This is a list of characters from the police drama The Bill ordered
alphabetically by character surname. For a full list of characters
ordered by rank, see list of The Bill characters. The characters are
all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill police
station in London.PC Francis "Taffy" Edwards was known as the 'thin
streak of Welsh misery'. A quiet country boy who hailed from a poor
farming family near Bangor, he sometimes struggled to adapt to city
life. Edwards was extremely lazy, often thinking up ingenious ways to
avoid having to do serious work â€" but he had an infectious charm and
was popular amongst the relief. He would also wade in with the team
when needed. Edwards is probably best remembered for when he got
hopelessly drunk on his stag night and ended up stripped naked and
abandoned in the street by his mates from Sun Hill â€" much to the
annoyance of Mary, his Welsh bride-to-be. After brushes with pigs,
chickens and assorted oddballs, he asked for a transfer back to Wales.
His final day convinced him he had made the right decision: Brownlow
did not seem to know who he was and Conway thought he had already
left. In the end he decided to give his own leaving party a miss and
headed home alone. He returned for Ken Melvin's funeral later that
year.PCSO Colin Fairfax arrived at Sun Hill along with another PCSO,
Laura Bryant. Throughout his short time at Sun Hill, he showed to be a
bigot and frequently had run ins with PC Leela Kapoor. His time at Sun
Hill came to an end when after he spat in PC Kapoor's face whilst in
the canteen and subsequently left the station. DC Ken Drummond was
tasked with bringing him back into the station and found him drinking
in a local pub. DC Drummond tried his best to persuade Fairfax to
return but when he refused, DC Drummond went to arrest him. Fairfax
retaliated by knocking DC Drummond unconscious and handcuffing him in
a petrol-doused van and drove towards Sun Hill police station. Fairfax
dived out of the van before it careered into the front of the police
station; with Sgt. Smith and SRO Marilyn Chambers working inside. The
following explosion and fire killed two officers and a few days later;
Fairfax was charged with the murders of DC Ken Drummond, PC Andrea
Dunbar and SRO Marilyn Chambers.PC Will Fletcher grew up in Hemel
Hempstead with his parents and sister. He was inspired to join the
police by a friend of his father's, who was an Area Car driver in the
police force and often told him about his work. Like most others at
Sun Hill, he did his training at Hendon. It is not clear where he
served his probationary period or indeed how long he has been in the
force, but he previously served at Hemel Hempstead and he was later
transferred to Sun Hill. He is a fan of cars and motorcyclesâ€"on his
first day he drove to work without his hands on the wheel as he tried
to read a mapâ€"in his spare time, he enjoys boxing. When he was
injured, he was unable to compete in a boxing tournament with PC Dan
Casper, which was something Inspector Gina Gold set up. However, he
stood in his friend's corner for every match and tried to convince
Casper to tell Gold about his steroid abuse. He later began a
relationship with PC Honey Harman, but they split up after he refused
to go on holiday with her in Tenerife. Harman was later shot and
killed after being held captive by drug barons. Fletcher was
devastated initially, having been one of the first on the scene when
Harman's body was discovered, but later came to terms with her death.
He became close friends with Casper, and the two were frequently seen
paired on the beat together until Dan resigned. Since then he was
paired with PC Roger Valentine, PC Benjamin Gayle and PC Tony Stamp
among others. He showed strong feelings for colleague PC Emma Keane
and was violently opposed to her marriage to lawyer Matt Hinckley.
Despite being beaten up on Keane's wedding day after she revealed to
Hinckley that she slept with Will and being able to prove that
Hinckley was behind the attack, he turned up at the wedding to wish
them well. Later, Fletcher helped Keane to uncover the truth about
Hinckley's old girlfriendâ€"who supposedly died a few years
earlierâ€"and found that she was actually alive and was only just
recovering from a nervous break down after having a miscarriage.
Fletcher transferred to CID in August 2008, after his police work
impressed DI Manson. He was the first uniformed officer to transfer to
CID since DC Gary Best. In July 2009, Fletcher made the move from
Trainee DC to a fully-fledged DC. Fletcher left Sun Hill in January
2010, when he transferred to another station as a Sergeant.
alphabetically by character surname. For a full list of characters
ordered by rank, see list of The Bill characters. The characters are
all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill police
station in London.PC Francis "Taffy" Edwards was known as the 'thin
streak of Welsh misery'. A quiet country boy who hailed from a poor
farming family near Bangor, he sometimes struggled to adapt to city
life. Edwards was extremely lazy, often thinking up ingenious ways to
avoid having to do serious work â€" but he had an infectious charm and
was popular amongst the relief. He would also wade in with the team
when needed. Edwards is probably best remembered for when he got
hopelessly drunk on his stag night and ended up stripped naked and
abandoned in the street by his mates from Sun Hill â€" much to the
annoyance of Mary, his Welsh bride-to-be. After brushes with pigs,
chickens and assorted oddballs, he asked for a transfer back to Wales.
His final day convinced him he had made the right decision: Brownlow
did not seem to know who he was and Conway thought he had already
left. In the end he decided to give his own leaving party a miss and
headed home alone. He returned for Ken Melvin's funeral later that
year.PCSO Colin Fairfax arrived at Sun Hill along with another PCSO,
Laura Bryant. Throughout his short time at Sun Hill, he showed to be a
bigot and frequently had run ins with PC Leela Kapoor. His time at Sun
Hill came to an end when after he spat in PC Kapoor's face whilst in
the canteen and subsequently left the station. DC Ken Drummond was
tasked with bringing him back into the station and found him drinking
in a local pub. DC Drummond tried his best to persuade Fairfax to
return but when he refused, DC Drummond went to arrest him. Fairfax
retaliated by knocking DC Drummond unconscious and handcuffing him in
a petrol-doused van and drove towards Sun Hill police station. Fairfax
dived out of the van before it careered into the front of the police
station; with Sgt. Smith and SRO Marilyn Chambers working inside. The
following explosion and fire killed two officers and a few days later;
Fairfax was charged with the murders of DC Ken Drummond, PC Andrea
Dunbar and SRO Marilyn Chambers.PC Will Fletcher grew up in Hemel
Hempstead with his parents and sister. He was inspired to join the
police by a friend of his father's, who was an Area Car driver in the
police force and often told him about his work. Like most others at
Sun Hill, he did his training at Hendon. It is not clear where he
served his probationary period or indeed how long he has been in the
force, but he previously served at Hemel Hempstead and he was later
transferred to Sun Hill. He is a fan of cars and motorcyclesâ€"on his
first day he drove to work without his hands on the wheel as he tried
to read a mapâ€"in his spare time, he enjoys boxing. When he was
injured, he was unable to compete in a boxing tournament with PC Dan
Casper, which was something Inspector Gina Gold set up. However, he
stood in his friend's corner for every match and tried to convince
Casper to tell Gold about his steroid abuse. He later began a
relationship with PC Honey Harman, but they split up after he refused
to go on holiday with her in Tenerife. Harman was later shot and
killed after being held captive by drug barons. Fletcher was
devastated initially, having been one of the first on the scene when
Harman's body was discovered, but later came to terms with her death.
He became close friends with Casper, and the two were frequently seen
paired on the beat together until Dan resigned. Since then he was
paired with PC Roger Valentine, PC Benjamin Gayle and PC Tony Stamp
among others. He showed strong feelings for colleague PC Emma Keane
and was violently opposed to her marriage to lawyer Matt Hinckley.
Despite being beaten up on Keane's wedding day after she revealed to
Hinckley that she slept with Will and being able to prove that
Hinckley was behind the attack, he turned up at the wedding to wish
them well. Later, Fletcher helped Keane to uncover the truth about
Hinckley's old girlfriendâ€"who supposedly died a few years
earlierâ€"and found that she was actually alive and was only just
recovering from a nervous break down after having a miscarriage.
Fletcher transferred to CID in August 2008, after his police work
impressed DI Manson. He was the first uniformed officer to transfer to
CID since DC Gary Best. In July 2009, Fletcher made the move from
Trainee DC to a fully-fledged DC. Fletcher left Sun Hill in January
2010, when he transferred to another station as a Sergeant.
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