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A 2003 official book on the show, dedicating a large paragraph to each character, still manages to get to 20 pages for its character section. Yep, there's been that many. Oddly enough, most of them haven't died. Emphasis on ''most''.
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== Uniform ==
=== Chief Superintendent Charles Brownlow
[[File:Ava_Brownlow_6457.jpg|frame]]''Played by Peter Ellis''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Benevolent Boss]]
* [[Da Chief]]
* [[Desk Jockey]]
* [[Nepotism]]:
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: It is difficult to describe his relationship with Chief Inspector Derek Conway as anything other than the Type 2 variant.
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=== Superintendent John Heaton ===
[[File:Ava_Heaton_1675.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Daniel Flynn''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Da Chief]]
* [[Redheaded Hero]]
{{break}}
=== Superintendent Adam Okaro ===
[[File:Ava_Okaro2_7300.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Cyril Nri''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Da Chief]]: And black, too.
* [[Kicked Upstairs]]: He became the Borough Commander.
{{break}}
=== Superintendent Tom Chandler (DECEASED) ===
[[File:Ava_Chandler3_8242.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Steven Hartley''
{{quote|Heretics, they used to call them. Outsiders. Whatever it is, this thing... it's inside ME.|'''Supt Tom Chandler'''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Bad Boss]]
* [[Dirty Cop]]
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|After Mickey Webb and Jack Meadow's uncover a rape allegation about him in which the victim in question was [[Driven to Suicide]] and he faced humiliation and ruin, he ultimately decided to swallow his own gun than face justice}}.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Nearly every episode But the absolute chief of all of them would have to be Raping his pregnant wife Debbie Mcallister on their wedding night for seemingly no reason at all and then scolding a shocked Debbie the next morning, Attempting to handwave it by saying the following-
{{quote|'''Chandler''' "Its our wedding night, and you SERIOUSLY expect us not to have sex?"}}
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
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=== Chief Inspector Derek Conway (DECEASED) ===
[[File:Ava_Derek_7028.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Ben Roberts''
{{quote|Sometimes you just want to lock yourself inside your office, and tell the rest of the world to Foxtrot Oscar.|'''Chief Insp Derek Conway'''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Beleaguered Bureaucrat]]: When asked to justify over-time for the troops, usually.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: See above quote.
* [[Desk Jockey]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Brownlow.
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=== Inspector Andrew Munroe (DECEASED) ===
[[File:Ava_Munroe_4980.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Colin Tarrant''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: He was initially portrayed this way, though he ultimately evolved into a [[Bait and Switch Tyrant]] instead.
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=== PC/Sgt/Insp Dale Smith ===
[[File:Ava_Smithy1_4042.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Alex Walkinshaw''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Cartwright Curse]]: Smithy tends to be ''very'' unlucky in love.
* [[Character Development]]:
** And a lot of it too. Its very easy to forget that when he was first introduced in 1999, 'PC' Dale Smith was portrayed as being a bigot and a bully, who was brought into the show mainly to shake up the existing cast dynamic. He eventually left to join (as it was called then) [[SO 19]], the Armed Response dudes of the Met, and managed to end Bob Cryer's career by an unfortunate gunshot. When he returned as a regular character in 2003, Sergeant Dale Smith was generally shown to be a very moral and totally sympathetic character, and certainly by the time it was axed in 2010 he had more or less become the defacto "star" of the series.
** An interesting fact is that he was shown to be very much Bob Cryer's protégé, with the two sharing an almost father/son bond. Cryer was the one who supported Smithy's application to [[SO 19]], and over the course of their shared time on the series it was clear that Cryer was smoothing down the rough edges on this younger officer. By the time he became a Sergeant/Inspector, Smithy had mellowed to become more or less a younger version of Sgt Cryer.
* [[It's Personal]]: The whole feud with PC Gabriel Kent.
