Coruscant Security Force

The Coruscant Security Force, abbreviated as "CSF" and otherwise known as the Coruscant Police, served as the law enforcement service responsible for upholding peace and order on Coruscant, the galactic capital planet. Its duties encompassed conducting routine patrols of the planet-sized city, investigating serious offenses such as murder and kidnapping, preventing attacks on residents, and making arrests based on warrants or during the commission of a crime. The force was comprised of both sentient police officers and mechanical droid units programmed for police functions. Officers could advance through the ranks and hold supervisory positions such as sergeant, lieutenant, captain, and prefect. They could also serve as detectives, frequently referred to as inspectors. Klatooinians employed by the CSF would function as CSF bruisers.

The planet was divided into various patrol zones, such as police sector 417. On the surface levels of Coruscant, the GU-series Guardian police droid, the Coruscant version of the widely used police droids, were a much more common sight than their sentient colleagues, as they were primarily deployed to patrol the vast upper reaches of Galactic City. The planet's deep lower levels were patrolled by the underworld police, who used a recruitment exam to identify individuals skilled in memorizing and recognizing faces, among other abilities. Despite the efforts of the underworld cops, the lower levels remained a chaotic hub of violence and crime, with the police maintaining only a semblance of control.

Jurisdiction over the Senate District generally fell under the Senate Guard, the elite soldiers of the Galactic Senate who had protected senators and the Supreme Chancellor for centuries. However, investigations into crimes such as murder and kidnapping were still handled by the Coruscant Security Force. Members of the Jedi Order experienced in the criminal underworld, known as Jedi investigators, occasionally assisted the police with investigations. Thanks to their connection to the Force, the Jedi could piece together evidence and solve crimes more quickly than even the most seasoned detectives in the Coruscant Police.

During the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, an elite division of clone shock troopers called the Coruscant Guard was formed and stationed on Coruscant as peacekeepers. Led by Clone Commander Fox, the Coruscant Guard gradually assumed responsibilities previously held by the Senate Guard and Coruscant Police. Shock troopers patrolled alongside the Coruscant Security Force, performed riot control, guarded critical government buildings and infrastructure, and protected the Supreme Chancellor and the Senate. When necessary, Commander Fox was authorized to commandeer Coruscant Police resources to enhance security or conduct missions.

The Coruscant police uniform primarily consisted of shades of navy blue, gray, and yellow. Higher-ranking officers such as lieutenants wore navy blue tunics and pants, black boots, and a yellow utility belt with a silver buckle and a shoulder strap that attached to the belt. Stripes on the sleeves indicated rank, and a yellow band worn on the left arm displayed the police symbol.

Cops in the lower levels wore heavy leather and metal armor in dark gray with yellow shoulder pads to protect them from the harsh and dangerous environment of the Coruscant underworld. The armor covered their faces, revealing only mechanical eye coverings. Their uniforms conveyed a sense of anonymity and authority, and also created a mystique, as it was often unclear whether they were humanoid, droids, or something else entirely. However, Klatooinians hired as CSF bruisers did not wear helmets, although they donned the same armor.

Coruscant police officers, as well as their droid counterparts, were armed with blaster pistols and batons for melee combat and self-defense, as well as stuncuffs to restrain individuals under arrest. While police officers and police droids patrolled both the upper and lower levels on foot, the Coruscant Security Force utilized a variety of airspeeders to police the vast skylanes of the city. The most commonly used vehicle for patrol and pursuit was the Panther police interceptor, which had a compartment for two officers or droids in the front and a barricaded section in the back for Prison. Additionally, the BARC speeder was adapted from its military origins for use as a patrol craft, easily maneuverable in the planet's narrow skylanes.

The introduction of the patrol transport, a smaller, sleeker version of the military-grade Republic gunship, enhanced the Coruscant Police's capabilities in both armament and presence. The gunship was equipped with spotlights and tracking equipment, fixed laser canons and dual-mounted turrets that caused less collateral damage than military weapons, and a troop bay from which police officers could be transported and rapidly deployed in larger numbers.

The Guardian police droids were the most visible component of the Coruscant Security Force on the upper levels of the city during the final years of the Galactic Republic. Sleek and polished, the police droids were incorruptible and tireless, making them better suited to patrol the vast expanses of the upper city-planet than any force of sentient beings. Their programming allowed them to use force to arrest suspects if a law was being broken or a citizen was in danger. However, the droids' inflexible thinking could also be exploited, making them more appropriate for policing the upper levels of the city-planet than the violent and unpredictable lower levels patrolled by the underworld police.

