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Law Enforcement, Inc.
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A self-funded, self-supporting private agency which can act as a legal authority and law enforcement power, or as an official military outfit, even with minimal (if any) ties to actual government/military/police organizations. Agents can act as fully deputized and authorized agents of the law and/or government without bothering with official credentials, pesky background checks, and so forth. The strike force can consist of a One-Man Army (usually if they're the good guys) or an entire Red Shirt Army (usually if they're the bad guys, which will often overlap with Schlubby, Scummy Security Guard). The agency might have its own rigorous training regimen or simply recruit former soldiers and policemen. There are no pesky "letter of the law" rules and procedures which apply to traditional agencies and seem designed to protect the guilty while punishing the innocent. The government might even sub-contract the agency to do all its dirty work. For an actual government agency version, see Heroes "R" Us. See also Private Military Contractors, which may overlap. There's also a good chance it could be part of a MegaCorp or a N.G.O.. It also might employ Corporate Sponsored Superheroes. Such agencies must simply be the police in a society which has everything privatized (sometimes it's all owned by a single private entity), in which case it's just one arm of the larger group. May be connected to a Private Profit Prison, if they also own the prisons. Can also overlap with Business of Generic Importance. Subtrope of Artistic License – Law Enforcement. This item is available from the Trope Co. catalog |
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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey and Dreamfall Chapters introduce EYE, a police and security force controlled by the Syndicate, a coalition of megacorporations. | |
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The RAC (Reclamation Apprehension Coalition) of Killjoys offers services ranging from property retrieval, bodyguarding, and hostage exchange through prisoner transfer and arrest/capture to assassinations. Self-regulating, with harsh penalties for its agents who overstep their Warrant and/or certification, the RAC is (supposed to be) politically neutral, and only cares that their agents are serving a valid Warrant. | |
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In The Question, Mayor Myra Fermin was at one point considering disbanding Hub City's notoriously corrupt police force and hiring biker gangs to enforce the law. | |
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The Mafia began during Sicily's transition from feudalism to a modern province of mainland Italy. There were not enough police to maintain order properly and many people turned to powerful bandit gangs with lots of muscle for protection. | |
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Andor: Pre-Mor, a MegaCorp running multiple inhabited planets, has their own guard to police their systems and enforce their will. They're at their best when being completely useless and absent because they're otherwise corrupt, violent and abusive rather than any actual help to the communities they police. | |
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Angel: The Senior Partners have their own special ops outfit. | |
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In The Expanse, a company called Star Helix is contracted by the Earth authorities to maintain law and order on the asteroid Ceres. This becomes an issue for Miller when he's forced to pause his normal police activities to track down the runaway (adult) daughter of one of the richest men in the system, although he quickly warms to the case. | |
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The Simpsons: SpringShield, founded by Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, which went on to take over police chores for the whole city. Amusingly it ended because they got too good. Homer went and arrested Fat Tony, essentially ending crime in Springfield. As soon as he was released, he announced that he and his associates would kill Homer the next day, which lead to Homer pleading with the townspeople to help him. Of course, they didn't — even Lenny and Carl abandoned him. Homer lampshaded it perfectly: | |
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The police in Urinetown are run by UGC. | |
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Blood in the Mist is about IRPF (see Tabletop Games below) commander Rio Demla Ca'Wo. Despite working for a publicly traded MegaCorp instead of the now-extinct governments she's portrayed as little different, save for the Cosmic Horror elements of the story. | |
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An episode of The Outer Limits (1995) features a judge sent to be the magistrate of a far flung colony in the future. The "police" of the settlement are private security contracted by the mining company that owns the colony. At first they seem like corrupt thugs who are also racist against the aliens who are native to the planetoid, but later turn out to be Noble Bigots With Badges who are willing to defy their bosses in the name of justice. | |
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Borderlands 2 has the Hyperion corporation who employ a private army to settle Pandora (alongside their robot army and hapless employees who try to kill you for the bounty). | |
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The Silver Guardians from Power Rangers Time Force are a rare heroic example, crossed with Redshirt Army. They are an armed civilian force formed by a private company to fight off the Mutants, but also have general policing duties, including traffic. To be fair they are a non-profit organisation who helped anyone that needed it by the end of the show, but they were initially more like a paramilitary security-for-hire force. | |
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This happens again in Apocalypse, where X-COM is contracted to defend the Mega City of Mega-Primus against the extra-dimensional invaders. Meanwhile, the actual policing and all emergency services are handled by Megapol, a security company contracted by the city. | |
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Duane "Dog" Chapman was arrested when he captured a fugitive in Mexico (which does not allow bounty hunting) and fled back to the US while out on bail. He was arrested again, but avoided prosecution because Mexico's statute of limitations ran out before he could be extradited. | |
