LongArm
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| Real name | Police Sergeant P.J. O'Malley |
| Background | Patrol Officer |
| C.O.P.S Position | Second in Command of C.O.P.S. |
| Trademark Features | An extensive powercuff he uses to reel in crooks without having to waste much of his energy chasing them down. Also can be used as a grappling hook as well. |
| Extra Specialty | 10th generation police officer, and a strong follower of the "Letter of the Law." A dedicated family man who enjoys spending time with his family: made up of his wife Linda O'Malley, his son Brian O'Malley, and his father Mickey O'Malley. |
| Significant Episode Appearances | The Case of The Crime Circus, The Case of The Big Frame-up, The Case of The Stash Cash, The Case of The Baby Bad Guy, The Case of The Thieving Robots, The Case of The Boy Nobody Wanted. |
| Voiced by | John Stocker |
LongArm is a cartoon character in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series from Hasbro which ran from 1988-1989.
[edit] Character Profile
Longarm, second-in-command of C.O.P.S., is just like any other police officer in Empire City except he has special powercuffs he uses to cuff the bad guys from far away without having to chase them down. The powercuffs are very much like a grappling hook. It shoots out a single cuff with a long cable attached to it. When aimed at any criminal, it reels him in like a fish caught on a fishing hook. Longarm is a staunch law abiding cop who is strict in following "The Letter of the Law" right down to the last detail. He comes from from a long line of police officers who have served the streets for many generations. According to the I.D. card on the back of the Longarm action figure package, Longarm is a sixth generation police officer. However, in The Case of The Big Frame-Up, BulletProof mentions Brian, Longarm's son, to come from a family with 10 generations of cops blood in their veins. Perhaps in the cartoon, Longarm is a 10th generation police officer while his father, Mickey O'Malley is a 9th Generation police officer (who is now retired) and apparently, Brian will be the 11th generation police officer when he grows up in the future.
Longarm is a family man, who enjoys spending time with his family when he's off duty. He has a wife (Linda O'Malley) and a 10 year old son named Brian O'Malley who wants very much to grow up to be exactly like his father. He also has an elderly father named Mickey O'Malley, who also served as a police officer for the Empire City Police Department back when he was a young man. Mickey somewhat disproves all of the new high-tech gadgets the COPS use to catch crooks and longs for the "good old days" when the ECPD didn't use any high-tech computers or "new fangled" gadgets, as he was able to catch criminals the "old fashioned way" without all of the modern conveniences being used today.
[edit] Major Highlights
[edit] The Case of The Big Frame-Up
In this episode, Longarm had no choice but to place his own father under arrest for a crime Mickey did, in fact, not commit. Mickey is falsely accused of pulling a fur heist and it is soon discovered that Nightshade has set him up as a revenge retaliation for thwarting a gold coin heist she and Berserko had been pulling at a shopping mall. After receiving a tip from his son about Nightshade and Berserko's plans to rob The Mountback (a large high-tech blimp), Longarm raced to the blimp, learning the truth about the frame-up and goes after the crooks, who tried to escape the runaway blimp unleashed from its cables after Berserko stupidly pushed the "Danger" button while he was supposed to pushed the "Door" button to lock the doors so that no one wandered on board.
Nightshade escaped, but Berserko was caught by Longarm, who made him confess to framing Mickey for the fur heist Berserko and the other crooks have pulled themselves. Longarm reels him in and was able to land the runaway blimp safely in the water after a hair-raising ride in the sky. Picked up by Bullseye in his Air Raid Helicopter, Longarm tells Bulletproof to get his dad out of jail since he now has a full confession that Berserko himself (being turned in as of that moment), has set his father up.
