History Main / SpacePolice

* Mandora the Evil-Chaser from ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1986''.

* Mandora the Evil-Chaser from ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}''.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Centauri police arrive on Earth in pursuit of [[spoiler:Starfire's sister]].

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' has this with the "Galactic Federation Police." The [[AllThereInTheManual original game's manual]] specified that the Federation government created the organization to battle the SpacePirate threat to interstellar shipping, and it was mentioned again in the ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' instruction manual. After that, it seemed like it had been retconned out of existence when the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' games seemingly replaced it with the [[SpaceMarine Galactic Federation Marine Corps]] until ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' specifically mentioned the Police again in its intro. The line between Police and military seems to be thin, as it is mentioned that the Police have worked with the Federation Army jointly (in ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission's'' manual) and both ''Metroid II'' and ''Samus Returns'' call the Police's operatives [[InsistentTerminology "soldiers"]] (which may make them more akin to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie gendarmerie]] as opposed to traditional civilian police). Series heroine Samus Aran was established to have had a previous service history with the Police as an elite operative in both the early [[ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem Captain N: The Game Master comic series]] and then again in the [[Manga/MetroidManga manga prequel]] before she eventually quit the service and became an independent bounty hunter.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' has this for the Galactic Federation, literally called "Space Police" in the franchise's [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early days]] and then later "Federation Police." The [[AllThereInTheManual original game's manual]] specified that the Federation government created the organization to battle the SpacePirate threat to interstellar shipping, and it was mentioned again in the ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' instruction manual. After that, it seemed like it had been retconned out of existence when the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' games seemingly replaced it with the [[SpaceMarine Galactic Federation Marine Corps]] until ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' specifically mentioned the Police again in its intro. The line between Police and military seems to be thin, as it is mentioned that the Police have worked with the Federation Army jointly (in ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission's'' manual) and both ''Metroid II'' and ''Samus Returns'' call the Police's operatives [[InsistentTerminology "soldiers"]] (which may make them more akin to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie gendarmerie]] as opposed to traditional civilian police). Series heroine Samus Aran was established to have had a previous service history with the Police as an elite operative in both the early [[ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem Captain N: The Game Master comic series]] and then again in the [[Manga/MetroidManga manga prequel]] before she eventually quit the service and became an independent bounty hunter.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' has this for the Galactic Federation, literally called "Space Police" in the franchise's [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early days]] and then later "Federation Police." The [[AllThereInTheManual original game's manual]] specified that the Federation government created this organization to battle the SpacePirate threat to interstellar shipping, and were mentioned again in the ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' instruction manual. After that, it seemed like they had been retconned out of existence when the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' games seemingly replaced them with the [[SpaceMarine Galactic Federation Marine Corps]] until ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' specifically mentioned the Police again in its intro. The line between Police and military seems to be thin, since it is mentioned that the Police have worked with the Federation Army jointly (in ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission's'' manual) and both ''Metroid II'' and ''Samus Returns'' call the Police's operatives [[InsistentTerminology "soldiers"]] (which may make them more akin to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie gendarmerie]] as opposed to traditional civilian police). Series heroine Samus Aran was established to have had a previous service history with the Police as an elite operative in both the early [[ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem Captain N: The Game Master comic series]] and then again in the [[Manga/MetroidManga manga prequel]] before she eventually quit the service and became an independent bounty hunter.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' has this for the Galactic Federation, literally called "Space Police" in the franchise's [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early days]] and then later "Federation Police." The [[AllThereInTheManual original game's manual]] specified that the Federation government created this organization to battle the SpacePirate threat to interstellar shipping. The line between Police and military seems to be thin, since it is mentioned that the Police have worked with the Federation Army jointly (in ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission's'' manual). After that, it seemed like they had been retconned out of existence when the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' games introduced the [[SpaceMarine Galactic Federation Marine Corps]] until ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' specifically mentioned the Police again in its intro. Series heroine Samus Aran was established to have had a previous service history with the Police as an elite operative in both the early [[ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem Captain N: The Game Master comic series]] and then again in the [[Manga/MetroidManga manga]] before she eventually quit the service and became an independent bounty hunter.

** The Judoon are mercenary police, though the Doctor derides them as "intergalactic thugs".

* In the Literature/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".

