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Sergeant Harrison Yates is the South Park police detective and is the leader of the Park County Police Force who is always trying to investigate crime in South Park.
Background[]
A shaved police officer who is identical to Yates appears working under Lieutenant Dawson in "Lil' Crime Stoppers".
He is often depicted as either incompetent or corrupt, but nonetheless dedicated to his job, though prone to excessive violence and often racism. Yates has a supportive but rarely-seen wife named Maggie, and an unseen son mentioned in "Cartman's Incredible Gift". The Park County Police Department was first seen with a similar character named Lieutenant Dawson in "Lil' Crime Stoppers", also voiced by Parker with a similar design, voice, and role, while Yates was first shown working for the FBI in "Christian Rock Hard" in a similar building. Yates was briefly shown working for the older South Park Police Department in "Casa Bonita". Though the character has since been firmly established as a detective in South Park, occasionally he is still seen elsewhere - in "Free Willzyx" he and his men were investigating the theft of an orca whale in Denver. In "The Coon", Yates is the primary police officer approached by Cartman in the guise of the Coon. While he seems to see the Coon as an annoyance and tells him to leave, Yates praises the assistance and work of the town's other hero, Mysterion, despite neither hero doing much to assist the police force themselves and the lack of response by them to either hero.
Appearance[]
Yates has orange hair, an orange mustache, and thick, orange eyebrows. He wears a white, button-up shirt, black tie, black suspenders, gold watch, a belt with a gold buckle, and in a brown leather holster his stainless Smith and Wesson 5900-series pistol with wood grips (as does his partner Mitch Murphy, indicating this is most likely the standard issue duty sidearm for South Park PD) As a prostitute, he wore a short, red skirt, a red bra and a blonde wig.