The blue-gray droids had masculine programming and a humanoid shape with a head that formed into a cylindrical helmet. Like their humanoid counterparts, police droids carried blasters, batons, and stuncuffs and responded to calls either on foot or in BARC speeders and Coruscant police speeders. The police droids were most often the first to arrive at a scene. They established perimeters, questioned witnesses, and collected evidence before handing the cases over to organic police officers and investigators.

However, as the Clone Wars neared their end, the aging police droids were gradually removed from service, replaced by clone troopers, and under the Empire, by Imperial stormtroopers. Police probes were also utilized, primarily to monitor and identify crimes as they occurred. They then alerted the nearest security forces and tracked suspects until they were apprehended.

In 22 BBY, after Senator Padmé Amidala of the Galactic Republic Senate was targeted in an assassination attempt, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine requested that the Jedi Council assign Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his padawan, Anakin Skywalker, to protect her. However, Skywalker believed that protecting the Senator was the responsibility of the local security forces on Coruscant, allowing the Jedi to focus on investigating the assassination attempt itself. A subsequent attempt on her life was thwarted by the Jedi, whose investigation revealed Count Dooku as the mastermind behind the assassination order and that he was building a droid army for the Confederacy of Independent Systems on the planet Geonosis. The Republic launched an attack with the Grand Army of the Republic, composed of [clone troopers](/article/clone_trooper], and the First Battle of Geonosis marked the beginning of the Clone Wars.

Some time later, with the Republic and the Jedi shifting their focus from local law enforcement to the war effort, the criminal underworld exploited the situation, collaborating with the Separatists to undermine the Republic government on Coruscant. To combat this, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, along with his new padawan, Ahsoka Tano, went to Coruscant's Slum district G17 to arrest arms dealer Car Affa. As Skywalker entered the bar to arrest Affa and the patrons fled, a thief bumped into Tano, stealing her lightsaber in the process. Unable to locate the thief and with Affa in Skywalker's custody, the Jedi returned to the Temple.

Reluctant to tell her master that her lightsaber had been stolen, Tano sought help from elder Jedi Master Tera Sinube. Sinube was well-known within Coruscant law enforcement and was an expert in the workings of Coruscant's criminal underworld, renowned for solving complex cases more quickly than the most experienced Coruscant police detectives. Agreeing to assist Tano, their investigation led them to a notorious killer, Nack Movers. Upon arriving at the apartment of his girlfriend, Ione Marcy, they discovered Movers dead, with Marcy cowering in the corner. Tano pursued the suspected murderer, Cassie Cryar, who possessed Tano's lightsaber. Suspecting there was more to the story, Master Sinube notified the Coruscant Security Force and requested their assistance at the scene.

While awaiting the arrival of the police, Sinube questioned Marcy and discovered inconsistencies in her account of Mover's death. As the Coruscant Police droids entered the apartment, Sinube accused Marcy of being in league with Cryar, ordering the police droids to arrest her. Marcy fled through her apartment balcony with the police droids in pursuit, jumping into her waiting speeder and escaping before the droids could apprehend her. However, Master Sinube had placed a tracking device on Marcy and requested to borrow a police BARC speeder from the police droids, which they granted. He then picked up Tano, who had lost track of Cryar while pursuing her across the Coruscant skylane, and using the tracker, the Jedi located the two suspects at a Coruscant train station.

Upon arriving on the station platform, Ahsoka ran towards Marcy and Cryar, shouting to the nearby police droids to stop the suspects. Four police droids moved in, informing them that they were under arrest. Two of the droids seized Marcy and placed her in restraints, while their counterparts attempted to grab Cryar. However, she activated Tano's lightsaber, cut down the police droids, and fled, with Tano in pursuit. As a train departed the station, Cryar forced her way inside, and Tano followed. Cryar took two passengers hostage and attempted to leave with them as the train entered the next station. As the doors opened, she was confronted by Master Sinube, who used his lightsaber to disarm Cryar and knock her down before three police droids rushed into the compartment and took Cryar into custody.

In 21 BBY, the Coruscant Security Force responded to a shooting in Sector GL5, triggering a large-scale manhunt that escalated into a galactic incident. Duchess Satine Kryze of the New Mandalorians had arrived on Coruscant to speak out against the Republic Senate sending troops to the planet Mandalore to end the activities of the Mandalorian splinter group known as Death Watch. During the debate, Chancellor Palpatine played a message from Deputy Minister Jerec stating that Mandalore was in a civil war and required Republic military intervention.

With Deputy Minister Jerec killed by a Death Watch attack and no way to verify his statements, Kryze met with her contact in the Republic Ministry of Intelligence, Davu Golec, in a shadowy alley of Coruscant. Golec provided Kryze with a datadisc containing Deputy Minister Jerec's full statement, which had been edited before being played to the Senate. At that moment, a Death Watch assassin fired a shot, killing Golec, and Kryze drew her blaster.

