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{{Youmay|the Coruscant Police also known as [[Republic Security]]|the [[Republic Security Force/Legends|Republic Security Force]]}}
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|name=Coruscant Security Force
|name=Coruscant Security Force
|type=*[[Law enforcement agency/Legends|Law enforcement agency]]<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex">{{TORcite|type=codex|Coruscant Security}}</ref>
|type=*[[Law enforcement agency/Legends|Law enforcement agency]]
*[[Planetary Security Forces|Planetary security force]]<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" />
*[[Planetary Security Forces|Planetary security force]]
|founder=[[Coruscanti/Legends|Coruscanti]] government<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" />
|founder=
|leader=*[[Chief of Security/Legends|Chief]] [[Winborn]]<ref name="SWTORCiGC">{{TORcite|type=general|Crisis in Galactic City|Coruscant}}</ref>
|leader=*[[Ysanne Isard]] {{C|[[Coruscant Uprising|briefly]]}}<ref name="MJ:BTEH">''[[Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor's Hand]]''</ref>
*[[Coruscant Security Force Senior Command|Senior Command]]<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero">''[[Republic Commando: Triple Zero]]''</ref>
*[[Sector Command (Coruscant Security Force)|Sector Command]]<ref name="SWCN2">''[[Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows]]''</ref>
*[[Kadir's father|Unidentified]] [[Commander of Coruscant Security|Commander]]<ref name="SW Empire: Betrayal">''[[Star Wars: Empire: Betrayal]]''</ref>
*[[Moff/Legends|Moff]] [[Kadir (Moff)|Kadir]]<ref name="SW Empire: Betrayal" />
*[[Ysanne Isard]] {{C|[[Coruscant Uprising|briefly]]}}<ref name="MJ:BTEH">''[[Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor's Hand]]''</ref>
*[[Commissioner (Coruscant Security Force)|Commissioner]]<ref name="xwingkrytos">''[[X-Wing: The Krytos Trap]]''</ref>
*[[Commissioner (Coruscant Security Force)|Commissioner]]<ref name="xwingkrytos">''[[X-Wing: The Krytos Trap]]''</ref>
|subgroup=
|subgroup=
|headquarters=[[Coruscant Security Force Headquarters]]<ref name="CSFHQ">The novel ''[[Republic Commando: Triple Zero]]'' mentions a ''divisional'' headquarters located in Quadrant A-89 and later refers to a separate ''CSF Headquarters'' indicating two types of headquarters. The novel ''[[Imperial Commando: 501st]]'' later confirms the existence of several divisional headquarters when it states ''The information technology center was an old Coruscant Security Force divisional HQ''. In this quote it should be noted that '''an''' was used instead of '''the''' and divisional is intentionally lowercase. In ''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]'', CSF officers refer to a distinct base of operations called only the ''Coruscant Security Force Headquarters''.</ref>
|headquarters=
|locations=*[[Galactic City]], [[Coruscant/Legends|Coruscant]] {{C|Legal jurisdiction}}<ref name="compswe">{{CSWECite|I|148|Coruscant Security Force (CSF)}}</ref><ref name="jurisdiction">Based on events in ''[[Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment]]'', CSF officers could pursue wanted persons off planet and investigate cases outside of their primary jurisdiction if it was related to a case on Coruscant. It should also be noted that according to ''[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)]]'', the Jedi Order depended upon the CSF to keep them updated with information on ongoing cases, criminals, and evidence not only on Coruscant but throughout the galaxy. See article ''[[Coruscant Security Force database]]'' for more information.</ref>
|locations=*[[Galactic City]], [[Coruscant/Legends|Coruscant]]
*[[Coruscant Security Force Divisional Headquarters|Precinct stations]]<ref name="CSFHQ" />
*[[Coruscant Police training academies|Coruscant academies]]<ref name="GaW">''[[Galaxy at War]]''</ref>
|formed=
|formed=
|founded=
|founded=
|fragmented=
|fragmented=
|reorganized=*[[19 BBY/Legends|19 BBY]]<ref name="IC501">''[[Imperial Commando: 501st]]''</ref>
|reorganized=*[[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]]<ref name="xwingkrytos" /><ref name="6 ABY Date">The [[Mission above Imperial City|departure]] of the ''[[Lusankya/Legends|Lusankya]]'', which ''[[The Essential Guide to Warfare]]'' states occurs in [[7 ABY/Legends|7 ABY]], happens between 7-8 weeks after the [[Liberation of Coruscant (Galactic Civil War)|Liberation of Coruscant]]. Per ''[[The Essential Atlas]]'', the Liberation occurs on 42:2:17, so the ''Lusankya''{{'s}} departure is approximately 42:4:17. Per ''Warfare''{{'s}} placement of the [[Battle of Selaggis]] in 7 ABY, the Atlas's placement of Selaggis on 43:2:28, and the Atlas's placement of the [[Battle of Yavin/Legends|Battle of Yavin]] in 35:3, a three-month gap between the [[Great ReSynchronization]] and [[Galactic Standard Calendar]] can be confirmed. Thus, the Liberation, which occurs on 42:2:17, occurs before the year 7 ABY begins, and must fall in [[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]]. The same can be said for the remainder of the [[Coruscant campaign]] that occurs prior to the Liberation.</ref>
*[[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]]<ref name="xwingkrytos" /><ref name="6 ABY Date">The [[Mission above Imperial City|departure]] of the ''[[Lusankya/Legends|Lusankya]]'', which ''[[The Essential Guide to Warfare]]'' states occurs in [[7 ABY/Legends|7 ABY]], happens between 7-8 weeks after the [[Liberation of Coruscant (Galactic Civil War)|Liberation of Coruscant]]. Per ''[[The Essential Atlas]]'', the Liberation occurs on 42:2:17, so the ''Lusankya''{{'s}} departure is approximately 42:4:17. Per ''Warfare''{{'s}} placement of the [[Battle of Selaggis]] in 7 ABY, the Atlas's placement of Selaggis on 43:2:28, and the Atlas's placement of the [[Battle of Yavin/Legends|Battle of Yavin]] in 35:3, a three-month gap between the [[Great ReSynchronization]] and [[Galactic Standard Calendar]] can be confirmed. Thus, the Liberation, which occurs on 42:2:17, occurs before the year 7 ABY begins, and must fall in [[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]]. The same can be said for the remainder of the [[Coruscant campaign]] that occurs prior to the Liberation.</ref>
|dissolved=
|dissolved=[[27 ABY/Legends|27 ABY]] {{C|[[Battle of Coruscant (Yuuzhan Vong War)|de facto]]}}<ref name="Star by Star">''[[The New Jedi Order: Star by Star]]''</ref>
|restored=
|restored=c. [[29 ABY/Legends|29 ABY]]<ref name="Dark Nest I: The Joiner King">''[[Dark Nest I: The Joiner King]]''</ref>
|affiliation=*[[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]]<ref name="MJ:BTEH" /><ref name="xwingkrytos" />
|affiliation=*[[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]]<ref name="encycdivo">{{SWE|characters|tandivo|Tan Divo}}</ref>
*[[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]]<ref name="YJK:TLO">''[[Young Jedi Knights: The Lost Ones]]''</ref>}}
*[[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]]<ref name="SW Empire: Betrayal" />
 
*[[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Alliance to Restore the Republic]] {{C|unofficially}}<ref name="IC501" /><ref name="dbchyler">{{DB|character|chyler|Chyler, Tian|archivedate=20100330034055}}</ref>
*[[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]]<ref name="YJK:TLO">''[[Young Jedi Knights: The Lost Ones]]''</ref>
*[[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances]]<ref name="Bloodlines">''[[Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines]]''</ref>}}
{{Quote|We're the law on Coruscant. Not the Jedi.|Detective Gwad Raatu, Coruscant Security Force|<ref name="Temp">''[[Legacy of the Force: Tempest]]''</ref>}}
The '''Coruscant Security Force (CSF)''', also known as the '''Coruscant Police''' or the '''Coruscant Constabulary''', and depending on the era, less commonly known as the '''Imperial Sector Police''', '''Galactic City Police''', and '''Republic Security''', was the primary [[Law enforcement agency/Legends|police force]] in charge of [[Planetary Security Forces|maintaining law and order]] on the [[The galaxy/Legends|galactic]] [[Capital/Legends|capital]] [[Planet/Legends|planet]] of [[Coruscant/Legends|Coruscant]] during the reigns of the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]], the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]], the [[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]], and the [[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances]]. Its duties included regular patrols of [[Galactic City]], criminal investigations, [[Terrorist/Legends|counter-terrorism]] and [[Spy/Legends|counter-intelligence]] operations, [[Riot|crowd control]], [[Bodyguard/Legends|diplomatic protection]], maintaining the world's [[Skylane/Legends|skylanes]], and, in some cases, the military defense of Coruscant. Early during the Republic, the CSF was commanded by the [[Chief of Security/Legends|Chief of Security]] and centuries later by the [[Coruscant Security Force Senior Command]], later the [[Sector Command (Coruscant Security Force)|Sector Command]]. As the Empire established its rule, control of the CSF was changed from the Sector Command to a [[Commander of Coruscant Security|Commander]], that position itself later replaced by a [[Commissioner (Coruscant Security Force)|Commissioner]]. The CSF operations were based out of a [[Coruscant Security Force Headquarters|central headquarters]] and various [[Coruscant Security Force Divisional Headquarters|divisional headquarters]].
The '''Coruscant Security Force (CSF)''', also known as the '''Coruscant Police''' or the '''Coruscant Constabulary''', and depending on the era, less commonly known as the '''Imperial Sector Police''', '''Galactic City Police''', and '''Republic Security''', was the primary [[Law enforcement agency/Legends|police force]] in charge of [[Planetary Security Forces|maintaining law and order]] on the [[The galaxy/Legends|galactic]] [[Capital/Legends|capital]] [[Planet/Legends|planet]] of [[Coruscant/Legends|Coruscant]] during the reigns of the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]], the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]], the [[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]], and the [[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances]]. Its duties included regular patrols of [[Galactic City]], criminal investigations, [[Terrorist/Legends|counter-terrorism]] and [[Spy/Legends|counter-intelligence]] operations, [[Riot|crowd control]], [[Bodyguard/Legends|diplomatic protection]], maintaining the world's [[Skylane/Legends|skylanes]], and, in some cases, the military defense of Coruscant. Early during the Republic, the CSF was commanded by the [[Chief of Security/Legends|Chief of Security]] and centuries later by the [[Coruscant Security Force Senior Command]], later the [[Sector Command (Coruscant Security Force)|Sector Command]]. As the Empire established its rule, control of the CSF was changed from the Sector Command to a [[Commander of Coruscant Security|Commander]], that position itself later replaced by a [[Commissioner (Coruscant Security Force)|Commissioner]]. The CSF operations were based out of a [[Coruscant Security Force Headquarters|central headquarters]] and various [[Coruscant Security Force Divisional Headquarters|divisional headquarters]].


Though staffed mostly by [[Sentience/Legends|sentient]] [[Police officer/Legends|police officers]], [[Droid/Legends|droids]] were used as well, including different [[Police droid/Legends|kinds]] of [[GU-series "Guardian" police droid|police droids]], [[Police probe/Legends|probes]], and [[crime scene investigation droid]]s. Major crimes were investigated by [[Detective/Legends|detectives]], although [[Police rank|high-ranking]] [[Officer/Legends|officers]] could also investigate such crimes. Specialized units included the [[Special Weapons Team|SWAT unit]], the [[Anti-Terrorism Unit]], the [[Organized Crime Unit]], [[Traffic Division]], and the [[Forensics Unit]]. The [[Coruscant underworld|lower levels]] of Coruscant were patrolled by the CSF's [[Coruscant Underworld Police|Underworld Police]] division. The CSF utilized [[Variable Altitude Assault Transport/enforcement|VAAT/e ships]], [[Coruscant Security Force assault ship|assault ships]], and [[Republic police gunship]]s as rapid [[Troop/Legends|troop]] deployment and [[Police speeder|patrol craft]]. They also had [[Coruscant police speeders]] and [[RapidResponse police speeder/Legends|RapidResponse police speeders]] which were used as patrol and pursuit [[Airspeeder/Legends|airspeeders]]. If at [[Time/Legends|times]] officers felt they could be entering a dangerous area, they could receive an escort by a [[police cruiser backup unit]].
The New Republic [[Liberation of Coruscant (Galactic Civil War)|captured]] Coruscant in [[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]], disbanded the Coruscant Guard, and reinstated the CSF as the primary law enforcement agency.
 
The CSF was one of the oldest planetary police forces in the known galaxy. After the [[Sacking of Coruscant]] and the subsequent [[Cold War (Galactic Republic&ndash;Sith Empire)|Cold War]], it battled for control of Coruscant against crime syndicates such as [[Black Sun/Legends|Black Sun]] and the [[Migrant Merchants' Guild]]. However, with severely depleted resources and a high rate of burnout among its embittered officers, the CSF had to leave large sections of Coruscant under gang control. During the later years of the Galactic Republic, the CSF was assisted by the [[Senate Guard/Legends|Senate Guards]]&mdash;who served as a secondary police force for Coruscant&mdash;and the [[Jedi Order/Legends|Jedi Order]]. Together, they would investigate severe crimes though rivalry and resentment were always present. During the [[Clone Wars/Legends|Clone Wars]], the CSF was supported by [[clone shock trooper]]s of the [[Coruscant Guard/Legends|Coruscant Guard]] and the Republic's [[Clone commando/Legends|clone commandos]]. With them, the CSF was able to [[Mission to Coruscant (Clone Wars)|investigate and bring down]] several [[Separatist terrorist network|terror networks]] operating on Coruscant.
 
When [[Order 66/Legends|Order 66]] was issued, the CSF assisted in hunting down [[Jedi/Legends|Jedi]], although many CSF officers were privately resentful of [[Galactic Emperor/Legends|Emperor]] [[Palpatine/Legends|Palpatine]] and his [[New Order/Legends|New Order]]. Some officers turned a blind [[Eye/Legends|eye]] when spotting Jedi, and in the following [[Standard year/Legends|years]] others spied for the [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Rebel Alliance]]. Under the Empire, the Coruscant Guard took over the primary responsibility of Coruscant's security. The CSF acted in a support capacity to the Guard and was staffed by [[Stormtrooper/Legends|stormtroopers]] as well as regular police officers. It was also given a new name, the Imperial Sector Police, though many still referred to it as Coruscant Security, Police, or Constabulary. During that time, CSF commanders shared their police officers' resistance to the Emperor's rule. A CSF [[Moff/Legends|Moff]] even took part in and led a [[Anti-Sith conspiracy|coup]] to oust Palpatine, though it ultimately failed.
 
The New Republic [[Liberation of Coruscant (Galactic Civil War)|captured]] Coruscant in [[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]], disbanded the Coruscant Guard, and reinstated the CSF as the primary law enforcement agency. With the [[Battle of Coruscant (Yuuzhan Vong War)|Fall of Coruscant]] during the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]], most of the CSF was wiped out; however, it was re-established after the [[Battle of Yuuzhan'tar|end]] of the conflict. The [[Second Galactic Civil War]] placed the CSF in the middle of the conflict between the Galactic Alliance and the [[Confederation]]. Some CSF officers were recruited into the [[Galactic Alliance Guard]] (GAG) to counter [[Corellian/Legends|Corellian]] [[Terrorist/Legends|terrorist]] activities on Coruscant. The GAG was later disbanded following the [[Battle of Uroro Station|death]] of the [[Dark Lord of the Sith/Legends|Dark Lord of the Sith]] [[Darth Caedus]]. After the Civil War, the CSF continued to serve as Coruscant's police force. During the [[Liberation of Coruscant (Lost Tribe of Sith emergence)|liberation]] of Coruscant by the Jedi Order from the control of the [[Lost Tribe of Sith]], the CSF assisted the Jedi as the Sith began committing acts of terror on Coruscant. However, the CSF's casualties during the battle ran into the thousands.


==Description==
==Description==
===Duties and overview===
===Duties and overview===
{{Quote|Time, time, there's no ''time'' for time. A murderer's on the loose and it's my job to find him.|Lieutenant Tan Divo|<ref name="Senate Murders">{{TCW|Senate Murders}}</ref>}}
The [[Coruscant/Legends|Coruscant]] Security Force was tasked with providing [[Law enforcement agency/Legends|law enforcement]] and security on the [[The galaxy/Legends|galactic]] [[Capital/Legends|capital]] of Coruscant.
The [[Coruscant/Legends|Coruscant]] Security Force was tasked with providing [[Law enforcement agency/Legends|law enforcement]] and security on the [[The galaxy/Legends|galactic]] [[Capital/Legends|capital]] of Coruscant. This included regular patrols of the various districts and neighborhoods of [[Galactic City]], criminal investigations, [[Terrorist/Legends|counter-terror]] and [[Spy/Legends|counter-espionage]] operations,<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> crowd control at major events and [[Riot|public disturbances]],<ref name="Bloodlines" /> maintaining the [[Planet/Legends|planet's]] [[Skylane/Legends|skylanes]], handing out speeding tickets,<ref name="compswe" /> [[Bodyguard/Legends|diplomatic protection]],<ref name="Sacrifice">''[[Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice]]''</ref><ref name="lash">''[[Fate of the Jedi: Backlash]]''</ref> and responding to a variety of other emergencies and situations.<ref name="Bloodlines" /> The CSF also had the authority to pursue investigations outside of their normal jurisdiction on Coruscant&mdash;an ability that extended even to [[Simpla-12]] in the [[Outer Rim Territories/Legends|Outer Rim Territories]].<ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment">''[[Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment]]''</ref>
 
[[File:Csfdocks.png|thumb|left|250px|CSF police droids respond to and secure a crime scene during the Clone Wars.]]
From their [[Coruscant Security Force Headquarters|central headquarters]] and various [[Coruscant Security Force Divisional Headquarters|divisional headquarters]] in Galactic [[City/Legends|City]],<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> the CSF performed these duties throughout the reign of several galactic governments.<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" /><ref name="SW Empire: Betrayal" /><ref name="Bloodlines" /><ref name="YJK:TLO" /> [[Police officer/Legends|Police officers]] would train at one of several [[Coruscant Police training academies|police academies]] before beginning their duties.<ref name="GaW" /> The majority of crime on the planet occurred in the [[Coruscant underworld|lower city levels]]. Most [[Politics/Legends|politicians]] and influential citizens refused to do much about the situation, preferring to live in the upper levels and [[Skyscraper/Legends|skyscrapers]] away from the unpleasantness of the lower levels and slums. Areas such as the [[Factory District]] and the [[Crimson Corridor]] were especially heavy with crime.<ref>''[[Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight]]''</ref> The environment of the underworld was very cutthroat and police officers on patrol traveled frequently in groups.<ref name="TCWCatchJedi">{{TCW|To Catch a Jedi}}</ref> The cops who patrolled the underworld were also notoriously harder and burlier than officers assigned to the upper levels.<ref name="CSFunderpolice">{{SWE|groups|coruscant-underworld-police|Coruscant underworld police}}</ref> [[Coruscant Security Force database|A database]] was maintained by the CSF that tracked a variety of data including a list of criminals and known areas of heavy crime.<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" />
 
The CSF could be reached by their emergency call number of [[Coruscant Security Force Dispatch|9&ndash;1&ndash;1]].<ref name="Pursuit of Peace Episode Guide">{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode311.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Pursuit of Peace|archivedate=20110712013027}}</ref> The [[Coruscant Security Force Staff and Social Club|CSF Staff and Social Club]] was a bar favored by CSF officers. It was a location to which CSF officers often invited members of other organizations as a favor or sign of respect. Officers also frequently visited the [[Kragget]], a restaurant with low rates that was known for its greasy food.<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" />


===Organization and units===
===Organization and units===
{{Quote|I'm incident commander. I say how and when anyone goes in.|Lieutenant Dovel, to Omega Squad|<ref name="Omega Squad: Targets">''[[Omega Squad: Targets]]''</ref>}}
During the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]], the CSF was headed by a [[Commissioner (Coruscant Security Force)|commissioner]].<ref name="xwingkrytos" />
[[File:TanDivo-SWE.png|thumb|right|170px|CSF Lieutenant Tan Divo during the Clone Wars]]
Ultimate authority over the Coruscant Security Force rested with the current reigning government. The [[Supreme Chancellor/Legends|Supreme Chancellor]] and [[Galactic Senate/Legends|Galactic Senate]] during the [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Galactic Republic]],<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> the [[Emperor/Legends|Emperor]] during the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]],<ref name="Betrayal 1">[[Empire 1|''Empire'' 1]]</ref> and the [[Chief of State (New Republic)|Chief of State]] during the [[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]]<ref name="Edge of Victory II: Rebirth">''[[The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth]]''</ref> and the [[Galactic Federation of Free Alliances]]. Though they rarely interfered in day to day activities, they could, under certain circumstances, give orders to the CSF including assigning command positions to individuals and giving or removing responsibilities.<ref name="Bloodlines" /> The CSF provided protection services to the Chief of State, including bodyguards and intelligence information.<ref name="Sacrifice" /><ref name="lash" /><ref name="lotf6">''[[Legacy of the Force: Inferno]]''</ref> Day to day control of the Coruscant Security Force changed several times throughout its history. During the [[Old Republic era]], a senior [[Officer/Legends|officer]] was appointed to lead the CSF with the title of [[Chief of Security/Legends|Chief of Security]] though he would also hold a separate [[police rank]].<ref name="SWTORCiGC" /> Centuries later, the [[Commander/Legends|commanding]] officers who were placed in charge of daily operations were collectively referred to as [[Coruscant Security Force Senior Command]],<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> later changed to [[Sector Command (Coruscant Security Force)|Sector Command]] under the Galactic Empire.<ref name="SWCN2" /> A few years later, a [[Commander of Coruscant Security|commander]] was placed in charge of the CSF<ref name="Betrayal 1" /> which at the time was staffed by [[Stormtrooper/Legends|stormtroopers]] and regular police officers.<ref name="X-wing: Wedge's Gamble">''[[X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble]]''</ref> The post of commander was at some point removed and replaced by the position of [[Commissioner (Coruscant Security Force)|commissioner]].<ref name="xwingkrytos" />
 
