan is a Jedi, but ultimately bails him out.
* In George C. Chesbro's ''In the House of Secret Enemies'', Detective/Criminologist Dr. Robert Frederickson (Mongo to people who knew him from the circus) has a big brother, Garth, on the New York City Police Force. A much bigger brother.
* [[John Le Carre]]'s George Smiley has Inspector Mendel, whether nearly retired or fully retired.
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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 ''[[The Listener]]'' has Detective Charlie Marks, though she's often inclined not to listen when he comes to her with evidence and can't explain how he got it because he found out by reading minds. Of course this changes once she finds out.
** And since she died, they found a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] for her in the form of Sergeant [[Mc Cluskey]].
* ''[[Torchwood]]'' has PC Andy.
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* ''[[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 [[
* ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'': Adam Jensen has two friends on the force, one who you can get a favour from {{spoiler|and accidentally get fired (although if you convinced him to do the favour you can get him a job at the company you work for...if you extorted the favour he'll just try to kill you)}} and the the other he does a favour for.
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