beat cop

He tells a story about his time as a beat cop having to arrest repeatedly but never press charges on an abusive husband.

He went on to say that when a beat cop does stop a kid, he has to keep in mind the impression he is making.

Their enterprise falls apart when Langley refuses to pay off the beat cop, and they are hauled off to jail.

It was Captain Murdoch—now dressed in the uniform of a regular beat cop, without even a corporal's stripes.