List of NYPD Blue Characters - Other Police

Other Police

• Officer Janice Licalsi – Began sleeping with Det. Kelly in Season 1, when a mob boss told her to get close to Kelly (who had been shutting down his businesses) and kill him. Janice instead killed the mob boss and his driver, and later was blackmailed by the mob into doing some illegal work for them, which was authorized by her sleazy, ambitious boss. Janice was legally free when Kelly destroyed evidence of her guilt, but her own conscience led to confess to a priest and then turn herself in for the killings. She was acquitted of second-degree murder charges and convicted of manslaughter early in Season 2. Played by Amy Brenneman. Janice would have returned later if not for David Caruso's departure from the series.
• Desk Sgt Vinnie Agostini – The One-Five Desk Sergeant. Generally got along well with the 15th's detectives, at one point furiously lambasting two corrupt plainclothes cops who had been robbing drug dealers before being arrested by Kelly and Sipowicz.
• Insp. Anthony Lastarza – The sleazy, ambitious OCCB boss who forced Janice to work the mobsters and later clashed with Andy and Kelly over his treatment of a mob informant case. He rode his dubious successes out of the NYPD and into an off-screen job with the DEA. Played by Tom Towles.
• Detective Mike Roberts – In Season 1, he was part of the detective squad but clearly disliked by Lt. Fancy, who later forced him to quit the job at a reduced pension after finding out Mike had been sleeping with an informant who later OD'd after Mike threatened to kill her if she left him. Mike became a second-rate "security consultant" whose work often brought him back into the 15th's eye and made him look worse than ever. Mike finally tried to do a good deed in Season 6 when he nearly told Andy about a murder-for-hire plot he was being blackmailed into, and he did give PAA John Irvin a warning about that plot before he was murdered. A badly-written book of fictionalized detective stories he'd penned gave clues to the event and later led to his killer being arrested.
• Detective Art Stillwell—An Overweight Detective seen in Season 1 as a part of the 15th's squad. Stillwell had a crippling Gambling addiction that would often wipe out much of his paycheck and would play practical jokes that often left the officers of the one five unamused. After losing his entire pension and the rest of his money, Stillwell played a final practical joke that had Lt. Fancy send him to a mental hospital and out the 15th for good.
• Det. Nick Savino – A narcotics officer of great success, who accidentally arrested Andy Jr. in Season 1 (he looked like the much more handsome version of a drug dealer) and then helped free Andy Jr. without charges. Savino later helped Andy on a murder case involving a store Andy had worked at when he was a kid, and also with some murders at an apartment building Bobby inherited.
• Officer Mike Shannon – A uniform cop who was the main "man in blue" that the 15th's detectives tended to interact with. While he was generally a stand-up guy who helped the detectives when he could (he helped find Andy's assailant and saved his career, and turned in a corrupt fellow officer who had framed Clark Jr.), he sometimes clashed with the suits as part of the division in the 15th, mostly in cases where the detectives suspected that uniform cops had done something wrong—though on the show, those suspicions were correct 99% of the time.
• Officer Miller
• Josh Astrachan & N.D. "Hank" Harold—A black-and-white team of plainclothes Anti-Crime cops, they were mostly on hand to take care of babysitting suspects and witnesses and to do job that were too disgusting for the detectives or uniforms to touch, such as monitoring a suspect who had swallowed balloons full of drugs and had begun pooping them out.
• Officer Abby Sullivan—A uniform officer who met and became friends with Greg Medavoy in Season 4 when the portly detective undertook a fitness regime to shed excess pounds. Greg later asked her out, only to learn she was a lesbian, but they remained friends and Abby and her partner Kathy decided they wanted Greg to be a sperm donor so Abby could have a child. Greg was unsure about this, but eventually did make a donation and Abby did get pregnant. In Season 5, Kathy was murdered during a fake robbery that was set up by her bitter ex-lover, and Abby resolved to be a single mother, with Greg promising he would be there to help her if she needed him.