Lower ranks included those of [[Captain/Legends|Captain]], [[Lieutenant/Legends|Lieutenant]],<ref name="SWTORcorus">{{TORcite|Coruscant}}</ref> [[Chief of Detectives]], [[Detective/Legends|Detective]],<ref name="Temp" />[[Sergeant/Legends|Sergeant]], and Officer.<ref name="SWTORcorus" /> Although the rank of detective existed, officers of other ranks could also perform investigative-type duties. They were then referred to as [[Inspector/Legends|inspector]], along with the title of the rank that they held.<ref name="Senate Murders" /> It was common for high ranking officers to investigate high profile cases, such as those involving [[Senator/Legends|senators]].<ref name="Senate Murders" /><ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter">''[[Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter]]''</ref> The CSF also had other titles for various duties&mdash;[[Agent/Legends|Agent]] was used to describe those working undercover or on special assignments,<ref name="SWTORKidnapped">{{TORcite|type=class|Jedi Knight|Kidnapped|Coruscant}}</ref> and the title of [[Incident commander]] was used by the officer in charge of a major police operation.<ref name="Omega Squad: Targets" /> The slang terms "Cop" and "[[Boys in Blue]]" were also used to refer to CSF officers.<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" />
 
The patrol of the lower levels of Coruscant was left mostly to a separate CSF division, the [[Coruscant Underworld Police|Underworld Police]].<ref name="CSFunderpolice" /> The CSF also had units that specialized in responding to and dealing with specific crimes and situations. The units included [[Special Weapons Team|SWAT]] teams, an [[Ordnance disposal|ordnance disposal unit]] of [[bomb disposal expert]]s,<ref name="Omega Squad: Targets" /> a [[Forensics Unit]] that was staffed by [[Scenes of Crimes Officer]]s and [[crime scene investigation droid]]s, the [[Organized Crime Unit]], the [[Anti-Terrorism Unit]],<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> and the [[Tactical and Operational]] force.<ref name="Bloodlines" /> Major investigations were handled by the [[Detective division]].<ref name="lash" /> During the Old Republic era, CSF's [[Coruscant Control]] would monitor incoming and outgoing space traffic and the [[Customs Enforcement Division]] was charged with customs and immigration operations and checkpoint enforcement.<ref name="SWTORcorus" /> The CSF's [[Traffic Division]] was charged with maintaining order in the massive skylanes of Galactic City.<ref name="compswe" /><ref name="Bloodlines" /> A [[Coruscant Security Special Investigation Panel|Special Investigation Panel]] oversaw all investigations of use of deadly force by law enforcement and Jedi.<ref name="Case File #1142-235-3721">{{TORcite|type=message|Case File #1142-235-3721|Coruscant Security Special Investigation Panel}}</ref>
 
===Uniforms and equipment===
{{Quote|Wearing armor may be the latest style on the Rimworlds, but here in civilization we usually take off our spacesuits, planetside. Heavy armor usually means trouble.|Coruscant Security Force files|<ref name="AHSNV">''[[A Hero Seeks Not Vengeance]]''</ref>}}
{{Main|Coruscant Security Force uniform}}
During the [[Great Galactic War]] which began in [[3681 BBY]], the [[Coruscant Security Force uniform]] consisted of an off-white or tan-[[Color/Legends|colored]] uniform [[shirt]], tan pants, dark knee-high [[Boot/Legends|boots]], a [[Utility belt/Legends|utility belt]], a gray [[blast vest]], and a gray [[Blast helmet/Legends|blast helmet]] or [[headset comlink]].<ref name="TOP" /> Shortly thereafter, the CSF uniform changed to blue-gray shirt and pants with a yellow strip that ran up the side of the pants and on the arms of the shirt, brown utility belts, and black boots. They could also done blue-gray blast vests over their chest and lower torso.<ref name="SWTORcorus" /> In the waning [[Standard year/Legends|years]] of the Republic, the general CSF uniform was a dark blue shirt and pants, dark boots, a utility belt, and dark blue body armor with a yellow blast vest as optional.<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> This uniform would be used as the CSF standard in the decades to come.<ref name="Bloodlines" />
 
[[File:CSF_underworld_cop.jpg|thumb|left|290px|An armored CSF officer in the lower levels]]
Apart from the general, day-to-day uniform, special uniforms were used as well. If so inclined, officers could make use of black or dark blue full body armor for patrol or during demonstrations and major operations.<ref name="Bloodlines" /><ref name="Republic 73">[[Republic 73|''Republic'' 73]]</ref> Higher ranking officers could also choose to wear a strap over their right shoulder that attached to their utility belt, as well as markings on their sleeves denoting their rank.<ref name="Senate Murders" />
 
Officers assigned to the Underworld Police would wear heavy leather and metal armor in dark gray with yellow shoulder pads to protect them from the harsh and cut-throat environment of the Coruscant Underworld. The armor covered their faces, revealing only mechanical eye coverings. Their uniforms and armor gave them a presence of anonymity and authority. It also had the effect of gaining them a mystic reputation as few knew if they were humanoid, droids, or something else.<ref name="CSFunderpolice" />
 
Police officers and droids had access to a variety of regular [[Blaster pistol/Legends|pistols]] and heavier [[Blaster rifle/Legends|rifles]] including [[Coruscant Security Force issue blaster|issue blasters]],<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> [[Coruscant Security Droid Blaster|heavy blaster pistols]]<ref name="CSFunderpolice" /> and other [[SS-410 Police Special blaster pistol/Legends|pistol variations]].<ref name="lightsaberlost">{{TCW|Lightsaber Lost}}</ref> During riots and urban unrest, officers utilized the [[Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc./Legends|Merr-Sonn]] [[R-88 Suppressor riot rifle]] to pacify large crowds.<ref name="CorCWorld">''[[Coruscant and the Core Worlds]]''</ref>
 
===Droids and speeders===
{{Quote|Drop your weapons and come with us quietly!|A police droid|<ref name="Pursuit of Peace">{{TCW|Pursuit of Peace}}</ref>}}
To assist in policing Coruscant's vast city, the CSF relied heavily on [[Police droid/Legends|droids]].<ref name="SWEpolicedroid">{{SWE|technology|policedroid|police droid}}</ref> They were also utilized for tasks such as [[Crime scene investigation droid|crime scene investigations]],<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /><ref name="Temp" /> and as personal [[LEP-171B/Legends|assistants]].<ref name="Senate Murders" /> [[Police probe/Legends|Police probes]] were used to assist in detecting crimes and identifying suspects.<ref name="DoM">{{TCW|Duchess of Mandalore}}</ref> During the Old Republic, [[Security droid/Legends|security droids]] assisted in armed fights and street battles between the CSF and various gangs. At spaceports such as the [[Coruscant Spaceport]], [[Customs droid/Legends|customs droids]] assisted in handling immigration and customs processes.<ref name="SWTORcorus" />
 
Specialized [[GU-series "Guardian" police droid|Guardian police droids]] were specifically used for assisting in patrol duties.<ref name="SWEpolicedroid" /> This included setting up a perimeter, collecting evidence, conducting preliminary interrogations, and holding and arresting suspects. Crimes that required in-depth investigations were handed over to detectives or other higher ranking organic officers.<ref name="Senate Murders" /> The droids could also use lethal force if certain perimeters were met. The rigid programming of the droids resulted in them being beyond weariness or corruption though it also would mean slick criminal could outsmart. In this, the droids, while heavily deployed, never fully replaced sentient officers.<ref name="SWEpolicedroid" /> By the end of the Clone Wars, the aging police droids were gradually phased out,<ref name="Senate Murders Episode commentary">{{SW|url=video/senate-murders-episode-featurette|text=Episode Featurette #2.15: Senate Murders}}</ref> though they continued to be used in the lower levels,<ref name="SofaBS">''[[Under a Black Sun]]''</ref> and were replaced by new models such as [[Policebot]]s during the Galactic Alliance.<ref name="Temp" />
 
[[File:CSFvehicles.jpg|thumb|right|300px|CSF police speeders]]
The CSF used a variety of [[Police speeder|police vehicles]] to perform their duties. For large deployments, SWAT raids, or riot response, the CSF used the [[Variable Altitude Assault Transport/enforcement]], also known as the VAAT/e. Toward the end of the Clone Wars, the [[Coruscant Security Force assault ship]] took over those duties as the CSF's preferred [[Assault ship/Legends|assault]] and [[Transport/Legends|transport]] [[Starship/Legends|ship]].<ref name="Order66book">''[[Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel]]''</ref> In the waning years of the Republic, the [[Republic police gunship]] was developed and put into use for search operations, troop transport, and general patrol. Its use continued into the years of the Empire.<ref name="Republicpolicegunship">{{SWE|technology|republic-police-gunship|Republic police gunship}}</ref> An [[Coruscant Security Force incident support vessel|incident support vessel]] was also used for transport, crowd control, and various other support operations at major police operations and incidents.<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" />
 
Depending on the area, the CSF mostly used [[Coruscant police speeders]] for patrols,<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> along with specialized [[RapidResponse police speeder/Legends|RapidResponse police speeders]].<ref name="TCW Incredible Vehicles">''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Incredible Vehicles]]''</ref> A [[BARC speeder/Legends|BARC speeder]] was sometimes accompanied by a [[police cruiser backup unit]] if the officers felt they needed extra assistance or were entering a potentially dangerous area.<ref name="maul">''[[Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter]]''</ref> For escort duties, the CSF also made use of [[Swoop/Legends|swoops]].<ref name="SWUnion">''[[Star Wars: Union]]''</ref> During the time of the Great Galactic War, the CSF was responsible for [[Orbital Security Station Six|monitoring the space traffic]] in and around Coruscant, and it used [[Orbital security station/Legends|orbital security stations]] for that purpose.<ref name="TOP">''[[The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 1: Treaty of Coruscant]]''</ref> During the reign of the New Republic, the CSF utilized the [[Coruscant Security Force interceptor]] as a [[Realspace/Legends|space]] and high altitude pursuit and defense [[Starfighter/Legends|fighter]].<ref name="Edge of Victory II: Rebirth" />
 
===Relationship with other law enforcement===
====Jedi Order====
{{Quote|You've already started collecting evidence, and the Jedi can bring some unique resources to bear.|Luke Skywalker, to Detectives Chal Tozr and Gwad Raatu|<ref name="Temp" />}}
{{Main|Jedi Order/Legends}}
During the time of the Galactic Republic, the [[Jedi Order/Legends|Jedi Order]] served as a quasi-police force. Their positions as keepers of the peace and as protectors of the Republic gave them authority to supersede the needs of the local police to that of their own.<ref name="Darthplagueis">[[Darth Plagueis (novel)|''Darth Plagueis'']]</ref> Specifically, the Jedi could claim jurisdiction over a matter if a [[Jedi/Legends|Jedi]] was involved, or at the request of the Republic.<ref name="maul" /> If involved in an incident, Jedi would inform the CSF of that but would not always give full explanations of their involvement.<ref name="Darthplagueis" /> Up until the end of the Republic, the CSF had a standing order to assist Jedi in any duties they may require.<ref name="Order66book" /> CSF officers often felt resentful when the Jedi did involve themselves, even if the CSF needed their help.<ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter" />
 
[[File:Jedi_Coruscant_Peacekeeper.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A Jedi Peacekeeper keeping watch on Coruscant]]
However, certain Jedi, specifically the [[Jedi Peacekeeper]]s willingly assisted the CSF in crime fighting on Coruscant instead of simply taking over. They would provide resources and support outside the abilities of the CSF, such as using [[The Force/Legends|the Force]] to study crime scenes and when conducting interrogations. The [[Temple district]] was nominally under the protection of these Jedi and the [[Temple Security Force]]. The Jedi, however, relied on the CSF for various purposes as well. All information the Jedi had on criminal activity in the Republic would be accessed from the CSF database in the Jedi Temple [[Analysis Rooms/Legends|Analysis Rooms]]. As such, the Jedi relied on the CSF for information on crimes, criminals, and case files not only Coruscant, but throughout the galaxy.<ref name="TJP">[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|''The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force'']]</ref> When warrants were issued by the Jedi on subjects, they relied on the CSF to assist in locating and arresting the wanted persons.<ref name="TCWCatchJedi" />
 
A former Jedi by the name of [[Lexia Ginorra]] was well known to the CSF. In the waning years of the Republic, she had renounced her ties to the Jedi Order and continued life in the underlevels of Coruscant as a vigilante. However, since she put an end to a significant level of gang violence there, the CSF did little to stop her. Instead, in many of the tales that CSF officers told amongst themselves and to others, she became the protagonist and gained the famous yet inaccurate title of "the [[Sith/Legends|Sith]]."<ref name="CSWEginorralexia">{{CSWECite|I|342|Ginorra, Lexia}}</ref>
 
The end of the Clone Wars drastically changed the relationship between the CSF and the Jedi. The CSF disliked Supreme Chancellor [[Palpatine/Legends|Palpatine]] for his politics, his handling of the war, and his restriction of the resources available to the CSF. However, most CSF officers saw the Jedi as traitors for attempting to overthrow the institution of the Supreme Chancellor, and thus had no qualms assisting in the hunt for Jedi during [[Order 66/Legends|Order 66]]. Nevertheless, some turned a blind [[Eye/Legends|eye]] to any Jedi they discovered.<ref name="Order66book" /> In the time of the Galactic Alliance, some CSF officers continued to resent the need of Jedi assistance, as they had in the days of the Republic.<ref name="Temp" />
 
====Senate Guard====
{{Quote|And you have primacy? I thought the city came under CSF jurisdiction.''"<br />"''Not as long as I have a Senator and his aide in danger.|RC-1309 "Niner" and then Senate Guard Commander Obrim|<ref name="Omega Squad: Targets" />}}
{{Main|Senate Guard/Legends}}
[[File:Senate_Guards.png|thumb|right|200px|Senate Guards]]
During the Old Republic, the CSF was charged with [[Senate Guard (Coruscant Security Force)|ensuring]] the security of the [[Senate Building]], a task they shared with the military in the form of the [[Senate Security Officer]]s, or SSOs.<ref name="SWTORsenatetowercodex">{{TORcite|type=codex|Senate Tower}}</ref> As time went on the CSF was removed from this task and the duties of the SSOs developed into the long standing tradition of the [[Senate Guard/Legends|Senate Guard]]. Though originally used strictly as a bodyguard detail, the role of the Senate Guard gradually expanded from protecting senators and other government officials to becoming a secondary police force for Coruscant. Traditionally, there was continual friction between the Senate Guard and the CSF. This began with the Senate Guard's expansion into police services which lured away the CSF's best cops as well as trainees from the CSF's police academies. Later, in demand for greater abilities to protect the senators and government officials, the Senate Guard placed the entire surrounding [[Senate District|Legislative District]] under its authority leading to open hostility between them and the CSF.<ref name="GaW" />
 
Never the less, the CSF still depended on the support of the Senate Guard. As the Senate District is under the control of the Guard, they were adapt at not only the protection of the senators, but also in intelligence gathering, patrol duties, and investigative techniques. It was well known that the Guard had access to the best forensic equipment available on the capital planet. [[Senate Commando/Legends|Senate Commandos]] would frequently be called on to function as a special tactical force in extreme situations and it was not uncommon to see a Jedi as well working with the Guard detachment. The Guard also assisted the CSF with uprisings that occurred in the lower levels.<ref name="GaW" />
 
By the time of the Clone Wars, the Guard had become a legacy systems with whole families working as Guards for generations. Corruption became common and the effectiveness of the Guard had decreased.<ref name="GaW" /> The ability of the Guard to conduct independent and honest investigations had been put into such a question that when a homicide occurred in the Senate, the CSF was called to conduct the investigate with the Guard serving in a support capacity.<ref name="Senate Murders" /> Later, with the formation of Palpatine's [[Red Guard]], the authority of the Senate Guard was further diminished. With the formation of the Empire, the Guard was disbanded and its members joined other security forces.<ref name="GaW" />
 
====Coruscant Guard====
{{Quote|No, the Imperial Guard can do without me. I'd never fit in the suit now. Besides, the Emperor wants fit and dedicated young stormtroopers to do the job, and I'm an old street cop at heart.|Captain Jaller Obrim, discussing law enforcement on Coruscant|<ref name="IC501" />}}
{{Main|Coruscant Guard/Legends}}
When the Clone Wars erupted, the [[Grand Army of the Republic/Legends|Grand Army of the Republic]] came into existence to serve the Republic's defense needs. With this [[Cloning/Legends|clone]] army came a specialized division composed of [[clone shock trooper]]s. These units were trained on Coruscant and when the war began, they were formed as the [[Coruscant Guard/Legends|Coruscant Guard]]. The troopers were stationed at important government buildings and other vital infrastructure areas to protect them from sabotage. As the war went on, the Guard's presence and authority increased and they began to take on a larger role of providing police services.<ref name="ThireCSWE">{{CSWECite|III|237|Thire, Clone Commander}}</ref> [[Riot clone trooper]]s, specially trained in crowd control, were garrisoned across Coruscant in case of trouble and also assisted the CSF with fugitive chases.<ref name="CharEncyc">''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia]]''</ref>
 
[[File:Shocktrooperpatrol.png|thumb|left|260px|Coruscant Guards on patrol]]
The Coruscant Guards, like most clone forces on Coruscant, maintained a good relationship with the CSF. Though the clones had superior training to the CSF cops, they worked better together than the CSF had with the Senate Guard. As the war drew to a close, it was not uncommon to see troopers on patrol with CSF officers.<ref name="Order66book" /> When the Empire was declared, the Coruscant Guards occupied the Senate Building<ref name="ThireCSWE" /> and CSF officers assisted with securing the capital.<ref name="Order66book" />
 
Later, the Guard became the primary law enforcement agency for Coruscant. Renamed the Imperial Guard, though still referred to as the Coruscant Guard, they were placed in primary control of investigations and policing<ref name="GaW" /> with the CSF in a support capacity. This did not go well with the CSF and it caused constant friction between the CSF and the Imperial government.<ref name="Betrayal 1" /> In response to their downgraded status, many CSF officers became spies against the Empire.<ref name="dbchyler" />
 
====Galactic Alliance Guard====
{{Quote|Are we doing riot control now?"''<br />''"That's CSF's problem. What we're looking for are faces we might know from the last job.|Ben Skywalker and a GAG officer formerly of CSF's Anti-Terrorism Unit|<ref name="Bloodlines" />}}
{{Main|Galactic Alliance Guard}}
The Galactic Alliance Guard (GAG) was designed to fill a void between the military and Coruscant's police in combating [[Terrorist/Legends|terrorism]]. Members of the GAG were recruited from the CSF, the military, and the intelligence services. For the former cops, it became immediately apparent there was a difference in philosophy in how the GAG should operate, especially during interrogations and raids. Though the CSF was responsible for such issues as riot control and tracking criminals or other suspicious persons, information would be handed over to the GAG for assessment.<ref name="Bloodlines" />
 
During GAG raids, the CSF would assist by providing officers and equipment to secure the area as well as clearing out innocent civilians before an attack. The GAG also depended on CSF for intelligence gathering on suspected terrorists and any other information gathered from other agencies. Initially, the CSF officers, mostly originating from the Anti-Terrorist Unit, were enthusiastic about tackling the issue of terrorism on Coruscant with an expanded budget and an expanded ability to take action.<ref name="Bloodlines" /> But as time passed and the methods of the GAG became more and more brutal, the CSF cops and other top-of-the-line operatives left the GAG.<ref name="GoI">''[[Galaxy of Intrigue]]''</ref> Those cops that remained passed on information to the Jedi to help bring the GAG down.<ref name="Revelation">''[[Legacy of the Force: Revelation]]''</ref>


