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In addition to local versus Feds, the friction can occur between other law enforcement subdivisions over the same suspect, like drug enforcement officers versus homicide investigators, or simply [[InterserviceRivalry one of a city's police districts]] versus another. InternalAffairs can also get involved at some point. And ''everybody'' has it in for the PrivateDetective.

See also InterserviceRivalry for the military version. IntraScholasticRivalry is a school-aged version.

** NERV is ''really'' not popular with the Japanese government, whose sovereign territory they operate in under a UN mandate. Right in the very first episode, the Japanese military refuses to let NERV handle Sachiel until after the loss of massive amounts of men and materiel, with the generals overseeing the operation making defeating the Angel with conventional forces a matter of pride despite, as the supreme commander of NERV points out, defeating Angels being what NERV and their titular HumongousMecha ''exist for''.
** Episode 7 later reveals that the Japanese military did not accept being forced to yield to NERV for handling the Angels and tried to develop their own HumongousMecha so that they'd be able to cut NERV out of anti-Angel operations, to which NERV's response was to sabotage the project to ensure it won't divert funding from NERV. Which in turn resulted in the events of the ''Girlfriend of Steel'' visual novel where the Japanese military shifted their priority to keeping NERV in check and ultimately culminated in the events of ''End of Evangelion'', where the government flat-out revokes NERV's authority due to [[spoiler:having been convinced by SEELE's people in the UN that NERV was planning on going rogue]] and the military is happy to oblige in enforcing it.
** In episode 8, the commander of the UN Navy Pacific Fleet flat-out refuses to turn his cargo, Evangelion Unit 02, over to NERV's operations director while they're still out on the sea, insisting that the Eva and its pilot were handed to them by NERV's Germany branch to be transported to Japan and are under ''their'' jurisdiction until they reach Japan, not a second before. When Gaghiel attacks the fleet and the NERV ops director tries to invoke her authority and take command, she once again gets rebuffed by the admiral who tries to countermand Unit 02's deployment and only relents once half the fleet is gone.
* Inspector Zenigata has been on the trail of Arséne Anime/LupinIII for years in hopes of hauling the [[KingOfThieves Master Thief]] to Japan to face justice. Which he believes he finally has succeeded in when Lupin is [[Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure arrested in Italy]]... until he's told by the local authorities to buzz off. In this case, it's less due to a jurisdiction issue since Zenigata's an InterpolSpecialAgent but a political issue -- [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Lupin has a death sentence in Japan and Italy refuses to extradite suspects to countries on charges if it's likely they'll be executed]].
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has some examples of this despite the wartime setting thanks to the personal ambitions of Zeon's ruling Zabi family and their loyalists. After Ramba Ral loses his Gouf in battle with the Gundam, he puts in a request for a brand-new Dom to replace it. The request goes to M'Quve, who ultimately denies the request[[note]]More specifically, he lies and tells Ramba that the transport ship with the Doms was shot down in orbit.[[/note]] because he doesn't want Dozle Zabi (for whom Ral works) finding out about the secret mining operation that Kycilia (M'Quve's boss and Dozle's sister, the two of whom mutually dislike each other) has going in Odessa, which leads to Ral performing an unsuccessful suicide attack against White Base and robs Zeon of another veteran pilot and leader.
* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', this plays a big part in how the balance of power in the United Kingdom goes.
** Officially, there are three major branches: the British Royal Family, the Anglican Church, and the Knights of England. On paper, the Royal Family leads the country (and by extension, the parliamentary government as well as the police and other related agencies), the knights maintain the order (by way of ensuring the royal family and the church don't get too powerful as well as dealing with internal affairs the "normal" police can't handle), and the church deals with foreign affairs that cannot be concluded normally due to cultural differences (mainly the magic side affairs around the world and dealings with the science side, particularly Academy City). The friction is especially evident between the Knights (who normally side with the Royal Family) and the Church (who can exert the most pressure on the Royal Family).
** However, because the UK also consists of four separate cultures with their own desires (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland), it's not uncommon for members of the same faction to hate each other or those of different factions to ally with each other based on where they side culturally.
* ''Manga/HoloearthChroniclesSideEYamatoPhantasia'': The Patrol Company is a squad that serves as the police in Kyo-no-Miyako, but they distrust the Inari Clan who have the same duties due to some past grudge.

