Inspector Archer

Inspector Archer is a muscular middle-aged man. He is bald on the top of his head and has neck-length curly light hair on the back along with long sideburns. He also has a goatee, which is colored dark in the manga but light in the anime. He has a unibrow which is noticeably darker than his hair. He wears small round glasses and a police uniform.

When he was younger, his hair was much thicker, with side-swept bangs on the front.

Archer is an emotional police officer, caring a lot for George. In his past, when he first became a police officer, he felt exhilarated to recover such an important and valuable item as George's ring. He is polite to nobles like George but is honest enough to tell George that he's being too naive by forgiving Dario Brando. He scorns criminals like Dario, believing that people like him cannot change.

In 1868, having just started working in Scotland Yard's police force, a young Archer arrests Dario Brando as his first accomplishment. Dario had been found trying to pawn off a ring containing a valuable jewel set in platinum. Realizing it was made by a famous jeweler, the police officers visit the jeweler, who remembered making it for George Joestar I. Mary Joestar had given that ring to George, and Dario stole it from George after the couple's carriage accident.

Archer takes George to Dario's prison cell, but George claims that Dario wasn't lying about George giving him the ring. To Archer's surprise, George says that it was a gift and commands the officer to release Dario immediately. Baffled, Archer questions why George would make up such a story. He apologizes for being rude, but says that George is too trusting and that a criminal like Dario would do it again with no remorse.

After looking into the details later, Archer learns that although Dario had "saved" George's life, he was a criminal regardless. The woman from a bar who was with Dario testified that Dario ransacked all the valuables from the carriage.

At some point, Archer becomes the inspector of the police force.

Phantom Blood

In 1888, Archer arrives at the Joestar Mansion with his police force after being called by George to arrest Dio Brando, Jonathan having proven that Dio planned to kill George. However, Dio suddenly stabs George with a knife in the process of activating the Stone Mask, leading to all of the police officers shooting Dio out of the window. Inspector Archer curses himself for letting Dario go free years ago; if he hadn't, Dario would have been exiled to an island prison and George would never have adopted Dio. He tells his story to Speedwagon, wondering why George didn't report the theft of the ring, but cries at the thought of George's kindness and tragic end.

Speedwagon notices that Dio's body is missing and warns the cop to get away from the window, but his warning comes too late. Archer suddenly meets his own tragic end as Dio tears his head off at his maxilla. Having become a vampire, Dio reveals that he was hiding above the window, right behind the Inspector.