==History==
==History==
===The Old Republic===
====Beginnings and Sith invasion====
{{Quote|Unidentified vessel, this is Coruscant Security. We weren't expecting&hellip; Do you have a ''clearance'' code?|CSF agent Femi's communication to the Sith fleet|<ref name="TOP" />}}
The Coruscant Security Force was formed by the [[Coruscanti/Legends|Coruscanti]] government and was one of the oldest planetary police forces in the Republic. Though tasked with the responsibility of keeping the peace on a planet with a massive population, the CSF maintained a reputation of effectiveness, diversity in its officers, and in general, positive relations with the population of Coruscant.<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" /> [[Old Sith Wars|Continuous warfare]] between the Republic and several enemies, including the [[Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders/Legends|Mandalorians]] during the [[Mandalorian Wars]] and [[Revan/Legends|Revan's]] [[Darth Revan's Sith Empire|Sith Empire]] during [[Jedi Civil War]], had drained the Republic's resources. While Coruscant was placed under tight security in fear of external threats, the government lacked the necessary manpower to properly police the planet itself. As such, various corporations provided private [[Security guard/Legends|security guards]] for patrol duties to supplement the government's police and military troops. The move, while deemed necessary, raised concerns and questions from many Republic citizens.<ref name="CGKotOR">''[[Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide]]''</ref>
[[File:Csfandjedi.jpg|thumb|right|210px|CSF officers conferring with Jedi Master Din during the Sith attack]]
Several centuries later in [[3653 BBY]], the CSF were the first to come in contact with the [[Sith Empire (Post–Great Hyperspace War)|reformed Sith Empire]] when the Sith began the [[Sacking of Coruscant]]. At the time of the attack, CSF's [[Orbit/Legends|Orbital]] Security Station Six was in charge of monitoring starship traffic around Coruscant. An all-clear report was given to [[Coruscant Control]] by the [[Twi'lek/Legends|Twi'lek]] [[Gender/Legends|female]] [[Femi]], a CSF agent assigned to Orbital Station Six. Following the report, a Sith [[Fleet/Legends|armada]] entered Coruscant [[Realspace/Legends|space]], and the CSF security station requested clearance codes from the fleet, unsure of who they were. The Sith fleet was commanded by the [[Sith Lord/Legends|Sith Lord]] [[Darth Angral]], who ordered the fleet to destroy the station, [[Death/Legends|killing]] the CSF agents on board in the process. The Sith then began their invasion of the planet.<ref name="TOP" />
A hijacked Republic transport was used to attack the Jedi Temple and disable Coruscant's security grid, allowing the Sith to bombard the planet. Within minutes, communications, military, and security installations were destroyed.<ref name="TJoMGDreal">[[The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural (real-life book)|''The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural'']]</ref> A [[Dropship/Legends|dropship]] landed at the Senate Building, where the Sith were met with resistance from CSF officers, [[Republic Special Forces Division]] Lieutenant [[Harron Tavus]], and [[Jedi Master/Legends|Jedi Master]] [[Orgus Din]], but they were unable to prevent the Sith from storming the Senate Building and killing Supreme Chancellor [[Berooken]].<ref name="TOP" /> A small group of security forces rallied a defense but were quickly overwhelmed. The Sith occupied key sections of Coruscant; however, the majority of the lower levels remained firmly under Republic and CSF control though the security forces were shocked and disorganized.<ref name="TJoMGDreal" />
The Sith armies did not have the numbers to press the attack or to maintain an extended occupation. It was noted later on by the Jedi that had security forces been able to launch a counterattack, while causing a significant toll on the civilian population, it would have been successful. Thus the Sith quickly withdrew from Coruscant, but not before they had used their occupation of the planet to force the Senate into the [[Treaty of Coruscant]], starting the military and economic [[Cold War (Galactic Republic&ndash;Sith Empire)|Cold War]] between the Republic and the Sith Empire.<ref name="TJoMGDreal" /> After signing the treaty, the Galactic Senate was forced to make difficult decisions on prioritizing the Republic's resources. Only those parts of Coruscant that were vital for the running of the government and for trade were rebuilt and large parts of Galactic City remained in ruins.<ref>Non-Canon Ref</ref> The lack of resources fell heavily on the CSF which was pulled back from various sectors to protect the Senate Building and other vital government and infrastructure areas.<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" />
====Picking up the pieces====
{{Quote|I used to be proud to say, 'Lieutenant Doorn, Coruscant Security Forces.' These days, it's just a job. Doesn't even pay the bills.|Lieutenant Doorn|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
In the aftermath of the Sacking of Coruscant, the CSF had to deal with not only the limited resources, but also the loss of life from the invasion and the burnout from the years following it, all of which took their toll. In the years after the invasion as the Republic struggled to rebuild, the CSF was constantly engaged in riot control only to see those areas fall to major criminal syndicates. The inability to prevent the takeover by gangs embittered many of the CSF's young recruits. Veteran cops were equally frustrated, as they had been trained to investigate crimes and track individuals, not fight gangs for territory block by block.<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" />
[[File:CSFswtor.svg|thumb|left|200px|CSF symbol during the Cold War]]
The [[Black Sun territory|territory]] controlled by the [[Black Sun/Legends|Black Sun]] crime syndicate was especially dangerous, and the CSF rarely ventured into it. Traffic in the area was erratic and dangerous with illegal craft flying everywhere.<ref>{{TORweb|url=media/screens/coruscant-4|text=Coruscant screenshot 4|nobackup=1}}</ref> When the CSF did enter the Black Sun area, they regularly ended up in desperate fights over territory, even over just the landing platforms.<ref>{{TORweb|url=media/screens/coruscant-3|text=Coruscant screenshot 3|nobackup=1}}</ref> Officers [[Berric]], [[Kennerlo Erlo]], [[Tomin-brel]], and [[Shassa]] were stationed in the area to provide armor and weapons.<ref name="SWTORcorus" /> In response to the takeover by Black Sun, several ex-soldiers formed a [[Militia/Legends|militia]], the [[Justicars' Brigade]].<ref name="SWTORJustcodex">{{TORcite|type=codex|Justicars' Brigade}}</ref> They claimed to be responsible for peace and order, but their methods were brutal, and they were subsequently seen as bloodthirsty and a law unto themselves.<ref name="TORFA">''[[The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance]]''</ref> Coruscant's government declared them illegal, but the Justicars cut themselves off from the outside world and enforced a heavy-handed marshal law in [[Justicar territory|their territory]].<ref name="SWTORJustcodex" /> Initially the CSF had enthusiastically supported the Justicars, intending to work together to restore order. However, with their brutal methods revealed, the CSF began investigating the Justicars and sent in undercover agents to disrupt their activities.<ref name="SWTORwhitenoise">{{TORcite|type=general|White Noise|Coruscant}}</ref>
Debates over how to deal with the problems of retaking areas from gangs were common. Many advocated that the CSF be trained as a military unit and given military-grade equipment, arguing that without it, the CSF would be overwhelmed. Few in the CSF itself were for increased militarization, however&mdash;their goal was to keep the peace, not fight a war on the streets of Coruscant more than they already were.<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" /> In an attempt to regain control over the areas dominated by the Black Sun, the [[Republic Strategic Information Service]] assisted the CSF in monitoring areas known for criminal activity with the hopes that tracking Black Sun's [[Slavery/Legends|slavery ring]] would also yield information about the Sith Empire.<ref name="TORTLS1">''[[The Old Republic—The Lost Suns 1]]''</ref>
====Struggles and investigations====
{{Quote|Well, with so much money going into the military, we don't get much in terms of funds or manpower.|CSF Agent Jaffkee|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
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Around [[3643 BBY]],<ref name="SWTORdate">{{TOR dates|1}}</ref> when plans of long-forgotten [[Coruscant secret underground tunnels|secret tunnels]] running under Coruscant were stolen by the Justicars, CSF Lieutenant [[Doorn]] was tasked with recovering them. An individual offered their assistance to Doorn. Happily accepting, Doorn sent the individual to a female agent of the Strategic Information Service, [[Fieler Dan]]. Though Dan informed the individual of the plan's location, she requested to be able to copy the plans to give to her daughter. They would then be used to assist in bringing food and supplies to Coruscant's needy. After they infiltrated the [[Justicars' Tower|Justicars' stronghold]] and retrieved the plans, the individual let Dan make a copy of the plans. The individual then returned them to Doorn, who accepted them gratefully.<ref name="SWTORsecpassages">{{TORcite|type=general|Secret Passages|Coruscant}}</ref> Though the CSF did not try to retake the Justicar territory by force, they conducted undercover operations to disrupt Justicar activities. CSF Agent [[Jaffkee]] was sent to infiltrate the Justicars' Territory and set up listening posts. This allowed the CSF to monitor Justicar conversations.<ref name="SWTORwhitenoise" />
[[File:Csfsenate.png|thumb|right|270px|A CSF officer guarding the Senate Building]]
The individual also assisted CSF Officer [[Anstiss]]. Anstiss felt she had an enemy at CSF Headquarters since she had been assigned the task of arresting a brutal [[Houk/Legends|Houk]] criminal named [[Gambo]] by herself. However, Gambo had resisted and beaten her up. Anstiss asked the individual for help in arresting the suspect. The individual entered the [[Dealer's Den]] cantina where Gambo was staying and convinced him to surrender to Anstiss. Gambo did so and was escorted back to CSF Headquarters.<ref name="SWTORCantina">{{TORcite|type=general|Cantina Contusions|Coruscant}}</ref>
When several of the Jedi Order's prized [[noetikon]]s went missing, the order sent a Jedi [[The Barsen'thor|Consular]] to retrieve the stolen noetikons. During the search, the Jedi discovered that a [[Gand/Legends|Gand]] criminal who was arrested by CSF Officer [[Alec Efran]] was connected to the thefts, specifically that of the [[Noetikon of Science]]. The Jedi met Efran, who was holding the Gand, at the Old Galactic Market CSF barricades. There, the Jedi questioned the Gand, leading to the retrieval of the missing Noetikon of Science.<ref name="SWTORss">{{TORcite|type=class|Jedi Consular|Secret Signals|Coruscant}}</ref>
Around that time, CSF Lieutenant [[Semphi Talen]] was assigned to investigate a break-in at the [[First Bank of Coruscant]]. Two individuals were caught attempting to crack open a safety deposit box belonging to the [[Alderaan/Legends|Alderaanian]] noble [[House Ulgo|House]] of [[Ulgo]]. The robbers claimed to be Ulgo cousins, trying to reclaim "valuable family heirlooms." The deposit box contained items smuggled from the [[Mid Rim]]. Lieutenant Talen assumed the Ulgos were planning to sell them on the black market to start raising more supporters for their cause. As Alderaan had seceded from the Republic, the case was a legal gray area. The Senate authorized for the safety deposit box to be placed in Jedi custody and the matter turned over the Order, much to the relief of Lieutenant Talen.<ref name="SWTORTalen">{{TORcite|type=message|House Ulgo's accounts|Lieutenant Semphi Talen (Coruscant Security)}}</ref>
The CSF also investigated an airspeeder crash in Coruscant's upper levels that killed [[Zorin Krasul]], Senator of [[Anaxes/Legends|Anaxes]]. The CSF refused to comment on the cause of the crash.<ref name="SWTORKrasul">{{TORcite|type=message|FW Senator Krasul|General Garza}}</ref> Senator Krasul, incidentally, had been at a senate hearing where he had ordered another senator, [[Grom Zian]], arrested by CSF Senate Guards for [[Treason/Legends|treason]].<ref name="SWTORTSI">{{TORcite|type=class|Republic Trooper|The Senate Inquiry|Coruscant}}</ref>
{{Endgame}}
====Fighting the Merchants' Guild====
{{Quote|The Migrant Merchants' Guild is dug in hard. Gonna be a while before we push them out.|Captain Winborn, Coruscant Security Chief|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
Riots that had occurred in the [[Old Galactic Market]] had left the area vulnerable as the CSF pulled back their resources. Taking advantage of the situation, the [[Migrant Merchants' Guild]] took over the area. While on paper it officially advocated for the refugees, the Guild was a well organized gang involved in money laundering, extortion, bribery, and goods smuggling resulting in clashes with the CSF who tried to keep the peace.<ref name="SWTORMMGcodex">{{TORcite|type=codex|Migrant Merchants' Guild}}</ref>
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The Guild's presence prevented the CSF from assisting citizens with various complaints that were not significant enough to start a street battle over. One such case invloved [[Nik Deleru]] and his mate [[Ria Deleru|Ria]]. Deleru reported to Officer [[Mal]] that Ria had been taken by the Guild to become a dancer. However Mal was unable to pursue the investigation as Ria was in deep in the Guild's territory. An individual was able to locate Ria and discover that she had voluntarily left Deleru as he had mistreated her.<ref name="SWTORBetWors">{{TORcite|type=general|For Better or Worse|Coruscant}}</ref>
[[File:CSFbomb.png|thumb|left|280px|CSF officers under fire in the Old Galactic Market]]
Around 3643 BBY,<ref name="SWTORdate" /> the Migrant Merchants' Guild attempted to blackmail Coruscant's [[Senator/Legends|Senator]] [[Vanara Kayl]] over her use of their funds to pay for support in the election. In response to the threat, the Senator sent the CSF to move out the Guild from the Old Galactic Market as well as to prevent them from carrying out an attack on the skylanes around the Senate Building.<ref name="SWTORCiGC" /> The CSF Chief of Security, Captain [[Winborn]], personally led the [[Merchants' Guild Crisis|attack]] on the Guild with several officers and security droids. The CSF were assisted by an individual who not only was able to neutralize several dozen of the Guild thugs, but also prevent them from accessing the secure skylane infrastructure. After the fight, the individual found a recording of Senator Kayl arguing with a leader of the Merchant Guild, exposing her illegal actions during the election. Feeling the issue was above his head and a political minefield, Winborn asked the individual to confront the Senator with the information.<ref name="SWTORCiGC" />
The CSF was brought in to investigate the theft of valuable items from Senator [[Doli-bur Barc]]. The investigating officer, Captain [[Denal-zon]], was able to determine that the Migrant Merchant Guild had been behind the theft. Denal-zon also discovered that the valuable items were in fact computer chips meant to be used in [[Slaving collar|slave collars]]. Since the existence of the collars violated [[Republic Law 44-12]] and were also not to be found, the investigation subsequently stalled. Later, an individual was commissioned by one of Senator Barc's assistants to investigate the theft. After speaking with Denal-zon the individual was able to recover the computer chips from the Migrant Merchant guild. The individual than turned the chips over to Denal-zon who destroyed them since they were against Republic law.<ref name="SWTORsenstolgoods">{{TORcite|type=general|The Senator's Stolen Goods|Coruscant}}</ref>
{{Endgame}}
====Battling Black Sun====
{{Quote|If we had more Jedi like you working the streets, Black Sun would be a thing of the past.|Officer Stansun to a Jedi Knight|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
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In the years after the Sacking of Coruscant, Black Sun had quickly established itself as a major force especially in Coruscant's lower levels. Though the CSF was underfunded and under equipped to properly push Black Sun back, attempts were still made to shut the crime syndicate down, one step at a time. One such instance involved CSF Officer [[Stansun]]. He had discovered a medical clinic that was a front for Black Sun to conduct surgeries altering the appearances of wanted criminals. Stansun was assisted by an individual who infiltrated the clinic. The individual then destroyed the [[Medical droid/Legends|medical droids]] present at the clinic and removed all the records of the clinics patients. The records gave Officer Stansun the names of all those who had had face altering surgery and their present appearance.<ref name="SWTORFacemerchant">{{TORcite|type=heroic|The Face Merchants|Coruscant}}</ref>
[[File:Csfblacksunfight.png|thumb|right|290px|CSF officers battle Black Sun members]]
As reconstruction efforts continued, Coruscant was flooded with refugees whose homes were destroyed during the war. As the refugees scavenged for food, Black Sun booby trapped supply boxes to explode when a person would try to open it. Though most of the CSF had pulled out from those areas, Captain [[Theraguin]] continued to work in the area attempting to help the refugees by disarming the bombs. However, he was outnumbered and unable to keep up with Black Sun's terrorism campaign. A little later, an individual offered their assistance in disarming the bombs and Theraguin gladly accepted. The individual was able to locate and diffuse the explosives as well as take out the Black Sun members responsible for the acts.<ref name="SWTORboom">{{TORcite|type=general|Boom|Coruscant}}</ref>
As Black Sun's power grew, the CSF began operations to infiltrate the organization. Agent [[Folaris]] was in charge of a network of spies, infiltrators, and snitches who reported on Black Sun activities. However, Black Sun planned to clean house and was able to obtain a list of the snitches and spies within its ranks. Folaris requested assistance from an individual to retrieve the list. The individual was able to locate the list and hand it over to Folaris. List in hand, Folaris contemplated selling it but was convinced instead to hand it over to her superiors.<ref name="SWTORPartEclip">{{TORcite|type=general|Partial Eclipse|Coruscant}}</ref>
{{Endgame}}
====Securing the Planet Prison====
{{Quote|Go to these coordinates. Talk to Sergeant Nidaljo. He can help you rescue Doctor Tarnis and get those copied data files.''"<br />"''This mission is too important to fail. I'll take all the help I can get.|SIS Agent Galen briefs the Jedi Knight|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
{{GameLSmechanics|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
While jostling for advantage in the Cold War, the Republic government began secretly building weapons in expectation of an inevitable renewed war with the Empire. One of the weapons included the [[Planet Prison]], a [[Superweapon/Legends|superweapon]] designed by [[Doctor/Legends|Doctor]] [[Tarnis (Sith Lord)|Tarnis]] to trap all occupants of a planet on its surface. However the data files for the Planet Prison along with valuable military hardware were stolen<ref name="SWTORStolensecrets">{{TORcite|type=class|Jedi Knight|Stolen Secrets|Coruscant}}</ref> around 3643 BBY.<ref name="SWTORdate" /> Republic Strategic Information Service Agent [[Galen (SIS)|Galen]] was brought in to head the investigation along with members of the CSF. After the investigators found that a [[Rodian/Legends|Rodian]] [[Smuggler/Legends|smuggler]] named [[Vistis Garn]] was behind the theft, a Jedi [[Hero of Tython|Knight]] was charged with recovering the plans. They tracked Garn to his hideout in the Migrant Merchants' Guild territory and recovered the data files.<ref name="SWTORStolensecrets" />
[[File:CSFspecialtacunit.png|thumb|left|250px|Sergeant Nidaljo's special tactical unit]]
While the Jedi recovered the files, Doctor Tarnis was kidnapped by members of Black Sun. The Jedi Knight and Padawan [[Kira Carsen]] were sent with a detachment of CSF agents to the [[Coruscant Spaceport]] [[Docking Bay 84]] to [[Skirmish in Docking Bay 84|rescue]] Tarnis. Though somewhat outnumbered, the Jedi and CSF agents were able to kill or arrest the Black Sun members. They discovered that the Black Sun members had been a distraction and that Tarnis had really been taken deep into Black Sun territory.<ref name="SWTORKidnapped" />
SIS Agent Galen offered the Jedi the assistance of a [[special tactical unit]] of CSF and Republic soldiers under the command of CSF Sergeant [[Nidaljo]]. The unit had been able to [[Raid on the Black Sun headquarters|battle]] their way into the Black Sun territory and set up a barricade. However, the fight had been costly and the unit had lost four men and at least seven were wounded with the remaining forces now surrounded by Black Sun's soldiers. Nidaljo and his men had lost hope for recovering Doctor Tarnis and surviving when the Jedi arrived to assist. Together, the tactical unit and the Jedi were able to break through Black Sun's forces. They found [[Salarr]], leader of Black Sun, talking with Doctor Tarnis via a holocam. Tarnis was in actuality a Sith Lord who had been manipulating the situation from the beginning and was in league with Black Sun. In the ensuing confrontation, Salarr was killed. Though a devastating blow had been struck on Black Sun, it was not enough to hold on to the territory and the CSF forces withdrew. The Jedi meanwhile continued on in their hunt for Lord Tarnis.<ref name="SWTORRescue">{{TORcite|type=class|Jedi Knight|The Rescue|Coruscant}}</ref>
{{Endgame}}
====Intercepting smugglers====
{{Quote|Just try to remain calm miss, we'll get this sorted out.|A CSF customs guard|<ref name="Annihilation">''[[The Old Republic: Annihilation]]''</ref>}}
{{GameLSmechanics|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
Around 3643 BBY,<ref name="SWTORdate" /> the [[Smuggler/Legends|smuggler]] known as [[Voidhound]] was stopped by the Customs Enforcement Division at the [[Coruscant Spaceport]]. The customs droid noticed an error in the smuggler's identification protocols and the cargo logs. The customs droid was about to request assistance from a customs enforcement agent when the smuggler uploaded false data that convinced the droid the smuggler was really named [[Admiral/Legends|Admiral]] [[Numinn]]. The customs droid approved the smuggler's entry into Coruscant.<ref name="SWTORcorus" />
{{Endgame}}
[[File:Csfcop.png|thumb|right|280px|A CSF officer at the Coruscant Spaceport]]
In [[3640 BBY]], Strategic Information Service Agent [[Theron Shan]] sent the smuggler [[Teff'ith]] to Coruscant to give vital information about his mission to [[Supreme Commander (Alliance/Republic)|Supreme Commander]] [[Jace Malcom]] and Jedi [[Grand Master/Legends|Grand Master]] [[Satele Shan]]. As she entered Coruscant's airspace, Teff'ith was contacted by [[Coruscant Flight Control 473]] who directed her to land at [[Diplomatic Spaceport 27-B]]. Upon her arrival at the spaceport, Teff'ith was checked and searched by CSF guards. To them, the shoulder wound Teff'ith had sustained before leaving for Coruscant and the fact that she was not a Jedi, did not match with the fact that she had been flying a Jedi craft. Teff'ith continued to insist that she wanted to speak with Grand Master Shan but the guards simply took her into the spaceport office. However, the guards were unhurried. In frustration, Teff'ith grabbed the [[Blaster pistol/Legends|blaster pistol]] side arm of [[Unidentified Coruscant Security customs guard 1|one]] of the guards. His [[Unidentified Coruscant Security customs guard 2|partner]] ordered her to drop the weapon and release her hostage but she refused. Demanding he exit the spaceport office, the partner retreated outside and Teff'ith barricaded herself inside with the other guard. She insisted he contact Grand Master Shan which he set about attempting to do. Meanwhile his partner had called for backup and within five minutes over twenty CSF officers had responded to the scene, constructing a cordon around the office. The guard inside was able to contact Grand Master Shan who agreed to come to the spaceport. When she arrived, Teff'ith surrendered and informed her of the vital information.<ref name="Annihilation" />
Shortly after the [[Battle of Yavin 4 (Galactic War)|defeat]] of [[Revan/Legends|Revan]], [[Lylos Tannon]] was investigating a [[Cybernetics/Legends|cybernetics]] scam run by Doctor [[Zeke]] and his assistant [[Bolgm]]. Though she tracked their activities for weeks, she was unable to catch them in the act and enlisted the help of SIS Agents Theron Shan and [[Jonas Balkar]]. During a sting operation in the Dealer's Den, Tannon accused Shan of cheating at [[Sabacc/Legends|Sabacc]] which brought the attention of Bolgm since Shan had cyber implants. Though Shan was at first unaware of Tannon's identity, he went along with the ruse until Doctor Zeke showed himself. Tannon then distracted Bolgm and Shan charged at him before Tannon knocked the criminal unconscious with the butt of her [[Blaster/Legends|blaster]]. Shan meanwhile chased after Doctor Zeke and was joined by Balkar. Shan tackled the doctor and Tannon was able to place him in cuffs.<ref name="OneNightDD">{{TORweb|url=info/news/blog/20150213|text=One Night in the Dealer's Den|int=One Night in the Dealer's Den}}</ref>
===The Galactic Republic===
====Politics and murders====
{{Quote|It's done in any case.''"<br />"''And without any leads for the police or the Jedi to pursue, you're completely in the clear.|Palpatine and Sate Pestage, discussing the results Vidar Kim's assassination ordered by Palpatine|<ref name="Darthplagueis" />}}
Millennia later, in [[76 BBY/Legends|76 BBY]], the CSF took custody of the [[Pirate/Legends|pirates]] [[Lorian Nod]], a failed Jedi Knight, and [[Eero Iridian]] from Jedi Knight [[Dooku/Legends|Dooku]] and his [[Padawan/Legends|Padawan]], [[Qui-Gon Jinn/Legends|Qui-Gon Jinn]]. The pirates had attacked Senator [[Blix Annon]] and were captured on [[Von-Alai]] by the Jedi, and they were then transported to Coruscant for trial. Nod was incarcerated for his crimes, but he helped the CSF with problems they were having inside the prison, serving as an informer. In gratitude for his assistance, Nod was granted early release from prison.<ref name="LegJedi">''[[Legacy of the Jedi]]''</ref>
[[File:Palpatineyouth.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The CSF attempted to investigate several murders committed by Darth Plagueis and Palpatine.]]
In [[52 BBY/Legends|52 BBY]] Senator [[Vidar Kim]] of [[Naboo/Legends|Naboo]] was assassinated while riding in an airspeeder with his son, Jedi Knight [[Ronhar Kim]]. The [[Assassin/Legends|assassin]] approached from behind on a speeder bike and killed the senator. Jedi Kim jumped from the speeder and knocked the assassin to the ground. While Kim attempted to [[Mind trick/Legends|interrogate]] the assassin, the being produced a hypodermic needle and injected himself, dying instantly. The CSF initially investigated the murder with little success. Later the [[Judicial Department/Legends|Judicial Department]] as well as the Jedi Order and [[Senate Investigative Committee]] attempted to unravel the mystery but with equal little success. Unknown to them, Palpatine had ordered the hit on Kim to allow him to become Naboo's senator. Three months later, the Senate held a major vote on whether to allow several planets who were under the [[Trade Federation of Planets|Trade Federation's]] control to enter the Republic and receive senatorial representation. In anticipation of the event, the CSF cordoned off a large area around the Senate Building including from [[Senate District Level 55|Level 55]] to [[Senate District Level 106|Level 106]]. They also deployed [[Sniper/Legends|snipers]], security cam droids, and bomb detecting droids.<ref name="Darthplagueis" />
After the vote, the CSF were summoned by two Jedi Knights to investigate a grisly crime scene at the [[Lodge of the Order of the Canted Circle|headquarters]] of the [[Order of the Canted Circle]] in the [[Fobosi District]]. Upon their arrival they discovered dozens and dozens of dead including two [[Echani/Legends|Echani]] warriors believed to be bodyguards, twelve [[Muun/Legends|Muuns]] of the [[InterGalactic Banking Clan/Legends|InterGalactic Banking Clan]], and triple that number of [[Maladian]] assassins dressed in the Canted Circle Order's robes who had been killed by blaster fire and traumatic amputations. The Order's members whose robes had been borrowed, were bound and unconscious and lay in various locations. The amputated remains of the Maladians were so scattered that the CSF detectives initially surmised an explosive had detonated though no explosive evidence could be found. The Jedi who had notified the police, did not reveal why they had been at the location and why they had an interest in the case.<ref name="Darthplagueis" />
A second major crime scene at the [[Malastare/Legends|Malastare]] embassy also had the CSF engaged. There, Senator [[Pax Teem]] of Malaster along with several guest had been killed and the embassy completely burned. The CSF was able to determine that due to numerous amount of blood discovered at the scene of the fire, the victims had been killed first before the setting of the fire. This led the police detectives to believe that the mass killings and fire were a hit orchestrated by organized crime. Unknown to the CSF, the scene at the Chanted Circle headquarters was the result of Senator Teem hiring the Maladian assassins to kill [[Darth Plagueis/Legends|Hego Damask]], the alter ego of Darth Plagueis. The assassination had been interrupted by Palpatine and [[Sate Pestage/Legends|Sate Pestage]] who together with Plagueis had killed the Maladians. Palpatine, filled with rage, had gone after Senator Teem, invading the residence and massacring the security guards and the dinner guests before setting Teem on fire along with the rest of the building. The sudden activity of the [[Dark side of the Force/Legends|dark side of the Force]] had alerted the Jedi who sent two members of the Jedi Council to scene. However, the Jedi, as before, refused to clarify their presence and interest in the case. With the Jedi, the Order of the Canted Circe, InterGalactic Banking Clan, and the [[Gran Protectorate/Legends|Gran Protectorate]] remaining silent, the case stalled despite attempts by the Senate Investigative Committee to continue the investigation.<ref name="Darthplagueis" />
====Scientists, Sith, and Jedi====
{{Quote|This is not the first body we've found drained of blood. Drifter, lowlifes&mdash;beings no one would miss. Over the past year, there have been a half dozen. Maybe more we haven't found. Who knows?|Yur T'aug to Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn|<ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter" />}}
[[File:Obi-Wan_Kenobi_EP1.png|thumb|right|175px|A young Obi-Wan Kenobi assisted in several CSF investigations.]]
In [[42 BBY/Legends|42 BBY]], the [[Bothan/Legends|Bothan]] [[Yur T'aug]] was a captain in the CSF. He was called in to investigate the murder of [[Fligh]], who had been found in the [[Lane of All Worlds]], an alleyway next to the Senate Building. Fligh was a petty thief but also an informant for Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. T'aug discovered what he thought was an interesting detail: Fligh's body had been drained of [[Blood/Legends|blood]]. [[Didi Oddo]], a friend of Jinn, informed the Jedi of Fligh's murder. When Jinn and his Padawan, [[Obi-Wan Kenobi/Legends|Obi-Wan Kenobi]], went to the crime scene and asked to see the body, T'aug consented. After some questioning by the Jedi, T'aug reluctantly revealed information about the case.<ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter" />
On Simpla-12, the body of [[Ren S'orn]] was discovered, and T'aug was sent to investigate. As S'orn's body had likewise been drained of blood, T'aug decided to drop the case. When he was confronted about this by Kenobi, the Captain openly refused to cooperate with the Jedi. He did, however, reveal that the case had been dropped at the request of Senator [[Uta S'orn]], Ren S'orn's mother. When questioned by Kenobi, the Senator said that she was afraid of what T'aug would find and that she simply wished the matter to go away. The Jedi later discovered that Ren had been murdered by [[Jenna Zan Arbor]], a [[Scientist/Legends|scientist]] who had conducted experiments on Ren before killing him. Fligh had faked his own death in order to escape to [[Belasco/Legends|Belasco]] after he had stolen Senator S'orn's [[Datapad/Legends|datapad]].<ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment" />
In [[32 BBY/Legends|32 BBY]], the CSF came into conflict with the [[Dark Lord of the Sith/Legends|Dark Lord of the Sith]] [[Darth Maul/Legends|Darth Maul]] when he was pursuing a group through the [[Crimson Corridor]] that included Jedi Padawan [[Darsha Assant]] and information broker [[Lorn Pavan]], as they were in the possession of a special [[Holocron/Legends|holocron]] containing information about the ongoing [[Invasion of Naboo/Legends|blockade of Naboo]]. The Dark [[Lord/Legends|Lord]], wanting to quickly gain a means of transportation, hacked into Coruscant's [[Coruscant Security Force Dispatch|security dispatch]] system, sending out a call reporting a droid banking crime. Two CSF officers, accompanied by a police cruiser backup unit, responded to the call. However, [[Darth/Legends|Darth]] Maul disabled the PCBU by jumping on top of it and destroying the droid with his [[Lightsaber/Legends|lightsaber]]. The officers turned their [[Speeder bike/Legends|speeder bikes]] around, only to be killed by the Sith, who sliced through their [[Armor/Legends|armor]] with his weapon. The Sith then took one of the officer's speeders and continued his pursuit of Pavan and Assant.<ref name="maul" />
