Francis McReary

Francis "Frankie" McReary is a highly corrupt officer from Grand Theft Auto IV. He gave several missions to the Niko Bellic, before getting either killed or spared by the player.

Background
Francis McReary is the brother of Patrick McReary, Derrick McReary, Kate McReary and Gerald McReary. Francis and his siblings grew up in an Irish Catholic home. While most of his brothers became criminals - or activists, like Derrick - Francis wanted to made career in the police, much to the disdain of his brothers. He initially wanted to become a priest, but as his brother Patrick recalls, he had to abandon that ambition after being caught cheating on his final test to qualify ; he also committed several mischiefs, like stealing money from the church collection plate.

Francis managed to become a high-ranked police officer from the Liberty CIty Police Departement. His philosophy is to "cleaning up the streets of Liberty CIty", without the interference from the justice, by assassinating streets criminals (mostly those who are opposed to him). In addition, Francis is implied to have illicits tastes, which go unspecified but which may be related to drugs and/or prostitution, as he orders the assassination of a drug-dealing pimp who is implied to be personally inconveniencing him.

First encounter with Niko
Francis first meets Niko Bellic during a publicity spot with Manny Escuela. Later in the game, he calls Niko and arranges a meeting at Castle Gardens, where he reveals that he knows of Niko's criminal activity in Liberty City; seeing that Niko could be useful, Francis blackmailed Niko to work for him, as he decided to use him as a pawn instead of arresting him.

As a mission giver
Francis first's order given to Niko is to get rid of a blackmailer who possesses incriminating photographs, and then the death of Tom Goldberg, a lawyer who has evidence against Francis. Then, Francis has Niko to kill a drug-dealer and then the dealer's accomplice, who is threatening to talk to the police about McReary.

Blood Brothers
After Francis' brother Derrick returns from Ireland, Derrick intends to expose Francis' corruption to public, something Francis could not accept as he aspires to become the Commissioner of the LCPD. He orders Niko to kill Derrick during a meeting he has arranged with his brother. Niko has the choice to either kills Derrick (as he claimed) or kills Francis instead (as Derrick claimed). If the player has successfully killed Derrick, Francis will stop blackmailing him and the player will now have the ability to get rid of the cops at any time by calling Francis; in addition, he will gain a lot of money. If the player kills Francis, howewer, he won't gain anything but will respect Niko moral's principles.

Trivia

 * It seems he has the same philosophy as Frank Tenpenny, thinking if a necessary number of people do like he does, the community would improve.
 * He's hated by his brothers, and even by Kate (his sister). Packie remarks that "Francis is just as crooked as we are — more so".