The shot alerted a Coruscant police probe, which arrived on the scene as a crowd gathered. The police probe identified that a shooting had occurred, and seeing Kryze with a blaster over the deceased Golec, identified her as the suspect. Police droids arrived seconds later and informed Kryze that she was under arrest. Shocked but maintaining her innocence, Kryze fled the scene, with the police in pursuit.

The police probe informed nearby Coruscant Guard shock troopers, who joined the police in the foot pursuit. Running into a crowd, Kryze fired a stun bolt with her blaster, disabling the police probe tracking her and sending it to the ground. The police droids tripped over the disabled probe and fell to the ground, and the riot troopers also stumbled over them. This moment of confusion allowed Kryze to blend into the onlookers and duck into an alley.

The troopers spotted Kryze turning the corner, and at that moment, an individual in a speeder wearing a similar cloak as Kryze left the alley in his speeder. Believing the individual to be Kryze, the riot troopers communicated to the police units that she was fleeing the scene towards Section IG-44. Two Coruscant Police droids on BARC speeders picked up the chase, with more following, but it was too late, as Kryze avoided capture by staying in the alley. Both the Coruscant Police and Coruscant Guards continued the search for Kryze, questioning the locals if they had seen her, and Vice Chair Mas Amedda made a public statement demanding that Kryze turn herself in to Republic law enforcement.

Kryze, meanwhile, requested help from an old friend, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, and agreed to meet him in Monument Plaza. Avoiding the Coruscant Police and troopers searching the park for her, Kryze handed the data disc to Kenobi, and after escaping a brief fight with the Death Watch assassin, the two made their way to the Senate Building. There, Kryze turned herself in to the Senate Guards on duty, and Kenobi gave the data disc to Senator Amidala, who then played the full recording of Jerec to the Senate. In it, Jerec affirmed Mandalore's ability to deal with Death Watch, and with this, the Senate voted not to occupy the planet, Kryze was vindicated, and the police murder investigation into her was closed.

Shortly thereafter in 21 BBY, the Trade Federation initiated a blockade of the planet Pantora in an effort to secretly force them to join the Separatists while publicly demanding that they pay their debts so that trade could resume. The situation escalated, and the Coruscant Security Force became involved when the daughters of the Pantoran Chairman Papanoida, Chi Eekway and Che Amanwe, were kidnapped. The police were called, and an inspector, Lieutenant Tanivos Exantor Divo, arrived at Papanoida's apartment to begin his investigation.

The capture of Pantoran Senator Riyo Chuchi's friends was reported to Anakin Skywalker and Senator Amidala by Jedi Padawan Tano. Skywalker explained to Tano that the matter fell under the jurisdiction of the Coruscant Police, not the Jedi. Senator Amidala expressed concern that local law enforcement might be insufficient if Separatists were involved; Skywalker then allowed Tano to proceed with an independent investigation. Tano offered her assistance, though unofficially, to Chairman Papanoida, his son Ion, and Senator Chuchi. Chairman Papanoida accepted Tano's offer, and upon Tano's advice, she and Chuchi set out to determine if the daughters were aboard one of the Federation battleships maintaining the blockade of Pantora. Simultaneously, Papanoida and his son headed to their apartment to monitor the police investigation.

Lieutenant Divo, supported by three police droids, had already completed a search of the Chairman's apartment but found no evidence indicating a forced abduction. Divo gave Papanoida a concise summary of the fruitless search and assured him that the police were managing the situation. However, the police investigators overlooked the misplaced Icon of the Moon Goddess during their apartment search, thus missing the small trace of blood left beneath the statue by the kidnappers. After the police departed, Chairman Papanoida noticed the blood while repositioning the idol. Subsequent analysis identified the blood as belonging to Greedo, a Rodian bounty hunter originating from Tatooine.

Growing impatient with the police's lack of advancement, Papanoida and Ion journeyed to Tatooine, where they successfully located Greedo. During a shootout inside a cantina, they managed to find and rescue Chi Eekway. In a parallel effort, Senator Chuchi and Padawan Tano arrived at the blockade and engaged with Trade Federation representatives. They discovered that the Federation orchestrated the kidnapping to manipulate Papanoida. They managed to free Che Amanwe and, in doing so, convinced the Federation to end the blockade. With Papanoida's daughters back in his care, the investigation reached its conclusion.