* A 1990 ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' storyline has a group of Russian terrorists taking over a British sub. With their own British super-teams unavailable, they ask the U.S. for aid who call in the Avengers. They run into the People's Protectorate who are out to stop the rogue Russians. The sub surfaces off the coast of Newfoundland with the two teams trying to figure out a plan...only for ComicBook/AlphaFlight to arrive and claim "jurisdiction of this mess" goes to them as this is now a Canadian matter. The three teams manage to work together to stop both the terrorists and some Atlantean invaders.
** During ''ComicBook/OperationGalacticStorm'', a team of Avengers are captured by the Kree military and brought to Hala. Almost immediately on setting foot there, a bunch of [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Accusers]] show up and demand to take custody. The soldiers and Ronan get so into their argument Sersei is able to use her powers to make it look like the Avengers have escaped.
* Walker and Pilgrim in the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' often find their investigations turned over to the Feds. Naturally, this never stops them investigating anyway.
* A police ally of the ComicBook/XMen once used this to save them when crooks-turned-feds Freedom Force attempt to arrest the mutant heroes. She insisted Freedom Force produce the documentation necessary to take the X-Men into custody (which they didn't have on them). This gave the X-Men time to flee the city.
* The military equivalent showed up in Franchise/TheDCU when The Shield (an Army SuperSoldier) and Magog (Marine corporal turned emissary of one of the Old Gods) ended up on the same mission together. They spent just as much time sniping at each other's respective branches as they did fighting the main threat.
* In ''Franchise/{{Batman}} Year 100'', Gotham City PD and the Federal Investigators clash over a murder. The GCPD thinks it should have jurisdiction as the murder happened in Gotham, the Feds because it was one of their men [[spoiler:and also because they committed the murder and are organizing a massive cover up]]. Batman knows he has jurisdiction because ''he's the'' '''''[[MemeticMutation Goddamn Batman]]''''' (see ''The Dark Knight'' film below).
* In ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', tension exists between the Major Crimes Unit and the other squads. Some of the conflict is because the other squads tend to use the fact that the MCU has jurisdiction over cases with supervillains to lazily dump routine investigations on them by claiming that the case bears the hallmarks of a supervillain. The rest of the conflict comes from the fact that the MCU is the only consistently honest department in the [[BadCopIncompetentCop notoriously corrupt and incompetent GCPD]].

* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons:'' As in the show (see Western Animation), in disasters Chief Wiggum and Mayor Quimby will argue over who's in charge, starting with the first issue.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': When the FBI arrests a bunch of people as spies on the word of Paula von Gunther, who they claim to have broken (she's just using their naivety to get them to move her to another prison so she can escape and gave them a false list of names) they find themselves butting heads with the USAAF's military intelligence branch.
* ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}, from the series of the same name, was a superhero team [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower under the direct control of the UN]]. It theoretically had global jurisdiction, but could only be allowed to operate if asked by either the UN Special Security Council or if the government of a specific country invoked "Code Perfect," declaring that there was a superhuman emergency within their borders.
** During Creator/WarrenEllis's run on the book, the American government declared that they would no longer allow Stormwatch within the country unless specifically requested. This proved to be a problem when a bunch of rogue superhumans were about to tear apart a small Louisiana town, but the US refused to give Stormwatch permission to intervene. [[BaldOfAuthority Battalion]] got around this by [[spoiler:finding a French citizen who was visiting relatives in the town, calling up the French Premier, and asking ''him'' to invoke Code Perfect on behalf of his citizen.]]
* The Creator/ECComics story "Four-Way Split" (''Tales From the Crypt #43'') centers on a man who owns an air freight business who murders his partner by tying him up and putting him inside the bomb bay of a plane, then dropping him so that he lands perfectly in the spot where four states meet. The states constantly squabble over which state should prosecute the guy, meaning the case would be tied up for years, possibly decades. This is EC Comics of course, so the guy gets his when his partner returns from the dead and subject him to four different execution methods.

* ''Fanfic/TakamachiNanohaOf2814'': When Chrono showed up on the scene he tried to assert himself as an official of the Time Space Administration Bureau but Nanoha, as the local offical of the Green Lantern Corps, put a quick end to that.
* ''[[Fanfic/HiversHereBeDragons Feathers and Fire]]'': A Republic fleet officer tells Atreus the captain of his caught smuggling can't be prosecuted because that guy was operating in Hutt space where the Republic has no authority.

* In the fan-made video "Gunther vs [[spoiler:Paul]]", which is based off of the second hotel raid in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', Gunther is about to haul off [[spoiler:Paul]], after defeating him in hand-to-hand combat, but Majestic 12 agents show up just in time and order him away, causing him much frustration.
* In ''Fanfic/ImGivingYouANightCall'': The murder of Sergeant Matthew Halsey puts in the investigation in the hands of both the police and the military much to Ed's ire, especially since the military liaison is his ex, who he's avoiding.

