History Main / MeddlesomePatrolman

* Played within the Literature/HarryPotter story ''Fanfic/TheChosenSix'', where Sirius of all people becomes a Bobby , though he only meddles with people who deserve it and otherwise is highly regarded.

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* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Joseph Longtarin is Gaston's nemesis, forever looking for a reason to give him a fine for this or that alleged traffic violation. Gaston retaliates with various practical jokes that often involve vandalizing parking meters.

* Agent 22 was a recurring nemesis of ''ComicBook/BouleEtBill'' in the early albums.
* Agent Dussiflet or his peers get to slap a fine on ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'', or drag him in handcuffs to the local police precinct, on more than one occasion. They also often try to catch Papa Talon driving or walking around drunk.
* Agent Tieter in the Belgian comic strip ''De Vrolijke Bengels'' by Willy Vandersteen.
* De Champetter in the Belgian comic strip ''De Lustige Kapoentjes'' by Marc Sleen.
* In the German comic ''ComicBook/{{Werner}}'', Bruno and Helmut. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.

* ''ComicBook/PietPienterEnBertBibber'': Commissaris Knobbel and his police officers.
* Agent Dreutel in ''ComicBook/DeGeneraal'', who always tried to arrest the eponymous general and then got his motorbike (and usually himself as well) SquashedFlat under the general's tank or other DoomsdayDevice.

* PC Murdoch in ''Comicstrip/OorWullie''.
* Sergeant Slipper in ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK''.
* In ''ComicStrip/AngusOg'' [=PC McPhater=] would like to be a meddlesome patrolman, busting Angus' schemes, but most of the time he is just too slow on the uptake and misses what is going on.

* The motorcycle cop played by Tim Robbins in Creator/RobertAltman's ''Film/ShortCuts'' takes advantage of his uniform to pull over good-looking women and ask them for dates.

* The French movie ''Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez'' and its five sequels are a film series were not only the main character (played by Creator/LouisDeFunes) but most of the supporting cast is this kind of cop, of the [[UsefulNotes/LesCopsSportif National Gendarmerie]] subtype.

* Creator/CharlieChaplin's character of The Tramp has often to deal with a Meddlesome Patrolman (or ten) in many of his movies.
* These guys often showed up to bully all sorts of silent comedians, Laurel and Hardy, and Film/TheThreeStooges in the first half of the 20th century.

* Local police officer Flipsen in the Dutch children's novel ''Literature/DikTrom'' is always the ButtMonkey of Dik Trom's jokes.
* ''Literature/JoePickett'': In ''Blood Trail'', Joe is driving to meet an FBI informer from inside an AnimalWrongsGroup in a park in an isolated small town. He is stopped by the small town cop for speeding (the speed limit had been changed the month before and Joe did not know). It turns out Joe had once arrested the cop's father for hunting without a licence. The cop still bears a grudge and goes out of his way to be as hindering and obnoxious as possible to Joe. Joe eventually knocks the cop out and drags him along to the meet. However, by the time they get to the park, [[DoomedAppointment the informant is dead]].
* ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'': One Quezon City cop tries to shoo [[IntrepidReporter Joanna]] off the crime scene—even if she is more competent at retrieving information from it than the whole unit assigned to contain the crime scene ''combined''.

* The legendary intro sequence to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' features one of these, busting Will for spraying graffiti on a wall before he attempts to pass it off as deodorant.
* Bruce "The Goose" Hopkins, the council bylaws officer from the Australian kids show ''Series/{{Streetsmartz}}''.

* Officer Obie from ''Music/AlicesRestaurant'', who treats a case of littering as it were the crime of the century.

* There's a cop in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' who shows up in a few episodes giving out tickets to characters ([[ButtMonkey Usually Squidward]]) for really petty crimes; in at least one episode where he shows up he blatantly ignores a more serious crime to ticket Squidward for littering.

* Hotori, the main character of ''Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru'', has a long-running feud with the stressed neighborhood cop Matsuda, although besides being cheeky, playing hooky and sneaking out at night she isn't exactly a delinquent.

* Coluche, a famous French stand-up comedian, had a routine called "''Le Flic''" ("The Cop") in which he played a Meddlesome Patrolman.

