He went on to finish third in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud but ran poorly in his last two races and was retired to stud at the end of the year.
Policeman was a lengthy bay horse with a white star[2] bred in France by his owner Frederick Tinsley.
Policeman's dam Indianapolis failed to win a race but came from a good family, being a great-great-granddaughter of Myrobella, whose other descendants have included Big Game, Chamossaire and Snow Knight.
[2] On 8 June, Policeman started the 54/1 outsider of a fourteen-runner field for the 143rd running of the Prix du Jockey Club over 2400 metres at Chantilly.
[2] In the International Classification for 1980, Policeman was rated the eighth-best three-year-old colt in Europe, four pounds behind the top-rated Moorestyle.
He was syndicated at a value of $4.4 million and exported to the United States to stand as a breeding stallion at Clermont Farm at Germantown, New York.