* In ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'', there is quite a lot of it going on between the UN (investigating into Queen Chrysalis' crimes on behalf of the International Criminal Court) and the Equestrian crown (who take the matter ''very'' personally and thus take offence to the fact human investigators are roaming around Equestria to begin with).
* The synopsis for the multi-fandom crossover [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9280076/1/Like-Broken-Glass "Like Broken Glass"]] openly says "a double murder turns into a jurisdictional nightmare." First, [[Series/Castle2009 Kate Beckett and Rick Castle]] investigate the murder of a Boston cop and a Navy officer. The cop happens to be a partner of [[Series/RizzoliAndIsles Jane Rizzoli]] which brings her and Maura Isles to town and demanding to take the lead. However, because the other victim was Navy, that brings in agents from Series/{{NCIS}} who want to take over. They track down a possible suspect only to find it's Series/NCISLosAngeles agent Kensi Blye on vacation. And ''then'', Kensi's partner, LAPD officer Deeks, shows up and poor Beckett is ready to smash her head against a wall.
* ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'': The [[TheOrder Royal Orders]], as Stannis' [[StateSec personal armies]], can supersede local law enforcement like the City Watch, much to the ire of the latter.

** Fenris is on the border of Segmentums Obscurus and Solar, which has resulted in a millennia-long feud in the Administratum over which side of the border it's on... because neither Segmentum's department wants to deal with the headache from having the Space Wolves in ''their'' region.
*** When a Chaos ritual throws Fenris through the Warp, an Imperial officer notes that on the bright side this will end the feud. The Warmaster responds it might end up being worse: Fenris lands in a different Segmentum which wants it put back where it belongs, leading to a ''three-way'' Administratum struggle.
* ''[[Fanfic/SixesAndSevens Agent Carter: Phantom Pain]]'': Peggy and Daniel do not take kindly to the idea of the FBI taking over investigating Thompson's murder. Chief Flynn doesn't give them any option, pointing out that the SSR is to be disbanded and likely rolled into the newly formed CIA.
* ''Fanfic/AMothToAFlame'': Sasha's mother, [[MamaBear Amanda Waybright,]] is the Commander of the LAPD and very reluctantly works with [[BunnyEarsLawyer Mr. X]] during his investigation into [[spoiler:the Boonchuys and Plantars]], nearly coming into conflict with him over custody once they've been captured before coming to an agreement that [[spoiler:the LAPD gets custody of the Anne and her parents to question them on Sasha and Marcy's whereabouts for the past several months, while the FBI get the FrogMen to interrogate them on who they are]].

* PlayedForLaughs, and also {{Exploited|Trope}} in ''Film/Vengeance2022''. Ben speaks to '''four''' separate law enforcement agencies in the area, and all four tend to shift responsibility of "the Afterparty" to another agency because it's in a spot where the jurisdictions overlap. Ben later discovers that [[spoiler:Quinten has been [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] this overlap so that none of the agencies actually investigate the Afterparty, specifically the people who die there]].

* In the book ''Darkly Dreaming Literature/{{Dexter}}'', the Miami Metro PD gets into a jurisdictional tangle when the Ice Truck Killer, who they're investigating, leaves a body in an area under a rival district's jurisdiction.
* Happens in Literature/TheDresdenFiles book ''Literature/FoolMoon'', where three FBI agents are investigating a string of murders caused by a werewolf. The Jurisdiction Friction is so bad, they almost come to violence against Murphy while investigating a crime scene. [[spoiler: This is because they are the werewolves themselves, in particular demonic-influenced ones, and gradually losing their human minds to the Beast. The fact that they're the guilty parties, having set up [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent another type of werewolf]] to lose control of his curse and attack a Mob head who's escaped justice, doesn't help.]]
* This is addressed in several Creator/VinceFlynn books, most notably ''Literature/TransferOfPower''. Of course, the different Agencies have it a bit easier than most examples, because their heads know each other personally, but there is still an acknowledged interagency rivalry and pride.
* In ''Literature/GorkyPark'' the friction between the militia (police) and the KGB was quite apparent. It becomes a plot point when Renko, chief investigator for the Militsiya, wonders why the KGB hasn't taken the case away from him.

