Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with famed executive producer Michael Mann.

The show took an intense, no-nonsense look at the present-day Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division. Lt. Cole is the driven chief detective of a squad that is dedicated to solving some of the worst crimes the city has to offer. There were several technical advisors who worked on the show: Chic Daniel, an LAPD living legend who served more than twenty years on SWAT; Robert Deamer, a specialist of gang enforcement who is one of the most decorated veteran of Special Enforcement Unit (ex-C.R.A.S.H.); and Lieutenant Todd Reinhold, an actual squad leader of Special Weapons And Tactics.

The series was originally titled Metro which was the division where the show was originally going to be set. Then, the title was changed to RHD/LA which was used for the fall schedule announcement. CBS ordered the final title believing that people would be confused about what RHD stood for.

In April 2002, Schindel, who wrote the pilot episode and created the show, left to focus on his duties at NBC's Law & Order. Frank Spotnitz joined the show as an executive producer in May after The X-Files ended its nine-season run and then left in October reported because he decided that it "was not creatively the show that he wanted to be working on."

Thematically, the show was very reminiscent of Mann's film Heat in that it also dealt with a driven cop working the Robbery-Homicide Division leading a multi-ethnic squad. Stylistically, Mann has said that RHD was a chance to test out some of the high-definition digital cameras he would later employ to much greater effect on Collateral and Miami Vice.

The show debuted on Friday at 10/9c to an anemic 8.41 million viewers. CBS gave RHD two chances to capture a wider audience by airing two episodes on Saturday night. The first tryout was unsuccessful, but the second Saturday airing on December 7, 2002 did capture a larger audience; garnering a 6.0 household rating, while its lead-in The District received a 4.3 in households. On average, the show drew 7.12 million viewers an episode.

Although RHD was critically acclaimed, Law & Order: SVU had better ratings in the same time slot. CBS placed the show on hiatus after the December 7th episode. The series was cancelled after ten episodes. Mann told Variety magazine, "I guess maybe the show never found its audience."

The remaining three unaired episodes premiered on the USA Network in April 2003. Currently, it can be seen on HDNet.

At present, the series does not have a DVD release.

In 2008, the series will air on Sleuth.

Drama centers on a captain (Tom Sizemore) and his team of cops in the elite robbery/homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department that was also the subject of Mann's 1995 feature "Heat," which featured Sizemore. Written by popsilly