Law enforcement under the Republic/Empire?

buzz_knox · Post by **buzz_knox** » 2005-05-06 10:38am

Do we have any "hard data" concerning law enforcement under the Republic or the Empire? Something beyond the Jedi being called in to quell a riot, or stormtroopers putting down the same (the Imperial equivalent).

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-05-06 10:43am

I'm pretty sure Sector Rangers come under the Law Enforcement category.

Grand Admiral Mango · Post by **Grand Admiral Mango** » 2005-05-06 11:18am

How about COMPNOR?

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2005-05-06 11:20am

Durring the Xwing series, mention is made of local Courscanti (?) militia.

Kazuaki Shimazaki · Post by **Kazuaki Shimazaki** » 2005-05-06 11:27am

And of course the CorSec of Corellia is a commonly known force. Then there is the CSA's Security Division. In addition...

DESB Ch.3 wrote:Long before the Empire, there were those who saw the widespread crime and degeneracy in the galaxy and tried to put a stop to it. Everyone is familiar with the Jedi Knights, but they weren't the only ones to enforce the laws of the Republic. The Jedi were too few and often too involved in cosmic menaces to handle every incidence of crime and abuse. To fill this gap, the Senate empowered regional governors to appoint special groups to integrate the legal establishments on each world.

Such men were system police authorities, the Sector Rangers and Special Enforcement Officers.

It was a thankless job, not as popular as local planetary investigators, nor as highly regarded as the Jedi Knights. It was for this reason that they largely escaped the growing influence of the Empire. During the early days of the New Order, the Jedi were exterminated. On the other hand, many of the constabularies of citizen worlds were absorbed into the vast machine of the Imperial military and police forces.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2005-05-06 12:34pm

The Judicial Department of the Republic was a law enforcement body that frequently worked with the Jedi Order in the prequel era. The Judicials had militarized Consular-class (ugh) diplomatic cruisers, and a few Dreadnaught-class "heavy cruisers." They chased down pirates, drug shipments, terrorists, etc. The Imperial Inquisitorious was probably officially considered a law enforcement body.

Apparently there's no Posse Comitatus analog in the Galactic Empire, as regular armored Imperial Marines are assigned to law enforcement and police and patrol duties behind in peacetime territories and even specialized detachments of the Marines dedicated to this purpose (the "Coruscant Guards"; I suspect many worlds, especially cityscapes, have detachments of similar troops.)

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-05-06 05:36pm

Grand Admiral Mango wrote:How about COMPNOR?

COMPNOR Redesign wasn't as much a law enforcement agency as it was an indoctrination and subordination agency.

I imagine that most law enforcement was strictly left up to the planetary security forces, such as Naboo-- many's the time I've heard the Naboo forces described as 'glorified policemen', and I have to agree.

Admiral Drason · Post by **Admiral Drason** » 2005-05-06 05:44pm

In Tie Fighter for the PC we got to fly several missions dealing with Pirates and other peace keeping missions.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-05-06 06:27pm

Admiral Drason wrote:In Tie Fighter for the PC we got to fly several missions dealing with Pirates and other peace keeping missions.

I would imagine that the Empire/Republic does most of the space policing, especially between individual systems. However, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the more prominent systems policed themselves; Corran trained as a pilot with CorSec, and IIRC his flight suit was in CorSec colors, so we can safely say that the Corellians had an air/space wing of CorSec. Undoubtedly many other large systems like Kuat, Coruscant, et al have similar arrangements.