** In ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'', Vimes is in the Shires, where he has a certain amount of authority as a local landowner but is explicitly not part of the (self-appointed) local law-enforcement hierarchy at all. But as far as Vimes is concerned, murder is a universal crime and that's all the jurisdiction he needs. [[spoiler: Subverted in the finale. While city authorities had traditionally left the Shires to their own devices, as Commander of the Watch he absolutely does have legal authority and the Magistrates are completely illegitimate. The Watch moves in in force and takes control of the situation once this becomes clear.]]

* In the novel ''Literature/PyramidPower'', the Pyramid Security Agency runs roughshod over every other government agency that had anything they wanted due to their charter giving them authority over just about everything that can be associated with the alien pyramid that landed in Chicago. But one agency wasn't on the list of people they could overrule -- the Fish and Wildlife Service -- which brought charges against them for illegal actions against an endangered species -- the sphinx and dragons that came out of the pyramid. Who then requested assistance in dealing with the violators from some of the agencies that the [=PSA=] had been pushing around -- which included a regiment of paratroopers.
* Franchise/StarWarsLegends:
** In ''[[Literature/StarWarsAllegiance Allegiance]]'', Mara Jade, Darth Vader, and the [[StateSec Imperial Security Bureau]] all have their own different tasks, but there's one duty they all have in common: finding traitors and killing them. They don't get along. Vader is paranoid that Mara is being trained to replace him, Mara [[InterserviceRivalry wishes he'd stop]], and ''neither'' of them [[EvenEvilHasStandards like the ISB]]. Both clash with Mara; the ISB tries to have her killed when she nears a truth they don't want her knowing, and Vader outright tries to murder her when he thinks she's after his target (Princess Leia).
** Creator/MattStover's novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' describes an argument between Anakin Skywalker and the Jedi Council over who commands the Grand Army of the Republic after Palpatine is given oversight of the Jedi Council. When argument breaks out after Anakin clarifies that with his new powers, Palpatine is now Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Yoda states "Pointless it is, to squabble over jurisdiction." [[spoiler:Yoda couldn't be more wrong--Palpatine's gaining direct control over the clones is exactly what allows him to order them to execute Order 66, the order that wipes out almost all of the Jedi.]]
* In the Creator/TomClancy novel ''[[Literature/JackRyan Executive Orders]]'', one of Jack Ryan's first acts as president is to settle a turf dispute. The Boeing 747 crash into the US Capitol building left the NTSA (responsible for investigating airplane crashes), the Secret Service (the President was killed), and the FBI (terrorism, assault on a Federal building) ''and'' the Washington DC police department (murder) all with claim to the investigation. Ryan orders the FBI to take the lead, as it's bigger and has more resources, with the Secret Service a close second.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Lannister soldiers arrive with an arrest warrant for Gendry, who has joined the Night's Watch. Yoren asserts that recruits of the Night's Watch are immune from arrest, but the Lannister men refuse to back down, resulting in a fight.