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=== Sergeant Bob Cryer ===
[[File:Ava_Bob2_2182.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Eric Richard''
{{quote|You'd get all your paperwork done a lot quicker if you used the computer.|'''Sgt June Ackland'''}}
{{quote|I'm perfectly happy with my quill and parchment, thank you very much.|'''Sgt Bob Cryer'''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Berserk Button]]
* [[By-The-Book Cop]]
* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]
* [[Old-Fashioned Copper]]
* [[Team Dad]]
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=== Sergeant Alec Peters ===
[[File:Ava_Alec1_2717.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Larry Dann''
{{quote|I could spend all afternoon trying to figure out which one of them is Tom and which one is Harry, and I'd end up being Dick!|'''Sgt Alec Peters'''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[
* [[Pastimes Prove Personality]]: His love of gardening.
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=== Sergeant Tom Penny ===
[[File:Ava_Penny_8698.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Roger Leach''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Achey Scars]]: The gunshot wound that he receives at the end of Season Three would continue to occasionally flare up in really tense situations in the years afterwards.
* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Roger Leach wrote a number of scripts after leaving the series.
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=== PC Reg Hollis ===
[[File:Ava_Reg_16.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Jeff Stewart''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] / [[Written-In Absence]]: He was written out of the series with only a couple of lines of dialogue from another character saying where he'd gone, several episodes ''after'' his final appearance on screen.
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Percival.
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=== PC Cathy Bradford ===
[[File:Ava_Cathy3_38.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Connie Hyde''
{{quote|Cathy Bradford? She's got about as much community spirit as [[Adolf Hitler]]!|'''Jim Carver'''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Bunny Boiler]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Oh dear god...
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Slasher Smile]]
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=== (W)PC Polly Page ===
[[File:Ava_Polly3_3004.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Lisa Geoghan''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[The Cutie]]
** [[Break the Cutie]]: The Dave Quinnan love storyline.
* [[Not as You Know Them]]
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]
{{break}}
=== PC Gabriel Kent (DECEASED) ===
[[File:Ava_Kent_6653.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Todd Carty''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: This exchange with Andrea Dunbar reveals this within the character, after he takes her hostage in the storage room.
{{quote|'''Andrea:''' How can you carry the weight of all you've done around with you? How do you sleep at night?
'''Gabriel:''' I Dont.
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=== PC Cass Rickman (DECEASED) ===
[[File:Ava_Rickman3_8831.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Suzanne Maddock''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Fair Cop]]
* [[Oop North]]
{{break}}
=== PC Tony Stamp ===
[[File:Ava_Stampers_7944.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Graham Cole''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Kicked Upstairs]]: He left the series after accepting a role teaching recruits at Hendon.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]
* [[Team Dad]]
{{break}}
=== PC Kerry Young (DECEASED) ===
[[File:Ava_Kerry_3981.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Beth Cordingly''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Where do we start? PC Luke Ashton, PC Cameron Tait, [[Rape as Drama|PC Gabriel Kent]], Sgt Dale Smith...
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
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=== PC Des Taviner (DECEASED) ===
[[File:Ava_Des3_9189.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Paul Usher''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Played the role of the bad cop when partnered with Reg Hollis, and then accidentally blew up the station killing six officers when he threw a firebomb through Andrew Monroe's office window to try and destroy counterfeit notes he had unwittingly donated to a memorial for Chief Inspector Conway and knew they would be traced back to him.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Reg Hollis.
* [[Ho Yay]]:
** Again, him an Reg Hollis, oh so very much, just Des's nickname for Reg gives it away: Reggie Babes.
** And any viewer who watches his final few episodes without viewing the early ones beforehand would be forgiven for making the mistake there was a love story between them.
* [[Oop North]]: Another Scouser.
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== CID ==
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[[File:Ava_Meadows_874.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Simon Rouse''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Da Chief]]
* [[Oop North]]: Yorkshire.
