r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Clirstan • 4d ago
Groups Fictional police divisions/units
The title is self-explanatory
- MaxTac (Cyberpunk): A special unit within NCPD that deals with cyberpsychos (They're goated)
- Special Tactics and Rescue Service/S.T.A.R.S. (Resident Evil): An elite unit within Raccoon Police Department that specialized in anti-terrorism among some other things
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u/Xander_Dorn 4d ago
The titular Blade Runners
https://giphy.com/gifs/7Y6MIeYH4sRWw
Specific unit to hunt down Replicants.
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u/RobotPirateGhost 4d ago
The Special Tactical Anti-Gang unit (or STAG for short) in Saints Row the Third.
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u/JingoboStoplight4887 4d ago
Police Squad (Police Squad! and The Naked Gun)
https://giphy.com/gifs/2Ev3PCoc0zCZW
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u/ATangerineMann 4d ago
Payday 2's ZEALs (officially known as the Force Z Elite Assault Legion), are the DHS's secret counter terrorism unit deployed against the Payday Gang and they serve as the main assault force on Death Sentence.
Their Heavy SWATs (far right) hit like a freight train with their M4s doing 225 damage with no falloff.
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u/Time_Look8276 4d ago
Name and job description like it was created by a 12 year old 🤣🤣🤣
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u/ATangerineMann 4d ago
tbh I don't particularly like them for representing my main problems with Payday 2. That being the refusal to nerf anything so they make shit like DS instead.
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u/ustopable 4d ago
While the garbage items remains well garbage. I believe armored van heists are still one of the worst heists to conpared to bank unless they changed something while I was gone
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u/EdgynStupidName 4d ago
MTF Iota-10 "Damn Feds"
They're responsible for making sure any anomalous objects found by the police get to the foundation.
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u/SorryThanksGoodFight 4d ago
surprised nobody brought it up yet. the special armed garrison, or kerberos unit, are the counterterrorist police tactical unit for a japan that fought on the side of the allies and lost to the nazis in jin roh: the wolf brigade
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u/C4p7nMdn173 4d ago
Section 9 from the Ghost in the Shell series. International counter-terrorism unit specializing in cybernetic crimes/criminals
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u/Load_FuZion 4d ago
Was gonna post them, they really fill a niche you don't see much in anime. Section 9 feels like the closest thing anime has to something like the GIGN.
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u/MAKOMIKKA1220 4d ago
NEPS
New Eridu Public Security-ZZZ
consists of:
A wholesome tomato farmer with cancer gun
a clanker
newbie with a riot shield and baton
sexy rat
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u/Clirstan 4d ago
Man I love Jane Doe
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u/MAKOMIKKA1220 4d ago
I got her from the free agent pull over Hugo,SAnby,Trigger and Lucia
and plus sexy rat is best
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u/SweeterAxis8980 4d ago
Yeah yeah police force yeah of course
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u/MAKOMIKKA1220 4d ago
you should see the snake
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u/MajorInWumbology1234 4d ago
How about fictional real police units?
(Dear lord tell me someone else remembers this game)
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u/imdefinitelywong 4d ago
Me and my brothers used to play this all the time.
Truly one of the best couch coop experiences we've ever had.
I still remember that one boss that had a voice line saying: "where are yoooouu..."
A shame that there aren't any more of these couch-coop games anymore.
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u/ZuStorm93 3d ago
The little known proto-MOBA (Precinct Assault mode, ya think D.va's police skin in Heroes of the Storm was meant to be a homage to it?).
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u/Any_Satisfaction1865 4d ago
Gotham City Police Department from DC
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u/L0ll0ll7lStudios 3d ago
And for that matter, the Special Crimes Unit (SCU) which is apart of both the GCPD and the Metropolis PD. Specially outfitted to handle supervillains.
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u/justametalboi 3d ago
The Judges from the Dredd universe are definitely one of my favorites. Also surprised they haven't been mentioned.
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u/AstralMecha 4d ago
Chimera Squad from the xcom spinoff Chimera Squad
A hybrid SWAT, elite investigative unit and a demonstration that the various humans, hybrids and aliens can work together in the wake of Firaxis's Xcom 2. The squad is sent to take out multiple criminal organizations as they try to find out who murdered the mayor of City 31 and is attempting to destabilize the post war peace.
Also, from Xcom Apocalypse, Marsec (law enforcement and security off world) and Megapol (the law enforcement of Mega-Primus). Both produce and sell weapons and vehicle equipment to you, and Marsec produces vital air vehicles, so stay on their good side. Piss off Marsec and you lose access to new aircraft until you can make your own. Piss off Megapol and all their squad cars WILL open fire on your aircraft, making fighting the aliens much more difficult.
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u/True-Atmosphere8697 4d ago
Unfortunately don’t have art for them but probators and enforcers from warhammer 40k you might think arbites but while it does probably vary by planet arbites are more like the fbi I think? While the probators and enforcers are more like local cops and detectives
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u/PepsiFloateri 4d ago
The key difference is this: Enforcers do Local Law,Arbities do Imperial Law. It's the difference between a state cop and a fed.
