Interstellar Police

The Interstellar Criminal Police Commission or ICPC, colloquially referred as the Interstellar Police or the Space Police, is an investigative and law enforcement agency facilitating cooperation and coordination between planetary law enforcement agencies and for enforcing the law in interstellar space outside of planetary police jurisdictions. The Interstellar Police also has jurisdiction over cases involving terrorism and threats to national security and crimes that cross planetary jurisdictions, especially in areas of financial crimes, arms control, substance control, and cybercrime. The Interstellar Police has dedicated subdivisions for particular kinds of crime, and special agents tasked with investigation into these. It overlaps responsibility with the Central State Police in coordinating colonial and provincial police departments.
Prior to 2686, the Interstellar Police was an independent commission within the Ministry of State Security, under the presidency of Bastian MacBeth. In the aftermath of the Pirate War, the ISPC was subordinated to the new National Police Department, to facilitate greater coordination with other federal police.
== History ==
The Interstellar Police emerged from several preceding agencies and organizations, as an amalgam of policing forces of the Allied nations. These included the Imperial Space Police, the Orionese Royal Criminal Military Police, and the Sagittarian Space Police Force, as well as (to a lesser extent) the Norman Royal Constabulary, the Cygnus Stellar Police, and the Perseid National Crime Agency.