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Law enforcement, like most everything else in Snow Crash, has been completely privatized, and is the domain of such concerns as MetaCops Unlimited and its smaller, more upscale competitor, WorldBeat Security. | |
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The police in Hyper Police are all private companies who compete with each other to catch criminals. The Heroes work for the Police Company ...Which later goes bankrupt! | |
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In one episode of RoboCop: The Series, aside from previous problems from OCP seen in the films, OCP hires out a street gang to enforce the law in one of the more problematic neighbourhoods (Section 5). Problem being that their police work involves stealing, extortion and drug dealing, and beating up anybody that opposed them with sledgehammers. To make it worse OCP puts kill switches in all the real cops' cars to prevent them from entering Section 5 and RoboCop has a new directive added that makes it impossible for him to enter. | |
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Ravenwood mercenary company in Jericho (2006) is an example of this. While originally they were a run of the mill Private Military Contractor, after the attacks they gained the status of military police. | |
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Spider-Man (PS4): After the Demons attack an Osborn rally and kill Jefferson Davis, Mayor Osborn hires Sable International to supplement the NYPD and restore order. They're... not very good at it. | |
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Lots of these show up in the Something Awful short story collection In Golden Waters, which is based around floating libertarian city-states where everything is privatized. | |
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RAPT in Burst Angel. Also Hanshin Police Department, Inc., owned by the same company as the second oldest baseball team in Japan, the Hanshin Tigers (thus explaining why tigers are emblazoned on their everything). | |
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In The Expanse the UN contracts out police work in its Belt colonies to private security firms like Star Helix, Protogen, and Carne Para la Maquina. To some extent they're deployed on Earth as well, in the novella The Churn Star Helix is contracted by the government of Baltimore to clear out the organized crime problem, but they've got ordinary (and less aggressive) cops too. | |
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Schlock Mercenary features Sanctum Adroit, a mercenary company that provides armed and armored security services to several habitats in the Celeschul system. They're considerably more principled than most examples, capturing a squad of Tagon's Toughs without firing a shot (for which command apparently offers a substantial bonus) and apprehending their own client when he tries to convince them to kill the Toughs. They've also got a strict "No Company Towns" policy. | |
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The Ungoverned by Vernor Vinge takes this absolutely seriously, including that from the perspective of a protection company, a national government in war mode is just another crime gang to be dealt with the same way as any other. The sequel, Marooned in Realtime, suggests that by the late 21st century, governments have essentially given way to protection companies. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: In Jackson's Whole, you can hire the cops to arrest someone, but the target may be able to out-bid you and thereby retain their freedom. | |
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The Liberty Police, Inc. from Freelancer. Though they will err on the side of arresting you (more arrests = more prisoners = larger workforce for their Private Profit Prisons), they aren't portrayed as any more or less effective than the more traditional police forces in the other nations. According to the backstory, LPI began as basically rent-a-cops but the local regular police were so useless LPI eventually took their place with everyone's approval. |
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Strength & Justice: Although there's mention of a mayor in Geminate City, the local law enforcement agency DANDY seems to run on its own rules without restrictions or regulations. | |
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The Caldari State in EVE Online has eight private police agencies, one for each megacorporation. | |
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In the CoDominium universe, the CoDo Fleet quasi-legally hires mercenaries to do the cleaning-up operations and planetary-government defense work they no longer have the manpower or political freedom for. | |
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Detroit: Private security companies were hired to protect stores during the riot, with the police being occupied. Dismukes was a guard for one, shown protecting a store with two others. | |
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the originally government-funded titular organization is purchased by a tycoon after the end of the First Alien War, realizing the threat is not over. A bit of a subversion, as the company charter specifically includes a clause that allows the government(s) to take control of the company in the event of an alien incursion. This happens in Terror from the Deep, when the underwater branch of X-COM is called upon to protect Earth. | |
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The Dungeons & Dragons setting of Eberron has plenty. House Deneith is the biggest, but House Medani and House Tharashk do it also (Deneith is the official "security services"/mercenary Dragonmarked House, Medani's Dragonmark lends itself well towards acting as detectives, and Tharashk technically doesn't itself do this — the loophole they use is that formally speaking they simply act as facilitators (for a fee) for hiring more unusual guards that don't work for House Tharashk as such). That and everyone of the 13 Dragonmarked Houses (Eberron's equivalent of a MegaCorp) has its own security service that is however subject to local laws. | |
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In Tales from the Hood 2, Dumass Beach runs a series of Private Profit Prisons, and looking to create a force of robots to allow him to take over all law enforcement activities in the US. | |