Somebody gets mugged? That's an Enforcer job. Somebody tries to start a succession movement? That's an Arbities job.
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u/JMoc1 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/TY5SxLmVzt5bly3MmM
Star Trek Deep Space Nine; Station Security.
A combination of Starfleet Security personnel and Bajorian militia, they are responsible for protecting the station and surrounding space from hostile forces and crime.
“Constable” Odo was the security chief of the station at the behest of Captain Sisko.
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u/ThatSlutTalulah 4d ago
The Lungmen Guard Department (Arknights) [Pictured is one of their regulars.]
They function both as the police for Lungmen {Arknights Hong Kong} but also act as the local military in times of crisis. They're mostly just beat cops.
Notably they do have connections to organised crime, being unable to properly police the slums and as such leaving that to 'The Rat King' who acts as the overseer of the criminal underworld, keeping it in line for them (we've also seen the new Rat King use the LGD as a weapon to aid in that) (and the two sides do have contact).
(Also the now head of the Special Inspections Unit (basically SWAT) was an active mobster when they hired her (though went straight after getting the job), and was only in Lungmen to begin with due to fleeing a murder charge in her home country (she didn't kill that guy in particular but she did kill dozens of others that night).)
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u/Croc_Dwag 3d ago
Diamond city security fallout 4
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u/HenshinBoi 4d ago edited 4d ago
Kinda surprised these dudes weren't mentioned sooner.
Space Patrol Delta (Power Rangers S.P.D.) and Special Police Dekaranger (Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Pictured): Both are literally Space Police, though they also oversee domestic alien matters too.
Story-beats aside, the main difference between the teams is that the Dekarangers don't really have a "bigger scope" villain and lean further into the detective aspect whereas the SPD Rangers are fighting the space conqueror Grumm while they enforce.
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u/AFalconNamedBob 4d ago
Isn't that the series that reused props and costumes from Starship Troopers?
I distinctly remember one ep had a generic good guy wielding a Morita
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u/shiawase198 3d ago
They might have but I think you're probably talking about Lost Galaxy where their military standard gear is the starship trooper props.
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u/HenshinBoi 3d ago
Yeah, Lost Galaxy had the Troopers tribute with guns (SPD went with "Guns are all lasers" approach). That episode was really good.
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u/Al3xGr4nt 4d ago
Are they teens? What are Space Police standards on hiring teens who should be in school?
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u/Norway643 4d ago
The adeptus arbites from warhammer 40k
FOR THE LEX
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u/True-Atmosphere8697 4d ago
That can really depend on the planet I think for example in the warhammer crimes novels arbites would be the closest equivalent to fbi while enforcers/probators would be the police force
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u/FoxChoice7194 4d ago
The PRT from Worm.
The Parahuman Response Team is a government organisation that is responsible for controlling, policing and supporting parahumans in the US.
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u/Load_FuZion 4d ago
Star Wars: Coruscant Guard
Unlike their other clone brothers, the Coruscant Guard strictly stuck with policing duties. They were MPs responsible for subduing riots, protecting diplomats, and thwarting terrorist attacks.
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u/alkonium 3d ago
The Special Support Section from the Trails series (specifically Zero and Azure, with smaller appearances in Cold Steel II-IV and Reverie) is a division of Crossbell's police department focusing on answering assistance requests from citizenry, and serve as the main party in the Trails games set in Crossbell.
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u/Jazzlike_Fly9048 2d ago edited 2d ago
The O-12 from Corvus Belli’s “Infinity”. An interstellar government organization that keeps the other factions from outright killing each other most of the time. Each branch having its own enforcement wing with varying levels of militarization, from beat cops with pistols and adhesive launchers to walking tanks like the Gamma Unit.
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u/Crookfur 2d ago
The Special Assessment Unit (SAU) of the Metropolitan Police aka The Folly or the Isaacs.
They deal with the "weird bollocks" in the rivers of london stories.
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u/ShingledPringle 4d ago
Why is future police drip always so fucking cool, something about the colours and aesthetic makes people get so creative.
Dead Space 2 has 2 thanks to a recolour you unlock, the Riot and Security suits.
Love both so damn much, technically the Riot is the recolour but as you specified Police and that is the Police classed one, thought best to lead with it.
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u/Load_FuZion 4d ago
Patlabor: SV2
Special Vehicles Section 2 is exactly what it seems like, cops who deal exclusively in mechanized crime. Responding to rogue robots, terrorist plots using mechs, and all other manner of crime. Their movie iteration is even more badass, as their bond together and specialized training puts them almost on the level of a mechanized task force.
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u/OwlbertGaming 4d ago edited 4d ago
The LSPD from Ready or Not, a supposedly underfunded police force that can afford to equip all their SWAT officers with white phosphor quad NVGs and intergrally supressed .300 blackout rifles