The CSF later investigated the incident but was unable to explain how someone could jump fifteen [[Foot/Legends|feet]] into the air to reach the PCBU without getting shot. Kenobi was present at the investigation while searching for the missing Assant. He discussed the matter with the two investigators, a [[Unidentified Mrlssi investigator|Mrlssi]] and a [[Unidentified Sullustan investigator|Sullustan]], promising the assistance of the Jedi Order. However, the issue was pushed aside upon his return to the [[Jedi Temple]], as he was sent to respond to the [[Trade Federation of Planets|Trade Federation's]] [[Blockade/Legends|blockade]] of [[Naboo/Legends|Naboo]].<ref name="maul" /> It was also at that time that the CSF investigated the death of a Hutt nightclub owner and several of his thugs, who had all been killed by Maul in an attempt to find Pavan. A fragment of the report would be found years later by former Imperial aide, [[Haninum Tyk Rhinann]].<ref name="SWCN2" />
====Death sticks and Jango Fett====
{{Quote|Jerveis Gloom. Coruscant Police want him alive. My sources tell me he works the entertainment sector.|Rozatta to Jango Fett|<ref name="Bounty Hunter">''[[Star Wars: Bounty Hunter]]''</ref>}}
[[File:Coruscant_police_officer.png|thumb|left|180px|A CSF police officer]]
During the time of the Invasion of Naboo, the CSF had several [[Bounty/Legends|bounties]] open for various cases. One was for [[Regg Kuuga]], a male [[Draag]] from [[Ninzam VI]]. Kuuga made a habit of stealing medical [[Frigate/Legends|frigates]], scrapping them for parts, and then transforming them to attack tourist ships. Another was on [[Panza Hondi]], a [[Guineo]] [[Crime lord/Legends|crime lord]] who lived in the industrial district. While working with crime lord [[Groff Haugg]], Hondi had brutally murdered an off-duty officer. The [[Gran/Legends|Gran]] [[Ninopas Orocc]] was wanted for disrupting a meeting of the Galactic Senate; Orocc had managed to get into the Senate Building and smear [[Cornesian Wax|Cornesian wax]] across the base of several hover platforms, resulting in the injury of three senators. There was also a bounty open on [[Kiatha]], a male [[Jawa/Legends|Jawa]] who had had mishandled his [[Ronto/Legends|Ronto]], resulting in the creature causing extensive property damage. All of those bounties were claimed by the [[Mandalorian/Legends|Mandalorian]] [[Bounty hunter/Legends|bounty hunter]] [[Jango Fett/Legends|Jango Fett]].<ref name="Bounty Hunter" />
{{Gamemechanics}}
During his time on Coruscant, Fett collected several bounties that had been issued by various organizations and cartels for the capture or death of various CSF officers. Officer [[Loowil Galt]], who had arrested a contractor resulting in the collapse of a major deal between the contractor and the [[Techno Union/Legends|Techno Union]]. In response, the Techno Union placed a bounty on Galt's head. Fett was able to locate and kill him. Captain [[Max Ryko]] received a bounty for attempting to blackmail a senator; Captain [[Lye Rooker]], for not paying back a loan; Officer [[Mill Timmer]], a corrupt cop who took too much than what he was allotted and was killed by Fett. And finally Fett assassinated Officer [[Raim Tibekk]] for his part in a [[Raid in the Entertainment District|raid]] in the [[Uscru Entertainment District/Legends|Entertainment District]] where Tibekk killed a [[Hutt Cartel]] operative.<ref name="Bounty Hunter" />
{{Endgame}}
Around the same time, the sale of [[Death stick/Legends|death sticks]] on Coruscant rose dramatically as the [[Dug/Legends|Dug]] [[Sebolto]] expanded [[Sebolto's drug cartel|his cartel]] into the [[Coruscant system/Legends|Coruscant system]] with the help of several Grans&mdash;including [[Kram Ayuk]], [[Byhdee Kees]], [[Seed Machees]], and [[Leek Onees]]&mdash;who smuggled the death sticks into Coruscant. The CSF became aware of Sebolto's smuggling activities and placed bounties on all four of the Gran's heads. The bounties were later collected by Fett. While the CSF was investigating the death stick distribution network, they were called to respond to a situation at the apartment of Senator [[Connus Trell]]. When they arrived in a VAAT/e police craft, they found Fett interrogating Trell while holding him over the balcony of the Senator's apartment. Fett had learned earlier from [[Jervis Gloom]], a death stick dealer also wanted by the CSF, that Trell was involved in the death stick scheme and Fett wanted Trell's contacts. The CSF officers demanded that Fett release the Senator, but Fett did so by dropping the Senator to his death. The bounty hunter then fired on the VAAT/e, destroying it and escaping the scene.<ref name="Bounty Hunter" />
====Routine investigations====
{{Quote|With high-profile cases involving politicians, rookies can get nervous, someone obviously got over-anxious and returned the vehicle without filing documentation.|Investigating officer Wets Tranoj, explaining the speeder's second disappearance|HoloNet News Vol. 531 56}}
In [[22 BBY/Legends|22 BBY]], Detective Constable [[Dherik Rule]] was on call in the [[Taung Heights]] district when a women by the name of [[Latika Garboren]] called to report that she had discovered a Sith emblem in her [[pastebread]]. Rule responded to the scene but in the end dismissed the call as their had been no evidence of any crime.<ref name="HNNsith">{{Hnn|49|life/13328_2.html|Area Woman Finds Sith Icon in Pastebread|https://web.archive.org/web/20050226021341/http://www.holonetnews.com:80/49/life/13328_2.html}}</ref>
Soon thereafter, CSF investigators responded to the scene of an airspeeder collision in the [[Bindai District]]. There they discovered the dead body of Senator [[Nemrileo irm-Drocubac]] of [[Tanjay IV]]. The senator had been traveling in his airspeeder when it collided with a delivery truck. Upon investigating the scene further, investigators came to the conclusion that there had been an internal guidance error. The police did not expect to file any charges in the incident and the senator was laid to rest.<ref name="HNNair">{{Hnn|51|news/13411_6.html|Tanjay IV Representative Dead in Crash|https://web.archive.org/web/20130728123312/http://www.holonetnews.com/51/news/13411_6.html}}</ref>
[[File:CoruscantPolice.jpg|thumb|right|250px|CSF officers in a police VAAT/e transport]]
Later that year, Senator [[Padmé Amidala/Legends|Padmé Amidala]] of [[Naboo/Legends|Naboo]] became the victim of an attempted [[Plot to assassinate Padmé Amidala|assassination]]. At the request of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the Jedi Council assigned Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his padawan, [[Anakin Skywalker/Legends|Anakin Skywalker]], to protect the Senator. However, Skywalker felt that the job of protecting the Senator should be the job of the local security forces so that they could investigate the assassination attempt itself.<ref name="SWAotC">{{Film|II}}</ref>
At that time, Officer [[Wets Tranoj]] investigated the theft of Senator [[Simon Greyshade/Legends|Simon Greyshade's]] [[XJ-6 airspeeder/Legends|XJ-6 airspeeder]]. The speeder was discovered thirty [[Standard minute/Legends|minutes]] after it had been stolen from a [[Senate Apartment Complex|Senatorial Quarters]] parkway. The police were notified of the theft by a security system after seeing a young [[Human/Legends|Human]] male leap into the vehicle and tear away from the parkway. As the CSF was looking at the found speeder, a youth came out from the [[Snapping Septoid/Legends|Snapping Septoid]] entertainment facility. Seeing the CSF police officers, the youth started running away from them and yelling. Tranoj arrested the youth, [[Reymet Autem]], and charged him with the theft after he admitted that he had been at Greyshade's quarters. This was somewhat of an embarrassment for all concerned because not only was Reymet the son of Senate Guard [[Sagoro Autem]], but Sagoro was the designated bodyguard of Greyshade, the owner of the stolen speeder.<ref name="HNN">{{Hnn|56|news/13516_5.html|Senate Speeder Thief Arrested|https://web.archive.org/web/20130831142029/http://www.holonetnews.com:80/56/news/13516_5.html}}</ref>
The speeder again went briefly missing from the crime scene while the CSF processed Reymet Autem. However, the speeder was found returned to its original parking spot at the [[Senatorial speeder barn]]. Tranoj explained it as an error by rookie police officer overlooking some paperwork.<ref name="HNN" /> This allowed its use by the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi&mdash;who had borrowed the speeder to chase down the [[Assassin/Legends|assassin]] [[Zam Wesell/Legends|Zam Wesell]] after she attempted to again assassinate Senator [[Padmé Amidala/Legends|Padmé Amidala]]&mdash;to go unnoticed.<ref name="SWAotC" />
===The Clone Wars===
====Clones and Jedi take action====
{{Quote|I wish the public realized what those boys do, I hate kriffing secrecy sometimes.|Captain Jaller Obrim, discussing the Clone commandos|<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" />}}
In 22 BBY, the [[Clone Wars/Legends|Clone Wars]] broke out between the Republic and the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems/Legends|Confederacy of Independent Systems]] with the [[First Battle of Geonosis/Legends|Battle of Geonosis]].<ref name="SWAotC" /> As part of the increasing security changes, shock troopers from the Grand Army of the Republic were stationed on Coruscant and assigned to the Coruscant Guard. Though their primary responsibilities were to provide a military presence for the capital and to protect important government buildings, the shock [[Trooper/Legends|troopers]] quickly took on a larger role of providing police services.<ref name="ThireCSWE" /> Shock trooper Guards were involved in such operations as the [[raid on Ziro the Hutt's Coruscant club]]<ref>[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' film]]</ref> and the [[Senate hostage crisis/Legends|Senate hostage crisis]].<ref>{{TCW|Hostage Crisis}}</ref>
[[File:Secforce.jpg|thumb|left|280px|Police droids with Coruscant Guard troopers]]
In 22 BBY, the CSF responded to a [[Galactic City spaceport hostage siege|hostage situation]] at the [[Galactic City Spaceport]]. [[Korun/Legends|Korunnai]] terrorists under the leadership of the terrorist [[Nuriin-Ar]] seized the [[Spaceport/Legends|spaceport]] and took several hostages, including [[Mon Calamari/Legends|Mon Calamari]] Senator [[Meena Tills/Legends|Meena Tills]] and his [[Aide/Legends|aide]], [[Vun Merett Jai]]. The group was tired of continual Republic interference in [[Haruun Kal/Legends|Haruun Kal]] affairs, and they demanded that the Republic immediately withdraw from the planet or they would detonate several explosives. Though Lieutenant [[Dovel]] of the CSF took charge of the response forces as the incident commander, the Senate Guard also arrived with a contingent claiming jurisdiction as one of the hostages was a senator. To assist with breaching the spaceport, the [[Clone commando/Legends|clone commando]] unit [[Omega Squad]] of the Republic military was dispatched to the scene. Jedi Master [[Kaim]] was sent in to attempt to negotiate with the hostage takers; however, he was killed, and his body, thrown outside, was rigged with explosives. Before the bombs detonated, [[Cloning/Legends|clone]] [[Commando/Legends|commando]] [[Fi Skirata|RC-8015 "Fi"]] jumped onto the body. His heavy [[Armor/Legends|armor]] saved both his life and that of the CSF police officers near him. When Omega [[Squad/Legends|Squad]] subsequently stormed the building, the terrorists were all killed and the hostages were saved. A [[Unidentified explosives disposal officer|explosives disposal officer]] discovered that the bombs had in fact been fakes.<ref name="Omega Squad: Targets" /> Fi's action was never forgotten by the CSF officers; to them, Fi became highly regarded. They frequently asked after him and shared his stories with each other and anyone who listened.<ref name="Order66book" />
On one occasion, the CSF was called in by Jedi Master [[Tera Sinube/Legends|Tera Sinube]]&mdash;an expert in the workings of Coruscant's criminal underworld&mdash;to assist in the investigation of the murder of [[Trandoshan/Legends|Trandoshan]] assassin [[Nack Movers/Legends|Nack Movers]]. Upon their arrival, they found that one of the suspects, [[Cassie Cryar]], had escaped, with Jedi Padawan [[Ahsoka Tano/Legends|Ahsoka Tano]] in pursuit. The other suspect, [[Ione Marcy/Legends|Ione Marcy]], escaped as well upon the CSF's arrival, but not before Sinube placed a [[Homing beacon/Legends|tracking device]] on her. Both suspects were eventually traced to a [[Train station/Legends|train station]], where they were confronted by the CSF and the Jedi. Marcy was apprehended, and after a brief attempt at taking hostages, Cryar was arrested as well. The incident resulted in the dismantling of two CSF police droids by Cryar when she used Tano's [[Ahsoka Tano's lightsaber/Legends|lightsaber]] to try to escape.<ref name="lightsaberlost" />
====Intrigues and murders====
{{Quote|Isn't it the sort of stuff that would bring the boys in blue crashing in here and blowing our op?|RC-1207, "Sev"|<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" />}}
[[File:CSFpolicedroids.png|thumb|right|280px|Police droids with weapons drawn]]
CSF forces were patrolling the Coruscant underlevels when the [[Duke/Legends|Duchess]] of [[Mandalore/Legends|Mandalore]], [[Satine Kryze/Legends|Satine Kryze]], was found next to the body of a [[Republic Ministry of Intelligence/Legends|Republic Ministry of Intelligence]] agent, [[Davu Golec/Legends|Davu Golec]]. Although a [[Unidentified Death Watch assassin/Legends|Death Watch assassin]] had murdered Golec, [[Unidentified police probe|the police probe]] that found Kryze noticed that she had a weapon and identified her as a suspect. The Duchess fled, resulting in a chase by the CSF and Coruscant Guard troops as well as the [[Death Watch/Legends|Death Watch]] assassin himself. Kryze was able to elude them by tricking them into believing that [[Unidentified driver|she]] had escaped in an [[Airspeeder/Legends|airspeeder]] in a different direction. While the police kept searching for her, she met with Jedi Master Kenobi in [[Coruscant Park]] and gave him a video concerning [[Mandalore Defense Resolution/Legends|Republic aid]] for the [[Mandalore system/Legends|Mandalore system]]. With the information in secure hands, she surrendered to Senate Guards at the Senate Building. The video was played for the Senate, resulting in the Duchess's exoneration and the resolution of the situation.<ref name="DoM" />
In 22 BBY, Lieutenant [[Tan Divo]] was called to investigate the [[Kidnapping of the Papanoida daughters/Legends|kidnapping]] of [[Chi Eekway Papanoida/Legends|Chi Eekway]] and [[Che Amanwe Papanoida/Legends|Che Amanwe]], the daughters of the [[Pantoran/Legends|Pantoran]] [[Chairman/Legends|Chairman]] [[Notluwiski Papanoida/Legends|Notluwiski Papanoida]]. However, in their search of Papanoida's apartment, the CSF failed to realize that Papanoida's [[Icon of the Moon Goddess/Legends|Icon of the Moon Goddess]] had been misplaced and so missed the trace amount of blood underneath the statue. After the CSF left the apartment, Chairman Papanoida discovered the blood when replacing his idol. An analysis of the blood showed it to be that of [[Greedo/Legends|Greedo]], a [[Rodian/Legends|Rodian]] bounty hunter from [[Tatooine/Legends|Tatooine]]. Papanoida and his son, [[Ion Papanoida/Legends|Ion]], recovered Chi Eekway on Tatooine, and Che Amanwe was found aboard a [[Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship|Trade Federation battleship]] by Senator [[Riyo Chuchi/Legends|Riyo Chuchi]] and Jedi Padawan Tano, who had been instructed by her Master, Anakin Skywalker, to assist unofficially in the investigation since the Jedi could not officially interfere with a matter delegated to the local police.<ref name="Sphere of Influence">{{TCW|Sphere of Influence}}</ref>
In 21 BBY, during a political debate in the Senate over a Republic [[Republic military enhancement bill/Legends|military spending bill]], several Republic senators were attacked in an attempt at intimidation. One attack was against Senator Padmé Amidala by the bounty hunters [[Chata Hyoki/Legends|Chata Hyoki]] and [[Robonino/Legends|Robonino]], whom the Separatist [[Head of State/Legends|Head of State]] [[Count/Legends|Count]] [[Dooku/Legends|Dooku]] had hired to kill her. Two CSF police droids, seeing Amidala being attacked outside of Senator [[Christo/Legends|Christo's]] [[Christo's apartment/Legends|apartment]], interfered, although the thugs shot them and destroyed them by beating their heads on the ground. Amidala escaped in a speeder, with the two assailants in pursuit. Amidala was able to shake off Robonino and Hyoki as she fled past two police droids holding a position in a Coruscant police speeder. They noticed the speeding Amidala and also took after her, identifying her speeder was officially stolen.<ref name="Pursuit of Peace" />
Several other police speeders joined the chase and surrounded the senator, stopping her for the theft of the speeder. Amidala was released from their custody after the situation had been explained, but the two thugs had already escaped. Later, Hyoki and Robonino attacked [[Alderaan/Legends|Alderaan]] Senator [[Bail Prestor Organa/Legends|Bail Prestor Organa]] in the Senate Building parking area. Organa called for help, and his [[Alderaan Guard]] engaged the attackers in a [[Lightfight|firefight]]. The CSF immediately responded to the scene, and upon arriving in the hanger one of the police droid&ndash;driven speeders slammed into Robonino, knocking him unconscious. The CSF droids engaged Hyoki and overwhelmed him at which point Hyoki was also taken into custody.<ref name="Pursuit of Peace" />
[[File:Divoanddroids.png|thumb|left|250px|Tan Divo with police droids]]
Lieutenant Divo, as well as several police droids,<ref name="Senate Murders" /> later<ref name="Sphere of Influence Ep Guide">{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode304.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Sphere of Influence|archivedate=20110629044401}}</ref> responded to investigate the death of Senator [[Onaconda Farr/Legends|Onaconda Farr]] of [[Rodia/Legends|Rodia]], who had collapsed after unknowingly drinking a [[Poison/Legends|poison]]. Divo ordered a forensic report on Farr, and the investigation made progress mostly through the assistance of Senators Amidala and Bail Organa. Following [[Funeral of Onaconda Farr/Legends|Farr's funeral]], Divo interrogated several of the senators in the [[Chancellor's Suite]], but Amidala and Organa decided to investigate the murder as well. They followed a lead given to them by Senator [[Mee Deechi/Legends|Mee Deechi]] to the [[Docks under the derrick major/Legends|Coruscant docks]], where they were attacked by [[Associate Planetary Representative|Representative]] [[Lolo Purs/Legends|Lolo Purs]], who had been Farr's assistant as well as his murderer.<ref name="Senate Murders" />
However, the senators did not know who had attacked them and were able to catch the attention of a CSF patrol. While the police droids secured the docks as a crime scene and questioned potential witnesses, Organa and Amidala were given a lecture by Divo for trying to take matters into their own hands. Amidala suspected that Deechi had set them up, but when they returned to the Senate Building, they found that Deechi had been fatally stabbed. With two murders in the Senate, Divo was quick to react when Purs came to claim that she was attacked by Senator [[Halle Burtoni/Legends|Halle Burtoni]], a political ally of Deechi. Purs told Divo that she believed Burtoni was the killer, and the inspector arrested Burtoni and attempted to get a confession to both murders from her by showing evidence from his extensive forensic report on Farr. In the ensuing conversation, Purs herself was revealed as the killer of both Farr and Deechi, and after a brief attempt to take Amidala hostage, she was arrested by the CSF.<ref name="Senate Murders" />
====Terrorism and enhanced security====
{{Quote|A major terrorist network lies in tatters this morning following the end of a massive overnight operation by Coruscant Security Forces. A total of ninety-seven suspects were detained or killed, and what's described as 'a significant amount' of explosives seized. Senator Ihu Niopua described it as a magnificent piece of police work and praised officers.|HoloNet News and Entertainment|<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" />}}
During the Clone Wars, the CSF's Anti-Terrorism Unit was headed by Captain [[Jaller Obrim]], a former commander in the Senate Guard. In 21 BBY, the Separatists initiated a brutal terrorist [[Separatist terrorist network|campaign]] against bases on Coruscant belonging to the [[Grand Army of the Republic/Legends|Grand Army of the Republic]], beginning with [[Depot Bravo Five]]. An [[Depot Bravo Five terrorist attack|explosion]] of a transport [[Speeder/Legends|speeder]] killed fifteen [[Clone trooper/Legends|clone troopers]], and the ATU began the task of investigating the crime scene in conjunction with the [[Forensics Unit]]. To assist them, the ATU requested the help of [[Jedi Knight/Legends|Jedi Knight]] [[Bardan Jusik]], along with [[Sergeant/Legends|Sergeant]] [[Kal Skirata]] and [[Advanced Recon Commando/Legends|Advanced Recon Commando]] [[Clone trooper captain|Captain]] [[Ordo Skirata|Ordo]] of the GAR. In the aftermath of the Depot Bravo Five attack, [[Director of Special Forces]] [[Arligan Zey]] unofficially and secretly authorized Skirata to conduct an [[Mission to Coruscant (Clone Wars)|operation]] to uncover the terrorists. Along with [[Clone commando/Legends|clone commandos]] from [[Omega Squad]] and [[Delta Squad/Legends|Delta Squad]], they began tracking the terrorist cells. The CSF's Organized Crime Unit came close to focusing an investigation on the [[Commando/Legends|commandos]] who got into the crossfire of [[Coruscant underworld|underworld]] [[thug]]s. However, Obrim was able to deflect the investigation away from the commandos, allowing them to continue their mission. The commandos eventually located the terrorists, and in a joint venture with the CSF's ATU and OCU, they conducted raids that brought down the terrorist network.<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" />
[[File:CSF_patrol_underworld.png|thumb|right|280px|A CSF patrol in the lower levels]]
Though the [[Homeworld Security Command]] had already improved coordination between civilian police and the military,<ref name="CSWEhsc">{{CSWECite|II|54|Homeworld Security Command}}</ref> with the passage of the [[Enhanced Security and Enforcement Act]] in [[21 BBY/Legends|21 BBY]], security on Coruscant was drastically tightened.<ref name="Republic 72">[[Republic 72|''Republic'' 72]]</ref> CSF patrols were increased, along with the visibility of the Coruscant Guard and other clone troopers.<ref name="Order66book" /> Even the lower levels of Galactic City, which traditionally had little police presence, became heavily subdued. In an area that had once been a haven for crime and an unregulated market, illicit goods and services became difficult to find.<ref name="Republic 73" />
In 21 BBY, clone commando Fi was [[Battle of Gaftikar|injured]] and taken to the [[Republic Central Medcenter/Legends|Republic Central Medcenter's]] neurology unit. However, since the medical staff had no standing orders on treating a clone, particularly one they declared to be brain dead, they planned to euthanize him. [[Republic Treasury/Legends|Republic Treasury]] agent [[Besany Wennen]], who had been watching Fi, threatened the medical droids with a blaster and locked herself into the patient room with Fi, causing a [[Standoff in the Republic Central Medcenter|standoff]]. Kal Skirata called Jaller Obrim and asked him to get Wennen and Fi out, and Obrim responded with half of the CSF shift from the Anti-Terrorism Unit and several [[Coruscant Security Force paramedic|CSF paramedics]]. After Obrim threatened the administrative medical droid, Wennen and an unconscious Fi were escorted out of the [[Medcenter/Legends|medcenter]] under the devoted and protective eye of the CSF officers whom Fi had saved from the terrorists a year before. They were taken to [[Jaller Obrim's residence]], where Obrim rented a medical droid to take care of Fi.<ref name="TrueColors">''[[Republic Commando: True Colors]]''</ref> Over time, Fi was able to recover.<ref name="Order66book" />
====Hunting a Jedi====
{{Quote|Looks like the Jedi are after one of their own.|An Underworld Police officer, discussing Ahsoka Tano|<ref name="TCWCatchJedi" />}}
Around [[20 BBY/Legends|20 BBY]], an [[Bombing of the Jedi Temple Hangar|explosion]] occurred at the [[Jedi Temple]] docking complex that killed six Jedi and several clone troopers and [[Temple employee]]s. The investigation by [[Crime scene investigation droid]], [[Russo-ISC/Legends|Russo-ISC]] and Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, found that [[Letta Turmond/Legends|Letta Turmond]], the [[Marriage/Legends|wife]] of Temple employee [[Jackar Bowmani/Legends|Jackar Bowmani]], had fed him volatile [[Nano-droid/Legends|Nano-droids]] which then exploded killing Bowmani and causing the bombing at the Temple. Turmond was arrested and held at the [[Republic military base]].<ref name="Sabotage">{{TCW|Sabotage (episode)|Sabotage}}</ref> When Tano went to visit her, Turmond was killed using a [[Telekinesis/Legends#Choking powers|Force-choked]] making Tano seem to be the murder. Though unknown to all, the true murderer was rogue Jedi [[Barriss Offee/Legends|Barriss Offee]]. However, Tano was arrested by the Coruscant Guard and placed in a cell.<ref name="TJWKTM">{{TCW|The Jedi Who Knew Too Much}}</ref>
[[File:CSF_Tano_chase.png|thumb|left|290px|CSF officers fight Ahsoka Tano]]
However, Tano managed to [[Escape from the Republic military base/Legends|escape]] with, to her unknown, the assistance of Barriss Offee. During the escape, several Coruscant Guards were killed by a lightsaber leading the pursuing troopers to believe it was Tano.<ref name="TJWKTM" /> In response to this, the Jedi Council ordered Tano's arrest. The CSF was told that she had been last seen [[Capture of Ahsoka Tano/Legends|fleeing]] to the lower levels, and so the Underworld Police were also put on high alert. Tano managed to temporarily avoid notice by using a cloak to hide her identity. However, at one point two officers boarded a [[Coruscant train/Legends|Coruscant train]] that Tano was on and they began checking IDs of the passengers. As Tano attempted to leave the train at the next station, she ran into three more officers on the platform. The cops identified Tano and moved in to arrest her. Tano [[Telekinesis/Legends|pushed]] the officers away, throwing one back onto the platform. He signaled ahead to other units as the train left the station and the remaining four officers gave chase.<ref name="TCWCatchJedi" />
Dodging passengers, Tano fled through the train cars. A civilian attempted to hold her and the CSF officers managed to briefly overpower her. However, Tano fought them off during the scuffle and opened a door of the [[Train/Legends|train]]. She then jumped onto the adjacent platform as the train passed. Believing herself safe, Tano began walking away. Three officers standing on the platform then noticed her and ordered her to stop. Tano fled from the station and towards an open [[Turbolift/Legends|turbolift]] door. The cops, seeing they were about to loose their quarry, [[Lightfight|opened fire]] on her, but Tano had already entered a lift by that time had escaped the officers' shots. The search continued and shortly thereafter, two police officers on [[Level 1315/Legends|Level 1315]] spotted an explosion at a [[Unidentified Level 1315 warehouse|warehouse]]. They gave an alert to a search group composed of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Master [[Plo Koon/Legends|Plo Koon]], and Coruscant Guard troopers, all of whom responded and were able to capture Tano at the warehouse.<ref name="TCWCatchJedi" />
====War's end====
{{Quote|&hellip;All units, look out for Jedi, young Jedi, possibly disguised now&hellip;Do not approach, I say again do not approach, armed and dangerous, call for military backup immediately&hellip;May not have braids, repeat, may have removed identifying marks&hellip;Copy that, Five-Seven&hellip;No, numbers unknown&hellip;Yes, confirm that, arson is suspected, fire investigation team is seeking access, requires military escort, please advise&hellip;Confidential material has been destroyed&hellip;Jedi may be trying to escape with highly sensitive security data, so this is top priority&hellip;Chancellor's office&hellip;Military has orders to shoot on sight&hellip;Person of special interest, male, Teevan, Veld first name Tru, do not approach, call for Five-oh-first backup immediately&hellip;|A CSF comm channel during Order 66|<ref name="Order66book" />}}
In the waning days of the Clone Wars, the CSF had a number of files on sightings of an armored individual who eluded them and escaped into the [[Darkside (sector)|Darkside]] region of the Coruscant Undercity. The individual was in fact the [[Dark Jedi/Legends|Dark Jedi]] [[Garth Ezzar]], who was based in the Darkside region. He was eventually tracked down and defeated by the [[Heroes of Cularin]].<ref name="AHSNV" />
In [[19 BBY/Legends|19 BBY]], the [[Separatist Droid Army/Legends|Separatist Droid Army]] under [[General/Legends|General]] [[Grievous/Legends|Grievous]] [[Battle of Coruscant/Legends|attacked Coruscant]]. and the CSF deployed assault ships to attempt to keep civilians away from the areas of Galactic City where heavy fighting was occurring. In the aftermath of the Republic victory, clone units patrolled with the CSF officers as looting, vandalism, and civil unrest took hold of Galactic City.<ref name="Order66book" />
Although the clone trooper units were brought in under the guise of combating possible Separatist terrorist organizations and restoring order, they allowed Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to further his control and plot to destroy the Jedi.<ref name="Order66book" /> When the Jedi discovered that Palpatine was in truth the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, four of the Order's Jedi Masters were sent to arrest him. However, they were [[Showdown on Coruscant|defeated]], and the Supreme Chancellor issued Order 66, condemning all Jedi as traitors to the Republic. Anakin Skywalker&mdash;now known as Darth Vader&mdash;and the [[501st Legion/Legends|501st Legion]] [[Operation: Knightfall|marched]] on the Jedi Temple,<ref>{{Film|III}}</ref> and the CSF's age-old standing order to assist the Jedi was rescinded. CSF units were instead tasked with assisting clone troopers in the hunt for Jedi and in securing the Temple district and surrounding areas.<ref name="Order66book" />
Captain Obrim, in particular, monitored the resulting operation against the Jedi Order from his police speeder with the intention of ensuring that Skirata and his crew escaped Coruscant. He helped locate Etain Tur-Mukan as she made her way to the rendezvous point to escape to Mandalore, but Tur-Mukan found several clone troopers [[Skirmish on Shinarcan Bridge Extension|confronting]] a group of Jedi [[Padawan/Legends|Padawans]] in the checkpoint on the [[Shinarcan Bridge Extension]]. Tur-Mukan rushed to the defense of the clones, but she was sliced by a lightsaber wielded by one of the Padawans. Obrim rushed in to help and covered Tur-Makan's body, but he was forced to use the stun setting on his blaster to render Skirata, who was yelling and screaming, unconscious long enough for Ordo to remove him from the scene. Obrim promised to keep an eye out for Darman and [[Niner Skirata|RC-1309 "Niner"]], who had been forced to stay behind after Niner's spine was broken during the skirmish. Obrim also guarded Tur-Mukan's body both at the scene and afterward, until [[A'den Skirata|Null-12 "A'den"]] was able to move it to Mandalore.<ref name="Order66book" />
Although the CSF as a whole followed their orders in tracking down Jedi, such as [[Tru Veld/Legends|Tru Veld]], many officers disliked Palpatine and turned a blind eye when they saw a Jedi or outright helped them avoid the clone troopers. Many officers, however, still viewed the Jedi to a certain degree as untrustworthy and as traitors for trying to overthrow the institution of the Supreme Chancellor, even if they disliked Palpatine himself.<ref name="Order66book" />
===The Galactic Empire===
===The Galactic Empire===
====Changes and political dissent====
====Changes and political dissent====
{{Quote|The Imperial Sector Police is not political!|Prefect Pol Haus|<ref name="SWCN2" />}}
Imperial [[Stormtrooper/Legends|stormtroopers]] were assigned to the CSF and worked with the regular officers.<ref name="X-wing: Wedge's Gamble">''[[X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble]]''</ref>
After the establishment of the Galactic Empire, the CSF underwent several major changes making it hard for some to recognize it as the old CSF.<ref name="IC501" /> Though still used at times,<ref name="Betrayal 1" /> the name "Coruscant Security Force" was largely discontinued as the Empire officially abandoned the name "Coruscant."<ref name="IC501" /> Instead usage of "Imperial Sector Police," or the "Constabulary" became common.<ref name="SWCN2" /> Major organizational changes took place as the Anti-Terrorism Unit and the detective division were absorbed into the new [[Imperial Security Bureau/Legends|Imperial Security Bureau]]. The ISB also housed their new information and technology center in an old [[Coruscant Security Force Divisional Headquarters (ISB technology center)|CSF building]].<ref name="IC501" /> The police ranks of [[Prefect (Coruscant police)/Legends|Prefect]] and [[Centurion (Coruscant police)|Centurion]] were added with the Prefects placed in charge of station houses.<ref name="SWCN2" /> The CSF's police droids, who at that time were older models, were phased out and their usage on the upper levels was discontinued.<ref name="Senate Murders Episode commentary2">{{SW|url=explore/the-clone-wars/ep215|text="Senate Murders" - ''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide}}</ref> Instead, officers from the underworld police division were used for patrol on the upper levels.<ref name="SW4">[[Star Wars (2013) 4|''Star Wars'' (2013) 4]]</ref>
 
