History Main / InternalAffairs

* ''Film/CopLand'' has Creator/HarveyKeitel as a New York IA detective investigating the cops who work in the city, but live across the river in New Jersey. Thus he has to turn to Sheriff Freddy Heflin (Creator/SylvesterStallone) for information on what the cops are doing outside of IA's jurisdiction. The cops, who actually got Freddy appointed sheriff, hate IA's guts- naturally, since not only are they dirty, they're trying to cover up some old murders by committing more murders.

* ''VideoGame/GhostSquad'' shows the Internal Affairs point of view, with the main characters assigned to such a unit, often infiltrating police stations -- and befriending and/or sleeping with corrupt officers before stopping them.
* As was the earlier ''Between The Lines''. Especially with regards to the 'sleeping with corrupt officers' part.

** Season 1's "Poison Ivy" begins with a police shooting, which (in a subversion) is initially cleared by InternalAffairs. Greevy and a reluctant Logan aren't so sure, and do their own investigating.

-->'''Brenda''': There has to be a better way.
-->'''Raydor''': Well, until then, you've got me.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

* Two words: Film/DirtyHarry. In the first movie, the D.A takes this role, complete with indignant "what about the rights of that little girl?" demand from Harry. In point of fact, Harry's is probably the trend-setter here.

** [[spoiler: Para]] turned out to be an agent for UNS intelligence's internal affairs agency. [[spoiler: Though they considered her disposable enough to try and remote-trigger the neurotoxin capsule in her teeth, and the bomb in her neck, after she was discovered.]]
** Captain Landon was in charge of internal affairs for the Dom Atlantis police, which led him to investigate their sabotaged weapons, [[spoiler: and ended up with him killing several nanite-suborned officers single-clawed.]]

* ''Series/BarneyMiller'' has Lt. Scanlon, who embodies all the negative IAB stereotypes. He genuinely hates Barney and his men and constantly tries to nail them on something (which he never does). In the last episode, [[spoiler: he's really annoyed that he turns out to be the one to break the news of Barney's promotion to Deputy Inspector.]]

* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': IA Detective Gharty is portrayed as very sympathetic, and none of the cops have a problem turning in {{killer cop}}s. Kellerman's persecution in Season Five is mostly bad luck and the cold treatment Gharty received is based more on apparent cowardice on his part.

** In "Inquisition", Bashir goes through a very harsh investigation from I.A. Deputy Director Sloan, who believes that Bashir is TheMole for the Dominion. [[spoiler:Iit turns out that Sloan is actually an agent for [[NoSuchAgency Section 31]], and once he determines that Bashir is innocent of wrongdoing, he decides to recruit Bashir, and he doesn't take "No" for an answer.]]

** There are enough corrupt IA cops in Gotham that they become a problem in the ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'' when they clear Detectives Wise and Cavallo of charges after Officer Harper arrests them for murder among other things, though admittedly she was expecting them to get out quickly due to the amount of blackmail material they have on other GCPD officers.