Central State Police

The Central State Police Agency is the national police service of the Central Galactic Union, and is an armed, uniformed law enforcement agency under the Republic Security Department. It is the main police agency for federal territories, conducting or overseeing security operations and criminal investigations. This is in contrast to the Interstellar Police, which exercises interplanetary and interstellar jurisdiction.
Prior to 2686, the State Police Commission was in independent agency within State Sec. The SPC coordinated policy and standards, and sometimes exercised operational authority in emergency situations. The police and security reforms after the terrorism and piracy crises of the 2680s brought both the ISP and CSP under the National Police Department and subordinated all federal planetary police to the CSP. Further, all member worlds and colonies have a Police General acting as co-chief of the planetary police.
== History ==
The Central State Police has its roots primarily in the Terran, Sagittarian, Orionese, and Cygnus national police agencies. These centralized police agencies emphasized public order, in which police would conduct surveillance of their patrol areas to observe, and act to stop crimes in progress or to issue citations or make arrests. The sheer scale of these empires meant that national police was loosely organized into colonial police bureaus for each planet; and in the case of the Terran Empire, coordinating inspectorates for provinces, which oversaw numerous star systems. Each planetary bureau would have their own investigative department and other specialist departments for particular kinds of serious crime. Most of the predecessor states of the Republic had investigative police that crossed planetary or stellar boundaries, in an antecedent to the Interstellar Criminal Police Commission. In nearly all cases, these police were either independent agencies or were subject to the relevant Interior Ministry. In 2671, these were all placed under the control of the Galactic Space Police, an independent agency of the Central Galactic Confederation.
The abolition of these empires and the admittance of over a million worlds as autonomous member states of the new Union saw a complete transformation of police. The centralized method of police organization gave way to autonomy. Each member world and federal colony organized their own police force, with varying forms of subdivided jurisdiction. The State Police Commission was formed as a federation of these police forces, with a deliberative assembly composed of police representatives from each federal administrative sector. This commission was an agency within the Ministry of State Security in 2676.
However, it was determined by an extensive investigation that the disorganized system of independent police formation in the colonies and member worlds had contributed to the lack of coordination in combating piracy, banditry, and organized crime prior to and during the Pirate War. In 2686, the Public Security Act reorganized this system, placing the territorial police of Federal lands directly under the authority of a centralized police force, the Central State Police Agency. Further, it provided for the oversight of all planetary police by the CSPA and their federalization in times of emergency at the discretion of a State Police Inspector appointed to each member world and colony world. This agency was then subordinated to a singular department, along with the Interstellar Police.
== Organization ==