Angel Rocha is the grandfather of Danny Rocha and a former NYPD officer.
History[]
Angel was a police officer of the NYPD for twenty years before retiring. He then began raising Danny and trying to set him on the right path in life. One night, he gifted Danny a speaker as a gift for trying out for the NYPD exam for a third time. Later, he confronted Detective Joe Velasco in a courthouse after Danny was arrested for assaulting Eddie Soto, begging him to give him some kind of leniency as Danny was a good boy.
This later caused Joe to convince the ADA on the case to drop the charges down to a misdemeanor in exchange for Danny to help spread the word about suspected rapist who assaulted two teens. After Danny helped the detectives of the Special Victims Unit track down their suspect, James Aquino, Angel shared a drink with Joe about their time together as police officers. This conversation in turn led to Joe gifting Danny a position within the New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police. (SVU: "Extinguished")