Steve McGarrett is a fictional character in the long running crime drama television series Hawaii Five-O. McGarrett was the lead character in the series with a regular supporting cast. Throughout the series he was a fictional police officer. Before the series started he was a Naval Intelligence officer with two presidential citations. McGarrett was appointed the command of a fictional state police force for the state of Hawaii, known as Five-O. It was named for Hawaii's status as the 50th state. McGarrett was appointed to his job by Governor Paul Jameson (Richard Denning) sometime prior to the events in the pilot film. McGarrett's job was to lead Five-O against organized crime, murder, foreign agents, and felons of every type, as well as dealing with the occasional state wide disaster.
