The Bill

The Bill is a long-running British police drama shown on ITV1.

Popular characters from previous series

Divisional Commanders

• Supt. Tom Chandler (Steven Hartley)
• Ch. Supt. Charles Brownlow (Peter Ellis)

Detective (Chief) Inspectors

• DCI Frank Burnside (Christopher Ellison)
• DI Chris Deakin (Shaun Scott)
• DCI Gordon Wray (Clive Wood)
• DI Alex Cullen (Ged Simmons)

Uniform Inspectors

• Ch. Insp. (Operations). Derek Conway (Ben Roberts)
• Ch. Insp. Philip Cato (Philip Whitchurch)
• Insp. Andrew Monroe (Colin Tarrant)

Detective Sergeants

• DS Don Beech (Billy Murray) Wanted for corruption, he fled abroad to Australia to escape imprisonment. He returned to organise a robbery, but was captured and imprisoned. He escaped again and is currently on the run (exact location or circumstances unknown). Reports have come in of him being sighted in the East end of London.
• DS Debbie McAllister (Natalie Roles)
• DS Ted Roach (Tony Scannell)
• DC/DS Mickey Webb (Chris Simmons)

Uniform Sergeants

• Sgt. Matthew Boyden (Tony O'Callaghan) After twelve years in Sun Hill Boyden was shot dead by his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend (at her request).
• Sgt. Bob Cryer (Eric Richard) Cryer was seen as institution by fans and was the 'father figure' sergeant to his relief. He was shot by 'friendly fire' from the then PC (now Sgt.) Dale Smith during a hostage situation. He survived the shot, but was unfit to return to the job. He has returned for guest spots three times since his departure - once for the memorial service of Inspector Monroe, once to help his niece Roberta, then the station's front desk officer, solve a case, and again alongside Sgt. Peters for DS Roach's funeral.
• Sgt. Craig Gilmore (Hywel Simons)
• Sgt. Alec Peters (Larry Dann)

Detective Constables

• DC Ken Drummond (Russell Floyd)
• DC Danny Glaze (Karl Collins)
• DC Duncan Lennox (George Rossi)
• DC Alfred 'Tosh' Lines (Kevin Lloyd)
• DC Jim Carver (Mark Wingett) As mentioned above, Carver was the subject of 'Woodentop'. He left Sun Hill in early 2005 in order to sort his life out. He has transferred, and has contacted Sgt Ackland since. Wingett (actor) has hinted a possible return.
• DC Gary Best (Ciaran Griffiths)
• DC Kate Spears (Tania Emery)
• DC Suzi Croft (Kerry Peers)
• DC Viv Martella (Nula Conwell)

Police Constables

• PC Ken Melvin (Mark Powley)(gentle Christian, killed in an explosion)
• PC Luke Ashton (Scott Neal)
• PC Cathy Bradford (Connie Hyde)
• PC Gabriel Kent (Todd Carty) [Real name David Kent
• PC Andrea Dunbar (Natalie J. Robb)
• PC Nick Klein (Rene Zagger)
• PC Polly Page (Lisa Geoghan)
• PC Cameron Tait from Australia (Daniel MacPherson)
• PC Des Taviner (Paul Usher)
• PC Kerry Young (Beth Cordingly)

Civilian Staff

• SRO Marilyn Chambers (Vickie Gates)
• PCSO Colin Fairfax (Tim Steed)