History Main / InternalAffairs

* The first ''Film/BadBoys'' movie involves a subplot with Internal Affairs attempting to shut down the Miami PD's Narcotics division because they think that just because a guy was found dead in a police uniform that the Narcotics division had stolen a multi-million dollar drug bust to sell for themselves, despite the police quickly finding out that the dead man in the uniform was not a member of the police.

* In ''Series/ChicagoPD'' they frequently clash with total CowboyCop Voight. Given that he has to report to them, it makes for an interesting situation. While Voight is implied to have been dirty in the past, and may still be slightly dirty, both of the ones he deals with are total dicks, and slightly corrupt themselves.

* In the fourth season of ''VideoGame/CriminalCase'', "Mysteries of the Past", the Concordian Flying Squad was created for the purpose of weeding out corruption among the ranks of the city's actual police force.

* French series ''Les Boeuf-Carottes'' ("Beef-carrots") starring Creator/JeanRochefort is about cops from the IGPN (General Inspection of the National Police).

* [[UsefulNotes/LesCopsSportif France]] has the IGPN (General Inspection of the National Police). They're nicknamed "The Police of polices" and "beef carrots".

* ''Film/AFewGoodMen'': Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway ''is'' Internal Affairs -- because she's a rotten lawyer, so making sure everyone else is doing things right is a perfect fit for her. And when there's a military conspiracy that needs taking down, that's a good combination to have.

* The Australian mini-series ''Phoenix'' had Major Crimes constantly butting heads with the Victorian Police internal affairs unit, nicknamed the 'toecutters' (after a notorious Melbourne gang which tortured people by cutting their toes off). Unsurprising as this RippedFromTheHeadlines series was made at a time when the Victorian police were catching a lot of flack for their methods, especially police shootings (explored particularly in the LawProcedural spin-off ''Janus''). Ironically, Jock Brennan, who led the Major Crimes investigation in the first season, returns as an internal affairs investigator later on, showing not the least bit of sympathy for his former colleagues.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has the Imperial Security Bureau acting as this for TheEmpire. Most of their actions are shown in ancillary works, notably ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', but the ISB first showed up in ''Film/ANewHope'', with ISB Colonel Wullf Yularen (the mustachioed man with the white tunic) present in the Death Star conference room. Of course, this being the Empire, the ISB exactly as evil as the rest of the Imperial forces--they're just hated by their own side as well.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has the Imperial Security Bureau acting as this for TheEmpire. Most of their actions are shown in ancillary works, notably ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', but the ISB first showed up in ''Film/ANewHope'', with ISB Colonel Wullf Yularen (the mustachioed man with the white tunic) present in the Death Star conference room.

** The second season has a pretty rare portrayal of the LAPD Internal Affairs Division as not just decent but positively heroic. The villains are a group of murderous {{Dirty Cop}}s who are into a huge variety of violent felonies. Deputy Chief Irvin Irving's son George works with them to penetrate the gang, but is murdered by them when they find out he's a mole.
** The fourth season, as an adaptation of ''Literature/AngelsFlight'', is about the murder of Howard Elias, a civil rights attorney who was suing the LAPD over the [[PoliceBrutality Black Guardian]] case. Because of heavy conflicts of interest, Irving creates a special task force for the investigation comprised of Bosch, Edgar, Pierce, Robertson, and two Internal Affairs investigators, Amy Snyder and Gabriella Lincoln. Bosch initially doesn't get along with Snyder because she investigated him for an IA complaint in season 3 over a public altercation Bosch had with District Attorney Rick O'Shea, though warms up to her after Snyder gets on his case and demands to be shown some respect. Lincoln, meanwhile, turns out to be dirty, and tries to frame one of the Black Guardian detectives for the murder. It's eventually discovered she was part of a scheme with Elias and city councilman Bradley Walker where she'd sell inside information to Elias via Walker, Elias would sue the city for large settlements, and Walker and Lincoln would get a cut of the money as kickbacks. The scheme fell apart when Elias decided he wanted to take the Black Guardian detectives to trial after seeing a video of the torture they subjected Michael Harris to, which would've meant exposing Walker's part in the conspiracy, prompting Walker to personally murder him.
** By the start of season 6, Jerry Edgar is helping out Internal Affairs with their investigation into the corrupt cops who set up one of Edgar's informants to be murdered in season 5. The investigation is quickly complicated when the corrupt cops are murdered by the Jamaican gang that employs them for becoming a liability.

** ''Series/LawAndOrder'' had a somewhat sympathetic IA detective played by Anthony Anderson in Jesse Martin's last episode. At one point he refers to his two-year assignment to IA being almost up, and the following week, what do you know, he's transferred to Homicide and replaced Martin's character.The Series averted this trope in that while IA were not portrayed as particularly competent, the detectives had no love or loyalty to dirty cops.

* Season 2 of ''Series/{{Bosch}}'' has a pretty rare portrayal of IAD as not just decent but positively heroic. The villains are a group of murderous {{Dirty Cop}}s who are into a huge variety of violent felonies. A sympathetic character who is working with Internal Affairs penetrates their gang but is murdered by them when they find out he's a mole.

** In season 8, Danny was out with his rookies during his time as a sergeant when two guys held them up. At first, it appears the young female cop fired because she was shot at, but it turned out she shot the guy without the gun. Danny didn't know what had happened because one of the perps [[GrievousBottleyHarm hit him over the head with a bottle]].She then lied to IA and said that Danny told her to lie because they were having an affair. There *was* a video where she was cuddling up to him, but that was all her; Danny was adamant he was faithful to Lindsay. Eventually, Lindsay pressured the rookie to admit she was scared and lied about telling Danny to lie.
** Stella's had run-ins as well, getting called out twice for excessive force.

* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', when a bunch of thieves from the [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores Union]] manage to sneak the captive necromancer [[OurElvesAreBetter Razravkar]] [[AntiHero Dominus]] out of the cells in the Anti Mage Police Headquarters, Captain [[StraightGay Schtolteheim]] [[InsufferableGenius Reinbach III]] orders Lieutenant [[DeadpanSnarker Irinthiel]] [[MasterOfIllusion Maurath]] to assemble a small group of trustworthy and cunning operatives from within the Anti Mage Police to not only locate the renegade necromancer but also to investigate the possibility of the Anti Mage Police having corrupt cops within it. This group becomes known as Shadowstrike and remains literally unknown to the rest of the AMP as Irinthiel reports only to Captain Reinbach and has full authority to arrest and investigate any AMP officer to discover whether they're moles or genuine servants of the [[TheMagocracy Magicracy of Alent]].

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'',