* ''{{Series/Babylon 5}}'': By the end of the fourth season, the Rangers have begun to fill this role, helping to keep the peace between the different members of the League of Nonaligned Worlds and later the Interstellar Alliance. Notably, they can't even get the League races to ''agree'' to this arrangement without [[GenghisGambit convincing them their borders are being threatened by a new undetectable enemy]], and the first time war looms between Alliance members (with the Centauri, puppeted by the Drakh, launching disguised attacks on the others), the Rangers prove too thinly stretched to be able to stop both sides from shooting. However, as Delenn says, the purpose of the Rangers is more to create the peace than to enforce the peace. Most of their direct engagements are with Raiders or AlwaysChaoticEvil groups like the Drakh, and if a world is being victimized or planning a war of conquest against their neighbours, the Rangers make sure the whole galaxy knows about it.

* ''{{Series/Babylon 5}}'': By the end of the fourth season, the Rangers have begun to fill this role, helping to keep the peace between the different members of the League of Nonaligned Worlds and later the Interstellar Alliance. Notably, they can't even get the League races to ''agree'' to this arrangement without [[GenghisGambit convincing them their borders are being threatened by a new undetectable enemy]], and the first time war looms between any of the Alliance members, the Rangers prove too thinly stretched to be able to stop both sides from shooting. However, as Delenn says, the purpose of the Rangers is more to create the peace than to enforce the peace. Most of their direct engagements are with Raiders or AlwaysChaoticEvil groups like the Drakh, and if a world is being victimized or planning a war of conquest against their neighbours, the Rangers make sure the whole galaxy knows about it.

* ''{{Series/Babylon 5}}'': By the end of the fourth season, the Rangers have begun to fill this role, helping to keep the peace between the different members of the League of Nonaligned Worlds and later the Interstellar Alliance. Notably, they can't even get the League races to ''agree'' to this arrangement without [[GenghisGambit convincing them their borders are being threatened by a new undetectable enemy]], and the first time war looms between any of the Alliance members, the Rangers prove too thinly stretched to be able to stop both sides from shooting. However, as Delenn says, the purpose of the Rangers is more to create the peace than to enforce the peace. Most of their direct engagements are with Raiders or AlwaysChaoticEvil groups like the Drakh, and if a world is being victimized or planning a war against their neighbours, the Rangers make sure the whole galaxy knows about it.

* ''{{Series/Babylon 5}}'': By the end of the fourth season, the Rangers have begun to fill this role, helping to keep the peace between the different members of the League of Nonaligned Worlds and later the Interstellar Alliance. Notably, they can't even get the League races to ''agree'' to this arrangement without [[GenghisGambit convincing them their borders are being threatened by a new undetectable enemy]], and the first time war looms between any of the Alliance members, the Rangers prove too thinly stretched to be able to stop both sides from shooting.

** 25th century Earth's Adjudication Bureau get mentioned in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]" (although the supposed Adjudicator in that story is actually the Master), and go on to play a major role in the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures (where it's still around in the 30th).

* ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr''. Granted, he's only one, but even the blurb for the movie said one man is enough.

* The Universe Patrol Squad in ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}''. They also have a TimePolice division.

* In one of the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks, you play a Space DEA Agent.

* The Planetary Defense Organization from ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', with the title character being assigned to Earth to prevent illegal exports of [[AliensStealCable entertainment media]]. She later remarks that they sometimes get backup from [[{{Series/Ultraman}} the Land of Light]].

* ''WebComic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has the irresponsible spacecop Officer Zodboink.

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. CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth can be a parody of this trope.

** The [[https://lego.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Galaxy_Patrol Galaxy Patrol]] minfigure as well.

** The [[https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy_Patrol Galaxy Patrol]] minfigure as well.

* The Honorverse's "''Literature/ManticoreAscendant''" series gives us the Manticoran Patrol and Rescue Service, another Coast Guard analogue, which finds itself in an InterserviceRivalry with the Royal Manticoran Navy due to in-fighting between factions of Manticore's government. While their duties mostly involve search and rescue and similar missions, they do end up taking a more active role in the defense of the Manticore System as the threat of SpacePirates increases.