* Appears frequently in the ''Literature/LeaphornAndChee'' series by Creator/TonyHillerman, about two detectives on the Navajo Tribal Police. Homicides committed on Indian Reservations are FBI jurisdiction, which often leads to conflict between the Navajo detectives and the FBI agents. Individual agents such as Kennedy may be decent people, but the FBI as a whole is portrayed as an inept bureaucracy.
* With FBI agents pulled to Florida from all over the country, in ''[[Literature/PaladinOfShadows A Deeper Blue]]'', to deal with a possible terrorist attack [[spoiler:using VX nerve gas]], those from New York run into trouble "interfacing" with Lake County deputies, who hold a rather low opinion of the FBI in general due to previous conflicts, and an FBI motto that seems to the locals to be "Ready, Fire, Aim."
* ''Literature/TheApprenticeRogue'': Artamos is part of the Order of Black Knights, which is tantamount to the kingdom's Black Ops. The mission that forms the plot is Artamos' responsibility so he has to enforce his authority over the plate mail knights from both his own kingdom and his charge's kingdom; both of them think they should be in charge.
* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' there is a rivalry between Imp Sec and local police, as well as the normal military police. This takes on a nationalistic component in Komarr which is a conquered planet and still resentful. There is also a rivalry between Imp Sec and Ops within the Barryaran service, however, that is more InterserviceRivalry.
* This happens in ''Hen of the Baskervilles'' from the ''Literature/MegLangslowMysteries'' when a body ends up splayed across the county line of Caerphilly County and Clay County. Clay County is very much unequipped to do a proper investigation of the murder but wants jurisdiction anyway. Meg and the Caerphilly County police chief manage to convince them to give Clay County to give the case to them by insinuating that the cost of the investigation will be astronomical, though Clay County still insists on having one of their people on the case as an observer, who turns out to be an interfering idiot. [[spoiler:The twist in this case is that he's not simply an interfering idiot, he also happens to be the murderer.]]
* Averted in Charlotte [=MacLeod=]'s novel ''Vane Pursuit'', in which various (but connected) crimes are committed in a variety of locations separated by hundreds of miles, and the law enforcement personnel are all happy to cooperate with each other and agree to let their superiors sort out who will actually have jurisdiction.
* In Creator/ElleryQueen's novel ''The Glass Village'', jurisdiction friction is the main point of the story. Residents of a small town fear that the stranger they blame for the murder of a local woman will "get away with it" if he's prosecuted by the state. To avoid a lynching, [[spoiler:the stranger is tried by the local townsfolk with the assistance of a judge who deliberately does everything incorrectly so that the verdict will be overturned on appeal and he can have a fair trial after tensions have eased.]]
* The FBI is mentioned several times in ''[[Literature/BlackTideRising Under a Graveyard Sky]]'' as making it difficult to track down the virus turning people into {{Technically Living Zombie}}s, as the microbiology experts supposed to be assisting them are also the primary suspects, and the FBI's concern is more "find the guilty party" than "stop the virus". CDC staffers are particularly hostile to the FBI, thanks to how they reacted to previous events like the anthrax attack shortly after [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the September 11, 2001 attack]].
* Ragnarok, the first book in ''Literature/TheEchoCaseFiles'', utilises the classic 'feds versus local cops', in which the fed protagonists can technically steamroller through anything the local cops try and put in their way, but (initially at least) try and play nicely with them, to avoid making enemies.
* The fourth ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' book, "Broken Homes", puts a spin on this. Peter states that unlike in television, friction occurs when other branches or services ''won't'' take over a murder or unusual case. Turns out murder investigations are really complicated, generate a huge amount of paperwork, use up all of the manpower budget ''and'' forensics budget, and are generally a pain in the arse all around (and that is just the mundane ones). Most Chief Inspectors are desperate to get that sort of headache off their budget.
* Happens in Literature/TheSnowQueenSeries. On the planet Tiamat, only off-worlders are subject to the star-spanning Hegemony's legal system; any Tiamatans caught in crime must be turned over to the Snow Queen's justice. Unless it's a crime that would affect her or her plans, Queen Arienrhod usually simply releases the perpetrators. Thus, criminal enterprises on the planet generally need only use a Tiamatan front man or front woman to avoid prosecution. This is an endless source of frustration to Hegemonic Police Commander Jerusha [=PalaThion=] and her force.
* In Jeramey Kraatz's ''Literature/TheCloakSociety'', offstage, and downplayed, because no one really wanted to be in charge of investigating the Rangers' disappearance. Later, [[spoiler:the New Rangers' Deputies arrogate authority, and the police don't like it. The heroes reveal themselves to the police commissioner precisely because they are sure this will cause the police to support them as soon as they get evidence.]]
* In the thriller ''Maxwell's Train''', a group of terrorists hijacks a train out of New York City. They managed to bring it over the border into Canada to attach it to another hijacked train in Toronto. The book openly notes how the common citizen would assume that "after so many hours, the combined forces of American and Canadian authorities would have stopped this." In reality, the terrorist leader knew the clashing of the FBI, state police, railroad officials and even the CIA would cause a massive amount of red tape to slow things down. Bringing the train to Canada just increased that as the Canadian authorities were totally unaware of this hijacking in the first place so had no idea this linking of trains would happen. The terrorist leader herself notes how this entire friction was key to her whole plan working.
* In the ''Literature/JoePickett'' novels, Joe--a game warden--frequently clashes with the local sheriff over jurisdictional issues. And matters get worse when other agencies get involved. ''Winterkill'' features a jurisdictional nightmare involving not only Joe and the sheriff, but the state police, the FBI, the Forestry Service, and the National Parks Service.
* In ''Literature/TheCrownerJohnMysteries'' (set in medieval Exeter), there is constant tension between the coroner Sir John de Wolfe and his brother-in-law the Sheriff over who actually has jurisdiction over a particular crime. It gets worse when the crime involves the Church, and so might fall under the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court.
* In ''The Golem's Eye'' from ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'', Internal Affairs under John Mandrake (Nathaniel) is given leave to investigate and put to stop both the golem affair and [[LaResistance the Resistance]], but the police chief Henry Duvall takes every opportunity he can to push for more power for his department and to try to make Internal Affairs look bad so that he can gain power over the cases. Oh, and [[spoiler:Duvall is one of the masterminds of the golem plot.]]