[[File:CSFimperial.png|thumb|right|200px|CSF officers on patrol during the Empire]]
The void left by the discontinued police droids was largely filled by Imperial [[Stormtrooper/Legends|stormtroopers]] who were assigned to the CSF and worked with the regular officers.<ref name="X-wing: Wedge's Gamble" /> The preference given to having stormtroopers work as police, especially in the more public areas of the city, was resented by older police officers who believed that policing should be conducted by a civilian force, not military.<ref name="IC501" /> Additionally, while the CSF continued its functions as a police force including investigations of homicides and other street crimes,<ref name="SWCN2" /> the Coruscant Guard, then commonly known as the Imperial Guard, was given the primary responsibility of security for the planet. While most visible in public areas, protecting infrastructure and at government buildings, the Guard had primacy on major cases and together with the Imperial Security Bureau, conducted most of the high profile investigations.<ref name="GaW" /> This in effect relegated the CSF to a position of non-importance, a status highly resented of by the CSF's commanders. Their resentment over the diminished status, as well as over limited resources to properly police Coruscant, brought them into conflict with other Moffs, Darth Vader, and [[Galactic Emperor/Legends|Emperor]] Palpatine himself.<ref name="Betrayal 1" />
 
Along with the resistance by the commanding officers, there was also resistance from the police officers themselves, many of whom were not happy with the [[New Order/Legends|New Order]]. Though Palpatine had initiated a [[Emperor's purge|purge throughout the government]] of those disloyal to him, many in the CSF escaped notice because they followed his orders during Order 66 and its aftermath. While many of those who had done so had felt no love for Palpatine, they viewed the Jedi as dangerous traitors, a belief that they continued to hold in the years that followed.<ref name="IC501" /> As the Empire's changes came, many of the officers secretly joined anti-Imperial groups such as [[Whiplash]].<ref name="SWCN2" /><ref name="IC501" /> Publicly, while the CSF was officially under the Empire's command, police officers would distance themselves from the rest of the Empire, claiming themselves to not be political or interested in political issues.<ref name="SWCN2" /> To counter the growing resentment and mood of rebellion, Agent [[Tian Chyler]] succeeded in a mission from the ISB to infiltrate the CSF and ferret out police officers who were [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Rebel]] spies.<ref name="dbchyler" />
 
In 19 BBY, a routine traffic stop turned violent when the [[Unidentified lightsaber thief|driver]] pulled out a lightsaber and severed an officer's hand. The CSF pursued the suspect at a distance before cornering him in a building and calling in [[Squad 40]] of the [[Imperial Commando Special Unit]] that was attached to the 501st [[Legion/Legends|Legion]]. When Squad 40 broke down the door and killed the suspect, they found that he had only been a thief who had happened upon the lightsaber. Officer [[Anskow]] was the part-time officer in charge of the police squad that had responded. Anskow reflected the belief that Jedi were dangerous but also showed frustration with Palpatine over a lack of resources to keep an eye on the lower levels where most of the crime occurred.<ref name="IC501" />