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"The Shop" from the Soldier of Fortune. | |
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Errant Story: Pretty much the entire model for law enforcement in Farrel, one of the larger countries in the webcomic, with the added feature that if a rent-a-cop outfit doesn't work out and is dropped by the town where they operate, they simply go over to the dark side and become bandits. Jon, a member of one of the dark-side outfits with a Murder, Inc. product line, explains this to Snark Knight Sarine, who reacts about as one might expect. | |
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Borderlands has the Crimson Lance. They are a PMC under the created and financed by the Atlas Corporation, although they have little bearing on any non-DLC story other than being Demonic Spiders. Borderlands 2 has the Hyperion corporation who employ a private army to settle Pandora (alongside their robot army and hapless employees who try to kill you for the bounty). Pretty much every corporation in the series has some kind of private police force, you just don't see most of them because nobody (outside Hyperion) cares enough about Pandora to actually bother policing it. Subverted with the Dahl troops left on the moon. Stranded by the company, they're only loyal to Zarpedon and her goal of saving the galaxy. |
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The title character of Death's Head (Marvel Comics) is a self-described "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent". | |
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The Teeth of the Tiger: The Campus basically serves as a private-sector Homeland Security and/or CIA. They are protected from the possibility of serving massive jail time only because of a large stack of undated pardons they have. | |
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The city of Rapture in BioShock has no official government and originally had no laws; Rapture Security can thus be presumed to have started out as the equivalent of mall rent-a-cops. Even after Andrew Ryan starts ruling over the city with an iron fist, his order to kill a "subversive" citizen is portrayed like a hit job. | |
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Mass Effect: Elanus Risk Control Services, an arms manufacturer, provides security and policing on the corporate-run world of Noveria. In Mass Effect 2, various mercenary groups provide security forces on several worlds in the Terminus Systems. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: To a lesser extent, the PIG Security group enforce the law against gangs in the airport, Starfish Island and the mall - but are sometimes seen by cops as a gang. | |
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In Rebuild World, since the setting is Cyberpunk, and the government of the region all the characters live in is a collection of MegaCorp, the police inside Kugamayama city's walls are private. When the protagonist Akira rents a house, he gets given the local company's spiel which includes corpse disposal services. Outside the city wall, in the slums and wasteland, there is no law enforcement; the closest equivalent would be one's local slum lord gang. | |
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In The New Adventures of Speed Racer, Racer X works for a crime-fighting organization called InterNet. As the show was created in the early 90s, the word internet hadn't yet taken on its current meaning. | |
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Ace Savvy: A New Hope: Lord Tetherby has his own security company that already has a lot of influence throughout the world. He wants to spread its influence to Royal Woods and will do anything to do so. | |
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Heavy Metal: The NYPD makes a brief appearance in the "Harry Canyon" segment as a private, for-profit police service whose exorbitant fees Harry chooses not to pay. | |
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Exiles shows a reality where Heroes for Hire is one of these, consisting of near-every major superhero doing work for them by commission. It turns incredibly dark when their CEO refuses to help a client because they won't pay the full-price for services, resulting in a chain of events that ends with said CEO dead, and the entire population of Japan being exterminated by Moses Magnum and Namora, all because said CEO woke up in a bad mood. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie had a sketch about this in their very first episode: Welcome to the Private Police Force. It was a humorous take on privatizations then recently conducted by the Thatcher government, as the episode states not only the police but the UK high roads and even the royal family have been privatized. And it implies the police force is now owned by Americans. | |
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In Watch Dogs: Legion, the PMC Albion have become the primary law enforcement agency in London. At least one MI 5 agent left the agency after it was privatized. | |
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In the RoboCop movies, Omni Consumer Products has entered into a contract with the city of Detroit to run the Detroit Police Department (the OCP logo is shown to be the emblem used on the police cars). In addition to the law, they also have to follow corporate procedures, much to the annoyance of many police officers. In the first movie, it's revealed that Bob Morton and his team have restructured the department so that the best candidates for the RoboCop project are in areas where they are most likely to be killed. Also, when Murphy is suiting up for duty after he first arrives at Metro West, he speculates that OCP has to do something about transferring officers around. | |
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The Foundation For Law And Government from Knight Rider is a rare not-for-profit example, though in the original series Michael and KITT acted more like private investigators. | |
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Blood is Mine: All law enforncement agencies in the protagonist's home city are privatized. | |
