The New Policeman is a children's fantasy novel by Kate Thompson, published by Bodley Head in 2005.

Set in Kinvara, Ireland, it features a teenage boy, J. J. Liddy, who learns that time is leaking from the human world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies.

[5] The novel also won the inaugural Irish BA Award for Children's Books in 2006.

[6] HarperCollins published the first U.S. edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint in February 2007.

[7] There are three novels in the Liddy series, summing more than 1100 pages in their first editions.