• Lt. Joe Abner—A bitter African American lieutenant who was the previous commander of Detective Baldwin Jones. Abner held a grudge against Jones' boss lieutenant Fancy specifically over Fancy's refusal to get rid of Andy Sipowicz for his racist attitudes. Abner however felt chewed out by the NYPD and sent Jones to work with Fancy so that he would not have his career turn out like his. Abner would later retire and commit suicide, affecting Fancy and Jones both.
• Sgt. Bill Dornan – A bitter African-American officer who didn't like Andy based on a racist remark he once heard and Andy's seeking to re-open a murder case he cleared. Dornan later got demoted by some of his many enemies, and later fell into heavy drinking and left his job, leading Fancy and Andy to try to help him and Dornan making an effort to stay sober in his final appearance for the Season 6 finale. Talking to Dornan made Andy realize that Andy's father was not a victim of violence but a bigot who was attacked in self-defense. Ironically enough, Dornan was in some ways viewed as a black version of Andy, possessing several of the same alcoholic traits that both blinded Sipowicz's father and nearly ended Sipowicz's career.
• Officer Mary Franco – In Season 7, Danny met her on a murder case and they soon began sleeping together. Mary was nice but brittle, and Danny showed little interest in sharing details of his messed-up life with her, preferring to do so with Diane Russell (something Mary noticed). They broke up when Danny hit bottom over an informant's death, then got back together on rocky terms, before Danny finally did the right thing and broke up with her for good early in Season 8.
• Officer Ed Laughlin—On the same case where Danny met Mary, they also met Ed, at the time just a cop who was upset about turning in two other cops for beating a punk to death. Ed later interfered with a case Jill was working, taunting an abusive drunk until he ended up killing his wife and leaving his children parentless. In Season 9, Ed ran afoul of Clark Jr. by making advances on recently widowed Rita Ortiz, leading to a boxing challenge where Clark kicked Ed's ass. In Season 10, Andy and Clark found out Ed had been sleeping with an underage auxiliary cop and did not help her on a stalking complaint which later led to her death. The detectives gave Ed a choice: retire immediately or face an IAB investigation. Ed did resign, but Clark's father later informed on him to IAB, and Clark Jr. tried to make things right by getting IAB to reinstate Laughlin. Laughlin expressed his gratitude by planting heroin in Clark's car, but Officer Shannon couldn't stand by while that happened and turned Ed in for the crime, ending his career and his life as a free man.
• Det. Harry Denby – A sleazy Narcotics officer who was working on the drug dealers that Don Kirkendall was involved with, later faking Don's death and dealing with him. He was suspended from the force and began working at a courier company, where he put together a new drug ring and began an affair that ended with him killing the woman and her husband. When a sting in Brooklyn led to him killing two dealers and wounding an undercover DEA agent, Diane Russell stepped in and shot him in a suicide-by-cop to end his reign of terror.
• Sgt. Ray Kahlins – The head of an NYPD Federal Drug Task Force that worked with the one five investigating drug crews. An alcoholic loudmouth and liar regarded by Sipowicz as a hump with inept investigative skills, Kahlins would be more often concerned with raking in overtime pay than in making good cases and was held in low regard by both his crew and the one-five's detectives. He would clash with Sipowicz and Simone over his involvement in Vietnam and his exposure of an informant Ferdinand Holley to a drug crew being interrogated and would later appear at the request of Lt. Fancy in a case that involved Fancy's foster son Maceo.
• Desk Sgt Philip Angelotti
• Det. John Clark Sr.—John Clark Jr.'s father. A straight arrow cop who despised drunken, violent Andy but wasn't 10% of the policeman he was either. He threw his son out of the house when John Jr. decided to work at the 15th with Andy. He later got busted for sleeping with a prostitute and let his son take the rap until Andy got him to confess. After this, he began drinking heavily and became an IAB informant, which nearly ruined John's career at the 15th. His actions helped lead to the campaign by Officer Laughlin against his son, and John Jr. finally told his father to stop making bad decisions on his behalf and stop drinking so much. A depressed Clark Sr. later "ate his gun" and sent his son into a long depression.
• Det. Stan Hatcher—Stan's uncle was the Chief of Personnel. Stan himself emerged as a stupid, violent, corrupt cop who got Andy transferred to Morgue duty when Andy told him to leave the 15th. Stan killed his wife and while they couldn't bring charges, Stan's career ended when his uncle stopped protecting him. Stan launched a harassment campaign in Season 12 to ruin Andy, which ended when Lt. Bale reluctantly brokered a deal that kept Andy out of trouble and meant Stan would be taking a private security job in Miami.