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The Police in Jennifer Government, also NRA to some extent, though both factions are mostly mercenaries for corporations. It shows up the highly corporate nature of these organisations. Notably, when a Nike employee is (forcefully) contracted to do something blatantly illegal, he subcontracts to the Police, who themselves subcontract the job to the NRA. Nike later contracts the NRA to eliminate the Police manager who handled the original subcontract. |
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The job that we find Serenity's crew working in the beginning of the movie is actually a heist aimed at stealing the payrolls from the government-contracted security firm on a rim planet, knowing that they'll face minimal problems from the Feds later because the security company will never admit to letting their own payroll get stolen from them. | |
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Batwoman: The Crows, a private security force run by Jacob Kane to supplement the GCPD. | |
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Left 4 Dead 2, CEDA hired a private security firm to protect civilians, but they became infected too. The survivors having to kill some in the campaign, "The Parish". | |
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IYS Insurance appears to be this in Leverage, since its run-of-the-mill insurance investigators are apparently allowed to use firearms in the course of their job. Especially odd is that despite being an American company, the character was in Paris at the time. | |
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In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, while there are still a few token police officers in Hengsha, it's repeatedly stated that they were de facto replaced by Belltower Associates. | |
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In Kuffs, an irresponsible young man inherits his brother's San Francisco Patrol Special Police franchise. | |
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In its current incarnation, Legion of Super-Heroes is almost one of these, though they eventually gain official standing. L.E.G.I.O.N., their 1000-years-earlier sort-of-predecessor, fits the trope much better. As does R.E.B.E.L.S., the current in carnation of L.E.G.I.O.N. |
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Police duties in Shadowrun are overseen mostly by private megacorporations, such as Austin-based Lone Star and the Knight Errant division of Ares Macrotechnology. | |
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The Yogscast's own Magic Police. | |
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Extropian habitats in Eclipse Phase don't have "laws" per se, but there are a number of hypercorps such as Gorgon Defenses who provide judicial services to their clients, ranging from physical protection of one's person and property to lawsuits. | |
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The Carrington Institute from Perfect Dark. | |
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The Judoon in Doctor Who have this as their hat. | |
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MiB in Men in Black are funded by repurposed alien technology, so that they don't have to bother with government purse strings ...or oversight. | |
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In the last book in the Vatta's War series, Victory Conditions, it is discovered that the actual military of Nexus has been gutted out by long-standing corruption because everybody knew that nobody would ever dare to attack them, and so the defense of the homeworld against Space Pirates ends up falling to the corporate security forces of the planet's dominant MegaCorp. They're poorly equipped and not trained for the task, but they do have outside assistance. | |
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C.E.L.L. in Crysis 2. | |
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On Jimmy Two-Shoes, Misery Inc. has it's own private army. Noticeably, it seems to be the only form of law enforcement in Miseryville. | |
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Outland. The company police on the space-mining colony are shown to be corrupt and apathetic, except for the protagonist played by Sean Connery. O'Neil (Connery's character) is stated to be a Federal Marshal, rather than the regular cops, who are on Con-Am's payroll. | |
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In Encryption Straffe, mercenaries are preferred over state police in international ceasefire zones. | |
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In The Cape, Ark Corporation, run by Villain with Good Publicity Peter Fleming, privatizes Palm City's failing police department. Of course, Fleming, as the supervillain Chess, is the one responsible for the police being seen as inadequate. | |
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The Public Eye police force in Marvel 2099 work on a for-profit basis. In the intro to The Punisher 2099, a man tries to call for help, but is told that an officer will be sent once the check clears. | |
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The Rokkaku Police from Jet Set Radio are owned by the Rokkaku Group, they are sent to arrest various teen skater gangs throughout Tokyo to the point where they send SWAT Teams, gunships and tanks. | |
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In Deadlands, the United States initially hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to serve as The Men in Black. They later form an official agency to deal with the supernatural, headed by Allan Pinkerton and largely manned by former Pinkerton agents. | |
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The GTO in Batman: Beyond the White Knight was created by Derek Powers as a type of "Bat-Army", using Batman-level technology to bolster the already existing Gotham PD. While it's put Gotham's criminal activity to a record low, it would later become its own independent entity and turns Gotham into a Police State. | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police, as their name suggests. | |
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In The Longest Journey, the local police force is owned and backed by a soft drinks megacorp (which, amazingly, is not part of the villain group). In addition to reading you your rights, they'll read you the latest catchy slogan and inform you of what new amazing flavors are out this month. | |
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Pirandello-Kruger in Mirror's Edge make up the vast majority of combat-armoured enemies in the game. They serve the function of SWAT Teams, and are responsible for Project Icarus, a training regimen for pursuit cops to chase down and eliminate runners. They operate parallel to the city police, the "Blues", but are not intimately connected besides working to stop Faith and the other runners. | |
