Leland Stottlemeyer

Leland Francis Stottlemeyer
A production still of Ted Levine from "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring"
First appearance	"Mr. Monk and the Candidate"
Last appearance	"Mr. Monk and the End - Part II"
Created by	David Hoberman
Portrayed by	Ted Levine (2002-2009)
Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	SFPD Detective - Robbery & Homicide Division
Title	Captain
Family	Trudy "T.K." Stottlemeyer (née Jensen) (wife) Karen Stottlemeyer (ex-wife. Divorced in "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage.") Hamish Stottlemeyer (father)
Children	Jared Stottlemeyer (son, with Karen) Max Stottlemeyer (son, with Karen)
Relatives	Mark Stottlemeyer (brother) Mother, Father, Sister, Aunt.

Captain Leland Francis Stottlemeyer is a fictional police officer played by Ted Levine on the American crime drama Monk. He is Captain of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD)'s Homicide Detail, and a longtime (even if long-suffering) friend of Adrian Monk from their days on the force together where he served as Monk's fourth partner and later watch commander. His partner, and source of much strife, is Lieutenant Randy Disher. He, like many of the characters in the show, can be viewed as a parallel to a Sherlock Holmes character (in this case, Inspector Lestrade).

Not much is known of Stottlemeyer's life before he joined the SFPD, though in an interview, Ted Levine stated it was his own belief that Stottlemeyer had served in the military and was later discharged, lived on the east coast, then moved to California as a young man, joining the police force. In "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", it is implied that he has lived in the Bay Area since at least the 1970s, as when he is trying to get information from reunion guests about a homicide investigation, he is booed off the stage when the projectionist displays some embarrassing pictures of him wearing riot gear and violently attacking protesters at an anti-nuclear warfare demonstration at UC Berkeley (Monk and Natalie are mortified, while Stottlemeyer insists that the protestors' permit had expired). In "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs", it is mentioned that he hasn't lived in Los Angeles for almost 30 years. The novel Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant reveals that Stottlemeyer's father was a bartender named Hamish.

Stottlemeyer mentions in "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever" that he was the youngest officer in the history of the SFPD to make detective, giving him at least a few years of seniority on Monk. As Stottlemeyer mentions in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival," when Monk was promoted to detective, he was partnered with Stottlemeyer, and right away, showed off his amazing abilities when he proved that a prostitute's apparent suicide was murder.