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Joseph Chandler

• Bunny Ears Lawyer: Despite his OCD obsession with cleanliness, he's good at what he does.
• Character Development
• Defective Detective
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Miles and, to a lesser extent, the team.
• I Just Want to Be Special: He just wants to solve interesting cases.
• Naive Newcomer
• Neat Freak
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He wears suits from Savile Row.
• Super OCD: Under normal situations, it's fairly mild. When he gets stressed, it goes Up to Eleven until he has to self-medicate with alchohol to remain functional.

Ray Miles

• Old-Fashioned Copper
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Chandler
• Parental Abandonment / Parental Issues: His father, who was in the pocket of the Kray brothers but was treated like a joke by them, left him and his mom. Actually, he was killed because he refused to let them touch Ray.

Ed Buchan

• Amateur Sleuth: And the real detectives don't let him forget the "amateur" part.

Commander Anderson

• Magnificent Bastard: He and Double Agent Jack use Chandler and his team to depose the fake Krays, creating a power vacuum that he can then fill.

DC Kent

• Big Brother Mentor: Every member of the team tries to take this role for him to varying degrees. Hilariously, the one he seems to latch onto is Chandler, resulting in a very organized desk.
• Break the Cutie: Subverted. He's adorable and sensitive, and in the second season, he is harassed by most of the corrupt cops in the station, gets attacked and cut up with a knife, is harassed and threatened some more, is suspected of being The Mole by people he admires and trusts and is thrown off the team, and breaks down crying in the parking lot. This fails to break him, and when the team cracks the case, he's front of the line to cuff the culprits.
• Red Herring Mole
• Tender Tears: He deals with particularly bad cases by having a cry in the parking lot where he thinks nobody can see him. Men Don't Cry is averted because though the whole team knows, nobody thinks less of him for it.

DC Mc Cormack

• An Offer You Can't Refuse: The Krays threaten his family to force him to betray the team.

DC Fitzgerald

• The Mole: Rats the team out to the press in Series 1

DC Mansell

• Remember the New Guy?: An old friend of the team and especially Mc Cormack, only neither we nor Chandler recognize him.

DC Riley

• Team Mom
• Mama Bear
• One of the Boys: Explictly stated to be this in S3 Ep3 and by her actress