-->'''Ading''': The QC boys get very annoyed when anyone steps on their turf.
* The ''Literature/StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations'' novels feature friction between the various TimePolice agencies seen in the franchise. It doesn't help that they have very different methods (as far as the DTI are concerned, uptime groups like the 31st century's Time Agency are breaking the Temporal Prime Directive by even showing up in the 24th century) and that the uptime organisations aren't even sure they all come from the same future, and that one agency's "maintaining the true timeline" isn't another's "recklessly altering history".
* In the Franchise/StarTrek ExpandedUniverse novel ''Crisis on Centaurus'', a hate group has detonated an {{Antimatter}} bomb, blowing up the eponymous Federation planet's capital. Kirk and the Enterprise are dispatched to bring in the terrorists, which they do, but then Kirk has to defend said terrorists against the local authorities, who want them dead rather than arrested.
* Subverted in ''Literature/ReginasSong''. One of the Seattle Slasher killings is on a Navy base, so the police aren't allowed on the scene. However, while this looks like it might be a problem, the Navy send everything they find to the police, and their autopsy leads to a major break in the case.
* ''Crossfire'', the first ''Literature/ShiraCalpurnia'' novel, illustrates how complex law enforcement can be in the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' universe. Shira is a senior member of the Adeptus Arbites who survives an assassination attempt by a cybernetically enhanced psyker shortly after her arrival on Hydraphur. She immediately starts an investigation. However, the attack took place at the beginning of a lengthy vigil leading up to a major religious festival, with various strictures enforced by the [[AmazonBrigade Battle Sisters]] attached to the local cathedral that she must abide by or receive dispensations from. The Imperial Navy jealously protects its perogatives in the highly fortified system when Shira's investigation leads off-planet. In addition, the year's Master of the Vigil is throwing his weight around and the Inquisition takes an interest in the psyker. The Monocrat, Hydraphur's civilian governor, is the only major authority ''not'' seen openly intervening in the case.
* In Literature/Timeline191, this is the reason reluctant rebel Scipio flees from South Carolina to Georgia after the Marxist uprising is crushed. Because the Confederacy places heavy emphasis on state's rights, there is less cooperation between the Confederate states in law enforcement matters. Georgia is too busy tracking down its own black Marxists to worry about fugitives from another state, so any warrants from South Carolina don't carry a lot of weight, and Anne Colleton (his former boss and primary pursuer) doesn't have as many social contacts in Georgia with whom she can pull strings to expedite the issue.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' universe the two U.S. government anti-supervillain agencies PRIMUS and SAT have been known to squabble over who's in charge of investigating or dealing with supercrimes. Likewise, conservative elements in the U.S government resented the way UNTIL charged around the U.S. and created SAT specifically so the U.S. could handle its own super-problems.
* The fantasy world of ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Banestorm'' has an unusual take on this with the city of Tredroy, which is part of a Sunni caliphate, a Shi'ite sultanate, and a Christian principality simultaneously. Intersectional disputes between the three different legal systems have to be very carefully negotiated.

** ''The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America''. In Washington D.C. there's considerable conflict over jurisdiction between the [=FedPol=] (Federal Police) and the FDC (Federal District of Columbia) National Guard.
* [[SpaceMarines Space Marine]] chapters in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe can be notorious for this. The Space Wolves and Dark Angels chapters, rivals for the past 10,000 years owing to a fistfight between Leman Russ and Lion El'Johnson during the Legion days before the reforms in the aftermath of the ''Literature/{{Horus Heresy}}'', have actually fought wars with each other over jurisdictional grievances.

** One of the main divides in the Inquisition are the Puritans and Radicals: The Puritans are those who mostly use faith and tried-and-tested methods against Chaos and Xenos, the Radicals are willing to use {{Dangerous Forbidden Technique}}s, possessed weapons and daemonhosts to use Chaos against itself at the risk of falling to Chaos themselves or use Xenotechnology, alien mercenaries or other non-human assets (curiously, most Radicals are in fact older Inquisitors who feel traditional methods aren't doing enough).
*** Puritans and Radicals have subfactions. The most extreme Puritans are the Monodominants who are the stereotypical frothing at the mouth fanatics who don't accepts any degree of deviation. The most extreme Radicals are the Xanthites, the most desperate followers of which do most of the [[EvilIsNotAToy fall to Chaos while trying to use it thing]], a Xanthite sub-sub faction (the Phaenonites) have outright betrayed the Imperium after deciding to take over mankind as the only option and were wiped out save a handful of survivors who kept it secret. The worst are probably the Oblationists, who are Xanthites who hypocritically enforce Monodominant beliefs on others, only believing those who took the Oath of Oblation being worthy of damning themselves for the good of mankind.

