Officer Higgins

Officer Higgins
Background Information
Feature Films	Zootopia
Books	The Big Case The Art of Zootopia The Official Zootopia Handbook A Little Golden Book: Zootopia Big Trouble in Little Rodentia
Comics	Cinestory Comic
Voiced by	Raymond S. Persi
Character Information
Species	Hippopotamus
Gender	Male
Appearance	Pink skin, square-shaped teeth, green eyes, deep blue police uniform
Occupation	Police Officer
Alignment	Good
Home	Zootopia

“Atten-hut!”

―Officer Higgins

Officer Higgins is a male hippo and a member of the Zootopia Police Department in Zootopia.

Higgins has an interesting situation in the film because during the first bullpen scene, there are two distinct officers present that are both identified as Higgins.

One wears a "Higgins" name badge and functions as Chief Bogo's assistant during the briefing. The other is a field officer and gets up to leave when Chief Bogo assigns him to search for missing mammals in Tundratown.

Role in the Film

When Judy Hopps enters the bullpen for her first day of work, a hippo officer can be seen at the front of the room checking a clipboard. However, once Judy takes her seat, another hippo officer is sitting directly behind her.

When Chief Bogo enters the room, the standing hippo officer announces his entry and his name badge reads "Higgins". However, all shots of Judy continue to show a hippo seated behind her.

When Chief Bogo begins his second agenda item about new recruits, there is a wide shot of the bullpen taken from the back of the room and Officer Higgins is seen standing at the front of the room while the seated Officer Higgins is also clearly visible behind Judy.

Two Officers named Higgins

When Chief Bogo begins his daily assignments for the missing mammals case, a hippo hand can be seen giving Bogo the folders he passes on to the team leaders. At this point, standing Officer Higgins is not seen again, but he could have left along with the officers who already got their assignments.

Bogo then calls out "Officer Higgins, Snarlov, Trunkaby" to assign to Tundratown. At this point, the seated hippo officer behind Judy is seen getting up in response and leaves the room.

After this scene, Higgins' appearance in the film is more straightforward.

Near the end of the film, he arrives at the Natural History Museum along with Chief Bogo and the ZPD to arrest Bellwether and her henchrams.

Higgins appears again when Officer Clawhauser returns to his position at the ZPD's front desk. He and Krumpanski happily welcome him back with boxes of donuts.

Higgins and Krumpanski present Clawhauser with donuts

During Nick Wilde's first day on the force, Higgins, Wolfard, and Snarlov are assigned to "Undercover". Higgins is seen putting on his disguise consisting of only a fake mustache.

Trivia

• It's clear the animators intended there to be two separate hippo officers in the bullpen scene. While it's possible the ZPD has the Higgins brothers as valued officers, given that the creative team has confused the names and species of various ZPD officers in interviews, it's more likely that the animation team lost track of which hippo was supposed to be named Higgins and put the wrong name badge on the standing hippo officer. This is one of several mistakes in the film.

Gallery

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