In 21 BBY, as the Clone Wars continued, negotiations between the Republic and Separatists began, and the Republic Senate was on the verge of approving the Separatist's peace proposal. At that moment, Count Dooku dispatched several demolition droids to infiltrate Coruscant's central power distribution grid, situated deep beneath the Senate District, and bomb it. The resulting destruction of the generator caused a widespread power outage across the capital, including the Senate Building.

The explosions and subsequent energy surge plunged Coruscant into darkness, triggering widespread panic and chaos in the streets and aerial traffic lanes. Once the bombing was confirmed as a Separatist attack, the Senate responded by voting to deregulate banks, enabling an increase in the production of clone troopers. By the following morning, a semblance of order had been restored, although smoke still billowed from the explosion sites.

Power was restored by that evening, but the government implemented mandatory blackouts as a safety measure. Concurrently, the Senate initiated a debate on a military spending bill. Senators who opposed the bill began receiving threats. Taking advantage of the blackouts, the bounty hunters Chata Hyoki and Robonino, hired by Count Dooku to intimidate the senators, attacked and assaulted several of them. Despite these attacks, Senators Padmé Amidala and Onaconda Farr, himself a victim of the assaults, visited the apartment of Senator Christo in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to vote against the bill.

As Amidala departed Christo's residence, she was ambushed in an alley by Robonino and Hyoki. Her screams and the sounds of the struggle alerted two Coruscant Security Force droids, who quickly arrived at the scene. The police droids aimed their blasters and ordered the bounty hunters to drop their weapons. As they approached to make the arrests, Hyoki fired his wrist blaster, striking the nearest police droid multiple times in the torso. Simultaneously, Robonino overwhelmed the second droid, smashing its head against the ground. Seeing that the police droids were incapacitated, Amidala fled and commandeered a speeder bike from a nearby couple to escape the bounty hunters.

Hyoki pursued Amidala, managing to attach a grappling cable to her speeder as she took off. Robonino followed in his own speeder, and the chase continued through Coruscant's streets. Amidala struggled with Hyoki for control of the speeder while Robonino repeatedly rammed her vehicle. They passed two police droids stationed on a street corner in a Coruscant police speeder. The droids immediately began to pursue Amidala, who managed to briefly evade the two bounty hunters. As she turned a corner, she was surrounded by several police speeders, bringing the chase to an end. Amidala demanded that the bounty hunters be arrested, but the police, not seeing Robonino or Hyoki, only noted that the speeder was stolen and placed Amidala under arrest. She was later released after the situation was clarified, but the two bounty hunters had already escaped.

The following day, Alderaan Senator Bail Organa was ambushed by Hyoki and Robonino in the parking garage as he headed to the Senate to deliver a speech. The senator activated an emergency button, and the Coruscant Security Force, along with several Alderaan Guards, immediately responded. The bounty hunters opened fire, and the police and guards returned fire. Robonino attempted to flank them, but a second police speeder crashed into him, rendering him unconscious. The police and guards then engaged Hyoki as Organa attempted to escape, but Hyoki shot the senator's speeder, causing it to crash. Several guards approached Hyoki, forcing him to surrender.

In the aftermath of the Coruscant power generator bombing, the Senate continued its debate on reducing military spending. Following a speech by Senator Amidala in support of the bill, the legislation's proponents—including Senators Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, along with Farr's assistant, Lolo Purs—retreated to Amidala's office. While they were enjoying refreshments, Farr suddenly choked and died. The Coruscant Security Force was called in to investigate the suspicious death, and Lieutenant Tan Divo was assigned as the lead investigator. Samples were taken from the drinks, and the forensic report concluded that the Senator had been poisoned, classifying the death as a homicide.

Following the Senator's funeral, Farr's political allies were summoned to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's office in the Senate Office Building. There, Divo revealed that Farr had been murdered, not died of natural causes. Amidala suggested that Farr's murder was motivated by anger over the proposed military spending reduction bill. Divo dismissed this idea and instructed the senators to stay out of his investigation.

Unconvinced by Divo's assurances, Amidala decided to pursue her own theory. She began by questioning Farr's political rivals, Senators Mee Deechi and Halle Burtoni. Deechi revealed that he had Farr followed to find compromising information and that Farr had attended a clandestine meeting at the Coruscant docks the night before his death. Despite being reminded by her friends that Divo had ordered them to stay out of the investigation, Amidala went to the docks with Organa. There, they were ambushed and shot at, although they could not identify their attacker. The disturbance alerted Coruscant police forces, who responded and secured the scene.

