History Main / LawEnforcementInc

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': To a lesser extent, the PIG Security group enforce the law against gangs in the airport, Starfish Island and the mall - but are sometimes seen by cops as a gang.

* In ''VideoGame/WatchDogsLegion'', the PMC Albion have become the primary law enforcement agency in London. At least one MI5 agent left the agency after it was privatized.

For an actual government agency version, see HeroesRUs. See also PrivateMilitaryContractors, which may overlap. There's also a good chance it could be part of a MegaCorp or a {{NGO}}. It also might employ {{Corporate Sponsored Superhero}}es. Such agencies must simply be the police in a society which has ''[[PrivatelyOwnedSociety everything]]'' privatized (sometimes it's all owned by a [[OneNationUndercopyright single private entity]]), in which case it's just one arm of the larger group. May be connected to a PrivateProfitPrison, if they also own the prisons. Can also overlap with BusinessOfGenericImportance. Subtrope of ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'': After [[FarEastAsianTerrorists the Demons]] [[spoiler:attack an Osborn rally and kill Jefferson Davis,]] [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Mayor Osborn]] hires [[PrivateMilitaryContractors SABLE]] to supplement the NYPD and restore order. They're... [[PoliceBrutality not very]] [[PoliceState good at it.]]

* ''Series/{{Batwoman}}'': The Crows, a private security force run by Jacob Kane to supplement the GCPD.

* Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/TeethOfTheTiger'': The Campus basically serves as a private-sector Homeland Security and/or CIA. They are protected from the possibility of serving massive jail time only because of a large stack of undated pardons they have.

* In ''Victory Conditions'', the last book in the ''Literature/VattasWar'' series, it is discovered that the ''actual'' military of [[spoiler: Nexus]] has been gutted out by long-standing corruption because everybody knew that nobody would ever dare to attack them, and so the defense of the homeworld against SpacePirates ends up falling to the corporate security forces of the planet's dominant MegaCorp. They're [[RedShirtArmy poorly equipped and not trained for the task]], [[spoiler: but they ''do'' have [[TheCavalry outside assistance]].]]
* Jackson's Whole in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' works in exactly the same way. You can hire the cops to arrest someone, but the target may be able to out-bid you and thereby retain their freedom.

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* ''Capes'' is about Capes, Inc., which handles whatever business requires the attention of a superhero. Its employees act like a normal workforce -- when a huge crisis erupts at night and daytime worker Bolt hears about it, he immediately states it's the night shift's problem and heads to bed.

* Even ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Disney]]'' had a go with this trope: in a story of the ''PK Universe'' series some of these guys try and take over Duckburg's law enforcement, even trying to frame Paperinik for attacking them ([[MuggingTheMonster they actually attacked him]] when he called them out for how they treated two wannabe thieves who had already surrendered at the hero's arrival). It's revealed that their boss (who keeps the relationship secret) wants them to take over the law enforcement so they'll bankrupt Duckburg with their bills and force the administration to sell everything to him, a scheme that has already worked thrice but was foiled when [[MuggingTheMonster they tried to make an example of Paperinik and ordered Angus Fangus to not leave the city]], resulting in public unmasking, humiliation, and [[PayEvilUntoEvil Angus using Paperinik's spring-loaded punch on their boss]].

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* ''[[Literature/HcSvntDracones Blood in the Mist]]'' is about IRPF (see Tabletop Games below) commander Rio Demla Ca'Wo. Despite working for a publicly traded MegaCorp instead of the now-extinct governments she's portrayed as little different, save for the CosmicHorror elements of the story.
* In the {{cyberpunk}} world of ''Literature/TheSupernaturalist'', police are widely seen as incompetent and useless compared to "paralegals" -- a cross between special forces and lawyers who show up at a crime scene well before the police, to gather evidence for their clients by any means possible.
* In ''Literature/EncryptionStraffe'', mercenaries are preferred over state police in international ceasefire zones.

* ''ComicBook/DeathsHead'', the self-described "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent" Death's Head, in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.