Both are constant targets of Desk Sergeant Trudy Platt's attitude. Both Atwater and Burgess were constant targets of Desk Sergeant Platt's sarcasm. Wambaugh made a brief appearance in the pilot as a Desk Sergeant. Inspector Nelson and Desk Sergeant Pratt are replaced by Briggs and Swift. Sergeant Trudy Platt is the desk sergeant at District 21. Nozzer is a desk sergeant at West End Central police station. As the desk sergeant, she is the immediate superior of the district's patrol officers. At a nearby police station, only Detective Kam Chow and a desk sergeant believe him. Desk Sergeant Phil Esterhaus (Michael Conrad) confides in Fay about his teen-age sweetheart, Cindy. Routalempi (voiced by Juho Milonoff) is the 46-year-old desk sergeant at the precinct.