Superhero Cops

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This thread is devoted to superheroes who masquerade as cops to get a job done. The notion of a cop with superpowers intrigues me, I don't know why. I started this under TV Series, as I only know of TV episodes that have handled this kind of story, and so far I only know of a couple. But any medium -- TV, film, novels, comics, whatever -- is ok to include here.
I'll start by listing the episodes that inspired this thread --
  • Smallville, season 8, episode Bulletproof(2009): Martian Manhunter is nearly killed by an assassin operating from within the police department. To find MM's killer, Clark goes undercover as a beat cop. Clark catches a bullet that was meant for his partner.
  • Smallville, seasons 8 and 9, several episodes (2008-2010): The Martian Manhunter has lost his powers. To continue helping people despite being powerless, MM takes a job as a police detective. MM regains his powers in the episode Absolute Justice, after which he stays on with the police, now working as a superpowered cop.
  • The Bionic Woman, season 2, Jaime's Shield, parts 1 and 2 (1977): The Office of Scientific Intelligence assigns Jaime Summers to enlist as a police cadet and become a cop to solve a mystery involving a foreign agent and an entire precinct of corrupted cops. This is a great two-part episode that incorporates an impressive Dragnet-like soundtrack and an entertaining cast of characters. Jaime performs as a bionic cop in several scenes, including one in which she takes out a mugger by Frizbee-ing a trashcan lid at him, and ruins his ****chblade by bending it like a pretzel.
I invitge anyone else to provide other examples.

Thanks! #:^)
 
There is the original of course: Barry Allen, who was a police scientist and a certain scarlet speedster at the same time, even on the short-lived TV show.

Nick Night from Forever Knight: vampire police detective
 
was a cheesy movie about a cop with super powers from the 70's, funny part is he lose the powers when he see's anything red
 
In Lois and Clark's episode 'Church of Metropolis' Superman has to disguise himself as a policeman after he is warned by intergang that if anyone spots him stopping crimes in their area, they will kill someone he cares about.
 

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