Tan Divo Tan Divo was a human male police inspector in the Coruscant Security Force on the Galactic Republic capital planet of Coruscant . During the Clone Wars that erupted between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , Divo was an active police officer who held the rank of lieutenant . He displayed both a pompous attitude and rigid , by the book approach to investigations . While Divo ' s conclusions might have been based on certain facts , his pride made him jump to conclusions before the case was fully investigated and all variables were considered . He was loathe to accept opinions or information from anyone else , preferring his own theories . All of this combined to result in the detective ' s rather low success rate in closing his cases . Lieutenant Tan Divo was assigned to several notable cases including the kidnapping of the two daughters of Pantoran Chairman Papanoida . Though Divo made assurances of his ultimate success in the investigation , his team missed blood on the bottom of Papanoida ' s Icon of the Moon Goddess during a scan of the chairman ' s apartment on the planet Coruscant . This prevented Divo from receiving a vital clue to the identity of the kidnappers , and the case from Divo ' s perspective went cold . With the untimely death of Rodian Senator Onaconda Farr , a blood test revealed that he had been poisoned making it a murder investigation that was assigned to Divo . However , Senator Padmé Amidala was ill at ease with the inspector ' s dismissal of her attempts to assist and she decided to pursue the investigation on her own along with Senator Bail Organa . After they were attacked investigating Farr ' s movments at the docks under the derrick major , they returned with an angry Lieutenant Divo to the Senate Building where the inspector placed the senators under the protection of police and Senate Guard s . At that point Farr ' s former assitant , Lolo Purs , came in saying she was attacked by Senator Halle Burtoni of Kamino , a rival of Senator Farr . Divo confronted Burtoni in the Chancellor ' s office and placed her under arrest for murder . However , Amidala voiced her concern with discrepancies in the case causing Purs to reveal that she in fact was the murderer . After a scuffle , Divo arrested Purs . Biography . The Papanoida kidnappings . Tan Divo served as a police officer in the Coruscant Security Force which was the police department for the planet Coruscant , the capital of the Galactic Republic . By the time of the Clone Wars which were fought between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , Divo had risen to the rank of lieutenant and was working as an inspector , his low success rate on cases notwithstanding . When it was discovered that the two daughters of the the Pantoran Chairman , Baron Papanoida , had been kidnapped , Divo was assigned the case . He and several police droids searched the Papanoida apartments , finding nothing seamingly amiss . Promising to continue investigating , the police left the scene . Papanoida discovered however , that one of his Icon of the Moon Goddess had been moved from its original spot and upon retrieving it , found the kidnapper ' s blood underneath . This clue allowed Papanoida to locate and retrieve his daughters with the help of Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano . Meanwhile for Divo , the case had gone cold . Homicides in the Senate . After a speech by Senator Amidala , the proponents of the legislation — including Senators Onaconda Farr , Mon Mothma , and Bail Organa , along with Farr ' s assistant , Lolo Purs — withdrew to Amidala ' s office . While enjoying refreshments , Farr choked on his drink and died . The Coruscant Security Force was called in and responded to investigate the suspicious death and Divo was assigned as the inspector on the case . Samples were taken of the drinks , and the forensics report concluded that a poison had been given to the Senator , thereby classifying the death as a homicide . After the Senator ' s funeral , Farr ' s political allies were summoned to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ' s office in the Senate Office Building . There , Divo revealed that Farr had not died of natural causes but had in fact been murdered . Amidala suggested that Farr had been killed because of someone who was angry over the proposed military spending reduction bill . Divo was dismissive of that idea and told the senators to stay out of his investigation . Not convinced by Divo ' s assurances , Amidala decided to pursue her own theory . She began by questioning Farr ' s political enemies , Senators Mee Deechi and Halle Burtoni . Deechi revealed that he had Farr followed to dig up dirt on the Senator and that the night before his death , Farr had gone to the Coruscant docks for a clandestine meeting . Though reminded by her friends that Divo had ordered them to stay out of the investigation , Amidala went to the docks with Organa . There , they were ambushed and shot at though they did not know the identity of the attacker . The disturbance alerted Coruscant police forces and they responded and secured the crime scene . After arriving on the scene himself , Divo expressed his annoyance at Amidala ' s actions that not only had she failed to inform him of her lead at the docks , but she had also made his job more difficult by alerting the killer to the fact that the investigation was closing in on the culprit . During the conversation , Amidala came to believe that Deechi might have been responsible for the attempt on her life , as he was the one who had told her about the docks . Though Divo tried to tell her to slow down , she ignored him , and the frustrated inspector followed her and Organa back to Deechi ' s office . There , they found Deechi stabbed to death in his chair . In order to secure the lives of the individuals involved in the case including Senators Amidala and Organa as well as Farr ' s assistant Lolo Purs , Divo gathered all of them together at the Senate Building and told them they would be placed under the protection of Coruscant police and Senate Guard forces . However , Lolo Purs refused and left the room . Divo questioned the remaining persons about who else had been aware that Amidala and Organa were going to the docks . In response , Amidala stated that the only other person who had known was Senator Burtoni . Though Divo tried to locate Burtoni , she was nowhere to be found . Divo returned to the senators in time for Purs to burst in and claim that Burtoni had attacked her . Divo ordered the Senate Guards and Coruscant police droids to find Burtoni , and the police conducted a search of her office , without success . Eventually they were able to capture her and bring her to the Chancellor ' s office , where several individuals involved with the case , including Amidala and Organa as well as Chancellor Palpatine , were waiting . Initial questioning by Divo led Burtoni to deny any involvement in both Farr ' s murder and the attack on Purs . Divo then revealed that a forensics report indicated that the poison used to kill Farr , one that was lethal only to Rodians , was Kaminoan - made in origin . With that evidence in hand , Divo ordered Burtoni taken away . However , at that point , Amidala noticed that since the poison must have been in everyone ' s drink , Purs should have died as well , as she was also Rodian . Amidala then remembered that Purs had not drunk anything . Purs , feeling revealed and exposed , pulled out a small blaster and took Amidala hostage . When asked why by Amidala , Purs answered that she had killed Farr because of the war he had brought to Rodia and that a new and morally stronger leader was needed . As Deechi had known about the meeting , Purs had felt that he had to be removed as well . Her confession validated Divo ' s original theory , as it had been a mistake from Farr ' s past that had led to his murder . During the conversation , Divo , unnoticed by Purs , discreetly activated the police droids outside of the Chancellor ' s office . They surprised Purs at the door , allowing Amidala to break away and knock her unconscious . The police droids and Divo then took Purs into custody .