Constable Rose was a Weatherfield policeman assigned to the kidnap case of baby Christopher Hewitt in October 1962. He and his superior Det Sergeant Sowman called at the family home of 7 Coronation Street and took a statement from Leonard Swindley when it was established that the child had been left outside Gamma Garments on Rosamund Street while his older sister, Lucille, was inside the shop for a few minutes just around closing time. As the search area was widened, Rose spotted the pram on the Croft at the bottom of Bessie Street where, unknown to anyone, it had been dumped by the unhinged Joan Akers after taking Christopher back to her lodgings in Percy Street and passing the child off as her own. Rose gently questioned three youngsters who were playing around the pram and learning that it was empty, set about wheeling it away. Ultimately, Christopher was returned safe and well and reunited with his relieved parents within days.
Approximately seven weeks later and at the end of a shift, Rose called into Len Fairclough's yard at 15 Mawdsley Street looking for wood to make a gate at the side of his house now that his child was of toddling age. While casually looking around the place, he spotted the consignment of washbasins - of questionable origin - that Len's apprentice, Jerry Booth, had purchased from Jed Stone a week earlier. Although Rose appeared satisfied by the vague answers from Len and Jerry when he made general enquiries about them and left the yard when Len told him they'd deliver the wood to his house, Len set about smashing up the washbasins with a sledgehammer in an attempt to assuage his guilty conscience.
- The character was credited as Constable, but dialogue in Episode 189 establishes his surname as Rose.