Lt. Hedgecock

Lt. Hedgecock is a minor antagonist in Robocop 1987 film and the leader of the Detroit Police SWAT.

Lt.Hedgecock appears in the Detroit City hall negotiating the former council member Ron Miller who holds Mayor Gibson and his staff hostage demanding his job back which Lt. Hedgecock fails and nearly got the mayor killed thanks to Robocop who saves the mayor's life and Ron is then arrested afterwards.

However Lt. Hedgecock later betrays Detroit Police and taken control of the SWAT to follow Dick Jones' orders to destroy Robocop. He and his SWAT team arrive at the OCP parking complex confronting Robocop who had just escaped the ED-209. Before they open fire Robocop's comrades Kaplan, Jerry, Ramirez and Manson protest and tried to stop Lt. Hedgecock but he tells them they have orders to destroy him causing them to walk off in disgust. Lt. Hedgecock ignores them and orders his team to open fire at Robocop who then escapes into Parking level 3. Anne Lewis Robocop's partner arrives having alerted by Kaplan and the others to Lt. Hedgecock's treachery and helps him board on her police cruiser. During that time Lt. Hedgecock sees her having defied her orders to destroy her partner, orders her team to open fire at her causing Lewis to realize Lt. Hedgecock is a traitor and immediately flees from the scene.

It is unknown what happened to Lt. hedgecock afterwards and he didn't appeared in Robocop 2 and Robocop 3. However he is been killed by Anne Lewis for his treachery and decision to follow the corrupted OCP Executive's orders to destroy her partner and Whitakker replaces him as the SWAT leader and has the SWAT suspended for their actions.