Lieutenant Frank Drebin

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Frank Drebin (full title Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad) is the main character in the Police Squad! series and the Naked Gun movies. He is a member of Police Squad, a special department of the police force, where he served for many years. He is known for being a bumbling fool, causing lots of problems and trouble for those around them but being entirely oblivious to it all. He works alongside police captain Ed Hocken and Nordeborg and the trio generally work as a team.

[edit] Relationships

Throughout the Naked Gun movies, Frank had an on/off relationship with Jane Spencer, a woman he originally met when she was the receptioninst of Vincent Ludwig. In the first movie they meet and develop some kind of relationship. Until he loses her at some point. He then comes across her again in The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear when she was working at the Meinhiemer Research Institute and a bomb was set off in the building. They eventually get back together despite a hinted-at relationship between Jane and Quentin Hapsburg, the villain and main antagonist in the movie. Then in The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult the couple are married and trying repeatedly to have a baby. Frank is retired but Ed and Nordeborg lure him back into work, much to the anger of Jane, who thought if Frank worked, he would always be neglecting her. The couple eventually get back together and have a child at the end of the film.

[edit] Trivia

Frank's full title, Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad, is not a real position but rather a merge of three official titles.
Frank is Dutch-Irish, as stated in the first movie but his father was from Wales.