Character

Newport Police Officer

procedural alert businesslike prepared disciplined

The Newport Police Officer operates from the White House Situation Room, relaying President Bartlet's orders and delivering time-sensitive updates during crises. He confirmed execution of Task Force Dawn Sky after Bartlet approved a Delta Force hostage rescue with Comanches and Black Hawks inserting for the extraction. Responding to Zoey Bartlet's abduction, he calls 'Ten, hut!' to snap the room to attention and reports two more hours needed for nightclub interviews. He supports Leo McGarry, Admiral Fitzwallace, Nancy McNally, Agent Ron Butterfield, and Bartlet with procedural efficiency amid lockdowns, threat assessments, and fractured command rhythms.

5 appearances

Also known as: Officer

Newport Police …'s Journey

A timeline through the narrative

5 moments

S4E17 · Red Haven's On Fire

Names on the Air: Hostages Named as Campaigners Walk Out of Jail

Neutral, businesslike; focused on completing required steps rather than on the identities of the detainees.

The Newport Police Officer methodically processes signatures and initials, directing Toby and Charlie through release formalities and remaining bureaucratically indifferent to their national profiles.

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S4E17 · Red Haven's On Fire

Bonding, Bail and a Takeover

Neutral and professional; focused on completing paperwork and restoring order.

The Newport police officer conducts procedural processing, instructs where to sign and initial, and maintains a businesslike, supervisory presence while the detainees banter.

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S4E17 · Red Haven's On Fire

Toby Shrugs Off the Scandal and Takes the Reins

Neutral and businesslike—focused on completing administrative duties, indifferent to the political identities of the detainees.

The Newport police officer processes release paperwork, instructs Toby where to sign and initial, and maintains procedural focus, interrupting the aides' banter with bureaucratic directives.

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S4E23 · Twenty-Five

Lockdown and the President's Fracture

Alert professionalism — focused on logistics and timelines rather than emotion.

The Newport Police Officer snaps the room to attention with a command ('Ten, hut!') and provides timing estimates for interviews, enforcing procedural tempo and clerking operational timeframes.

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S4E23 · Twenty-Five

Low‑Tech Abduction, High‑Level Uncertainty

Professional and terse; focused on timelines and logistics rather than analysis.

Calls the room to attention with 'Ten, hut!' and reports timing for club interviews, providing procedural cadence and the sense of an ongoing field operation requiring coordination.

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Affiliation

The White House