telecop

English

Etymology

From tele- +‎ cop.

Noun

telecop (plural telecops)

1. (informal, television) A police officer (especially a detective) as portrayed on television.
   • 1998 July 6, peeby, “**BLIND ITEM FUN**”, in aus.tv‎^[1] (Usenet):

     OK gossip mongrels, see what you can make of these bits of scurrilous gleaning.
     #1- Which young telecop isn't re-signing further series options?

   • 2006 October 18, William George Ferguson, “Re: 1st Season Heroes - Collision - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !”, in rec.arts.tv‎^[2] (Usenet):

     The brain scooping has been occuring^[sic] in situ. The evidence cited by the FBI woman was that that it happened in that room. When hiro finds' Isaac in the future, there's blood and stuff around him. By comparison, the telecop was drugged and taken to a laboratory where he received some not terribly invasive monitoring. Completely different modus operandi.

   • 2009 September 25, Mike Hale, “Smarts and Stiff Upper Lip in Times of War and Murder”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     As portrayed by the marvelous actor Michael Kitchen in the British series “Foyle’s War,” he is sometimes so reserved – not eerily quiet or threateningly quiet, just quiet – that he actually appears to be thinking, something few American telecops are likely to be accused of.