Generic Cop Badges: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Transformers]]'' ([[Transformers Film Series|2007 Movie]]): In a clever usage and in keeping with series tradition, the department emblem on Barricade's police car form is actually a Decepticon crest. Also, the motto on his side reads "To punish and enslave".

* In ''SWAT'', the cops wear the generic "Metropolitan Police" badge.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* The British [[Cop Show]] ''Mersey Beat'', despite its being set near Liverpool, is under an area called "North West County Police".

* ''[[The Shield]]'', after its first episode, not only uses fake badges, but places them on the wrong side of the uniform, at the request of the LAPD (due to the portrayal of the cops as...less than upstanding).

** In one of the episodes, Shane is mugged in Mexico and loses his badge. For the next several episodes until he is discovered, he uses a counterfeit one. A fake of a fake.

* The crew of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' call attention to this when the "Desert Patrol" shows up in ''Eegah''.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Police Squad!]]''; marked police cruisers are seen only in the background; they are highly official-looking black-and-white full-size sedans, very authentic except that the door decals read "POLICE CAR".

* This trope is how the title character of ''Furuhata Ninzaburou'' catches on that {{spoiler|the supposed police officer he is talking to is an imposter}}—the other man doesn't notice that the badge Furuhata shows him {{spoiler|is a prop (long story)}}.

 

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