This is the classic cop-in-the-chat moment: a uniformed police officer with a medium-light skin tone, tipping the vibe toward rules, order, and occasionally pure sarcasm. On Apple devices, you’ll spot the deep-navy cap with a shiny visor and a metal shield front-and-center, paired with a neat blue uniform and a calm, forward-facing smile. It reads official without being intense, like a polite traffic stop for your group chat.
People drop this emoji when they’re joking about being the fun police, calling a playful timeout, or announcing that somebody’s officially busted or caught in 4K. It’s used ironically to mock overzealous rule-making, dramatically to say freeze in DMs, or flirtatiously when you’re writing someone a ticket for stealing your heart. Pop culture nods are common too: Brooklyn Nine-Nine one-liners, Hot Fuzz humor, GTA wanted-level chaos, or even a Paw Patrol wink. The medium-light skin tone makes it feel more personal and inclusive, and you can switch to the gendered versions when you want to go full detective mode. In short, it’s the go-to badge for authority vibes, hall-monitor energy, and meme-friendly law-and-order theatrics.
The Police Officer emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3607 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown Police Officer Man Police Officer: Medium-Light Skin Tone police officer: medium-light skin tone man police officer: medium-light skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👮🏼 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👮🏼 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👮 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👮 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f46e, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F46E, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128110, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xAE, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 AE, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 256, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC6E, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc6e, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56430, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F46E 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F46E, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128110, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F46E\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xae\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC6E\uD83C\uDFFC" |