* [[
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=== DS/DI/DCI Frank Burnside ===
[[File:Ava_Burnside_1818.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Christopher Ellison''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]
* [[Bald of Awesome]]
* [[Bluffing the Murderer]]
* [[Cowboy Cop]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Field Promotion]]
* [[Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique]]: He was doing it years before Gene Hunt came along, though. Most noteably, one of his most well known tactics for getting confessions out of suspects was to flush their heads down the toilet.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: Go on, try and ''guess'' which one he pretends to be.
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Kubrick Stare]]
* [[Lying to the Perp]]
* [[Put on a Bus]]
** [[Commuting on a Bus]]
* [[Rabid Cop]]
* [[Retcon]]
* [[Spin-Off]]
{{break}}
=== Detective Inspector Roy Galloway ===
[[File:Ava_Galloway1_2487.jpg|frame]]
''Played by John Salthouse''
{{quote|I don't give a shit about reliefs, over-time budgets, or any of your petty arguments. All I want to do is cut the crime on my manor. That IS the job we're being paid to do, remember?|'''Roy Galloway'''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Galloway pushes his motor to its limits in nearly every episode. This was eventually [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when, in the middle of one [[Chase Scene]], the thing flat out refused to go any longer, and he had to spend the next fifteen minutes of the episode desperately trying to convince a car dealer to trade it in for something else. When called out on his aggressive driving, he was prone to protest ''"what are you talking about? I'm Hendon trained"''.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Roy Galloway exhibits many similar outward personality traits to Frank Burnside. The difference being, underneath it all, he's generally a more amiable person... he just allows the stresses of his job to get to him from time to time. When push comes to shove, he always supports those under his command. He does have conflicts with his fellow officers in the course of his duties, which makes him appear abrasive. But he'll always make it up to them, apologising and buying them a drink after work. And he's always quick to give praise to others, when he thinks its due.
* [[Married to the Job]]: And also a [[Workaholic]]. He's in the middle of going through a very messy divorce when the series begins.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Between Seasons Three and Four. Its interesting that he was never given any kind of departure storyline (or even an explantion as to where he went), given he was such a pivotal character in nearly all of the first 36 episodes.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]
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=== DS/DI Samantha "Sam" Nixon ===
[[File:Ava_Sam5_2110.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Lisa Maxwell''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Fair Cop]]
{{break}}
=== DS Don Beech ===
[[File:Ava_DonBeech2_9309.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Billy Murray''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Dirty Cop]]
{{break}}
=== DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines ===
[[File:Ava_Tosh_9801.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Kevin Lloyd''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Defective Detective]]: Quite a few of Sun Hill's finest had noticable flaws. But Tosh's flaws were often the ones that the average viewer at home might have found the most relatable: he never had enough money (one episode seen his wife making quite a scene at a bank when they refused to give her any more credit), resulting in him having to work oodles of over-time in order to keep his five kids feed, which meant that he was constantly tired at work; and his own love of fast food often ended with him being unable to take part in major chase scenes without serious risk of having a heart attack. But through it all, Tosh had a keen copper's instinct, which made him an indispensable member of the team.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: His given name is Alfred, but everybody just calls him Tosh.
* [[Written-In Absence]]: RIP Kevin Lloyd.
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=== Sergeant/DC Jo Masters (transferred to uniform on promotion) ===
[[File:Ava_Jo1_9470.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Sally Rogers''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]
{{break}}
=== DS/DC Stevie Moss ===
[[File:Ava_DCMoss_3954.jpg|frame]]
''Played by Lucy Speed''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Tomboy]]
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=== DC Zain Nadir ===
[[File:Ava_ZainNadir_2689.jpg|frame]]
''Played by T.J. Ramini''
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Dirty Cop]]
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== Other recurrers ==
=== Eddie Olosunje ===
Crime Scene Examiner.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[The Lab Rat]]
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== Deaths In [[The Bill]] ==
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* PC Emma Keane - Was the last one out of an exploding building. As well as the final death in the series.
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