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The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is the police force of Ankh-Morpork, a fictional city in the Discworld series by English author Terry Pratchett.
A series of eight fantasy novels and one short story explores the growth, development and inner workings of the Watch. The novels generally feature Watch Commander Sam Vimes as protagonist and follow the narrative structure of a crime novel. In each story, the Watch are called on to solve a mysterious crime. In order of publication, they are:
The Watch and its individual members also appear in separate stories in the Discworld series, especially those set in Ankh-Morpork.
The Watch was also the loose inspiration for the 2021 fantasy police procedural television series[1][2] The Watch.