This is the beat cop who wears a uniform, patrols the neighborhood, controls traffic at cross-sections, and watches for infractions to the road code. Heroes who break the law whether unwittingly or out of childish mischief will likely end up on his wrong side, and be given a fine or taken to the local police precinct. Neither a RabidCop, a CowboyCop, nor an OldFashionedCopper, the Meddlesome Patrolman is still liable to be as annoying as the ObstructiveBureaucrat.

* Mandatory ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' reference: that would be Sergeant Colon and possibly Corporal Nobbs. Colon especially hits the Meddlesome Patrolman wall ''hard'' when he is temporarily promoted to Captain during the events of ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant''.

* Another (older) Louis de Funès movie is ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051989/ Ni vu, ni connu]]''. This time, the protagonist is a poacher, and he's outwitting a Meddlesome Forest Guard.

* The French movie ''Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez'' and its five sequels are a film series were not only the main character (played by Creator/LouisDeFunes) but most of the supporting cast is this kind of cop, of the [[LesCopsSportif National Gendarmerie]] subtype.

* In ''Film/GhostDogTheWayOfTheSamurai'', one policewoman pulls over a car with a seriously wounded passenger and insists on the full formal procedure before allowing to move him any closer to the medical attention. Unfortunately for her, the wounded guy is a gangster, and, well... definitely ''[[WouldHitAGirl isn't]]'' a "fuckin' male chauvinist pig".

-->--'''Jimmy [=McNulty=]''', ''Series/TheWire''

* ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'': One Quezon City cop tries to shoo [[IntrepridReporter Joanna]] off the crime scene—even if she is more competent at retrieving information from it than the whole unit assigned to contain the crime scene ''combined''.

-->''"Baker, let me tell you a little secret. A patrolling officer on his beat is the one true dictatorship in America. We can lock a guy up on a humble, lock him up for real, or say 'Fuck it, let's pull under the expressway and drink ourselves to death', and our side partners will cover it. So no one... and I mean no one tells us how to waste our shift."''

* Hotori, the main character of ''Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru'', has a long-running feud with the stressed neighbourhood cop Matsuda, although besides being cheeky, playing hooky and sneaking out at night she isn't exactly a delinquent.

* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 212}}'' is an interesting case of a Meddlesome Patrolman who is also the protagonist of a series rather than a supporting character.

* Agent Dussiflet or his peers get to slap a fine on ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'', or drag him in handcuffs to the local police precinct, on more than one occasion.

* The French movie ''Film/LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez'' and its five sequels are a film series were not only the main character (played by Creator/LouisDeFunes) but most of the supporting cast is this kind of cop, of the [[LeCopsSportif National Gendarmerie]] subtype.

-->--Jimmy [=McNulty=], ''Series/TheWire''

* ''Literature/JoePickett'': In ''Blood Trail'', Joe is driving to meet an FBI informer from inside an AnimalWrongsGroup in a park in an isolated small town. He is stopped by the small town cop for speeding (the speed limit had been changed the month before and Joe did not know). It turns out Joe had once arrested the cop's father for hunting without a licence and the op still bears a grudge and goes out of his way to be as hindering and obnoxious as possible to Joe. Joe eventually knocks the cop out and drags him along to the meet. However, by the time they get to the park, [[DoomedAppointment the informant is dead]].

-->---Jimmy [=McNulty=], ''Series/TheWire''

** If border guards count, then ''TheTamuli'' has a great example in the form of some Cynesgan guards who were deliberately trying to stall Sparhawk. This being a work starring Sparhawk, [[MurderIsTheBestSolution constructive Elenishism]] ends up taking care of the problem.
** In ''The Elenium'', there's two cases when officers try to hassle a troop of [[BadassArmy Church Knights]] escorting their [[GeneralBadass Preceptors]]. Intimidation (and a perfectly-legal field demotion) wins the first time, but the second time Sparhawk lets Faran work out some aggression by trampling the idiot.

* Local police officer Flipsen in the Dutch children's novel "Dik Trom" is always the ButtMonkey of Dik Trom's jokes.

* Officer Krupke in ''Theatre/WestSideStory''.

* while ''Series/TheWire'' largely focuses on detectives trying to make a case against major players in the drug trade, we occasionally see interactions between patrol cops and the corner kids who mostly view them as an annoyance or occupational hazard (barring the occasional [[PoliceBrutality violent bastard]]).

* These guys often showed up to bully all sorts of silent comedians, Laurel and Hardy, and TheThreeStooges in the first half of the 20th century.