Upon his arrival, Divo expressed his frustration with Amidala's actions, pointing out that she had not only failed to inform him of her lead but had also complicated his job by alerting the killer to the investigation's progress. During their conversation, Amidala began to suspect Deechi, as he was the one who had informed her about the docks. Despite Divo's attempts to slow her down, she ignored him, and the frustrated inspector followed her and Organa back to Deechi's office. There, they discovered Deechi stabbed to death in his chair.

To ensure the safety of those involved in the case, including Senators Amidala and Organa, as well as Farr's assistant Lolo Purs, Divo gathered them at the Senate Building and informed them that they would be placed under the protection of Coruscant Police and Senate Guard forces. However, Lolo Purs refused and left the room. Divo questioned the remaining individuals about who else knew that Amidala and Organa were going to the docks. Amidala revealed that Senator Burtoni was the only other person who had been informed.

Despite Divo's attempts to locate Burtoni, she was nowhere to be found. Divo returned to the senators just as Purs burst in, claiming that Burtoni had attacked her. Divo ordered the Senate Guards and police droids to find Burtoni, and they conducted a search, initially without success. Eventually, they captured her and brought her to the Chancellor's office, where several individuals involved with the case, including Amidala and Organa, as well as Chancellor Palpatine, were waiting.

Divo's initial questioning led Burtoni to deny any involvement in Farr's murder or the attack on Purs. Divo then revealed that a forensic report indicated that the poison used to kill Farr, which was lethal only to Rodians, was Kaminoan-made. With this evidence, Divo ordered Burtoni to be taken away. However, Amidala then realized that since the poison must have been in everyone's drink, Purs should have died as well, as she was also Rodian. Amidala then remembered that Purs had not consumed any of the drinks and voiced this observation.

Feeling exposed, Purs drew a small blaster and took Amidala hostage. When Amidala asked why, Purs explained that she had killed Farr because of the war he had brought to Rodia and that a new, morally stronger leader was needed. Because Deechi had known about the meeting, Purs had felt that he also had to be eliminated. Her confession validated Divo's initial theory that Farr's murder stemmed from a past mistake. During the conversation, Divo discreetly activated the police droids outside the Chancellor's office without Purs noticing. The droids surprised Purs at the door, allowing Amidala to break free and knock her unconscious. The police droids and Divo then took Purs into custody.

As the war progressed into 19 BBY, anti-Jedi sentiments grew, culminating in a violent incident when the Coruscant Security Force responded to the supposed assassination of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi on a Coruscant street by Rako Hardeen, a bounty hunter. Hardeen evaded the police but was later apprehended by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. Unbeknownst to the police and most of the Jedi, the incident was a staged event to allow Kenobi to infiltrate and disrupt a Separatist plot to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine.

Anti-Jedi sentiment reached a critical point with an explosion at a Jedi Temple hangar, resulting in the deaths of six Jedi, several clone troopers, and maintenance personnel. The investigation, led by crime scene analysis droid Russo-ISC and Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, revealed that Letta Turmond, the wife of Temple employee Jackar Bowmani, had administered volatile nano-droids to Bowmani, causing him to explode and triggering the bombing at the Temple. Turmond was arrested and detained at the Republic military base. When Tano visited her, Turmond was killed using a Force choke, making Tano appear to be the murderer. The true murderer, unknown to all, was rogue Jedi Barriss Offee. Tano was arrested by the Coruscant Guard and placed in a cell.

However, Tano escaped, unknowingly assisted by Barriss Offee. During the escape, several Coruscant Guards were killed by a lightsaber, leading the pursuing troopers to believe that Tano was responsible. In response, the Jedi Council ordered Tano's arrest. The Coruscant Police were informed that she had last been seen fleeing to the lower levels, prompting the underworld police units to go on high alert.

Tano managed to evade capture temporarily by using a cloak to conceal her identity. At one point, two officers boarded a Coruscant train on which Tano was traveling and began checking passengers' IDs. As Tano attempted to exit the train at the next station, she encountered three more officers on the platform. The officers recognized Tano and moved to arrest her. Tano used the Force to push the officers away, throwing one back onto the platform. He signaled ahead to other units as the train departed, and the remaining four officers gave chase.

Tano dodged passengers as she fled through the train cars. A civilian attempted to restrain her, and the police officers briefly gained the upper hand, but Tano fought them off during the scuffle and opened a train door. She then jumped onto the adjacent platform as the train passed. Believing she was safe, Tano began to walk away slowly. However, three officers standing on the platform spotted her and ordered her to stop. Tano fled from the station toward an open turbolift door. Realizing they were about to lose her, the officers opened fire with their blasters, but Tano had already entered the lift and escaped their shots.

