History Main / StandardPoliceMotto

** In ''Film/Transformers2007'', the Decepticon Barricade has a police car mode with the phrase "To punish and enslave."

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** In the Michael Bay ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film, the Decepticon Barricade has a police car mode with the phrase "To punish and enslave."

* ''Series/AdamTwelve'' features a prominent shot of the motto on the squad car door in the opening credits.

* In ''Film/TheUntouchables'', when Ness and Malone interview police cadets to add to the team, both trainees give stock mottoes when asked why they want to join the force. The first even stammers out "To protect and serve" verbatim.

--> '''[[UsefulNotes/TheThinFormerlyGreenLine Germany's traditional police motto]]''', a rare non-English variant, first adapted by UsefulNotes/WeimarGermany.

--> '''[[UsefulNotes/TheThinFormerlyGreenLine Germany's traditional police motto]]''', a rare non-English variant.

* In 2011, the owner of a Zanesville, Ohio exotic animal refuge released all his animals - including tigers, lions, bears and wolves - before committing suicide. The police sadly had to issue a shoot-to-kill order and the story made major headlines as 49 animals had to be shot. This lead to a joke at the time:

** Pratchett also uses it in ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'' with the prophecy that Carrot fulfills: "Yea, the king will come ... and Protect and Serve the People with his Sword."
** In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'', the motto on the Vimes family arms (defunct since Old Stoneface killed the last king) is "Protego Et Servio". The Vimeses have been watchmen for a ''long'' time.

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* Creator/MarvelComics once produced a ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' T-shirt bearing the slogan, "TO SURF AND PROTECT."
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* In ''Film/Transformers2007'', among the first hints that something is amiss is a close-up of Decepticon Barricade's motto when he's disguised as a cop, which reads, "To Punish And Enslave."

-> ''Die Polizei - Dein Freund und Helfer![[note]]The Police - Your Friend And Helper[[/note]]''

--> Die Polizei - Dein Freund und Helfer![[note]]The Police - Your Friend And Helper[[/note]]
-> '''[[UsefulNotes/TheThinFormerlyGreenLine Germany's traditional police motto]]''', a rare non-English variant.

* In the low-budget sci-fi movie ''Film/{{ROTOR}}'', the motto of the robotic law-enforcement project is "To Judge and Execute." Guess [[CrushKillDestroy what happens to the prototype?]]

* ''ReBoot'': "My format: Guardian - To mend and defend."

* In ''Film/TheGumballRally'', the fake cop team loses the race when they [[DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp stop to help a pregnant woman]] who's stalled on an L.A. freeway and going into labor.\\
'''Kandinsky:''' Oh, no. Avila, no way. I don't wanna hear it, Avila.

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* In the Michael Bay ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film, the Decepticon Barricade has a police car mode with the phrase "To punish and enslave."
* In ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'', Barricade retains this motto while also gaining an alternate "Keep calm and hail Megatron."

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The Los Angeles Police Department's famous motto, "To Protect and to Serve" (coined in 1955), has been adopted by many other police departments across the English-speaking world, sometimes in its alternate form "to serve and protect." It's been adopted by so many police departments, in fact, that it's practically a StockPhrase in the English-speaking world. Unsurprisingly, it shows up a lot in fiction as well. Played straight in most {{Police Procedural}}s and [[CopShow Cop Shows]], it's routinely subverted, lampshaded, and/or otherwise played with in other media.

-->'''Bob Morton:''' What are your Prime Directives?
-->'''[=RoboCop=]:''' Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
* In ''Film/TheGumballRally'', the fake cop team loses the race when they [[DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp stop to help a pregnant woman]] who's stalled on an L.A. freeway and going into labor.
--> '''Kandinsky:''' Oh, no. Avila, no way. I don't wanna hear it, Avila.

The Los Angeles Police Department's famous motto, "to protect and to serve" (coined in 1955), has been adopted by many other police departments across the English-speaking world, sometimes in its alternate form "to serve and protect." It's been adopted by so many police departments, in fact, that it's practically a StockPhrase in the English-speaking world. Unsurprisingly, it shows up a lot in fiction as well. Played straight in most {{Police Procedural}}s and [[CopShow Cop Shows]], it's routinely subverted, lampshaded, and/or otherwise played with in other media.