High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RoboCop (formerly Detroit Police Officer Alex James Murphy and referred by his model name OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001) is a fictional Detroit cyborg police officer and the protagonist of the feature film series of the same name. The character begins as a human being who is killed in the line of duty by a vicious crime gang. Subsequently, Murphy is transformed into the cyborg entity by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP).