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police procedural

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police procedural

Summary

police procedural is a fiction genre[1]. It draws 2,155 Wikipedia views per month (fiction_genre category, ranking #12 of 59).[2]

Key Facts

  • police procedural's instance of is recorded as fiction genre[3].
  • police procedural is a type of detective fiction[4].
  • police procedural is a type of procedural[5].
  • police procedural is a type of crime fiction[6].
  • police procedural's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Police procedurals[7].

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Definition and Type

police procedural's instance of is recorded as fiction genre[3]. Recorded subclass of include detective fiction[4], procedural[5], and crime fiction[6].

Why It Matters

police procedural draws 2,155 Wikipedia views per month (fiction_genre category, ranking #12 of 59).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). police procedural. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/police-procedural
MLA “police procedural.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/police-procedural.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_police-procedural_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{police procedural}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/police-procedural}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → fiction genre
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → detective fiction, procedural, crime fiction
    Subclass of → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 29712, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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