塩沢兼人
, Nicholas Santos, as dubbed by Funimation, is introduced as a recently promoted officer who works with Inspector Meguire. He is a member of the 1st Investigation Division. He has unrequited feelings towards Miwako Sato, and often tries to interfere in Sato and Takagi's dates In later chapters, he reveals the feelings originated from a young girl in his childhood who had a strong sense of justice and resembled Sato physically. After meeting Conan Edogawa's elementary school teacher, Sumiko Kobayashi, Santos realizes she was the girl from his past and develops a relationship with her. He is known to have good knowledge on wine and architecture. In Japanese, he has been voiced by Kaneto Shiozawa and Kazuhiko Inoue after Shiozawa's death in May 2000. His English voice actor is Eric Vale for Funimation and Greg Chun for Bang Zoom.