Cinema has always had an obsession with cops, and probably always will. Famous and iconic directors such as Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet have all made movies focusing on the profession and the people involved in it. Cops are ever involved in drama on various scales, and their job has to be done with a right balance of emotion and ruthlessness and their days at work feature a more than average level of emotion. Corrupt cops are also a permanent staple of cinema as everyone loves an anti-hero/villain, but this list is for the cops on the (relatively) straight and narrow. Few professions have been detailed as intrinsically and often as that of a cop. The life of a cop is often glamourised extensively in the movies with gun fights and car chases being common occurrences in cop movies, though most cops go their whole careers without once drawing their gun. We see cops every day of our lives and they are the perfect vehicle for a piece of drama as the cop life can be shown and experienced in a multitude of ways. Cops are involved with everything and engage with every type of person from every social class, which is perhaps why cinema has such an obsession with them. They are always in the center of a conflict and it is confliction itself that powers much of cinema. Here's ten of the best..