Question: Who directed an episode of the American science fiction television series based on a story by a man who followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television?

Context articles: Awake (TV series)
Mudd's Women
LAPD Metropolitan Division
Gene Roddenberry
Zebra Three
Paul Bishop
LAPD: Life on the Beat
Fuhrman tapes
Los Angeles Airport Police
1992 Los Angeles riots

Awake is an American television police procedural fantasy drama that originally aired on NBC for one season from March 1 to May 24, 2012.
 The pilot episode had an early release on Hulu on February 16, 2012, two weeks before the series' premiere on television.
 The show's central character is Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs), a detective who works for the Los Angeles Police Department.
 Kyle Killen, the series' creator, was primarily responsible for the program's concept; although he served as a writer, he avowed that writing episode scripts was difficult.
 Killen also served as an executive producer (with David Slade) of the pilot episode.
 Jeffrey Reiner and Howard Gordon then continued producing (with Killen) for Gordon's Teakwood Lane Productions.
"Mudd's Women" is an episode of the American science fiction television series "" that was first broadcast on October 13, 1966, and then repeated on May 4, 1967.
 It is the sixth episode of the , and was written by Stephen Kandel based on a story by Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Harvey Hart.
 It is the first of two episodes to feature Harcourt Fenton Mudd, an interstellar con man, who is transporting a cargo of female humans, i.e. "Mudd's Women".
The Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Division, also known as Metro, is an elite division within the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
 The Metro Division, which also contains LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, contains seven platoons of specially-trained police officers.
 It is tasked with numerous crime-fighting duties including solving major crimes, surveillance, providing counter-terrorism details and attending high-risk barricaded situations, such as a hostage situation.
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer.
 He is best remembered for creating the .
 Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer.
 Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war.
 Later, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television.
Zebra Three is a radio code name, more accurately known as a call sign, given by the fictional "Bay City, California" police department of the iconic 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch" to Robbery-Homicide Division detectives David Starsky and Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson; the BCPD was loosely based upon the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) .
 The "Zebra" part of their call sign refers to them being a geographic patrol unit assigned to a special detail; however, the LAPD normally does this with uniformed officers.
 Several Los Angeles locations were used for "Bay City", and uniformed police officers were seen wearing "BCPD" shoulder patches.
 Fans of the show applied the code name as a nickname for the Ford Gran Torino that Starsky owned; the general public picked up on it, and the car has been known since (incorrectly) as "Zebra Three", or more correctly the "Striped Tomato".
Paul Bishop is a thirty-five year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, Paul Bishop’s career has included a three-year tour with his department's Anti-Terrorist Division and over twenty-five years’ experience in the investigation of sex crimes.
 His Special Assaults Units regularly produced the highest number of detective initiated arrests and highest crime clearance rates in the city.
 Twice honored as Detective of the Year, Paul also received the Quality and Productivity Commission Award from the City of Los Angeles.
 As a nationally recognized interrogator, Paul starred as the lead interrogator and driving force behind the ABC reality show "Take The Money and Run" from producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
 Based on his expertise in deception detection, he currently conducts interrogation seminars for law enforcement, military, and human resource organizations.
 Paul has published fourteen novels, including four in his L.A.P.D. Detective Fey Croaker series, and one collection of short stories which includes a novelette featuring Croaker.
 He has also written numerous scripts for episodic television and feature films.
 He is the co-creator and editor of the Fight Card series of hardboiled boxing novels, which includes over forty titles, published under the pseudonym Jack Tunney.
 Paul’s own entries in the series are "Fight Card: Felony Fists" and "Fight Card: Swamp Walloper", both featuring the two-fisted cop turned fighter, Patrick ‘Felony’ Flynn.
 His latest novel, "Lie Catchers", begins a new series featuring top LAPD interrogators Ray Pagan and Calamity Jane Randall.
LAPD: Life on the Beat (sometimes referred to individually as LAPD or Life on the Beat) is an American reality television series that follows officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, as they respond to various incidents within their precincts' jurisdiction.
 The program aired in first-run syndication from September 11, 1995 to September 10, 1999 (premiering in 1997 in Portugal).
 Like its contemporary, "COPS", "LAPD" followed police officers on patrol and during investigations; however unlike "COPS", "Life on the Beat" only featured police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
 The series was originally titled simply "LAPD" for its first season in 1995, before adopting the expanded title in 1996, in conjunction with the introduction of an upgraded graphical look.
The Fuhrman tapes are 13 hours of taped interviews given by Los Angeles police officer Mark Fuhrman to writer Laura McKinny between 1985 and 1994.
 The tapes include many racist slurs and remarks made by Fuhrman, including uses of the word "nigger," descriptions of police brutality perpetrated on black suspects, misogynist slurs and descriptions of the harassment and intimidation of female Los Angeles police officers by male officers.
 Portions of the tapes were admitted into evidence during the O. J. Simpson murder case.
 In the tapes Fuhrman also made many references to the "planting of evidence" and implied that police brutality and evidence planting were common practice in the Los Angeles Police Department.
The Los Angeles Airport Police Division (sometimes referred to as "LAWAPD" or LAXPD") is the largest police agency in the United States dedicated exclusively to 24-hour airport activities.
 LAXPD is the fourth largest law enforcement agency in Los Angeles County, with more than 1,100 law enforcement, security and staff.
 It also has the largest civilian Airport security force in the nation.
 LAX Police is a division of Los Angeles Department of Airports, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).
 The City department that owns and operates two airports in Southern California: Los Angeles International, and Van Nuys (general aviation).
 Although currently working very closely with the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles Airport Police Department is a separate entity, primarily due to the Airport Police having specialized training and funding resources.
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, and the Los Angeles uprising, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in April and May 1992.
 The unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29 after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of Rodney King.
 It then spread throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area as thousands of people rioted over a six-day period following the announcement of the verdict.