👮Police Officer Emoji
Usually, when someone sends you the 👮 emoji, they’re just acknowledging the image itself. It's a straightforward way to show they see the police officer graphic.
The 👮 emoji represents a police officer.
- Unicode
- U+1F46E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cop:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👮 Police Officer emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 10.
Police Officer emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F46E — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your police officer looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Police Officer emoji skin tones
👮 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Police Officer emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :cop:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F46E.
How to type the 👮 Police Officer emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F46E when there is no key at all.
Police Officer emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the police officer as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Police Officer emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around police officer for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👮, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👮 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 👮 means in other countries
Same literal read worldwide — a uniformed officer — with a joke layer of “rule enforcer” added in casual chat.
Straightforward reference to law enforcement or an actual officer on duty
Teasing label for someone being overly strict, like the classic “grammar police”
Best kept literal — the joke version can land oddly where police trust is low
Before you send it: Use the joking “rule enforcer” meaning only with people who’ll clearly read it as a joke.
What 👮 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
👮 vs 👮♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Police Officer
Code: U+1F46E · added 2010
Shortcode: :cop:
Usually, when someone sends you the 👮 emoji, they’re just acknowledging the image itself.
Unicode name: Woman Police Officer
Code: U+1F46E U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :female-police-officer:
Generally, when someone sends you the 👮♀️ emoji, they are referencing a police officer or law enforcement in some way.
Where the 👮 Police Officer emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F46E never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👮 existed there as
KDDI au E5DD, SoftBank E152.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Police Officer was approved as U+1F46E and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👮 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.