101 Movie Quotes about Police (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 20, 2026

Memorable quotes about police, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 This is the police! We've got the place surrounded, see? You Goofs come out with your hands up.

Jim Cummings as Pete in A Goofy Movie (1995)

2 Police. I know. A skeleton. Keep calm. Turn off the lights. Make sure doors are locked.

Quote from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

3 How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that. -It's very simple. All he has to do is enlist.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau; Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

4 Hello, 911? I need the police right away. This guy took my teddy bear. Hello?

Mark Wahlberg as John Bennett in Ted (2012)

5 I can do anything. I'm the Chief of Police.

Roy Scheider as Chief Martin Brody in Jaws

6 You know, if I wasn't in uniform, I'd split your skull with the butt of this revolver faster than you could say police brutality.

Quote from Vacation (1983)

7 The police! Hide me. Hide me, Rat!

Quote from The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

8 You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men hadn't all eternity.

Claude Rains as Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

9 Help. Police. Murder.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

10 Support your police. That's our message.

Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966)