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Dave Quinnan
Police Constable Dave Quinnan

Police Constable Dave Quinnan

Birth Name: David Patrick Quinnan [1]
Nickname(s): Dave
IC: Gender
1Male   Male
Occupation: Police Officer
Metropolitan Police     Sun Hill
Rank: Police Constable
Call Sign: 340
Epaulette No.: SO 340
Status: Transferred: SO10, Covert Operations
Affiliation: Metropolitan Police
Curr. Posting: SO10, Covert Operations
Curr. Rank: Police Constable
Occ. Status
ACTIVE
●  Service Record  ●
Portrayed by:Andrew Paul
 ● First Appearance: Chinese Whispers
 ● Last Appearance: Quinnan, Part 6
List of Appearances

When PC Dave Quinnan arrived at Sun Hill in 1989, he thought he had the place sussed out pretty quick. A bit fly, a bit of a manipulator, was our Dave.

Unlike most of the others, he’d been around. He trained as an electrician after leaving school with 2 GCSEs and he’d worked on the oil rigs up in Aberdeen - attracted by the lure of a fat wage packet. After the burst of the Aberdeen oil bubble, Quinnan lost his job and returned to the south to find a new life. He joined the force in 1986, serving his probationary at Bow Street. Police work appealed – not because he wanted to help the victims of crime. He simply felt that someone had to keep order and nick wrong’uns and it might as well be him. The pay wasn’t bad and, unlike the oil business, thieving wasn’t likely to go into decline.

Born in Colliers Wood, Dave came from a large family and was his mother’s favourite. He was a charming, shrewd manipulator, good at sizing people up quickly and telling them what they wanted to hear. He was always first to the bar and always had a tenner to lend you if you were short. Money was the chief reason he joined the force: he was attracted by the substantial pay increase granted the police force by the Thatcher government. He wasn't an idealist; police work for him was about keeping the peace and punishing wrongdoers - if he'd wanted to help people he'd have joined the Samaritans. He enjoyed the uniform and the authority it gave him.

Early in his career at Sun Hill he caught a child-abductor and got a commendation. Then he did a bit of electrical work for money – strictly against the rules – and, when the chap he did it for turned up, he worried he’d be found out. Over the years he became more careful and thoughtful; he was not so ready to judge a book by its cover. He helped old ladies cross the road, and he went back to check on them, too. But you didn’t expect deep caring from Quinnan – he may have wound you up to laugh in your face.


His best mate was Tony Stamp with whom he’d been on dozens of escapades. They helped each other out of many holes over the years. Steve Loxton was another pal. In the early days Bob Cryer would always support Quinnan when the young man’s sometimes unconventional methods got him into trouble with Andrew Monroe. Dave's latter time at Sun Hill was blighted by bad luck. In 1999 he was viciously stabbed by a bunch of youths on the Jasmine Allen, his marriage broke down after his infidelity and he suffered a breakdown from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

But nothing kept a good Dave down. He enjoyed some variety in his work. He worked in the Bumblebee squad for a time, working in plain clothes. He may well have ended up in CID – but not yet. After a particularly successful undercover operation Dave walked out of Sun Hill and into SO10, Covert Operations...but not without first leaving Polly Page devastated and on the verge of nervous collapse.


Service Record

Main article: Service Record
  • 1986 - First Posting: Bow Street (Probationer)
  • 1989 - Transferred: Sun Hill
  • 1993 - Seconded to Operation Bumblebee
  • 1998 - Death of Simon Atwell gives evidence in Court.
  • 1999 - attacked by gang members
  • 2002 - Transferred: SO10 - Covert Operations

Family and Relationships

Relationships

  • Jenny Delaney

Dave married Jenny Delaney in 1999. (more soon...)

  • Polly Page

Dave dated Polly Page between 2001-2002. (more soon...) 

Ryan (Nephew)


References

Major Storylines

1999 Stabbing

After tensions on the Jasmine Allan with police, Dave is stabbed.

1999 Affair with Jenny Quinnan

Dave has an affair with George Garfields girlfriend Jenny. He later married Jenny.

2000-02 Affair with Polly Page

Dave has an affair with Polly Page leaving her suicidal.

2001 Britannmania

Undercover operation with DC Webbe on sport related violence.

2002 Quinnan

A collection of episode noting the end of an era for PC Dave Quinnan.


Preceded by:
PC Pete Ramsey
Sun Hill PC
1989-2002
Succeeded by:
None


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