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Glenn Fletcher[edit source] DC/Supt/DCC Glenn Fletcher, QGM (Ray Emmet Brown[]) appears in episode two of the second series as a Detective Constable in 1973 and, in momentary flashes forward, as a Deputy Chief Constable in 2006. He was one of the Manchester and Salford Police's first black recruits at the start of the 1970s.[3] In 1973, at only nineteen years of age,[4] he is newly transferred to C Division CID[5] as a detective constable. As the first black officer in the division, he experiences racist jokes and bullying from DS Ray Carling, to which Fletcher responds by agreeing with and making light of the racism. Sam encourages young DC Fletcher to assert himself and fight the racism which he's been tolerating.

In the intervening years, Fletcher rises through the ranks in Hyde. He becomes Sam Tyler's superintendent and mentor, and is the senior officer who has Sam promoted to Detective Chief Inspector. His 2006 self is shown wearing the ribbons of both the Queen's Gallantry Medal and the Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.[6] The first black to hold the rank of Deputy Chief Constable in the Greater Manchester Police, he dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Chorlton home in 2006 at the age of 52, while Sam is in a coma.[7] The character is based on 1970s comic Charlie Williams.

His counterpart in the U.S. remake is Detective/Captain Fletcher Bellow (Edi Gathegi).