Eva Sharpe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Eva Sharpe | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | #012 (02/05/2002) |
| Last appearance | #197 (10/03/2004) |
| Cause/Reason | Transferred to MIT |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Police Officer |
| Title | Detective Constable |
| Portrayed by | Diane Parish |
Detective Constable Eva Sharpe was a police officer in the long running ITV drama The Bill.
She quickly makes her mark at the station by being a feisty and instinctively good detective. Instantly popular amongst all her colleagues, Eva iis warm, loud, funny and quick-tempered. Initially she gets on poorly with her direct superior Debbie McAllister but after Debbie falls pregnant to Superintendent Tom Chandler the two find a mutual respect for each other and became friends.
Eva and her husband Paul, an Environmental Health Officer, have two young children. A straightforward working class girl, Eva doesn't worry about all that 'having it all' and 'work versus family' nonsense. She just gets on with things. She has always been aware that her colour is an advantage within the force. She knows full well that it got her into CID - and tells anyone who cares to listen. One of the main reasons Eva joined the police was because she was savvy enough to realise which way the wind would blow - and she reckoned, rightly, that she could benefit. The flipside is the racism she encounters from both colleagues and public alike. Eva handles this with characteristic directness - she doesn't let anybody get away with anything.
Whilst Eva is a lively addition to CID, she is popular with uniform too, and knows the valuable contacts they can provide her with. Cut from the same cloth as DCI Meadows, she doesn't suffer fools gladly. She likes order, so she likes law - and she is determined to make her mark at Sun Hill.
Unfortunately she clashes with new DI Neil Manson. The two never quite see eye to eye on matters - policing or personal. His attempts to have her transferred are tempered by DCI Meadows who arranges for Eva to join MIT.
[edit] Murder Investigaton Team
After leaving Sun Hill Eva is assigned to one of the Metropolitan Police's Murder Investigation Teams. Her new boss DI Trevor Hands is initially suspicious as to why Eva was transferred to his team, thinking she had been sent to spy on him by his superiors who he thinks don't trust him to run the team. Eva is welcomed onto the team by DS Rosie MacManus who tells Trevor to cut her some slack. Eva eventually proves herself to DI Hands who grudgingly admitts to Rosie that Eva is a good copper.