===The New Republic===
===The New Republic===
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{{Quote|You want us to make you the Commissioner of the Coruscant Constabulary?|Doman Beruss of the New Republic Provisional Council to Fliry Vorru|<ref name="xwingkrytos" />}}
{{Quote|You want us to make you the Commissioner of the Coruscant Constabulary?|Doman Beruss of the New Republic Provisional Council to Fliry Vorru|<ref name="xwingkrytos" />}}
The New Republic [[Liberation of Coruscant (Galactic Civil War)|captured]] Coruscant from Imperial forces<ref name="X-wing: Wedge's Gamble" /> in [[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]].<ref name="6 ABY Date" /> During the battle, sixteen of the galaxy's worst criminals, who had been freed from the [[Prison/Legends|prison]] colony of [[Kessel/Legends|Kessel]] by the New Republic, were set loose on Coruscant. They caused criminal riots and distracted CSF stormtroopers and other security forces, which helped the New Republic capture the planet.<ref name="X-wing: Wedge's Gamble" /> In the aftermath of the New Republic victory, the [[Krytos virus]], an attack by Ysanne Isard, was released on Coruscant targeting the planet's non-human population. Its only cure could be found in [[Bacta/Legends|bacta]] and as supplies dwindled, a [[Black market/Legends|black market]] grew to meet the demand. Though most of the Imperial bureaucracy had been left in place, the use of stormtroopers had been rejected by the [[New Republic Provisional Council]] and so the Constabulary stormtroopers and Coruscant Guard had been disbanded. Faced with a crisis and the basic need for law enforcement, the Provisional Council ordered the formation of the [[New Republic Security Force]] though found it would take time to organize the new agency to an effective level. In the interim, former [[Corellian/Legends|Corellian]] Moff [[Fliry Vorru]] offered to supply law enforcement needs in the Coruscant Underworld. He rejected the idea of becoming the Coruscant Constabulary's Commissioner and instead, with the Provisional Council's hesitant blessing, he was given a rank of [[Colonel/Legends|Colonel]] in the Coruscant Constabulary and formed the [[Imperial Center People's Militia]] which "policed" the Coruscant underworld. However, Vorru became a pawn of Ysanne Isard and fled the planet with her a short time later.<ref name="xwingkrytos" /> At some point soon after, the use of the name Coruscant Constabulary was dropped in favor of Coruscant Security and it was reinstated as the primary law enforcement agency for Coruscant.<ref name="YJK:TLO" />
The New Republic [[Liberation of Coruscant (Galactic Civil War)|captured]] Coruscant from Imperial forces<ref name="X-wing: Wedge's Gamble" /> in [[6 ABY/Legends|6 ABY]].<ref name="6 ABY Date" /> During the battle, sixteen of the galaxy's worst criminals, who had been freed from the [[Prison/Legends|prison]] colony of [[Kessel/Legends|Kessel]] by the New Republic, were set loose on Coruscant. They caused criminal riots and distracted CSF stormtroopers and other security forces, which helped the New Republic capture the planet.<ref name="X-wing: Wedge's Gamble" /> In the aftermath of the New Republic victory, the [[Krytos virus]], an attack by Ysanne Isard, was released on Coruscant targeting the planet's non-human population. Its only cure could be found in [[Bacta/Legends|bacta]] and as supplies dwindled, a [[Black market/Legends|black market]] grew to meet the demand. Though most of the Imperial bureaucracy had been left in place, the use of stormtroopers had been rejected by the [[New Republic Provisional Council]] and so the Constabulary stormtroopers and Coruscant Guard had been disbanded. Faced with a crisis and the basic need for law enforcement, the Provisional Council ordered the formation of the [[New Republic Security Force]] though found it would take time to organize the new agency to an effective level. In the interim, former [[Corellian/Legends|Corellian]] Moff [[Fliry Vorru]] offered to supply law enforcement needs in the Coruscant Underworld. He rejected the idea of becoming the Coruscant Constabulary's Commissioner and instead, with the Provisional Council's hesitant blessing, he was given a rank of [[Colonel/Legends|Colonel]] in the Coruscant Constabulary and formed the [[Imperial Center People's Militia]] which "policed" the Coruscant underworld. However, Vorru became a pawn of Ysanne Isard and fled the planet with her a short time later.<ref name="xwingkrytos" /> At some point soon after, the use of the name Coruscant Constabulary was dropped in favor of Coruscant Security and it was reinstated as the primary law enforcement agency for Coruscant.<ref name="YJK:TLO" />
Before the [[Wedding of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade|wedding]] of Jedi Master [[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker]] and Jedi [[Mara Jade Skywalker|Mara Jade]] in [[20 ABY/Legends|20 ABY]], [[Prince/Legends|Princess]] [[Leia Organa Solo]], Jade, and several of their friends were riding in an airspeeder through Galactic City to go shopping. They were protected by two Coruscant Security units on speeder bikes. A group attempting to disrupt the wedding, led by ex-Moff [[Derran Takkar]], made a note of the loose security cordon and the fact that the officers could easily intercept any approach. Takkar later infiltrated the wedding through Coruscant's sewers. While down there, he killed two Coruscant Security officers on patrol who noticed him but were not able to react fast enough before he shot them both.<ref name="SWUnion" />


