History Main / SpacePolice

* The current ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'' series takes this and runs with it. The suggestion of Ego the Living Planet becoming a Corpsman (instantly dismissed as "crazy"; what's actually happening is a bit more complex), is a clear ShoutOut to Mogo.

* Creator/JamesHSchmitz's ''Literature/AgentOfVega'' series features assorted 'Galactic Agents', space-going Lone Rangers with super-cybernized spaceships as their faithful 'Silvers'. The Agents work for the Third Co-ordinator of the Vegan Confederacy and have no respect whatsoever for the AlienNonInterferenceClause.

* In the ComicBook/XWingSeries, part of ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', one of the pilots was on the Corellian Security Force, essentially the police of the Corellian system. Corellia's Jedi tended to work pretty closely with them. Largely the CSF stayed within the system. The Jedi had a saying - "There is no luck, only the Force", and the CSF liked to modify it to tell criminals who chalked up being caught to bad luck - "There is no luck, only the Corellian Security Force".

* The Keyblade wielders from ''Videogame/KingdomHearts'' qualify as their job is to keep other worlds safe from threats such as The Heartless, Nobodies, The Unversed, and Organization XIII while attempting to maintain the status quo of the worlds although they do fight any evil villains in those worlds as well. Although some keyblade wielders become corrupted by the powers of darkness and abuse it, there are some keyblade wielders who side on the light to keep darkness at bay. What makes them count is that the universe of the series does not really have planets and they are replaced with worlds that are either based on Disney films, only have a single town, or are completely infested with the threats of darkness as used as a base of operations by the antagonists. Outside of these worlds is just a dimension that is very similar to outer space and wielders are required to travel from world to world through use of a Gummi ship or through their ability to transform their keyboards into vehicles.

** The ''Galactic Patrol Prisoner'' saga of ''Dragon Ball: Super'' has Goku and Vegetables temporarily joining the Galactic Patrol.

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

See also SuperCop, TimePolice, and SuperheroesInSpace. For the military equivalent, see SpaceMarine. Also, SpacePirates are likely to be among the criminals that Space Cops pursue.

* The Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onnz. He was a manhunter (high-ranking police officer) on Mars and his superhero career can be seen as a continuation of his duties on a larger scale.

* The Darkstars were also formed to pick up the slack when the GLC disbanded, and included a number of former Lanterns in their ranks, but their ranks slowly dwindled and the last remaining members gave their lives in a fight against an evil PhysicalGod called Starbreaker. Their name and equipment have since been appropriated by the zombie-like servants of another evil space-deity, Lady Styx.

** The revamped post-Rebirth Corps now has two Lanterns per sector, who are even referred to as police-style back-up. Earth actually has four Lanterns, but only two (Jordan and Stewart) operate in Sector 2814, while the others (Gardner and Rayner) are specialists based out of Oa.

* The Galaxy Police in the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' series. They've got their jurisdiction from the [[TheFederation Galaxy Union]]. It's a loose alliance of the most influential nations around, mainly humans (in the form of a couple of rival empires) and wau -- a race of large antropomorphic felines. It should be noted that the Galaxy Police are also the galactic Postal Service as well. In fact, it's their main source of income.

* Given the state things are with every space travel capable race flocking to the last remaing star of the universe, the militaristic SpaceMarine Peacekeepers from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' also basically function to some degree as law enforcers of the last solar system.

* In WesternAnimation/TeamGalaxy the 3 protagonists enforce the law throughout the stars as space martials.

* The ''Galactic Patrol'' that appears in some of Creator/AkiraToriyama's mangas like ''Sachi-chan Gū!!'' ''Jiya'', ''Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman'' and ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.

** The ''Galactic Patrol Prisoner'' saga of ''Dragon Ball'': Super'' has Goku and Vegetables temporarily joining the Galactic Patrol.

** The ''Galactic Patrol Prisoner'' saga of ''Dragon Ball'':Super'' has Goku and Vegetables temporarily joining the Galactic Patrol.

* Another organization from Franchise/TheDCU, a modern-era precursor to the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes called L.E.G.I.O.N. (Licensed Extra-Governmental Interstellar Operatives Network), was founded to fill the gap left by the Green Lantern Corps after they disbanded for a short time in the late '80s. They're about halfway between a police force and a mercenary outfit, and bump heads with the Green Lanterns fairly often. They've also twice been taken over by villains (in the later issues of their regular book, and in a current miniseries), leading to the good guys becoming R.E.B.E.L.S..

* The Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onnz. He was a manhunter(high-ranking police officer) on Mars and his superhero career can be seen as a continuation of his duties on a larger scale.

* In the Ultraman Franchise, The Space Garrison that the titular hero belongs to fits the bill with the added edition that all of the organization's members are armored giants that mostly deal with rampaging kaiju and their evil extraterrestrial masters.

** The Judoon are mercenary police (though the Doctor derides them as "intergalactic thugs"). "The Eleventh Hour" gives us the [[StarfishAliens considerably weirder]] but even more callous Atraxi, who threatened to torch the entire planet Earth to prevent Prisoner Zero's escape.

This is not the same as a Starfleet-style fleet of ships. For one, those usually exist for the purposes of exploration and/or war; for another, Space Police tend to work in small groups and have a certain jurisdiction. In other words, it's much like the difference between the real police and the military.