• Sgt. McNamara—A bigoted officer who had worked came through the academy with Lt. Fancy that found problems with Fancy's hothead brother Reggie. Art tried to mediate between them, getting a brief period of respite, but later saw that McNamara was helping a Haitian Gypsy Cab Driver file a harassment complaint towards Reggie as a means of taking Reggie's badge. McNamara appealed to Arthur saying it was departmental procedure to take complaints from minority citizens seriously even when minority officers like Reggie were accused of police harassment. Arthur however saw McNamaras' racism and his assistance to the Cab Driver in filing charges against Reggie and then took his own measures to save Reggie's career.
• Officer Reggie Fancy – Lt. Fancy's hotheaded younger brother (who was not close to Arthur as evident by his failure to visit Arthur's first-born son), who was a uniformed officer at a neighboring precinct. Reggie's race-baiting attitude drew the ire of his Sergeant, a bigoted officer named McNamara who Reggie believed hated African American police. McNamara would tell Arthur that Reggie was in the wrong line of work with his attitudes towards White bosses and later tried to end Reggie's career by supporting a harassment complaint from a Haitian Gypsy cab driver complaining that Reggie had shaken him down for money. Lt. Fancy's detectives teamed up to uncover the false story, after which Reggie seemed appreciative of his brother's help, while Art told him that none of the cops who saved his career were African American, teaching Reggie a serious lesson in trust.
• Officer Jack Hanlon—An old officer who had been on the force with John Kelly Sr. dating back to the department's dominance of Irish American cops. Hanlon was a corrupt racist who worked part-time as a superintendent of a rent-controlled building who would brutalize tenants for money at the request of the landlord. Hanlon disgusted both Detectives James Martinez and John Kelly Jr. who would turn Hanlon in for the murder of two tenants to prevent Martinez from going to the rat squad.
• Det. Walker—A tired, likely-alcoholic officer who appeared in the Season 1 episode "True Confessions", when Andy Sipowicz was restored by Lt. Fancy to active duty and joined him and Det. Kelly in investigating a double-murder at a liquor store. Walker did not want Andy on the case, ignored his work, and refused to listen to his concerns that they'd arrested the wrong man. When an anonymous tip about the robbery was phoned in from a local bar, Walker snidely said Andy wanted to check it out so he could drink rather than investigate, but Andy's instincts paid off when the lead ended up nabbing the man who really committed the crimes. Walker was still hostile towards Andy and asked how he was going to get screwed, but after Andy said the case was made and no one including himself would care about the wrong initial arrest, he finally apologized to Andy, and revealed that he wished he could find a way to sobriety like Andy did. Walker is mentioned once more in Season 1, as a character says the portly detective isn't able to play the 15th's Santa Claus because he's out with medical problems.
• Officer Syzmanski—A bigoted uniformed officer who stops Lt. Fancy and his wife for driving in an all-White neighborhood of Bayside, Queens. Art figured that Syzmanski had little interaction with Blacks working in Bayside (aside from the ones he pulled over according to Art) and then called in a favor to send Syzmanski to work in an all-Black precinct located in either Brooklyn North or Harlem as a means of teaching him to learn which Black citizens to treat with respect. Syzmanski was then transferred to the all-Black neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant but later was transferred to the 15th when Captain Bass said it was a bad idea to put a cop who disliked black people in a problematic neighborhood like Bed-Stuy. Syzmanski was later falsely accused of robbing a drug dealer and was involved in shooting an undercover Black officer, both cases where Fancy and he clashed but Syzmanski was later cleared. In Season 7, his brother was killed accidentally and another brother later killed a man in a drunken rage.
• Officer John McCaslin – The rookie partner of Officer Syzmanski who stopped Lt. Fancy in Queens. Seeing that McCaslin was a rookie that had merely backed Syzmanski in the traffic stop, Fancy spared him in his payback for the humiliation that he and his wife endured.
• Officer Lucas – A patrol officer at the one five.