Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox is a character from the Sly Cooper series. She is a Latin red fox, works for Interpol, and acts as a love-hate interest to Sly. She spends the first three games as a member of Interpol trying to arrest the Cooper Gang, but becomes a member of the Cooper Gang in the most recent game, "Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time". Inspector Fox's outlook on crime is very black and white; this being due to what happened to her father. She believes that any law breaker must be brought to justice, regardless of the crime. Pursuing this vision with her shock pistol, Carmelita is rigid in this view and pursues all criminals with equal determination, from murderers to jaywalkers to thieves like Sly and company.
In the case of Sly, Carmelita is almost single-mindedly obsessed with capturing him, and has been pursuing him for many years, going so far as to save a champagne bottle for the day she finally catches Sly (which Sly stole during his brief custody at the end of Sly 2 and returned during the credits). Though she would love to arrest the other members of the Cooper Gang, she is mostly after Sly himself. She acts justly to her captives however, at one point in the Sly 2 episode "He who tames the Iron Horse" making sure Sly's captured teammate Murray is doing all right in his makeshift cell and even providing a bag of jelly beans for the hungry hippo. In addition, she always ends up helping the Cooper Gang in the final battle of each game, though always with the intention of arresting them afterwards.
Carmelita is devoted to her job, but she is also a very emotional woman who must work constantly to keep her temper in check. She and Sly have feelings for each other, but their relationship is portrayed rather ambiguously throughout the series. At the end of the third game, Sly jumps in front of a blast meant for Carmelita and is knocked unconscious. When he comes to, he appears to have amnesia, and Carmelita, taking advantage of the opportunity, tells him that he is her "partner", Constable Cooper. Sly is apparently faking his amnesia, as shown in the final cut scene after the credits of Sly 3, a view is shown from Bentley's binocucom looking down on Sly and Carmelita dancing on her penthouse balcony. Sly looks up towards Bentley and winks as Bentley replies to himself "That sneaky devil."