John Munch

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John Munch
Rank Sergeant
Affiliation New York City Police Department
Division Special Victims Unit
First Appearance L&O: "Charm City"
Played by Richard Belzer

John Munch is a Sergeant previously affiliated with the Baltimore Police Department and now assigned to the NYPD's Special Victims Unit.

Munch was married at least four times, the final time to Billie Lou, a bartender at the Waterfront Bar, which Munch owned with fellow detectives Tim Bayliss and Meldrick Lewis. However, by late 1999, the couple had broken up after Billie Lou (supposedly) slept with another officer from the Baltimore P.D. and was in the process of getting divorced.

While in Baltimore, Munch and his fellow officers assisted Lennie Briscoe and Reynaldo Curtis on three occasions. Munch disliked Briscoe at first because Briscoe had slept with one of Munch's ex-wives. However, in time, Munch grew to like Briscoe.

Munch took early retirement from the Baltimore P.D. in 1999 and moved to New York, swearing he would never step foot in Baltimore again. While living off his pension from Baltimore, Munch joined the NYPD and was assigned to the Special Victims Unit. He has had three partners there over the years: Brian Cassidy, Monique Jeffries, and Odafin Tutuola.

In 2006 his uncle, legally crazy, Andrew Munch (played by Jerry Lewis) came into his life in New York City. Munch thought his uncle was in Florida at a nursing home and not a homeless man. While in the squad room Andrew overhears Dani Beck talking to the victim. When the case is thrown out for inproper procedure Andrew follows the actual culprit along with Stabler and Beck. In the end of the episode Andrew pushes the suspect onto the tracks of an oncomming subway car. By Andrew's own wishes he is put into a mental ill facility and says goodbye to Munch. (SVU:"Uncle")

Munch is a huge conspiracy theorist, much to the dismay of many of his fellow detectives who frequently ignore his ramblings or tune him out.

Sgt. Munch is the first Sergeant assigned to Manhattan SVU.