Cosmopolitan Police

The Police Cosmopolite (Cosmopolitan Police), nicknamed the Cosmos, is one of the two law enforcement agencies that operate under the Elysian Colonial Administration alongside the Forces de Sécurité Élyséennes (Elysian Security Forces) on the planet of Elysia. 
The Cosmopolitan Police, unlike their cousins in the Security Forces, operates as a civilian law enforcement agency and is primarily made up of recruits from the civilian population of Elysia. While not as heavily armed or well-equipped as the Security Forces, the Cosmopolitan Police benefits from some of the most advanced investigatory technology and techniques available to humanity.
The PC is not equipped to effectively deal with large-scale riots and demonstrations, and therefore the Security Forces has full jurisdiction over situations relating to unrest and conflict. The Cosmopolitan Police operates exclusively within urban areas and is headquartered in the city of Lutetia.
==History==
===The Early Years===
When Elysia was initially colonised in 2488, the need immediately rose for a law enforcement agency to ensure the newly-founded colony did not descend into chaos in the absence of a sizable military garrison. One hundred and fifty men who had been chosen prior to the Verdun's departure for Elysia made up the initial force of the Police Cosmopolite, and as the colony grew in size and prosperity so did the CP.
Immediately, the Cosmopolitan Police's attention was divided between the rapidly growing urban centers of the planet and the newly-settled rural regions, limiting their efficiency and response time but not truly jeopardising their effectiveness as a law enforcement agency.
===Mounting Unrest===
Beginning in 2530, a six-year period of slowly rising unrest and discontent with the UEG and UNSC's governance of the planet and their handling of the Human-Covenant War in relation to Elysia lead to large sections of the rural regions secretly preparing for an open insurgency. Police Cosmopolite investigators had discovered a number of groups that were deemed to be terrorists - their true nature of being part of something far larger was not apparent to them given the limited information they had on these new groups of interests. In order to curb what was believed at the time to be the rise of terrorism on Elysia, the CP engaged in large-scale anti-terrorism operations across the urban and rural regions of the planet. Successes were limited and little progress was made and a wave of unrest began to spread across the planet in late 2535/early 2536. 
Large-scale demonstrations in major population centers were cracked down upon by the Police Cosmopolite which lead to the outbreak of the Insurgency on Elysia.
===Insurgency===
The Cosmopolitan Police was entirely unprepared to deal with the newly-started conflict, and were ineffective at preventing insurgent groups from rapidly taking control over large portions of the planet's inhabited rural regions. With the intervention of the planet's UNSC garrison, the city of Carpentaria, which was under direct threat of an attack by the insurgents, was successfully defending and the area surrounding it recaptured, marking a turning point in the conflict. The UNSC counterattack which followed eradicated all organised resistance however a low-intensity conflict continued to be waged in rural regions of the planet until 2548. As the Cosmopolitan Police was not able to deal with the remnants of the insurgency, a sister organisation; the Elysian Security Forces, was formed in early 2537 to assist the CP and conduct counter-terrorist operations.
===Covenant on Elysia===
When the Covenant first invaded Elysia in 2548, the Cosmopolitan Police was significantly depleted by the devastating loss at Coral. Over the course of the battle the CP assisted with the evacuation of urban centers alongside the Security Forces, and saw very little combat with Coral being the main exception.