50 Coolest Movie Cops

Cop Land (1997)

The Cool Cop: Sheriff Freddy Heflin

Coolest Moment: Despite his hearing getting worse by the minute, Heflin still manages to .

If He'd Been From Blighty: Maybe w🔥e’d be ab♓le to understand what he’s actually saying.

Se7en (1995)

The Cool Cop: Detective William R. Somerset

Coolest Moment:
“You know, this isn’t going to have a happy ending.” a few pearls of wisdom with his young partner Detective Mills. He’s right.

If He'd Been From Blighty: He’d probably be exactly th💞e same – a perfect gent with a knife-sharp IQ.

The Naked Gun (1988)

The Cool Cop: Detective Frank Drebin

Coolest Moment: Drebin manages to save the queen from an assassination attempt - but in the klutziest way possible.

If He'd Been From Blighty: His run-in with Queen Elizabeth would lead to the reinstating of the death penalty, and h🎶e’d get hanged for tr♕eason.

Heat (1995)

The Cool Cop: Lieutenant Vincent Hanna

Coolest Moment: Hanna meets Neil McCauley in a restaurant for a that involves a creepy dream involving all of Hanna’s past victims.

If He'd Been From Blighty:
The two gents would be wearing ties – none of thiꦯs top-button-undone rubbish.

Fargo (1996)

The Cool Cop: Marge Olmstead Gunderson

Coolest Moment: Marge saves the day after getting a hunch and swinging by the lake, where she discovers Gaear shoving Carl's body into a wood chipper. She shoots and arrest him. What a heroine.

If She'd Been From Blighty: No-one would offer her th🌸eir seat on the tube, even though she’s fit to drop a baby at any mꩲoment.

Bad Lieutenant (2009)

The Cool Cop: Terrence McDonagh

Coolest Moment: “Shoot him, his soul is still dancing!” McDonagh flips out while high, and dissolves into a giggling fit while meeting with drug dealers.

If He'd Been From Blighty: He’d be stationed in the druggy underworld that is Co༺rnwall.

Casablanca (1942)

The Cool Cop: Captain Louis Renault

Coolest Moment: Renault walks off into the fog - having suggested to Rick that they join the Free French at Brazzaville - making for one of the most iconic closing moments in cinema history.

If He'd Been From Blighty: He’d have been called Lewis, which just doesn’t have 🐈to same ring to it.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

The Cool Cop: T-1000

Coolest Moment:
He’s not a real cop, but the T-1000 certainly looks the part posing as one. As far as cool moments go, the final showdown with Arnie in a steel mill is mucho impressive.

If He'd Been From Blighty: He wouldn&rs♎quo;t have had those cool wheels, whic▨h would just be sad.

Serpico (1973)

The Cool Cop: Frank Serpico

Coolest Moment: “What’s this for?” Serpico quietly demands, as he’s handed a police badge while lying in a hospital bed.

If He'd Been From Blighty: He probably wo🀅uldn't still hꦯave that awesome surname...

Hard Boiled (1992)

The Cool Cop: Inspector ‘Tequila’ Yuen

Coolest Moment: In a Hong Kong teahouse, Yuen busts open a birdcage to reveal several firearms before taking out a group of gun smugglers .

If He'd Been From Blighty: The guns would’ve been hidden in a teapot. Or a copy of Nuts magazine.

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some 🎃of the biggest TV and fi🉐lm sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.