The search continued, and shortly thereafter, two police officers on Level 1315 noticed an explosion at a warehouse. They alerted a search group composed of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Master Plo Koon, and Coruscant Guard troopers, who responded and captured Tano at the warehouse. Tano was placed on trial but was exonerated by Skywalker, who discovered that the true traitor was Barriss Offee.

As the Clone Wars drew to a close, the aging police droids were gradually replaced in patrol duties by clone troopers, who became increasingly visible in enforcing law and order. Shortly after the Battle of Coruscant in 19 BBY, the Jedi discovered that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was, in fact, a Sith Lord who had orchestrated the Clone Wars from the beginning. They attempted to arrest him but failed when Anakin Skywalker intervened, succumbing to the dark side of the Force and becoming Darth Vader. Palpatine initiated Order 66, declaring the Jedi enemies of the state to be executed by the clone troopers. Palpatine proclaimed himself Emperor, and the Republic transformed into the Galactic Empire.

With the police droids decommissioned, the underworld cops became the Coruscant Security Force's primary patrol and response force. Crime scene analysis droids handled forensic services, while in-depth investigations were managed by the newly formed Imperial Security Bureau. Shortly after Order 66 and the Imperial attack on the Jedi Temple, three Coruscant Security Force officers responded to a warehouse near the Temple to investigate an unusual energy reading. Unbeknownst to them, the energy reading was caused by Chief Librarian Jocasta Nu, who had set a trap for the officers by rigging her ship to explode upon discovery. Additional Coruscant Security Force officers responded under the command of a captain, along with Imperial shock troopers and an ISB major, who assumed control of the investigation.

The police discovered markings indicating that the exploded ship belonged to a Jedi, and the ISB major notified the newly appointed Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader. After meeting with the major and confirming the presence of a Jedi at the Temple, Lord Vader ordered shock troopers and the Coruscant Security Force to seal off the Temple, allowing no one in or out until he had cleared it. The Coruscant Guard deployed two full companies, and the Coruscant Security Force deployed a contingent of its police officers. Following a confrontation between Jocasta Nu and Darth Vader, Nu was taken into custody by the shock troopers aboard a Coruscant Police gunship. However, Nu revealed to the shock troopers that Vader was the former Jedi Skywalker. Vader then killed the shock troopers and Nu and destroyed the police gunship to protect his secret.

As the Empire tightened its grip, the Coruscant Police not only continued their law enforcement duties but also became an extension of Imperial power. Police officers frequently conducted patrols alongside Imperial stormtroopers. Additionally, the police gunships, initially designed for use by security forces on Coruscant, were modified for use as patrol craft on other Imperial worlds, such as Lothal. The Empire's ruthlessness also extended to the police force itself. Five years after the Empire's establishment, Prefect Phoca Soot, who oversaw police operations on Level 1331, was summoned to the Imperial Palace by Darth Vader. There, Vader presided over several Coruscanti criminals, whom he instructed to leave Coruscant or face imprisonment. To set an example, Vader surprised those present by executing Prefect Soot, who had been on the payroll of the Droid Gotra, allies of the Crymorah Syndicate.

In 9 BBY, members of the Stinger Mantis crew—Bode Akuna, Gabs, Bravo, Koob, and Lizz—disguised themselves as members of the Coruscant underworld police, escorting wanted Jedi Knight Cal Kestis as part of their mission to retrieve military intel from Senator Daho Sejan. The crew, excluding Kestis and his explorer droid BD-1, maintained their disguises throughout the mission, interacting with various Imperial stormtroopers and droids. At this time, local Imperial patrols were using Imperial probe droids to enhance their surveillance, specifically using them to scan the case containing Kestis' lightsaber.

With the ideals of the Republic gone, the Rebel Alliance was created to fight against the Empire. Species that joined the Alliance were targeted by Imperial forces who were sent into the lower levels of Coruscant to enforce the relocation of the Mon Calamari. However, when Coruscant Security Forces and stormtroopers began the relocation efforts, specifically in the Old Market Sector, the Mon Calamari resisted. The resulting riots were brutally suppressed by the police and stormtroopers.

Following the demolition of Alderaan by the Death Star in the year 0 BBY, whispers of the cataclysm began to filter to the Alderaanian populace, the majority of whom resided on Level 3204. Ceremonial gatherings of remembrance were organized, but these quickly escalated into displays of fury and resentment when visual evidence accompanied the rumors, confirming the annihilation of Alderaan. These vigils spiraled into widespread unrest, persisting for days until the Coruscant Security Force, in conjunction with Imperial stormtroopers, were deployed to re-establish order. As the troops advanced into the streets, they initiated blaster fire, resulting in the deaths of several individuals, including Reffe, who had been delivering a speech denouncing the Empire. The frightened crowds then scattered. The next day, the Coruscant police conducted mass arrests of anyone found in public areas. The day after, stormtroopers initiated house-to-house searches, claiming that Rebel agents had been recruiting local inhabitants and that Alderaanians were required for interrogation.

