Which McDonald’s character was a police officer who appeared alongside the Hamburglar?

Officer Big Mac was the McDonald’s police-officer character who appeared alongside the Hamburglar.

He belonged to McDonald’s fictional advertising setting, often called McDonaldland, where food-themed characters interacted in a colorful fantasy community. His role provided a comic authority figure who could pursue or respond to the Hamburglar’s attempts to take hamburgers.

Officer Big Mac was visually linked to the Big Mac through his oversized burger-shaped head. That design made him part of McDonald’s broader strategy of turning menu items into personalities and recognizable visual symbols.

He is easy to confuse with Mayor McCheese because both characters represented authority roles. The distinction is in the title: Mayor McCheese was the mayor, while Officer Big Mac was the police officer. Both were supporting characters rather than the company’s primary mascot, Ronald McDonald.