Fred Colon

Colon is a sergeant in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and appears to have been so for a long time. He was a corporal in the Watch at the time Samuel Vimes first joined, and subsequent to this spent some time in the army (the Duke of Quirm's Middleweight Infantry and then the Duke of Eorle's First Heavy Infantry), before returning to the Watch.

Fred has been described many times as "one of nature's sergeants". He is overweight, and prefers to avoid trouble and exertion. He is also rather unimaginative. When not on desk duty (a post he gets more often than other sergeants, due to working out the rota himself), he generally "guards" bridges or large buildings against theft.

He is currently the head of the Traffic Squad, which also includes his best friend Nobby Nobbs. This role perfectly fits the above described qualities, especially as the Traffic Squad is "self financing" (i.e. they keep the fines). A brief promotion to acting-captain confirmed what everyone, himself included, had suspected, and he has returned to his previous rank.

He is possibly related to Sergeant Doppelpunkt, one half of the town watch in Bad Blintz, Überwald, nicknamed "Colonesque" by Duke Samuel Vimes, who is the same person as Ankh-Morpork City Watch's Commander Sam Vimes; he is sometimes forced to use his grander title on diplomatic missions.