History Main / SpacePolice

* The Spectres in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', who are given special rights by the Citadel Council that places them above the law and allows them to take whatever measures are necessary to ensure galactic peace. C-Sec fulfills the role of normal police.
** The Spectres are more like interstellar Franchise/JamesBond-figures than police, though. C-Sec only operates in the systems closest to the Citadel, so they aren't quite universal police force, either.
*** C-Sec actually stands for '''C'''itidal-'''Sec'''urity.
** In the ''Mass Effect'' universe, most planets tend to be on their own for providing for their own security, often contracting the services of various agencies running the gamut from LawEnforcementInc to outright PrivateMilitaryContractors. For the Earth Systems Alliance, the Alliance Navy serves the role of Space Police whenever the situation warrants (usually against slavers or SpacePirates).

* The Plumbers in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', though it is a {{Retcon}} introduced by ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]'' as the original series portrayed the Plumbers as a defunct [[TheMenInBlack Men In Black]]-type organization.

-->--'''''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}''''', ''Sword Worlds''

** The Spectres are more like interstellar JamesBond-figures than police, though. C-Sec only operates in the systems closest to the Citadel, so they aren't quite universal police force, either.

** A particular type of Jedi, "Watchmen", act as law enforcement on frontier worlds where there's very little if any government infastructure. In the first KnightsOfTheOldRepublic game the Jedi on Dantooine are pretty much the only law enforcement the planet has, so much so that they're swamped with trying to help the colonists and fight the Jedi Civil War with Revan's Sith; the player can help out by undertaking some missions for the populace including a murder mystery (that's also a [[spoiler: SecretTestOfCharacter]]). Corellian Jedi act primarily in their home system and work closely with the CorSec, the local police force. The mainstream Jedi consider them a little odd for this, as well as for marrying and having children against the Jedi Code, but they respect them and are not against working with them on occasion.

* The bounty hunter in ''Film/PitchBlack'' leads the other crash-survivors to believe that he's a law-enforcement agent, although it's unclear whether he's pretending to be SpacePolice, or an officer of a planetary police force that sent him up to retrieve a fugitive.

** Per ''House of Steel'', the Grayson Space Navy began as the Grayson Space Guard, serving as a sort of orbital Coast Guard with little actual military capability, at least until the CivilWar started by [[TheFundamentalist the Faithful]]. Given that one of the Faithful's first moves in the war was to attack the orbital infrastructure with surface-to-space missiles, it surprised nobody to learn that the GSG decided to support the Moderate faction instead. Arguably, they began the transition from SpacePolice to SpaceNavy when they [[TookALevelInBadass developed the capability]] to deploy [[OrbitalBombardment Kinetic Strikes]].

** In the ''Mass Effect'' universe, most planets tend to be on their own for providing for their own security, often contracting the services of various agencies running the gamut from LawEnforcementInc to outright PrivateMilitaryContractors. For the Earth Systems Alliance, the Alliance Navy serves the role of SpacePolice whenever the situation warrants (usually against slavers or SpacePirates).

* The Manticoran and Andermani navies in HonorHarrington serve as this in Silesian Confederacy space, enforcing the anti-piracy and anti-slavery laws that the Silesian navy is too weak, corrupt or ineffective (which one is the case depends on the exact system in question) to enforce on their own.

-->-- {{GURPS}} {{Traveller}}, ''Sword Worlds''

* The Peacekeeper Enforcer from ''SwordOfTheStars'' is supposed to be a space cop. He goes around and attacks anyone who has more than a certain number of ships, with larger ship classes counting as more. It goes straight to PoliceBrutality when he tries to glass colonies, though. His nickname Ortgay [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=200284866658219&set=a.119735938046446.14741.107269765959730&type=1&ref=nf has been admitted to be a]] ShoutOut to ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951''.

[[caption-width-right:330:Cleaning up this galaxy, one plastic criminal at a time. [[hottip:*:On the other hand, why should they send an elite soldier on a $40,000,000 bike after a squid for stealing a hundred bucks?]]]]

* ''[[TokusouSentaiDekaranger Special Police Dekaranger]][=/=]Series/PowerRangersSPD'' are a ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' version, right down to lightbars in their helmets.
** ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''/''[[GekisouSentaiCarranger Carranger]]'' also has the Blue Senturion/Signalman, either a policeman from an alternate timeline or a an actual space cop.

* The Intra-Solar System Police (ISSP) from ''CowboyBebop'' is basically an extension of Interpol extended to the entire solar system. Much like Interpol, they technically have jurisdiction everywhere, but cannot exercise that jurisdiction without permission from the sovereign governments or local police forces.
* The Dimension Administration Bureau plays that role in ''LyricalNanoha'', unexpectedly intervening in Nanoha and Fate's clash in the first season and becoming regulars (and their [[StayWithTheAliens employers]]) later.

** The 1990s ''Trinity'' miniseries (not to be confused with the more recent titles about [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark]], [[{{Batman}} Bruce]] and [[WonderWoman Diana]]) was essentially the G.L.C., L.E.G.I.O.N., and Darkstars in a jurisdiction dispute.

* The Panoply in AlastairReynolds' ''Literature/ThePrefect''. They are have habitat busting weapons, and high tech weaponry. However, they are severely limited in their jurisdiction; They can only enforce a person's right to vote and have a connection to the equivalent of the Internet. They have to petition the habitats to be allowed to use their weaponry, and they cannot interfere with the [[{{Cyborg}} Ultras]], who control the interstellar ships.

* The [[SpaceSheriffGavan first]] [[SpaceSheriffSharivan three]] [[SpaceSheriffShaider shows]] in the ''MetalHeroes'' franchise, known as the Space Sheriff Trilogy, which is arguably the most recognised part of the franchise, especially the original ''SpaceSheriffGavan'' series.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Rocket Squad"', a ''{{Dragnet}}'' spoof set [[RecycledINSPACE in space]].

See also SuperCop.

* The ''Film/MenInBlack'', though they are not in space as such.

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* The titular heroes from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' did it better [[TooGoodToLast while they lasted]]. Frontier lawmen (and [[ActionGirl a law-woman]]) using AppliedPhlebotinum to protect law-abiding settlers from SpacePirates, TheEmpire and the occasional ForgottenSuperweapon on TheFinalFrontier.

Quite simply, an organization of peacekeepers in outer space.

* ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has the irresponsible spacecop Officer Zodboink. Since he operates in the vicinity of Earth, he probably works for Princess Voluptua's government, but this hasn't been specified.

* The Patrol in many of AndreNorton's science fiction stories. Also, in her "Time Traders" series, there's speculation that the alien "Baldies" are this - at one point, the heroes wonder whether a video they found is the record of an actual case or the equivalent of a television "cop show."

* Star Law in TSR's ''Star Frontiers'' game and the later ''D20Modern'' system.