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* The Panoply in [[Alastair Reynolds]]' ''[[The Prefect]]''. 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 Galactic Patrol in the ''[[Lensman]]'' novels, especially the Lensmen themselves, though it's more militaristic than most examples of this trope.

* The Monitor Corps from James White's ''[[Sector General]]'' series. Paramilitary police with [[Cool Ships]], to be sure, but at the end of they day they're still Gardai in space, and proud of it. (The Etlan War, for example, is described as a particularly widespread riot in Monitor Corps official documentation, and nobody ever uses lethal force. Ever.)

* The Special Corps from ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat]]'' consist of [[Boxed Crook|former criminals who have been caught]] and are now used to catch other, more dangerous criminals or combat galaxy-spanning threats. They can call on military and government resources (usually by posing as powerful government officials with the help of forged documents). Their leader [[Da Chief|Inskipp]] (once a notorious criminal himself) is incensed to discover there's another secret and even more powerful organization, the Morality Corps (which enforces the moral code of humanity), and then yet ''another'' group: the [[Time Police|Time Corps]] (which protects the timeline).

** 25th century Earth's Adjudication Bureau get mentioned in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S8 E4 Colony in Space|Colony in Space]]" (although the supposed Adjudicator in that story is actually the Master), and go on to play a major role in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] (where it's still around in the 30th).

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' ("Arena").

** Later, Starfleet Security is shown explicitly performing roles akin to those of the FBI and US Marshals.

** Naval forces have done that sort of thing for hundreds of years. Starfleet in many ways operates like the Victorian era Royal Navy.