Brian Irons

Brian Irons is the city's corrupt Chief of Police of the R.P.D. and appears only in Claire's half of the game. Claire first meets the Chief in his office (after destroying the rubble blocking the corridor) with the recently deceased body of the Mayor's daughter on top of his desk. He later disappears from the office and leaves behind his diary, in which he described his desires to hunt down the Mayor's daughter and use her body as a stuffed trophy.

Irons was responsible for the deaths of at least several officers when he went insane and hunted them like game. Additional documents also reveals that the character was previously convicted of sexual assault and had been taking bribes from Umbrella, particularly from William Birkin himself. Claire confronts Irons one last time in a hidden room behind his office before he is killed by the mutated Birkin, either indirectly because he rejects the G-Virus (which is in the form of a chest-bursting parasite when he dies) or by being torn apart. Irons is always in the same room after he is killed in either scenario.

In the prototype version of Resident Evil 2 (aka Resident Evil 1.5), Irons was originally a supporting character.