Police drama cliches

[LilyAnn13]

For a bit of Sunday fun
I'll go first....
One of the female cops has a bad sister who is a drug addict or something like that, or a male cop has a drug addict brother.
Who's next?

When the police go to question someone at home, they’re usually tinkering with a car or hanging out a wash or somesuch busy work. The police officer will attempt to converse with the witness/suspect, who will be bad-tempered and surly, uncooperative and after another one minute utters the line ‘look are we done here? I’m very busy blah blah’. All the while continuing their menial task! If the police came to see me about a murder or other serious crime I’d be shitting myself and definitely not telling them to get lost while I continue to fix my greenhouse or whatever 😂

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read on here in a long time. All so true!

Whenever someone has important information to divulge they refuse to give it right there on the phone. They always insist on delivering it in person, but invariably end dead before then.

And if they don’t live in a ridiculously amazing house with a huge expensive kitchen then the detective lives in a depressingly drab flat with all their belongings still in boxes, and the eager beaver side kick will say “oh you’ve not been here long?” whilst eyeing up the stacked boxes and lack of furniture, and the detective says “just a few years”. No furniture…but the fridge will always have wine, which is drank out of mugs.

A team of 'old lags', with their own way of doing things (" We get resows!" frequently bandied about in a Mockney or Estuary English), get a new, higher level, team member from an entirely different force with a reputation for efficiency and high resolution rates

Turns out, the new cop has two divorces behind her, is using her second married name, was married to one of the lags, and there are unresolved issues/sexual tensions to explore

She's a higher rank and he's fallen apart since his divorce from her and is barely clinging to his job

They end up in bed again by episode four

Great thread OP 😂

Ordinary people who have never dealt with the police before saying 'would you like a cup of tea, detective inspector?'.

The women's hair is a hot mess.

They shout suspects name when about 200 yards away and seem surprised when the suspect runs from them and then 2 coppers chase after them and separate and the one that has no visual contact with the offender knows exactly which route the suspect is going. Just wait until you’re a few feet away before shouting police stop like a normal person

The thrilling car chase through, up and down the multi-storey carpark, where there are never any other people or cars driving around

(I love this thread!)

Putting slightly wet stuff on to go to work resonates with me…..totally get the ones that show work completely taking over everything. I actually quite like that being depicted.

The cliches to me are that the victim is always a single professional woman who lives alone, and that the male cop regularly sleeps with key witness (Steve from LOTD I’m looking at you…..) with zero repercussions.

Always an angsty teen at home.

Oooh just wanted to check that no one had yet added the civilian who is randomly, by dint of expert writers from the school of “how to crowbar it in” writing, permitted to join all the investigations. Yes, I’m looking at you, Castle, The Mentalist and High Potential!

Whilst explaining the entire plot line, chronologically, filling in all the gaps just so that everyone can catch up and finally understand the whole damn series. At the very end, the suspect / perp is asked for more explanation because “there’s just one thing I don’t understand…” final plot twist that is entirely improbable.

The baby faced, naive but shows promise, young new recruit gets killed in a tragic way.

I’d read that novel!… There’s clearly a gap in the market, just waiting for you!

Because that’s all duty solicitors do, obvs

Challenging, aggressive Police interviews 'we know you killed her, and you're going downnnnn' accompanied by getting in the suspects face, slamming the table, crime scene photos being dramatically thrown onto tables while the detective shouts 'look! Look!

I've attended many Police interviews as an appropriate adult and even the most serious and dramatic crimes like murder are usually deathly dull interviews with pages of preprepared mundane questions that are usually answered 'no comment'. And they'll just keep going even though every answer is no comment.

For hours.

Brilliant thread!! I think it’s time to go and watch A Touch of Cloth again….. sounds like an absolute must see for anyone on this thread, it makes me absolutely cry with laughter as it’s so on point!

When the detective finds the laptop in the perps house, with perp a few minutes behind. Lots of looking over shoulder by the cop, whilst trying various passwords. Always cracks the password on final try before the laptop locks.

🤣

Police knock door opens 1 second later

😆