====Military actions====
====Military actions====
{{Quote|Thanks for the escort. Coruscant Security will take it from here.|Admiral Ackbar to the New Republic military escort|<ref name="YJK:TLO" />}}
{{Quote|Thanks for the escort. Coruscant Security will take it from here.|Admiral Ackbar to the New Republic military escort|<ref name="YJK:TLO" />}}
[[File:CSFpatrol-Union2.jpg|thumb|left|240px|A security patrol in 20 ABY]]
In [[23 ABY/Legends|23 ABY]], the CSF was involved in a [[Raid on Coruscant (Second Imperium Crisis)|military incident]] between the [[New Republic Defense Fleet/Legends|New Republic Defense Fleet]] and the [[Second Imperium]]&mdash;a faction of the [[Imperial Remnant]] led by the Dark Jedi [[Brakiss]] and the [[Nightsisters/Legends|Nightsisters]] [[Tamith Kai]]. In their bid to recapture the galaxy, they learned of the [[Bulk cruiser/Legends|bulk cruiser]] [[Adamant (bulk cruiser)|''Adamant'']], which was carrying [[Turbolaser/Legends|turbolasers]] and [[Hyperdrive/Legends|hyperdrive]] cores to Coruscant. Because [[Admiral/Legends|Admiral]] [[Gial Ackbar/Legends|Gial Ackbar]] was in command of the vessel, it was guarded by fourteen [[Corvette/Legends|corvettes]] and a number of [[T-65 X-wing starfighter/Legends|X-wings]] and [[E-wing escort starfighter|E-wings]], which escorted the bulk [[Cruiser/Legends|cruiser]] to Coruscant before handing it over to the CSF. In the few minutes of transition between the two forces, a Second Imperium [[Imperial Assault Shuttle]], hidden by the cloaking capabilities of the Second Imperium's [[Shadow Academy]], appeared and attacked the ''Adamant'', with the [[Shuttle/Legends|shuttle's]] crew boarding the cruiser. Though they called for CSF assistance, the crew was forced into [[Escape pod/Legends|escape pods]] and jettisoned. New Republic and CSF forces attempted to halt the hijacked ''Adament'', but the cruiser managed to escape.<ref name="YJK:TLO" />
In [[23 ABY/Legends|23 ABY]], the CSF was involved in a [[Raid on Coruscant (Second Imperium Crisis)|military incident]] between the [[New Republic Defense Fleet/Legends|New Republic Defense Fleet]] and the [[Second Imperium]]&mdash;a faction of the [[Imperial Remnant]] led by the Dark Jedi [[Brakiss]] and the [[Nightsisters/Legends|Nightsisters]] [[Tamith Kai]]. In their bid to recapture the galaxy, they learned of the [[Bulk cruiser/Legends|bulk cruiser]] [[Adamant (bulk cruiser)|''Adamant'']], which was carrying [[Turbolaser/Legends|turbolasers]] and [[Hyperdrive/Legends|hyperdrive]] cores to Coruscant. Because [[Admiral/Legends|Admiral]] [[Gial Ackbar/Legends|Gial Ackbar]] was in command of the vessel, it was guarded by fourteen [[Corvette/Legends|corvettes]] and a number of [[T-65 X-wing starfighter/Legends|X-wings]] and [[E-wing escort starfighter|E-wings]], which escorted the bulk [[Cruiser/Legends|cruiser]] to Coruscant before handing it over to the CSF. In the few minutes of transition between the two forces, a Second Imperium [[Imperial Assault Shuttle]], hidden by the cloaking capabilities of the Second Imperium's [[Shadow Academy]], appeared and attacked the ''Adamant'', with the [[Shuttle/Legends|shuttle's]] crew boarding the cruiser. Though they called for CSF assistance, the crew was forced into [[Escape pod/Legends|escape pods]] and jettisoned. New Republic and CSF forces attempted to halt the hijacked ''Adament'', but the cruiser managed to escape.<ref name="YJK:TLO" />
The [[Yuuzhan Vong War]] began in [[25 ABY/Legends|25 ABY]] with the invasion of the galaxy by the [[extra-galactic]] [[Yuuzhan Vong]].<ref name="Vector Prime">''[[The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime]]''</ref> Seeing the Jedi as their greatest threat, the Yuuzhan Vong offered peace if the New Republic handed over the Jedi, causing an increase in public [[Anti-Jedi sentiment/Legends|anti-Jedi sentiment]]. The sentiment reached such a peak in [[26 ABY]] that it forced [[Chief of State (New Republic)|Chief of State]] [[Borsk Fey'lya]] to order the arrest of Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker. When they tried to flee Coruscant aboard the starship ''[[Jade Shadow]]'', a [[Unidentified Bothan (Coruscant Security Force)|CSF captain]] ordered them to stop. Luke refused and they were pursued by four CSF interceptors. No one was killed in the incident, and the Jedi managed to escape due to the intervention of [[Rogue Squadron/Legends|Rogue Squadron]] who forced the CSF interceptors to back off.<ref name="Edge of Victory II: Rebirth" />
In the middle stages of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the New Republic established the [[Coruscant Planetary Defense Force]] (PDF) as a sister agency to the CSF, although its main concern was the military defense of Coruscant. During the [[Battle of Coruscant (Yuuzhan Vong War)|Battle of Coruscant]], the New Republic fleet was separated from Coruscant by the Yuuzhan Vong, leaving the planet's defense to the PDF and the CSF along with the few New Republic fighters that managed to get through. Coruscant's defenses began to quickly crumble&mdash;the [[Planetary shield/Legends|planetary shield]], orbital defense platforms, and the [[Orbital Defense Headquarters]] were soon destroyed, and the fighting descended to the planet's surface. Although the PDF and CSF continued the fight from rooftops and airspeeders, most were wiped out by the overwhelming attack. Those who survived evacuated the planet or escaped down into the substructures<ref name="Star by Star" /> until Coruscant was [[Battle of Yuuzhan'tar|recaptured]] by the Galactic Alliance in [[29 ABY/Legends|29 ABY]].<ref name="The Unifying Force">''[[The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force]]''</ref>
===The Galactic Alliance===
====Bombings and riots====
{{Quote|You have to keep the secret police separate from the nice, polite officers who police the street. Sends a message that ordinary law-abiding Coruscanti have nothing to fear, while demonstrating maximum force to the enemy.|Senator G'vli G'Sil, Galactic Alliance Security Council|<ref name="Bloodlines" />}}
{{Main|Coruscant terrorist attacks and riots}}
With the return of the government after the Yuuzhan Vong War, the CSF was reestablished under the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. The CSF was later pulled into the conflict between the Galactic Alliance and [[Corellia/Legends|Corellia]], which erupted over Corellia's demanded for more independence and its refusal to pay Galactic Alliance taxes and to supply military recruits, while simultaneously taking advantage of the Galactic Alliance infrastructure and trade benefits. CSF officers were present at the Senate Building during a demonstration held by [[Corellian/Legends|Corellian]] supporters, although the protest remained peaceful. After a bomb exploded in [[The Elite (hotel)|The Elite Hotel]], the CSF, with Captain [[Lon Shevu]] in command, responded and immediately began investigating the incident, which had left 634 civilians dead. Along with members of [[Coruscant Fire and Rescue]], [[Coruscant Air Traffic Control/Legends|Coruscant Air Traffic Control]], medcenter managers, and members of the [[Galactic City Authority]], Shevu coordinated the response to the bombing at the [[Galactic City Strategic Center|Strategic Center]], which was the emergency response center for Galactic City, located deep under the Senate Building.<ref name="Bloodlines" />
Later on, Corellian militants waged an attack on Coruscant's [[Water/Legends|water]] supply, causing half of central Coruscant's water supply to be turned off. Although the CSF warned residents not to use the contaminated water, the attack still caused 456 deaths and left more than 5,000 beings with nerve damage. In response to the attack, a riot ensued at the [[Corellian Embassy]]. The CSF mobilized by setting up a police line to protect the embassy, diverting traffic, and sending in an assault ship. Still, the riot intensified the more the CSF tried to stop it, and the police eventually had to shoot [[Dispersal gas|tear gas]] into the crowds in order to disperse them. During the incident, Jedi apprentice [[Ben Skywalker]], who was curious about the condition of the Corellians, was visiting the [[Corellian Quarter]], where he saw a [[Barit Saiy|friend]] pull a blaster and aim it at [[Unidentified Coruscant Police officer (Corellian Embassy riot)|one]] of the police officers. Eyes burning from the tear gas, Skywalker deflected the bolt with his lightsaber, saving the officer's life and preventing an escalation of violence. The police officer pulled the young Jedi to safety away from the crowd, as he was disoriented from the tear gas. In the aftermath of the contamination attack and the riot, the CSF doubled its police patrols of Galactic City.<ref name="Bloodlines" />
====The Guard and homicides====
{{Quote|No, I need my own team&hellip; that's visibly separate from CSF. If civilian police are seen raiding homes and rounding up residents, it's going to make ordinary policing hard. Politically, it has to be separate&mdash;a Galactic Alliance special guard, if you like.|Jedi Knight Jacen Solo|<ref name="Bloodlines" />}}
After the riot, Galactic Alliance [[Chief of State (Galactic Alliance)|Chief of State]] [[Cal Omas]] offered Jedi Knight [[Darth Caedus|Jacen Solo]] a commission as a [[Colonel/Legends|colonel]] and command of the CSF's Anti-Terrorist Unit. However, Solo felt that having civilian police perform the duties of a secret police would make ordinary police work harder, and it was decided that it was best to have an agency politically separate from the CSF to perform the duties of rounding up and interning Corellian suspects and fighting terrorist threats by Corellians on Coruscant. Thus, the Galactic Alliance Guard was formed, with Jacen Solo as its commander. The CSF's first [[Raid on Jabi Town|operation]] with the GAG was in [[Jabi Town]] in the Corellian district of Galactic City. They blocked off several skylane intersections with CSF traffic division [[Repulsorlift/Legends|repulsorlift]] ships before beginning the operation. After the actions of the GAG troopers during the raid, the CSF gave the GAG troopers the nickname "stormies," seeing the troopers as reminiscent of the stormtroopers of the Empire.<ref name="Bloodlines" />
[[File:GAG_raid.jpg|thumb|right|350px|A Galactic Alliance Guard raid]]
Later, three days into the Galactic Alliance's [[Blockade of Corellia]], a large protest again took place outside the Senate Building. The CSF positioned their police line to protect the Senate Building as well as to divide the groups taking part in the protest&mdash;one pro-Corellia, the other Coruscanti. The scene soon escalated into violence as the groups clashed and turned the protest into a riot. The riot was eventually dispersed with tear gas and other police actions. However, more rioting had broken out in one of the commercial zones of Galactic City, and the CSF had to redeploy to deal with the situation. Soon, the conflict with Corellia intensified into the [[Second Galactic Civil War]], and the CSF took less direct actions against Corellian terrorist activities as the GAG took over those operations. Instead, the CSF focused on more of the regular police duties, including breaking up demonstrations and providing the GAG with intelligence and other general support.<ref name="Bloodlines" />
During the war, [[Grand Master/Legends|Grand Master]] Luke Skywalker asked Jedi Master [[Tresina Lobi]] to keep an eye on his son, Ben Skywalker, who was apprenticed to Jacen Solo. Master Skywalker was concerned with Solo's methods and actions in leading the GAG, as well as with Ben's involvement in them. However, while trailing Ben one night, Master Lobi was [[Duel in the Fellowship Plaza|ambushed]] and killed by the Dark Lady of the Sith [[Lumiya]] and Dark Jedi [[Alema Rar]]. Luke Skywalker and his wife, Mara Jade Skywalker, were notified of the Jedi's death by the CSF and were asked to come to the crime scene. There, they found two detectives, [[Gwad Raatu]] and [[Chal Tozr]], as well as several crime scene investigation droids. The Jedi and CSF detectives agreed to work together to find the killer. They were able to track Lumiya to an apartment where they successfully gained entry, but they found the apartment empty and laced with traps. Using the [[Law Enforcement Tools Provision]], Detective Raatu [[Slicer/Legends|sliced]] into the apartment's central comm port.<ref name="Temp" />
Meanwhile, the CSF [[Unidentified Chief of Detectives|Chief of Detectives]] had sent detectives to investigate the murders of several Bothans, including a [[Unidentified Bothan ambassador|Bothan ambassador]]. When Detectives Raatu and Tozr sliced into Lumyia's comm port, they discovered that she had been responsible for the Bothans' murders. The detectives also found that the apartment was a GAG safe house. The fact that the GAG was behind the murders of the Bothans scared the detectives, especially when the comm port announced that their inquiries were being recorded by the GAG. The detectives, seeing that the situation was out of their control, formally closed the case on the murdered Jedi, leaving the Skywalkers to deal with the GAG.<ref name="Temp" />
====Coups and manipulations====
{{Quote|I was just speaking with Security.''"<br />"''Yes, with their investigative arm. I'm talking about the arm that handles protection of high-profile targets such as, oh, you.''"<br />"''And they're estimating increased danger for high-profile targets?''"<br />"''No, just for you.|Chief of State Natasi Daala and Chief of Staff Wynn Dorvan discussing the threat level against Daala during the funeral of Cha Niathal|<ref name="lash" />}}
The CSF had been given the responsibility of the protection of the Chief of State, serving as bodyguards on and off planet. When Jacen Solo became suspicious of Chief of State Cal Omas, he had the GAG relieve the CSF of the responsibility of protecting Omas, allowing the GAG to better monitor the Chief of State. Over the course of the war, Jacen Solo had turned to the [[Dark side of the Force/Legends|dark side of the Force]] and became the Sith Lord Darth Caedus. Through a [[Solo-Niathal coup|bloodless coup]] during which Omas was arrested by the GAG for treason, Caedus and Admiral [[Cha Niathal]] became Co-Chiefs of State of the Galactic Alliance, although, Caedus retained direct control of the GAG.<ref name="Sacrifice" /> Shortly after the coup the CSF received an alert of an intruder in Cal Omas' apartment, where he was under house arrest. Caedus had suggested to Ben Skywalker that Omas was responsible for the recent [[Skirmish on Kavan|murder]] of his mother, Mara Jade, and so Skywalker broke into Omas' apartment to murder him. While Omas and Skywalker talked, the CSF attempted to enter the locked-down apartment to no avail. During their conversation, Skywalker realized that Omas was not at fault, but Omas knew that a fake death would not fool Darth Caedus, and he [[Shiak|impaled]] himself on Skywalker's lightsaber. When the CSF officers finally breached the door, they threw two stun grenades into the room, but Skywalker [[Telekinesis/Legends|used]] [[The Force/Legends|the Force]] to send them back out, stunning the officers and allowing him to escape. Omas, meanwhile, had rigged himself to a bomb that would detonate with his death. The CSF officers in the lobby saw Skywalker running toward them and attempted to stop him, but he was able to convince them to leave before the bomb on Omas exploded.<ref name="lotf6" />
[[File:NatasiDaalaBacklash.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Natasi Daala, a Chief of State guarded by the CSF]]
Following Caedus' [[Battle of Uroro Station|death]] and the end of the war, the GAG was disbanded. [[43 ABY|Two years later]], Grand Master Luke Skywalker was [[The Galactic Federation of Free Alliances versus Luke Skywalker|charged]] for failing to stop Caedus and sent into [[Exile (punishment)/Legends|exile]]. Around that time several Jedi within the [[New Jedi Order]] began experiencing a [[Force psychosis]], suffering delusions that everyone, except for other beings suffering from the same psychosis, had been replaced by impostors. As a result, they attacked family, friends, and strangers without provocation, in the process causing damage to their surroundings.<ref name="Outcast">''[[Fate of the Jedi: Outcast]]''</ref> In 43.5 ABY, Jedi Knight [[Sothais Saar]] developed the psychosis and was [[Duel in the Senate Plaza|captured]] by Jedi Master [[Cilghal]]. Coruscant Security officers were soon dispatched to the [[New Jedi Temple|Jedi Temple]] by Chief of State [[Natasi Daala]]; they were met at the front steps to the Temple by several Jedi, who refused to let them enter and take Saar into custody. When the Jedi refused to turn Saar over, Daala ordered a [[Raid on the New Jedi Temple|raid on the Jedi Temple]] by [[Mandalorian/Legends|Mandalorian]] commandos.<ref name="lash" />
Later, an individual used the name of CSF "Captain Koltstan" as a front to sign off on the [[Funeral of Cha Niathal|funeral procession]] for Admiral Cha Niathal, who had committed [[Suicide/Legends|suicide]] after Daala ordered that she be arrested and tried for her actions during the recent war. A quick investigation showed that no "Captain Koltstan" existed in the CSF, and Daala ordered the CSF to find out who had really paid for the procession. Though they failed to prevent Cal Omas' death, the CSF continued to protect the Chief of State with bodyguards and intelligence information. As a result of Niathal's suicide, Daala's public approval ratings dropped steeply. Therefore, the CSF's protection branch believed that someone might try to attack Daala, and they suggested that she not attend the [[Funeral/Legends|funeral]]. Daala was reluctant to comply, but her [[Chief of Staff/Legends|Chief of Staff]], [[Wynn Dorvan]], convinced her to take the CSF's advice. The CSF reported that the threat level against the Chief of State during the procession went up significantly.<ref name="lash" /> Soon after that, protection of the Chief of State became the responsibility of [[Galactic Alliance Security]].<ref name="Vortex (novel)">''[[Fate of the Jedi: Vortex]]''</ref>
====Fighting against the Sith====
{{Quote|And how many Sith have we taken out?"''<br />''"Twenty-two. But we've lost fifteen Jedi doing it. Security Force casualties are running into the thousands&ndash;even the Special Weapons Teams are no match for Sith Sabers.|Jedi Corran and Mirax Horn discuss the liberation of Coruscant|<ref name="Apocalypse">''[[Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse]]''</ref>}}
While in exile, Skywalker and his son Ben had encountered a hidden Sith order called the [[Lost Tribe of Sith]] as well as a dark side entity called [[Abeloth]]. Pursuing both, they uncovered a plot to take over the Galactic Alliance. Following Daala's [[Plan Delta|removal]] from power and the return of Skywalker from exile, the Jedi Order formally left Coruscant to lure the Sith to the planet. At the same time, Abeloth had sized control of the Lost Tribe and continued with the Sith infiltration of the Galactic Alliance Senate and other key positions including a [[Superintendent/Legends|Superintendent]] of the GAS, the [[Chief Justice|Grand Justice]] of the [[Court of Justice|High Court]]. Previously, the Sith had formed [[BAMR News]] to support their actions and undermine the Jedi which they continued by claiming the Jedi were involved in a major spice ring. In the guise of newly appointed Senator [[Rokari Kem]], Abeloth was able to be elected Chief of State and take over the GA government. The Jedi Order and several GA government officials who were aware of the situation, calling themselves [[Club Bwua'tu]], began planning to retake Coruscant from the Sith.<ref name="Ascension">''[[Fate of the Jedi: Ascension]]''</ref>
[[File:Skywalker_Apocalypse.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Jedi Master Skywalker led the liberation of Coruscant]]
Moving carefully, the Jedi returned to Coruscant in disguises to avoid detection by Sith who had infiltrated the [[Coruscanti Immigration Service]]. Having previously identified their targets, the Jedi took out several Sith in high government positions. Abeloth, angered by the attacks and under the advice of Wynn Dorvan who she held prisoner, ordered the remaining Sith to fortify themselves in the Jedi Temple. As this plan had been previously discussed by Wynn Dorvan and members of Club Bwua'tu, the Jedi moved forward to [[Assault on the New Jedi Temple|assault]] the Temple along with the [[Galactic Alliance Marines]]. During the assault, several hundred Sith managed to escape into the city. With the confusion caused by BMAR news stating that the attacks on the Sith were the results of the Jedi spice ring, initial responses by the CSF were limited. As the Sith began to commit terror acts on Coruscant including the destruction of seven hundred buildings and causing a death toll of over three million, the CSF began to assist the Jedi. CSF officers reported suspicious activities to the Jedi and in some cases actively attacked Sith. However, even with the assistance of [[Special Weapons Team]]s, only twenty-two Sith were killed with Jedi losses at fifteen and CSF casualties in the thousands. With the death of Abeloth by the Luke Skywalker, the Sith were defeated and Coruscant was liberated. In the aftermath, as the planet had suffered severe damage especially in the lower levels, Galactic Alliance and Coruscanti emergency services and government agencies began the work of stabilizing the planet and taking care of the casualties.<ref name="Apocalypse" />
Later that year, security troopers arrived at a [[Unidentified Coruscant pedestrian market|pedestrian market]] in response to a fight. When the first officer arrived, he discovered [[Unidentified Aqualish assassin|two]] [[Unidentified Sullustan assassin|bodies]] that witness claimed had been killed by a Jedi. A few minutes later, a speeder exploded as it attempted to leave the parking area. Unknown to Security and the witnesses, the Jedi was actually [[Wraith Squadron]] commander [[Garik Loran|Garik "Face" Loran]] in disguise. The assassins had been following him with plans to kill him but using the Jedi disguise, Loran had killed them first. The speeder had also belonged to Loran who had entered it after ditching his Jedi disguise. Though [[Unidentified Human assassin (Garik Loran)|another]] assassin had witnessed Loran entering the speeder and Security later found trace evidence of Loran in the speeder's wreck, Loran had managed to escape before the bomb exploded.<ref name="MercyKill">''[[X-Wing: Mercy Kill]]''</ref>
==Notable members==
{{Quote|Coruscant can be a hard world.|Captain Yur T'aug|<ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter" />}}
Police work on Coruscant was dangerous, especially in the underlevels, and many officers were injured and killed in the line of duty.<ref name="maul" /> Characteristically, CSF police officers were generally known as hard-nosed cops.<ref name="IC501" /> Most officers performed their duties faithfully, and a few had bounties placed on their heads by criminals as revenge. Some officers, however, fell to the corruption that was prominent particularly during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. Other officers had bounties placed on their heads for failing to repay debts or upholding their end of deals they had made with criminal organizations or other businesses.<ref name="Bounty Hunter" />
===Winborn===
{{Quote|I'm not destroying the reputation of Coruscant's most popular politician. Take the recording, I don't want it.|Winborn|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
{{Main|Winborn}}
[[File:Winborn.png|thumb|right|150px|Winborn]]
Winborn was a Human captain in the CSF during the time of the Cold War. By 3643 BBY, he was also CSF's Chief under Senator Vanara Kayl, the head of Coruscant's government. However, the captain preferred to stay away from the political infighting on Coruscant and instead focused on the day to day grit of police work. Yet, he felt discouraged by CSF's problems with gangs on Coruscant. His view was that the CSF should be worried about keeping the peace, not engaged in open warfare with crime syndicates who had taken over several sectors of Galactic City. Winborn, however, was not above personally leading his men during fights. He was in charge of an attack on the Migrant Merchants' Guild base of operations in the Old Galactic Market. During the fight, an individual assisted him in preventing a terrorist attack that was aimed at taking down the skylanes around the Senate Building. After the fight, a recording of Senator Kayl was found arguing with the leader of the Merchant Guild. The Guild was blackmailing Kayl for taking money and using it to win the election. Kayl in response sent the CSF to push the Merchant Guild out to show she would not bend to blackmail. Winborn felt the issue was too politically volatile for him to deal with and instead asked the individual who had helped him with the skirmish to confront the senator.<ref name="SWTORCiGC" />
===Denal-zon===
{{Quote|I'm Captain Denal-zon. Senator Barc's page "ordered" me to give you information regarding the Senator's stolen goods. Look, I don't work for him. If you want that information, we're gonna have to come to an understanding.|Denal-zon addresses a Republic individual|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
[[File:Denal-zon.png|thumb|right|150px|Denal-zon]]
{{Main|Denal-zon}}
Denal-zon was a Zabrak captain during the time of the Cold War. He was assigned to investigate the theft of several valuable chips belonging to Senator Doli-bur Barc. After beginning his investigation, he discovered that the chips were designed to power slaving collars. He also discovered that the chips had been stolen by members of the Migrant Merchants' Guild criminal gang. With the CSF at war with the Guild in an attempt to push them out of Coruscant's Old Galactic Market sector, Denal-zon was unable to retrieve the collars, and the investigation subsequently stalled. However, since slave collars and the chips that powered them were illegal in the Republic according to Republic Law 44-12, Denal-zon felt little sympathy for the Senator's plight. He firmly believed in the importance of regulations and the rule of law, which he would often quote. His belief in the law also added to his strong sense of right and wrong, which he refused to compromise on.<ref name="SWTORsenstolgoods" />
===Theraguin===
{{Quote|I'm Captain Theraguin&mdash;last officer on the job here since the patrols stopped.|Captain Theraguin|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
{{Main|Theraguin}}
[[File:Theraguin.png|thumb|right|150px|Theraguin]]
Theraguin was a Human who held the rank of captain during the Cold War.<ref name="SWTORboom" /> After the Sacking of Coruscant, the CSF struggled to maintain order and eventually called for Republic Military support. However, large areas of the planet were lost to gangs who consolidated into the Black Sun criminal syndicate. The CSF, having sustained casualties both during the sacking and the years of aftermath, all but abandoned the area as they drew back to police vital government and commerce districts.<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" /> A veteran police officer, Theraguin was one of the few, if not the only, cop who continued to work in the Black Sun Territory though most officers had abandoned it, including his superior. Determined to do what he could to relieve the suffering of the locals, Theraguin defied Black Sun's thugs and went beyond the CSF's barricades into the territory. He went so far as to risk his life to diffuse explosive bombs set by Black Sun to kill refugees. However, the violence and hopelessness of the Black Sun Territory left Theraguin frustrated. He sarcastically would refer to himself as the "last officer on the job" in that sector.<ref name="SWTORboom" /> As with many of his fellow veteran cops, Theraguin had joined CSF to keep the peace. The years after the Sacking of Coruscant, however, brought with them a brutal urban warfare&mdash;this was something Theraguin and CSF were not trained for.<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" /> Though he knew his limitations, Theraguin continued to work in the Black Sun Territory despite all the difficulties.<ref name="SWTORboom" />
===Doorn===
{{Quote|I don't have the manpower to recover stolen intelligence! I&mdash;I can't just pull a commando unit out of my helmet, can I?|Doorn, discussing the Black Sun Territory|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
[[File:Doorn.png|thumb|right|150px|Doorn]]
{{Main|Doorn}}
Doorn was a Human who achieve the rank of lieutenant before the Great Galactic War. During the Cold War period that followed the war, Doorn was posted to the Black Sun Territory. The assignment was difficult, with constant street warfare against the Black Sun crime syndicate. At one point he was assigned the task of securing plans for Coruscant's secret tunnels. Working with Agent Fieler Dan of the Strategic Information Service, Doorn tracked the plans to Coruscant's Justicars' Sector. When Dan failed to contact Doorn, he sent a Republic individual after her who was able to locate the plans. Though he had once been proud of both his job and his rank, he no longer felt so by the time of the Cold War.<ref name="SWTORsecpassages" /> As with his fellow veteran cops,<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" /> Doorn felt burned out and frustrated. The constant street warfare had taken its toll on living conditions, and cops suffered as much as civilians. To Doorn, police work no longer served to keep the peace, but was instead a difficult job with barely enough pay.<ref name="SWTORsecpassages" />
===Nidaljo===
{{Quote|We can't hold this position, but we'll leave some surprises for Black Sun before we go.|Nidaljo|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
{{Main|Nidaljo}}
[[File:Nidaljo.png|thumb|right|150px|Nidaljo]]
Nidaljo was a Human sergeant in the CSF during the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Sacking of Coruscant and Black Sun's rise to power, the Special Tactical Unit composed of CSF cops and Republic soldiers was formed with Nidaljo as its commanding officer. The Units goal was to give the CSF a better edge in fighting Black Sun. However, ten years after the Sacking of Coruscant, the CSF had made little progress, frustrating both Nidaljo and his men. Nidaljo and his men were sent into Black Sun's territory to assist in retrieving Republic scientist Doctor Tarnis and the Planet Prison superweapon. During the fighting, Nidaljo lost four of his men and seven others were killed. With his remaining forces surrounded, Nidaljo saw little prospect of escape and felt embittered by the seeming futility of the fight with Black Sun. When the Jedi arrived to help, they were able to rally Nidaljo and his men to break through Black Sun's forces. The skirmish resulted in the death of Black Sun's leader, Salarr. With this blow to Black Sun, Nidaljo felt a renewed sense of purpose and though unable to retain possession of the territory, he and his men set about the task of setting up booby traps for Black Sun.<ref name="SWTORRescue" />
===Stansun===
{{Quote|We're fighting a war against Black Sun. Wish I could say we're winning.|Stansun|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
{{Main|Stansun}}
[[File:Stanson.png|thumb|right|150px|Stansun]]
Stansun was a Human who served as a police officer with the Coruscant Security Force. During the Cold War Stansun was assigned to the Black Sun Territory. Though Stansun remained positive, he was frustrated by the lack of progress in fighting the Black Sun criminal syndicate. He had tried several times to shut down an illegal surgery clinic without success before he was able to enlist the help of a Republic individual. The individual was able to [[Raid on the Black Sun clinic|infiltrate]] the clinic and defeat Black Sun's thugs as well as several droids and downloaded a list of criminals the clinic's droids had operated on. The list was then turned over to Stansun so that CSF could identify the criminals' faces and track them down. While he kept a positive attitude, Stansun was realistic about the fighting between the police and Black Sun. Even with the CSF seemingly losing the battle, Stansun remained determined to press on. He was certain that with Black Sun gone, peace could be brought to Coruscant.<ref name="SWTORFacemerchant" />
===Mal===
{{Quote|Nik, none of you should be living here. We can't guarantee your safety, you know that.|Officer Mal, to Nik Deleru, about refugees in the Old Galactic Market|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
{{Main|Mal}}
[[File:Mal.png|thumb|right|151px|Mal]]
Officer Mal was a Human who was assigned to the Old Galactic Market commercial district of Galactic City. In the aftermath of some riots, the Old Galactic Market had been overrun by refugees and a criminal organization known as the Migrant Merchants' Guild. The Guild claimed to protect the interests of the refugees, but in reality, it demanded protection money and was involved in illegal actives such as money laundering and smuggling. Though the CSF had been able to retake a portion of the Galactic Market, most of it remained under the Guild's control. On one occasion a Nautolan named Nik Deleru reported to Mal that his mate, Ria Deleru, had been taken by the Guild. Nik requested Mal's help in retrieving her; however, Mal did not have enough men to enter the Guild control area and retrieve Ria. Mal was dedicated to his job and felt it was his duty to protect. Faced with the struggles of the refugees, Mal believed that since they had no business living in the Old Galactic Market, any situation in which they became involved was partially of their own doing. The refugees in turn blamed the CSF for not stopping the Guild. Tired of being blamed for their problems by the refugees, Mal nevertheless cared for their plight. Yet with the CSF's lack of manpower and resources, he was unable to get involved and help the refugees with problems involving the Guild. This led Mal to become frustrated with the Guild, the refugees, and his inability to act.<ref name="SWTORBetWors" />
===Anstiss===
[[File:Anstiss.png|thumb|right|130px|Anstiss]]
{{Quote|I've gone inside the Dealer's Den half a dozen times to confront him, and he's beaten me within a centimeter of my life each time... He needs to be talked down or knocked out if I'm going to arrest him. I'm no match but you might have a shot.|Officer Anstiss, discussing with an individual her attempts to arrest Gambo|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
{{Main|Anstiss}}
Anstiss was a Zabrak officer. She was assigned the task of arresting a Houk criminal named Gambo. However, Gambo was known to be a brutal Black Sun enforcer and murderer, and Anstiss was to arrest him by herself. She made several attempts to arrest Gambo inside the Dealer's Den Cantina in the Old Galactic Market sector but was unable to subdue Gambo. On her final attempt Gambo beat her severely, nearly killing her. With that, Anstiss retreated to outside the cantina and called for backup. Despite her pleasant attitude, Anstiss believed she had made some enemies at CSF Headquarters as she had been assigned the task of arresting Gambo by herself. She was also a courageous person, as she went ahead to try to arrest Gambo knowing that he would probably be too much for her. Yet her somewhat stubborn will did not let her give up, and she was determined to not let him out of her sight while she waited for backup.<ref name="SWTORCantina" />
===Folaris===
{{Quote|But you're a security officer!"''<br />''"Maybe so. But they don't pay me nearly enough for the risks I take down here everyday.|A Republic individual and Agent Folaris|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
[[File:Folaris.png|thumb|right|130px|Folaris]]
{{Main|Folaris}}
Folaris was a Human police officer working as an undercover agent in the Black Sun Territory. Around 3643 BBY, Folaris discovered that the Black Sun criminal syndicate was planning to purge several members&mdash;informants and rival gang leaders&mdash;it suspected of undermining its operations. Folaris wanted access to that list so that the persons targeted could be warned. However, she also saw an opportunity in selling the list: if the names went public, the targeted persons would possibly be warned and Folaris would be able to supplement her income. A Republic individual whom Folaris had recruited to help her convinced her not to sell the list but turn it over to her superiors. She served with determination, if also frustration. Folaris felt that for the risks she was asked to take, she was not compensated financially enough to make the effort worth it. Though Folaris claimed loyalty to the people of Coruscant, she also had a certain amount of personal greed. When the opportunity came to sell the list of Black Sun targets, Folaris jumped at the chance, despite her duty as a cop. However, Folaris was not so consumed by her resentment and greed that it took much convincing for her to abandon her scheme.<ref name="SWTORPartEclip" />
===Jaffkee===
{{Quote|My name's Jaffkee. I'm with Republic security.|CSF Agent Jaffkee|Star Wars: The Old Republic}}
[[File:Jaffkee.png|thumb|right|150px|Jaffkee]]
{{Main|Jaffkee}}
A young Human, Jaffkee became a police officer with the Coruscant Security Force, which, at the time, had undergone severe hardships.<ref name="SWTORwhitenoise" /> The Sith Empire's Sacking of Coruscant and the immediate aftermath of rioting and looting had drained the CSF in lives lost and in resources. He eventually attained the rank of Agent and was sent as an undercover operative to the Justicars' Sector to try to plant listening devices and monitor Justicar communications. However, the Justicars had set up several jamming devices that prevented Jaffkee from monitoring them. It was then that Jaffkee met a Republic individual who offered to assist Jaffkee in disabling the jamming devices. Dedicated to his job and displaying enthusiasm for it, Jaffkee remained at his post in the Justicar sector despite the constant threat of discovery and ultimately death. Despite his young age and enthusiasm, Jaffkee displayed the characteristic bitterness<ref name="SWTORwhitenoise" /> of many of the CSF's younger officers and recruits.<ref name="SWTORCSFcodex" /> The resentment came about as the Republic put greater emphasis on allocating money and manpower for the military and not the CSF.<ref name="SWTORwhitenoise" />
===Yur T'aug===
{{Quote|I should be investigating, not filling you in. You can read the report when I am done.|Yur T'aug to Qui-Gon Jinn|<ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter" />}}
{{Main|Yur T'aug}}
Yur T'aug was a Bothan captain and a police officer in the CSF around ten years before the Trade Federation's 32 BBY blockade of Naboo. He was very dedicated to the CSF, and was reluctant to share information with outsiders, including the Jedi. Quick to establish the CSF's authority in an investigation, T'aug was also realistic in agreeing, albeit reluctantly, to outside help when dealing with a situation beyond his abilities. T'aug held strong principles of loyalty, honor, and responsibility, and stood by his actions even if it meant defying the law to a certain extent. When confronted by Obi-Wan Kenobi as to why he had dropped the investigation of Ren S'orn, the Captain openly refused to answer, even though the CSF was required to cooperate with the Jedi. However, T'aug also had a keen sense of justice, and when Kenobi pointed that out, the Captain agreed to answer the Jedi's questions. T'aug sometimes came across as tough and mean, but he had a sense of empathy for the victims of crimes; he dropped the Ren investigation in order to spare Ren's mother from further pain.<ref name="Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment" />
===Jaller Obrim===
{{Quote|I'll make it go away. I'm CSF. I can make all kinds of things go away when I need to.|Jaller Obrim to Besany Wennen|<ref name="TrueColors" />}}
[[File:Jaller_Obrim.png|thumb|right|150px|Jaller Obrim]]
{{Main|Jaller Obrim}}
Jaller Obrim was a Senate Guard, who, during the Clone Wars, was transferred to and placed in command of the CSF's Anti-Terrorism Unit. While there, he formed a close relationship with Kal Skirata and several of the clone commandos. Together, they were able to arrest and destroy a terror network on Coruscant.<ref name="Republic Commando: Triple Zero" /> Although Obrim was a dedicated police officer, he was not above bending or breaking the rules if he felt that it was the right thing to do. Due to his high position in law enforcement, he was capable of helping Skirata's black ops mishaps disappear from official records. On one occasion, he used his authority to escort an injured Fi out of a hospital as a favor for Skirata. Obrim was one of the few non-clones trusted with Skirata's plans to help clone troopers desert from the Grand Army of the Republic. Although he refused to hear specifics for reasons of deniability, he helped Skirata and his clan escape when Palpatine issued a warrant for the arrest of Skirata. Obrim was also well aware of the dangers of being a police officer on Coruscant, and he had a security system in his house to protect [[Telti Obrim|his family]] from the many enemies he had made during his tenure.<ref name="Order66book" />
===Tan Divo===
[[File:TanDivo.png|thumb|right|120px|Tan Divo]]
{{Quote|After all, I'm the inspector, you're the Senator, so I'll handle the inspecting, and you can stick to the&hellip; the 'Senating.'|Tan Divo, to Padmé Amidala|<ref name="Senate Murders" />}}
{{Main|Tan Divo}}
Tan Divo held the rank of lieutenant and served as an inspector for the CSF during the Clone Wars. A dedicated law officer, Divo believed that without rules, order could not exist. Throughout his investigation of the murder of Senator Onaconda Farr, Divo went by the book. He was very annoyed when Senator Padmé Amidala did not inform him that she was conducting her own private investigation, and felt that her actions were thus out of line since he was the investigator and she was not. Divo had a dry sense of humor, and was very logical and analytical. When he believed that he had the right answer based on the evidence, he would pursue it with enthusiasm, sometimes to the point of blindness for other theories. As with most police officers, he showed a dislike for paperwork.<ref name="Senate Murders" />
===Kadir===
{{Quote|Captain, don't ask questions. I'm taking over palace security myself.|Moff Kadir|<ref name="SW Empire: Betrayal" />}}
{{Main|Kadir (Moff)}}
[[File:MoffKadir.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Moff Kadir]]
Kadir was a Moff in command of the CSF and its stormtrooper units by 1 BBY. He was an ambitious Imperial officer who resented anyone who questioned his authority. When Darth Vader ordered a whole battalion of stormtroopers to accompany [[Grand Moff/Legends|Grand Moff]] [[Wilhuff Tarkin/Legends|Tarkin]] to the [[DS-1 Orbital Battle Station/Legends|Death Star]] because of their shooting accuracy, Kadir objected because the stormtroopers had been assigned to the CSF. However, when Vader threatened Kadir with execution, the Moff consented; although he retained hostile opinions toward the Sith. He joined a conspiracy with Grand Moffs [[Trachta]] and [[Bartam]], General [[Skosef]], and an assassin named [[Gauer]] to kill the Emperor and Darth Vader. His ability to manipulate and maneuver people and politics was evident as he remained in the background of the disagreement over power between Trachta and Bartam. Trachta was eventually assassinated by Gauer and Skosef executed Bartam only to be killed by a stormtrooper guard himself, so Kadir thus took over leadership of the conspiracy, a plot that aimed to use [[clone stormtrooper]]s not loyal to the Emperor to overthrow both Palpatine and Vader. However, the plot failed when most of the stormtroopers were killed by the [[Emperor's Royal Guard/Legends|Royal Guard]] and Palpatine himself. Kadir, fixated with killing Palpatine, attempted to shoot him with a blaster, but the shot missed the Emperor, who executed the Moff with [[Force lightning/Legends|Force lightning]].<ref name="Star Wars: Empire: Volume One: Betrayal">''[[Star Wars: Empire: Volume One: Betrayal]]''</ref>
===Lon Shevu===
{{Quote|There's law, and there's justice, and sometimes they're not the same thing.|Lon Shevu|<ref name="Revelation" />}}
{{Main|Lon Shevu}}
Lon Shevu held the rank of Captain and was in command of the emergency response center for Galactic City until he was transferred to the GAG. Shevu was a dedicated police officer who was known for not shying away from tough situations. He had strong principles on how to treat suspects and how a police force should operate. Shevu thus did not approve of Jacen Solo's methods&mdash;including Solo's treatment of Ben Skywalker as an adult, even though the boy was only fourteen, and Solo's brutal interrogation methods&mdash;and constantly came into conflict with them.<ref name="Bloodlines" /> Eventually, this turned him into a double agent; Shevu used his high position in the GAG to spy on Solo for Cha Niathal and the Jedi. Shevu missed his job with the CSF and wanted to return to it,<ref name="Sacrifice" /><ref name="Revelation" /> but he was accidentally killed by the [[Sith apprentice/Legends|Sith apprentice]] [[Tahiri Veila]], who released Force lighting on Shevu in an attempt to force Ben Skywalker to reveal information.<ref name="Inv">''[[Legacy of the Force: Invincible]]''</ref>
===Chal Tozr===
{{Quote|Someone killed a Jedi ''Master'', you laserbrain!|Chal Tozr, to Gwad Raatu|<ref name="Temp" />}}
{{Main|Chal Tozr}}
Chal Tozr was a male [[Bith/Legends|Bith]] detective with the CSF during the time of the Galactic Alliance. Although he worked well with his partner, Gwad Raatu, Tozr had a tendency to get annoyed and sometimes lost his patience with Raatu&mdash;his aggravation often had to do with Raatu's pride and over-suspicious attitude toward other beings. Tozr and Raatu investigated the murder of Jedi Master Tresina Lobi, and when Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker offered their assistance, Tozr gladly accepted, knowing that he would need all the help he could get in confronting anyone who had been able to kill a Jedi Master. Both Tozr and his partner were very much aware of the influence that the Galactic Alliance Guard carried, and when the murderer was traced back to a building registered to the GAG, both detectives were nervous and perceived the situation as over their heads.<ref name="Temp" />
===Gwad Raatu===
{{Quote|With most humans, it's usually sex or love.|Gwad Raatu|<ref name="Temp" />}}
{{Main|Gwad Raatu}}
A Rodian, Gwad Raatu served as a detective with the CSF during the reign of the Galactic Alliance. He was characterized by his frequent suspicions of everyone around him as well as a somewhat proud attitude of both his abilities as a detective and the CSF's authority on Coruscant. Consequently, these attitudes made him wary of Jedi. Raatu also had a very cynical outlook on life, which bred in him a rather dry humor. His partner frequently became annoyed with him over many of these characteristics and attitudes, serving as a nullifying and balancing influence on Raatu. As a Rodian, Raatu's hunting instincts served him well as a detective, and he took great pleasure in chasing down leads and suspects.<ref name="Temp" />


