Officer O'Harris

Officer O'Harris in Cops 1/2

Officer James Patrick O'Harris is a main character in the *Cops* movie series. He works alongside Officer Colten and has been a valuable part of the police department for many years. He began his career in *Cops 1/2: The Gas Crisis*, and was seen again in *Cops 1: The Murder of Mr. Willshaw*. He originally comes from Derry, Northern Ireland with a violent past as a former paramilitary member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He progresses investigations by locating hard to find evidence and can deal significant damage with his baton. While his name is not hard to pronounce, Colten repeatedly says it incorrectly in a number of creative ways throughout the videos.

## In Cops 1

O'Harris appears in the first video of the series jumping down from a balcony alongside Colten to reach the crime scene of Mr. Willshaw's death. He quickly deduces that Willshaw was killed while working on the pool and then begins to comb for evidence. By an understood method he managed to find an incredibly small bullet casing by whacking the grass with his baton. He informs Colten about his finding allowing Colten to further piece together what occurred during the crime. As the two leave the scene they discuss the desire to question the neighbor since he would have had the best view of the crime. O'Harris agrees since he could have easily seen the crime and then sets out to get a search warrant. After Colten leaves the neighbor, Giovanni Tortellini's house, O'Harris is seen on the phone with Colten talking about his findings before meeting him at the forensics lab.

When O'Harris arrives Colten had uncovered Tortellini's fingerprints on the bullet found at the scene along with the weapon and he also uncovered the two had a land dispute over the construction of the pool. Colten then tells O'Harris how they would have to return to make the arrest. O'Harris understanding how dangerous the situation may be expresses his wish not to be shot as they leave. The two then bust into the house with weapons drawn as they search the inside. O'Harris notices the basement door and proposes they look for him down there. The two carefully move around when O'Harris realizes they never checked a back corner. Once he says this Tortellini comes out and begins firing at the officers. Colten moves to flank around while O'Harris started insulting Tortellini and blind firing shotgun shells at him. Tortellini grew angry and called him a racial slur before charging at him. This turned out to be apart of O'Harris' plan as he had counted the amount of rounds Tortellini had fired and he was now ready to apprehend him with his baton.

Tortellini then pulled out a knife to O'Harris' amusement since he would now have a proper scuffle. The two begin to fence when O'Harris manages to knock Tortellini to the ground. As he walked over Tortellini then cut at his leg and managed to tackle the officer to the ground. In distress O'Harris began blowing his whistle notifying Colten he was in grave danger. While O'Harris held back Tortellini's knife, Colten finally completed the flank and tackled him off his comrade. The two had a brief fist fight before Tortellini revealed he had killed Willshaw and buried him in the back of the house by stating that Colten would join him in his grave. O'Harris realizing he now had all the proof he needed, regained his hat and pipe, and then calmly walked up behind Tortellini bashing him on the head with his baton knocking him down for the count. As Colten went to put handcuffs on him O'Harris suggested they use the rhinestone ones for unknown reasons. After that he and Colten leave the building with an apprehended criminal.

## In Cops 1/2

O'Harris first appears in this prequel following the death of Colten's former partner, Officer Bernard. He comes out of nowhere in the Police Chief Joe's office after his name is said to Colten and excitedly heads out to investigate the crime scene. He quickly deduces there was indeed a crime in the area to Colten's annoyance. O'Harris then discovers and overlooked Jerry can lying around and notices the name Giuseppe Linguine on it. He and Colten then return to the chief with the information of what was being sold. O'Harris deemed the crime to be despicable yet the chief so no problem since gas was pretty inexpensive. The next day changed however as the 1979 Oil Crisis occurred leading to O'Harris suggesting they check the stations records to discover if they could find a previous arrest record on Linguine.

This would ultimately prove successful as O'Harris locates the records and finds an unusually placed piece of paper that revealed times and dates. O'Harris realizes these were meeting times and had proposed they try to act that very night. After returning to the chief he halts the operation as it was later discovered that he was cooperating with Linguine. O'Harris is disappointed but accepts the chiefs decision before heading out. Once leaving the station O'Harris expresses his frustration to Colten saying they cant just sit around. Colten then decides the two should set up their own sting operation with O'Harris as the decoy since Linguine had never seen him. O'Harris accepts the plan but expresses his wish to not be stabbed during the operation.

O'Harris later is seen in a thuggish disguise and goes to meet with Linguine. His foreign accent and poor cover story leads to suspicion before his baton fell out of his jacket giving up his act. O'Harris and Colten then go into active pursuit and following a short foot chase and a hit from O'Harris's baton manage to get Linguine in cuffs. O'Harris then chases after the individual seen doing businesses with Linguine beforehand and manages to hit him with his baton as well revealing that it was the chief in a disguise. O'Harris was in disbelief but still arrested the corrupt bureaucrat expressing his concern for the current state of the world. While this occurred Linguine broke out of his cuffs and was fighting Colten making O'Harris knock out the chief to go assist his comrade. Linguine then managed to shoot Colten in the leg after dodging all his bullets by standing their like a stonewall. This injury was not serious as it was revealed in Cops: Noir that Colten always make sure to wear kneecap armor. Linguine was prepared to shoot Colten fatally before O'Harris came in and whacked Linguine on the back of the head sending him to the ground, and then helping up Colten. Linguine incredibly was not finished after this hit and started to stand back up before getting blown up by a gas can detonated by Colten shooting it. Linguine was left a mangled mess the O'Harris did not want to deal with himself leading to his abandonment waiting for an ambulance which was late since it got a flat tire and had to stop in a Wendy's parking lot to change it. O'Harris and Colten then left with the chief in cuffs. At the end of the video he is heard asking Colten what their new chief, Police Chief Benjamin, was like.

## Skills

### Keen eye

O'Harris has proven to be an effective sleuth often being the one to discover evidence at crime scenes. While he has found evidence that was quite easy to spot, his ability reaches an incredible level after finding the bullet casing in the the grass in Cops 1.

### Baton

O'Harris' preferred weapon is his trusty police baton which he has used to incapacitate every villain he has come across. His swing is regarded to be one of the most powerful weapons in the entire gnarly dudes universe as it has brought men down more often than guns. He also is quite skilled in dueling with it as seen with his fight with Giovanni in Cops 1.

## Trivia

- After Eric asked Jack to help him out in the high school forensics project that would be Cops 1, Jack instantly knew he wanted his character to be an Irish cop. Eric accepted this and then Jack based his character and speech off of Police Chief O'Hara from the 1960's Adam West Batman TV show.

- Most of O'Harris' wardrobe and accessories comes from party city. Jack was unable to get a police hat there so he used an old air force hat he had that looked the part.

- In Cops 1 and 1/2 O'Harris is actually wearing two different hats since Jack liked the fit of a second his dad bought better.

- The rhinestone cuffs O'Harris has in cops 1 was accidentally selected by Jack's mom at party city when she grabbed it without examining it. Jack noticed this once he returned home and decided to role with it. The cuff's chain has since been broken since it was a cheap plastic, but it was utilized as the cuffs that Giuseppe broke in Cops 1/2. This is also why in 1/2 the handcuffs O'Harris carries at his waist are a more standard metal version, also from party city.

## Gallery

O'Harris in Cops 1Combing for evidenceWhatch'ya got there laddyOn the edgeFinding the filesIn disguiseArresting the ChiefIs he down