Subsequently, after the Alderaanians had been relocated, an officer from the underworld police was patrolling alongside a stormtrooper when they entered a cantina located on Level 1997. The stormtrooper, identifying two Alderaanian minors, Santigo and Anandra Milon, via his facial recognition system, pursued them independently, leaving the underworld officer behind. The stormtrooper managed to intercept Anandra and attempted to detain her. However, during the ensuing struggle, a Herglic intervened to aid Anandra, overpowering the stormtrooper and casting him over the level's edge, resulting in his death.

During the events of the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker successfully redeemed his father, Darth Vader, restoring him to the light side of the Force, transforming him once more into Anakin Skywalker. Anakin then seized the Emperor and hurled him to his demise, though Anakin himself sustained fatal injuries and also died. The second Death Star was obliterated, and the Rebel Alliance emerged victorious. As news of the Emperor's passing spread, Coruscant erupted in celebratory chaos. Citizens overwhelmed the stormtrooper detachments, capturing them amidst the sounds of ringing bells, exploding fireworks, and the dismantling of Emperor Palpatine's statues in Monument Plaza.

In the midst of this jubilation, law enforcement units in speeders entered the plaza and, without warning, opened fire on the assembled crowds, causing numerous fatalities. This action ignited riots among the Coruscanti, with some scaling structures to attack the police speeders. One officer was thrown from his vehicle onto the plaza's surface, while another was struck in the head by hurled debris. The remaining police speeders retreated as blaster fire and combat erupted across the capital between Coruscanti citizens and Imperial security forces, escalating into a full-blown civil war.

Amidst the conflict, Rorak, a Coruscanti present with his twelve-year-old son Jak, was killed by Imperial Commander Orkin Kaw. Driven by a thirst for vengeance, Jak enlisted in the Anklebiter Brigade, a group of children intimately familiar with the city's infrastructure who provided intelligence to Rebel operatives on Coruscant. He then orchestrated the rescue of Lazula, a woman affiliated with Level 1313 crime lord Talvee Chawin, from police custody, intending to gain the crime lord's favor. Leveraging this favor, Jak negotiated the acquisition of an EMP device, planning to deploy it at the abandoned Dex's Diner to disrupt the power supply beneath the Imperial forces engaged in combat with the Rebels for control of Coco-Town. Jak's intention was to exploit the power outage and the subsequent Rebel assault as a diversion to assassinate Kaw and avenge his father's death. Ultimately, Coruscant was secured by Rebel forces and integrated into the New Republic, although it was not designated as its capital.

Tanivos Exantor Divo, a human male serving as a police lieutenant within the Coruscant Security Force, held the position of inspector during the Clone Wars. Despite a less-than-stellar success rate as a detective, Divo exhibited an air of self-importance and pomposity, convinced of his ability to resolve any case assigned to him. His investigations were characterized by a strict adherence to regulations, often frustrating victims and witnesses alike. His pride occasionally led him to premature conclusions, neglecting thorough consideration of all possibilities and evidence. Divo maintained a strong belief in the necessity of rules and order, while disliking reports and paperwork, and he took offense at any perceived interference with his investigations.

Divo was also subject to unfortunate circumstances: when summoned to the scene of the Papanoida daughters' abduction, Divo remained unaware that the Icon of the Moon Goddess was displaced, preventing him and the police droids from detecting the blood beneath the idol, the sole clue to the kidnapper's identity. Furthermore, during his investigation into Senator Farr's murder, Divo initially posited that Farr had been killed by a politician due to past events. However, Divo allowed himself to be diverted by Senator Amidala's actions and the false accusations of Lolo Purs, leading him to falsely conclude that Senator Burtoni was responsible for the deaths of both Farr and Senator Deechi. Ironically, Divo's initial theory proved accurate when Farr's assistant, Purs, was revealed as the true perpetrator.

Phoca Soot, a male Twi'lek, achieved the rank of prefect approximately five years after the Empire's rise to power. Tasked with overseeing police operations on Coruscant's Level 1331, Soot succumbed to avarice and began accepting bribes from organized crime syndicates within his jurisdiction, specifically the Droid Gotra, allies of the Crymorah Syndicate. With Soot on the Droid Gotra's payroll, criminal activity flourished in his sector, and his connections to criminal organizations attracted the attention of Darth Vader. Soot, along with several members of the criminal syndicates, was summoned to the Imperial Palace for an investigative hearing presided over by Vader.

Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, en route to an audience with Emperor Palpatine, accompanied Grand Vizier Mas Amedda into the courtroom where Darth Vader, Soot, and Deputy Director of the Imperial Security Bureau Harus Ison were in the midst of the proceedings. After threatening the criminals with imprisonment or execution if they failed to depart Coruscant, Vader revealed his knowledge of the individual responsible for the surge in criminal activity. To emphasize his point, Vader turned and used the Force to crush Soot's heart, killing him instantly. Tarkin questioned Vader about his actions, and the Sith Lord responded that he was aware of the police official's corruption and that his elimination served as a necessary warning to the criminal underworld.

The Coruscant Security Force emerged as the "Coruscant Constabulary" or "Coruscant security" within Star Wars Legends materials, beginning with the X-Wing series by Michael A. Stackpole that commenced publication in 1997, two Jedi Apprentice novels from 2000 and 2001, and the 2002 Star Wars: Bounty Hunter video game, which provided the full name "Coruscant Security Police Force." They subsequently appeared in various novels, comics, and sourcebooks, often referred to simply as "Coruscant Security." In 2006, author Karen Traviss significantly expanded upon the Coruscant Security Force, establishing the "CSF" abbreviation in the Republic Commando and Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series, which was later incorporated into "Legends" source material. While Coruscant Security Force characters and storylines were featured in a wide range of media throughout this period, all set at various points within the Legends continuity, the last major addition to Legends material occurred in the online game Star Wars: The Old Republic, which launched on December 20, 2011.

In the film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, released on May 16, 2002, Anakin Skywalker asserts that protection is the responsibility of the "local security." However, the official canon debut of the Coruscant Security Force occurred in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, specifically in the episode "Lightsaber Lost," which aired on January 22, 2010. This episode introduced the Coruscant police droids, who are summoned to assist the Jedi in investigating a murder and recovering Ahsoka Tano's lightsaber. Dave Filoni, executive producer of The Clone Wars series, discussed the police droids in the commentary video for the "Senate Murders" episode, revealing that they were inspired by the Keystone Kops, a series of silent film comedies favored by George Lucas that depicted an inept group of policemen. He also stated that the police droids were what he termed "old bucket cops" and that their use had largely diminished by the time of the events in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. The Coruscant police reappeared in the second season episode "Duchess of Mandalore," which aired on February 12, 2010, depicting police droids actively collaborating with clone forces patrolling Coruscant's streets alongside civilian law enforcement.

Although not presented in chronological order, the "Senate Murders" episode, which aired on March 19, 2010, after "Duchess of Mandalore," was conceived as a murder-mystery narrative featuring a Coruscant Police inspector as a central character. The episode introduced Tan Divo, a detective whom Dave Filoni described as an effective yet "older school cop." In developing the character, Filoni advocated for Divo to be somewhat "over the top," and the crew incorporated "goofy" body proportions. The online Star Wars Encyclopedia entry for Tan Divo identified him as an officer with the "Coruscant Security Force," officially establishing the name within the Star Wars canon, although most materials, such as The Clone Wars episode guides, simply refer to them as the "Coruscant Police." The "CSF" abbreviation was later integrated into canon by the video game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Tan Divo made a brief reappearance at the beginning of the episode "Sphere of Influence," which aired on October 1, 2010, when the Coruscant Police were summoned to investigate a kidnapping. Their inability to uncover any evidence prompted the episode's characters to conduct their own investigation. The Coruscant Security Force made brief appearances in various other episodes, primarily in the form of police droids as background characters, notably in the episode "Pursuit of Peace," which aired on December 3, 2010, where they encountered assassin bounty hunters and subsequently apprehended them after a blaster fight.

The final arc of The Clone Wars: Season Five presented a more serious portrayal of the Coruscant Security Force, contrasting with the somewhat comedic depiction of Tan Divo and the police droids. This was achieved through the introduction of the "underworld police," sometimes referred to as the "underground police" in concept materials. They were featured in the episode "To Catch a Jedi," which aired on February 24, 2013. In the commentary for the episode arc entitled A Wretched Hive: The Coruscant Underworld, Dave Filoni discussed the Coruscant underworld, which received further development after Revenge of the Sith. The episodes were illustrated in collaboration with the team that was, at the time, working on the canceled video game Star Wars: 1313. From this collaboration, George Lucas personally conceived the underworld police, who were designed to be more intimidating and rugged than their counterparts policing Coruscant's upper levels. The underworld police reappeared in "One Thousand Levels Down," a canon short story by Alexander Freed published in Star Wars Insider 151 on July 22, 2014.