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==Appearances==
==Appearances==
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*''[[The Old Republic, Threat of Peace Act 1: Treaty of Coruscant]]''
*''[[The Old Republic: Deceived]]'' {{Mo}}
*[[The Old Republic: Deceived (audiobook)|''The Old Republic: Deceived'' audiobook]] {{Mo}}
*''[[The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance]]'' {{Mo}}
*[[The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance (audiobook)|''The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance'' audiobook]] {{Mo}}
*''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]''
*''[[The Old Republic—The Lost Suns 1]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[The Old Republic: Annihilation]]''
*[[The Old Republic: Annihilation (audiobook)|''The Old Republic: Annihilation'' audiobook]]
*''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan]]'' {{Mo}}
*{{TORweb|url=info/news/blog/20150213|text=One Night in the Dealer's Den|int=One Night in the Dealer's Den}}
*[[Darth Plagueis (novel)|''Darth Plagueis'']]
*[[Darth Plagueis (audiobook)|''Darth Plagueis'' audiobook]]
*''[[Legacy of the Jedi]]''
*''[[Jedi Apprentice: The Deadly Hunter]]''
*''[[Jedi Apprentice: The Evil Experiment]]''
*{{WizCite|Star Wars Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook|Shadows of Coruscant}} {{1stID|Coruscant security forces}}
*''[[Star Wars: Bounty Hunter]]'' {{C|as Coruscant Police Force}}
*''[[Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter]]''
*''[[Jedi Quest: The School of Fear]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Jedi Quest: The False Peace]]''
*{{Hnn|49|life/13328_2.html|Area Woman Finds Sith Icon in Pastebread|https://web.archive.org/web/20050226021341/http://www.holonetnews.com:80/49/life/13328_2.html}}
*{{Hnn|51|news/13411_6.html|Tanjay IV Representative Dead in Crash|https://web.archive.org/web/20130728123312/http://www.holonetnews.com/51/news/13411_6.html}}
*{{Hnn|56|news/13516_5.html|Senate Speeder Thief Arrested|https://web.archive.org/web/20130831142029/http://www.holonetnews.com:80/56/news/13516_5.html}}
*{{Film|II}} {{Imo}}
*[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' film]]
*[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (novelization)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' novelization]]
*[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (audiobook)|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' audiobook]]
*''[[Omega Squad: Targets]]'' {{1stID|Coruscant Security Force (CSF)}}
*''[[The Clone Wars: Wild Space]]''
*[[The Clone Wars: Wild Space (audiobook)|''The Clone Wars: Wild Space'' audiobook]]
*{{TCW|Lightsaber Lost}}
*{{TCW|Duchess of Mandalore}}
*{{TCW|Lethal Trackdown}}
*{{TCW|Sphere of Influence}}
*{{TCW|Evil Plans}}
*{{TCW|Hostage Crisis}}
*''[[Republic Commando: Triple Zero]]''
*''[[Republic Commando: True Colors]]''
*{{TCW|Pursuit of Peace}}
*{{TCW|Senate Murders}}
*{{TCW|Deception}}
*{{TCW|Sabotage (episode)|Sabotage}}
*{{TCW|To Catch a Jedi}}
*{{TCW|The Wrong Jedi}} {{Flash}}
*{{TCW|Orders}} {{Mo}}
*''[[Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel]]''
*''[[A Hero Seeks Not Vengeance]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Imperial Commando: 501st]]''
*''[[Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight]]'' {{1stID|Imperial Sector Police}}
*''[[Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows]]'' {{C|as Imperial Sector Police/Constabulary}}
*''[[Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force]]'' {{C|as Imperial Sector Police/Constabulary}}
*[[The Last Jedi (novel)|''The Last Jedi'']] {{C|as Imperial Sector Police/Constabulary}}
*''[[Star Wars: Empire: Betrayal]]''
*{{WEGCite|book=The Far Orbit Project|story=The Rival}} {{ID|Imperial Center Security}}
*{{WEGCite|book=The Far Orbit Project|story=The Rival}} {{ID|Imperial Center Security}}
*''[[Under a Black Sun]]''
*{{Film|VI}} {{1st}} {{C|Introduced in [[The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition|''Special Edition'']]}}
*{{Film|VI}} {{1st}} {{C|Introduced in [[The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition|''Special Edition'']]}}
*[[Star Wars (2013) 4|''Star Wars'' (2013) 4]]
*''[[Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor's Hand]]''
*''[[Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor's Hand]]''
*''[[X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble]]'' {{1stID|Coruscant Constabulary}}
*''[[X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble]]'' {{1stID|Coruscant Constabulary}}
*''[[X-Wing: The Krytos Trap]]'' {{C|as Coruscant Constabulary}}
*''[[X-Wing: The Krytos Trap]]'' {{C|as Coruscant Constabulary}}
*''[[X-Wing: The Bacta War]]'' {{C|Mentioned only as Coruscant Constabulary}}
*''[[X-Wing: The Bacta War]]'' {{C|Mentioned only as Coruscant Constabulary}}
*''[[Star Wars: Union]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: The Lost Ones]]''
*''[[Young Jedi Knights: The Lost Ones]]''
*''[[The New Jedi Order: Balance Point]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth]]''
*''[[The New Jedi Order: Star by Star]]''
*[[Millennium Falcon (novel)|''Millennium Falcon'']]
*[[Millennium Falcon (audiobook)|''Millennium Falcon'' audiobook]]
*''[[Legacy of the Force: Betrayal]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines]]''
*''[[Legacy of the Force: Tempest]]''
*''[[Legacy of the Force: Exile]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice]]''
*''[[Legacy of the Force: Inferno]]''
*''[[Legacy of the Force: Revelation]]''
*''[[Legacy of the Force: Invincible]]''
*''[[Fate of the Jedi: Outcast]]''
*[[Fate of the Jedi: Outcast (audiobook)|''Fate of the Jedi: Outcast'' audiobook]]
*''[[Fate of the Jedi: Abyss]]'' {{C|as Coruscant Enforcement Services}}
*[[Fate of the Jedi: Abyss (audiobook)|''Fate of the Jedi: Abyss'' audiobook]] {{C|as Coruscant Enforcement Services}}
*''[[Fate of the Jedi: Backlash]]''
*[[Fate of the Jedi: Backlash (audiobook)|''Fate of the Jedi: Backlash'' audiobook]]
*''[[Fate of the Jedi: Allies]]''
*[[Fate of the Jedi: Allies (audiobook)|''Fate of the Jedi: Allies'' audiobook]]
*''[[Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse]]''
*[[Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse (audiobook)|''Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse'' audiobook]]
*''[[X-Wing: Mercy Kill]]''}}
===Non-canon appearances===
*''[[Star Wars Detours]]'' – "[[Dog Day Afternoon]]" {{C|As "Coruscant Police Department"}}
==Sources==
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*''[[Star Wars Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook]]'' {{1stID|Coruscant security forces}}
*''[[Star Wars: Bounty Hunter: Prima's Official Strategy Guide]]'' {{1stID|Coruscant Security Police Force and Coruscant Police Force}}
*''[[Coruscant and the Core Worlds]]''
*''[[Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones]]''
*''[[Ultimate Adversaries]]''
*[[Star Wars: Complete Locations (2005)|''Star Wars: Complete Locations'']]
*{{InsiderCite|87|Order 66: Destroy All Jedi}}
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide]]''
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[The Clone Wars Campaign Guide]]''
*{{Hyperspace|url=hyperspace/source/praji/20090205.html|text=Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji|int=Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji}}
*''[[The Essential Atlas]]''
*''[[Galaxy at War]]'' {{C|as Galactic City Police}}
*''[[Galaxy of Intrigue]]''
*{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode211.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Lightsaber Lost|archivedate=20110615135637}}
*{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode214.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Duchess of Mandalore|archivedate=20110715042713}}
*{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/senatemurdersweekly/index.html|text=Senator Amidala Unravels a Web of Corruption|archivedate=20100317162156}} {{Imo}}
*{{SWArchive|url=fans/rocks/news20100319.html|text=Tom Kenny: Adding Columbo to ''Clone Wars''|archivedate=20100323003711}}
*{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode215.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Senate Murders|archivedate=20110621111732}}
*{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode222.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Lethal Trackdown|archivedate=20110905151140}}
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia]]''
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars: New Battlefronts: The Visual Guide]]''
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars Official Episode Guide Series 1 & 2]]''
*{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode304.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Sphere of Influence|archivedate=20110629044401}}
*{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode308.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Evil Plans|archivedate=20110902130517}}
*{{SWArchive|url=theclonewars/guide/episode311.html|text=''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide: Pursuit of Peace|archivedate=20110712013027}}
*[[The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force (real-life book)|''The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force'']] {{C|as Galactic City Police}}
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars Magazine 4]]''
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.18]]''
*''[[Star Wars Character Encyclopedia]]''
*{{DB|location|a89|A-89|archivedate=20100602093227}}
*{{DB|character|chyler|Chyler, Tian|archivedate=20100330034055}}
*{{DB|location|coruscant|Coruscant|archivedate=20110903025338}}
*{{DB|organization|coruscantguards|Coruscant Guards|archivedate=20110410123055}}
*{{DB|character|ottegrugrey|Grey, Ottegru|archivedate=20101116014529}}
*{{DB|organization|senateguard|Senate Guard|archivedate=20110410123037}}
*{{DB|character|commanderthire|Thire|archivedate=20100318125404}}
*{{SW|url=explore/the-clone-wars/ep211|text="Lightsaber Lost" - ''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide}}
*{{SW|url=explore/the-clone-wars/ep214|text="Duchess of Mandalore" - ''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide}}
*{{SW|url=explore/the-clone-wars/ep215|text="Senate Murders" - ''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide}}
*{{SW|url=video/senate-murders-episode-featurette|text=Episode Featurette #2.15: Senate Murders}}
*{{SW|url=explore/the-clone-wars/ep222|text="Lethal Trackdown" - ''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide}}
*{{SW|url=explore/the-clone-wars/ep304|text="Sphere of Influence" - ''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide}}
*{{SW|url=explore/the-clone-wars/ep308|text="Evil Plans" - ''The Clone Wars'' Episode Guide}}
*{{SW|url=series/clone-wars/pursuit-of-peace-episode-guide|text="Pursuit of Peace" Episode Guide &ndash; ''The Clone Wars''}}
*[[The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural (real-life book)|''The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural'']]
*''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide]]''
*{{Holonet|both=true|planets|coruscant|Coruscant}} {{Imo}}
*{{TORweb|url=media/screens/coruscant-3|text=Coruscant screenshot 3|nobackup=1}}
*{{TORweb|url=media/screens/coruscant-4|text=Coruscant screenshot 4|nobackup=1}}
*''[[Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[The Essential Guide to Warfare]]''
*''[[The Essential Reader's Companion]]''
*''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia]]''
*{{SW|url=series/clone-wars/to-catch-a-jedi-episode-guide|text="To Catch a Jedi" Episode Guide &ndash; ''The Clone Wars''}}
*''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Episode Guide]]''
*[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season Five|''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' The Complete Season Five]]
*''[[Star Wars Art: Concept]]''
*''[[Star Wars Comic 3]]''
*{{SW|url=news/star-wars-blasters-so-uncivilized-but-so-awesome|text=''Star Wars'' Blasters: So Uncivilized, But So Awesome}}
*[[Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook|''Star Wars: Age of Rebellion'' Core Rulebook]]
*{{SWE|technology|barcspeeder|BARC speeder}}
*{{SWE|characters|halleburtoni|Halle Burtoni}}
*{{SWE|groups|coruscant-underworld-police|Coruscant underworld police}}
*{{SWE|characters|tandivo|Tan Divo}}
*{{SWE|characters|onacondafarr|Onaconda Farr}}
*{{SWE|characters|greedo|Greedo}} {{Imo}}
*{{SWE|characters|papanoida|Chairman Papanoida}}
*{{SWE|technology|policedroid|police droid}}
*{{SWE|technology|republic-police-gunship|Republic police gunship}}
*{{SWE|groups|senateguard|Senate Guard}}
*{{SWE|characters|terasinube|Tera Sinube}}
*[[Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook|''Star Wars: Age of Rebellion'' Core Rulebook]]
*{{SWMCite|2|A-Z of the Clone Wars|A-Z of the Clone Wars S}}
*''[[Star Wars: Imperial Handbook: A Commander's Guide]]''
*''[[Endless Vigil]]''}}


==Notes and references==
==Notes and references==
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==External links==
*{{SWTOR Wiki|Coruscant Security}}
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The Coruscant Security Force (CSF), also known as the Coruscant Police or the Coruscant Constabulary, and depending on the era, less commonly known as the Imperial Sector Police, Galactic City Police, and Republic Security, was the primary police force in charge of maintaining law and order on the galactic capital planet of Coruscant during the reigns of the Galactic Republic, the Galactic Empire, the New Republic, and the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. Its duties included regular patrols of Galactic City, criminal investigations, counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence operations, crowd control, diplomatic protection, maintaining the world's skylanes, and, in some cases, the military defense of Coruscant. Early during the Republic, the CSF was commanded by the Chief of Security and centuries later by the Coruscant Security Force Senior Command, later the Sector Command. As the Empire established its rule, control of the CSF was changed from the Sector Command to a Commander, that position itself later replaced by a Commissioner. The CSF operations were based out of a central headquarters and various divisional headquarters.

The New Republic captured Coruscant in 6 ABY, disbanded the Coruscant Guard, and reinstated the CSF as the primary law enforcement agency.

Description

Duties and overview

The Coruscant Security Force was tasked with providing law enforcement and security on the galactic capital of Coruscant.

Organization and units

During the Galactic Empire, the CSF was headed by a commissioner.[2]

History

The Galactic Empire

Changes and political dissent

Imperial stormtroopers were assigned to the CSF and worked with the regular officers.[5]

The New Republic

New government and changes

"You want us to make you the Commissioner of the Coruscant Constabulary?"
―Doman Beruss of the New Republic Provisional Council to Fliry Vorru[2]

The New Republic captured Coruscant from Imperial forces[5] in 6 ABY.[3] During the battle, sixteen of the galaxy's worst criminals, who had been freed from the prison colony of Kessel by the New Republic, were set loose on Coruscant. They caused criminal riots and distracted CSF stormtroopers and other security forces, which helped the New Republic capture the planet.[5] In the aftermath of the New Republic victory, the Krytos virus, an attack by Ysanne Isard, was released on Coruscant targeting the planet's non-human population. Its only cure could be found in bacta and as supplies dwindled, a black market grew to meet the demand. Though most of the Imperial bureaucracy had been left in place, the use of stormtroopers had been rejected by the New Republic Provisional Council and so the Constabulary stormtroopers and Coruscant Guard had been disbanded. Faced with a crisis and the basic need for law enforcement, the Provisional Council ordered the formation of the New Republic Security Force though found it would take time to organize the new agency to an effective level. In the interim, former Corellian Moff Fliry Vorru offered to supply law enforcement needs in the Coruscant Underworld. He rejected the idea of becoming the Coruscant Constabulary's Commissioner and instead, with the Provisional Council's hesitant blessing, he was given a rank of Colonel in the Coruscant Constabulary and formed the Imperial Center People's Militia which "policed" the Coruscant underworld. However, Vorru became a pawn of Ysanne Isard and fled the planet with her a short time later.[2] At some point soon after, the use of the name Coruscant Constabulary was dropped in favor of Coruscant Security and it was reinstated as the primary law enforcement agency for Coruscant.[4]

Military actions

"Thanks for the escort. Coruscant Security will take it from here."
―Admiral Ackbar to the New Republic military escort[4]

In 23 ABY, the CSF was involved in a military incident between the New Republic Defense Fleet and the Second Imperium—a faction of the Imperial Remnant led by the Dark Jedi Brakiss and the Nightsisters Tamith Kai. In their bid to recapture the galaxy, they learned of the bulk cruiser Adamant, which was carrying turbolasers and hyperdrive cores to Coruscant. Because Admiral Gial Ackbar was in command of the vessel, it was guarded by fourteen corvettes and a number of X-wings and E-wings, which escorted the bulk cruiser to Coruscant before handing it over to the CSF. In the few minutes of transition between the two forces, a Second Imperium Imperial Assault Shuttle, hidden by the cloaking capabilities of the Second Imperium's Shadow Academy, appeared and attacked the Adamant, with the shuttle's crew boarding the cruiser. Though they called for CSF assistance, the crew was forced into escape pods and jettisoned. New Republic and CSF forces attempted to halt the hijacked Adament, but the cruiser managed to escape.[4]

Behind the scenes

The Coruscant Security Force first appeared in three novels of the X-Wing series that were written by Michael A. Stackpole. First identified as the "Coruscant Constabulary," they appeared or were mentioned in X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble, X-Wing: The Krytos Trap, and X-Wing: The Bacta War, published on May 2, 1996, October 2, 1996, and February 6, 1997, respectively. Specifically the novel Wedge's Gamble noted that the Coruscant Constabulary worked with stormtroopers to provide security on the capital.[5] However, the "civilian" constabulary appeared to be intended as comparatively small in number and unable to handle policing on their own, as the loss of stormtroopers to augment security becomes a vital plot point in The Krytos Trap.[2] This retconned the 1997 special edition of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi into becoming the CSF's first visual appearance in the form of brief shots of a stormtrooper being attacked by revolting Coruscanti.[6] This storyline was also continued in the comic series Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor's Hand, published beginning in 1998, which explained that Ysanne Isard subsequently took control of Coruscant's security forces and brutally put down the revolt using Coruscant security stormtroopers.[1]

Scene from Return of the Jedi of a CSF stormtrooper being attacked by revolting Coruscanti

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars: Mara Jade – By the Emperor's Hand
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 X-Wing: The Krytos Trap
  3. 3.0 3.1 The departure of the Lusankya, which The Essential Guide to Warfare states occurs in 7 ABY, happens between 7-8 weeks after the Liberation of Coruscant. Per The Essential Atlas, the Liberation occurs on 42:2:17, so the Lusankya's departure is approximately 42:4:17. Per Warfare's placement of the Battle of Selaggis in 7 ABY, the Atlas's placement of Selaggis on 43:2:28, and the Atlas's placement of the Battle of Yavin in 35:3, a three-month gap between the Great ReSynchronization and Galactic Standard Calendar can be confirmed. Thus, the Liberation, which occurs on 42:2:17, occurs before the year 7 ABY begins, and must fall in 6 ABY. The same can be said for the remainder of the Coruscant campaign that occurs prior to the Liberation.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Young Jedi Knights: The Lost Ones
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble
  6. Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi