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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Tokyo Police apparatus was privatized at some point in the history of ''[[Silent Moebius]]''. A major plot point towards the end of the series revolves around this. {{spoiler|Rally buys a controlling interest.}}
* The police in ''[[Hyper Police]]'' are all private companies who compete with each other to catch criminals. The Heroes work for the ''Police'' Company {{spoiler|...Which later goes bankrupt!}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Police duties in the [[Cyberpunk]]
* The [[Dungeons & Dragons]] setting of ''[[Eberron]]'' has plenty. House Deneith is the biggest, but House Medani and House Tharashk do it also. That and everyone of the 13 Dragonmarked Houses (Eberron's equivalent of a [[Mega Corp]]) has its own security service that is however subject to local laws.
* In ''[[Deadlands]]'', the United States initially hired [[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.
* [[Eclipse Phase|Firewall]], as a paramilitary [[Transhuman]] black-ops organization dedicated to containing and neutralizing [[Apocalypse How|x-risks]], would also qualify.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* You get a lot of these on college campuses, especially in the US. Larger, more prestigious, and wealthier schools (especially public colleges) can be important and influential enough to have their own police force. However, many other schools (normally smaller private colleges) tend to rely on the city police.
* There are privately-run prisons in the United States. There have been scandals in which these prisons bribe judges to send more inmates to them, increasing their profits.
* Overland traders in the old west regularly had these -- which is where the term "riding shotgun" comes from (because they guy beside a stage driver carried a shotgun). In point of fact this was one reason why American conquest of the Southwest desert area in the [[Mexican-American War]] was accepted locally; the local trading towns were more interested in local affairs and business was picking up because Americans could get traffic through in despite of raiders.
**Kit Carson was once a caravan guard in that area.
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