** It gets more interesting on the law front, as the Ecclesiarchy has its own courts which are wholly independent of civil law; the [[{{Expy}} Adeptus]] [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Arbites]] have jurisdiction over all Imperial crimes (plus general law enforcement on some worlds directly administered by the Imperium rather than local governor), and only have to defer to the Inquisition, so there have been numerous occasions when they have clashed with the Ecclesiastical courts, or even the Commissariat (on at least one occasion, the Arbites have arrested an entire Imperial Navy task force, and on another, commandeered a cruiser in the middle of a contested warzone to provide the muscle to arrest an Imperial Planetary Governor). The relations between the Arbites and planetary law enforcement (names vary but they are generally referred to as Enforcers) are more complicated: The former handles crimes against Imperial institutions or violations of the Lex Imperialis, while Enforcers deal with planetary law and serve as the Planetary Governor's way of controlling the civilian population. The Enforcers don't like the Arbites getting involved unless necessary due to possible collateral damage and fear them, while the Arbites in turn treat them as incompetent bullies playing at glorified mall security at best to corrupt or even heretical at worst (to the Enforcers discredit, they are more susceptible to [[TheCorruption Chaos]] corruption or just regular old DirtyCop behaviour far more than the religiously fanatical Arbitrators). They do cooperate however, and the most stable planets have the Arbites oversee the Enforcers to produce better quality police, excepting the aforementioned case of critical planets being fully staffed by Arbitrators at all levels of law enforcement.
*** To make matters even more fun, the Adeptus Mechanicus has its own laws and enforcers, and its members technically aren't even normal citizens (they are still Imperial citizens, but unlike the majority they are not controlled by the [[VastBureaucracy Administratum]] but the Fabricator General of Mars sits with the Master of the Administratum and others in the High Lords of Terra), but members of an allied semi-subordinate semi-sovereign CargoCult polity that has monopolies on technology in the Imperium (any planetary government or privately owned franchises either produce under licence from the Mechanicus or make inferior local designs), meaning trying to pin a crime on them is really tricky. Oh, and the exact set of laws that apply in any situation depend upon whose territory it is.
** And the worst is this is all entirely deliberate: the last time a single man controlled every branch of Imperial power, it led to the Age of Apostasy.

* Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium''. Precincts 41 and 57 of the Revachol Citizens' Militia have disputed for some time over who has jurisdiction over the district of Martinaise; as a result, neither precinct responds to crimes in the area often. The murder that starts the plot compels both districts to send an officer of theirs to investigate: Kim Kitsuragi from the 57th, and [[PlayerCharacter the Detective]] from the 41st. Kim, for his part, has no interest in a "pissing contest" - he just wants to do his job, and cooperates with the Detective's investigation as his partner.