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The X-COM series: the originally government-funded titular organization is purchased by a tycoon after the end of the First Alien War, realizing the threat is not over. A bit of a subversion, as the company charter specifically includes a clause that allows the government(s) to take control of the company in the event of an alien incursion. This happens in Terror from the Deep, when the underwater branch of X-COM is called upon to protect Earth. This happens again in Apocalypse, where X-COM is contracted to defend the Mega City of Mega-Primus against the extra-dimensional invaders. Meanwhile, the actual policing and all emergency services are handled by Megapol, a security company contracted by the city. A somewhat related weapons manufacturer and PMC known as MARSEC is in charge of doing the same for Mars, (where they mainly brutally crush mining colony rebellions). This happens again in Interceptor, where the X-COM Company sends a force to the Frontier to protect human colonies. |
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The Longest Journey Saga In The Longest Journey, the local police force is owned and backed by a soft drinks megacorp (which, amazingly, is not part of the villain group). In addition to reading you your rights, they'll read you the latest catchy slogan and inform you of what new amazing flavors are out this month. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey and Dreamfall Chapters introduce EYE, a police and security force controlled by the Syndicate, a coalition of megacorporations. |
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: Although not stated, this is presumably the situation in Han Dold City, where one "police gang" set off burglar alarms in order to trap another police gang. | |
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Paperinik New Adventures: Some of these guys try and take over Duckburg's law enforcement, even trying to frame Paperinik for attacking them (they actually attacked him when he called them out for how they treated two wannabe thieves who had already surrendered at the hero's arrival). It's revealed that their boss (who keeps the relationship secret) wants them to take over the law enforcement so they'll bankrupt Duckburg with their bills and force the administration to sell everything to him, a scheme that has already worked thrice but was foiled when they tried to make an example of Paperinik and ordered Angus Fangus to not leave the city, resulting in public unmasking, humiliation, and Angus using Paperinik's spring-loaded punch on their boss. | |
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The Hands of Blue in Firefly appear to be from the MegaCorp Blue Sun Corporation (that is shown as working hand-in-glove with the Alliance state) who have the freedom to kill anyone who gets in the way of their mission to recapture River and Simon — or learns about it at all. | |
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The Eldraeverse has multiple polities where the closest thing to a government are Private Law Providers. The Empire actually evolved from a merger of several PPLs that ended up monopolizing their service area and taking on a number of other public functions. But hey, they govern by the unanimous consent of their citizen-shareholders. | |
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Vesta in The Pride of Parahumans was intended to be an anarchistic utopia without police, but after the life support systems started breaking down from neglect a number of "Protectors' Guilds" emerged to try and bring order to the chaos. Now they run the asteroid along almost feudal lines. | |
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The Agency in Crackdown bring peace to the city, at the cost of turning it into a totalitarian dictatorship. | |
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Baldur's Gate has the Flaming Fist as the de facto police in both the titular city and the surrounding countryside, despite the Flaming Fist technically being a mercenary company. They still take their roles as law enforcement very seriously. So much so that if you ever fight them, their battle cry is "I AM the law!" | |
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In Silent Möbius the Tokyo Police apparatus was privatized at some point. A major plot point towards the end of the series revolves around this. Rally buys a controlling interest in order to preserve the Amplified Mystical Police from a hostile takeover. | |
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance World Marshal, Inc. is the largest PMC on Earth due to the disbanding of Outer Heaven and its lesser PM Cs following the events of the previous game. Due to legislation passed by Senator Steven Armstrong, the Colorado state budget had been slashed, leading to World Marshal taking over law enforcement in Denver, turning the police force into cyborgs. | |
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Smith and Holder Resolutions in Quantum Vibe is one of several insurance-style legal agencies that maintain order in the anarcho-capitalist L5 city. | |
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Mission: Impossible: In his original concept for the series, creator Bruce Geller described the Impossible Missions Force as a private group that the police or the U.S. government would bring in against threats outside their ability to handle. The later movies changed the IMF into a division of the Central Intelligence Agency. | |
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In City of Heroes, Hero Corp is an organization that employs heroes for profit, selling their services to the law enforcement agencies of the area they're in. Many heroes look down on Hero Corp as sell-outs and ethically challenged, but many more look to it as a way to be a hero full-time, without a mild-mannered day job. | |
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In Hc Svnt Dracones, One Nation Under Copyright is the standard form of post-human governance, but for the last three hundred years most Corptowns have outsourced security to the Inner Ring Police Force, as the entire company follows one set of rules rather than constant changes whenever a new CEO or executive takes charge. | |
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