* In the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' subseries, whether due to Interpol involvement, foreign national issues or simple prosecutor substitution, Edgeworth cannot seem to get through a single case without someone else claiming jurisdiction over the crime scene and demanding that he leave. Given his unending quest for the truth, this rarely stops him.
* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' references jurisdiction issues quite a bit since Team Rainbow often needs to be first called upon by the government that needs them. In the case of the fifth game, Rainbow Six Vegas, a "jurisdictional pissing match" between local law enforcement, FBI, and the military means to a slow response to the terrorist attack in Las Vegas. However, the government allows Rainbow to help because they have a team in place lead by a former Delta Force operative (the player character). The FBI and SWAT are later shown to be glad for the help.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has a rivalry between the "FIB" and "IAA" ([[{{Expy}} expies]] of the FBI and CIA, respectively) take up a good portion of the single-player plot. It is far more extreme than any such inter-agency rivalry in real life (we hope), stopping just short of outright warfare between the agencies.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'':
** In theory, Liberl's army and the bracer guild cooperate with each other. Underneath the surface, however, there's a lot of disputes. Your two main characters, Joshua and Estelle, learn this firsthand when investigating the missing airline their father Cassius Bright was on and discover from the Bose Bracer Guild that the military is maintaining a public information blackout, and that includes the Bracer Guild. Furthermore, bracers are being prevented from entering the areas the army is investigating.
--->'''Joshua:''' So pretty much what you're saying is that it's a bunch of jurisdictional disputes, right?
** Jurisdiction friction even happens within the ranks of the Bracer Guild itself. If a senior bracer wishes to take control of an investigation that was being handled by junior bracers, they can do so at will, and there's not much the junior bracers can do about it, no matter how much they may dislike it.
* One of the later Imperial Legion quests in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' involves an Imperial soldier accused of murder; you must escort him to the Imperial town of Ebonheart to ensure that he will be tried in an Imperial court rather than a Dunmer court.
* The Arc police forces in ''VideoGame/AstralChain'' hate it when Neuron show up to an investigation, since they take over the case with no ceremony and it always seems to end with them linking it to a gate incident, cutting off the [[WasOnceAMan Aberrations]], and taking all the glory. There's not exactly anyone they can complain to either as Neuron is nominally part of the police force themselves. In truth, if Neuron show up it's because a Chimera is expected, the existence of which is classified - being InvisibleToNormals and immune to conventional weapons is bad enough without their existence causing mass panic. The problems with this are shown during the first investigation, as two PO'ed cops refuse to say much of anything; eavesdropping reveals witnesses reported large, shadowy hands dragging people through gates, which they dismissed as hysteria and therefore didn't report, but is vital information to Neuron.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad''. Commissioner Maloof ([[DaChief head of 31PD]]) chimes in when you select your first optional mission, saying she's glad to have the help and will send anything that needs doing the squad's way, and take the heat if things get political -- [[VetinariJobSecurity they can't afford to fire her]] in the middle of a crisis.
* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoQuest'': Intral City has a special police unit called "spacetime patrol" that ''will'' raise a stink when private detectives and their agencies overstep their legal boundaries, by, for example, time traveling within Intral's city limits or attempting rescue operations from within spacetime rifts.
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Temenos's story has him, as inquisitor, frequently butting heads with the Sacred Guard.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': If you're playing as a human commoner, one personal story chapter involves the Ministry Guard (legally, limited to security for Krytan ministers and nobles) trying to horn in on Seraph criminal investigations among commoners.
* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': The general plot of the game involves the Master Detectives solving cases while acting in opposition against the Amaterasu Corporation Peacekeepers, with the detectives trying to uncover the truth and the Peacekeepers trying to hide it. [[spoiler:Of course, this is what [[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]] wanted the detectives to do in the first place.]]

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' addresses this [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1902 in a way only a Superpowers-based comic can.]] Maxima explains that ARCHON has been set up to deal with "atypical threats" (both criminals with superpowers and disasters where superpowers would be helpful), and that as a federal agency, they'll be able to take over investigations from pretty much everyone else. She thinks this is the best solution, even though "human ego being what it is," obviously other departments are going to be annoyed at this. Once video of the first superpowered brawl gets out, it turns out that she might have been underestimating the human survival instinct.

'''ATF Agent:''' You know [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I have some vacation time I can't roll over...]]
* The two space authorities of ''Webcomic/{{Galaxion}}'', [[SpaceNavy IP]] and [[MildlyMilitary TerSA]] do not get along. At all.
* Comes up in the first volume of ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'': The Chicago PD are investigating what's either a series of animal attacks or the work of a SerialKiller who thinks they're a werewolf when the FBI show up claiming jurisdiction as the CPD's main person-of-interest in the case is a suspect in two very similar murders, one of which took place on federal land. Victim and alleged perpetrator were both at least ''technically'' active-duty Army personnel, although the suspect was on long-term medical leave with suspected PTSD, so presumably the FBI came out on top of a previous jurisdictional squabble with the Military Police. The agent in charge doesn't endear himself to the CPD detectives working the case, mostly because he's rather evasive about certain relevant information, but settle their differences and come to a working agreement. Then things take a turn for the weird... [[spoiler:What the FBI are really investigating is some kind of SuperSoldier black-project GoneHorriblyWrong, and the suspect really ''is'' a werewolf.]]

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** In the story "Loose Cannons", a five-way battle took place between the M-SOC (Metahuman Special Operations Command), the MCO (Mutant Commission Office), some unnamed jerks in power armor, the [=KoP=] (Knights Of Purity), and some superpowered teenagers. The M-SOC, the MCO and the [=KoP=] were "arguing" jurisdiction over arresting the teenagers.
** Also gets lampshaded a few times regarding superhero teams and their relations with each other, local police, and federal authorities. For example, in Los Angeles, the superteams have an agreement that they won't jump into a fight (which they weren't already immediately present for, that is) until the authorities request them to get involved, and that they [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham don't poach other teams' fights]] unless [[GondorCallsForAid the other team asks for help]]. This leads to an amusing scene in "Silent Nacht" where the members of one superhero team watch live footage of a rival team getting trounced while munching popcorn and [[{{MST}} critiquing the other team's performance]].