List of fictional secret police and intelligence organizations

This is a list of secret police organisations and intelligence agencies which are fictional:

Contemporary world

• The 13th Bureau, the intelligence and secret police arm of the Yellow Empire in the Blake and Mortimer comics.
• The Agency from Scarecrow and Mrs. King
• Alliance of Twelve from Alias
• Black Chamber, from The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue
• CONTROL from Get Smart
• Counter Terrorist Unit from 24
• "Cubicle Gestapo" from Dilbert
• Division, secret black-ops branch of the government from Nikita
• DXS, the Department of External Security from MacGyver
• Earth Protection Force from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• F.E.A.R., a paranormal investigation agency in the popular videogame
• The F.I.R.M. from the TV series Airwolf
• FLAG, the Foundation for Law and Government, from Knight Rider
• Immigration and Customs Security from The Border
• National Intelligence and Security Agency from InSecurity
• The Office of Unspecified Services, from Infinite Jest
• Omega Sector from True Lies
• Section 13, from Jackie Chan Adventures
• Sector 7, from Transformers
• S.H.I.E.L.D., S.W.O.R.D., and S.T.R.I.K.E. from the Marvel Universe
• SMERSH from the James Bond novels and films.
• S.T.A.R.S., a police task-force similar to SWAT, in the Resident Evil video game franchise
• Rainbow, a secret organizations that deals with counter terrorism from the popular game franchise Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
• The Tribunal from Metalocalypse (also called The Council)
• U.N.C.L.E. from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• T.H.R.U.S.H. from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• XXX, from xXx
• ZEP, the secret police of Taschist Borduria in The Adventures of Tintin
• Z.O.W.I.E. - Zonal Organization of World Intelligence and Espionage, seen in the Derek Flint spy sendups
• Third Echelon, from the popular video game series Splinter Cell.
• The dogs from George Orwell's Animal Farm.
• The National Office Of Security Enforcement, N.O.o.S.E. Grand Theft Auto IV a parody of the DHS.

Science-fiction

• Black Priests of Kzin
• Civil Protection, from Half Life 2
• Checkmate from the DC Universe
• The Forge from Doctor Who audio plays
• Torchwood from the Doctor Who universe.
• The Inquisition from Warhammer 40,000 - Imperial secret police similar to the Spanish Inquisition
• NID from Stargate SG-1
• SHADO for "Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation" from TV-Series UFO
• Special Circumstances from the novels of Iain M. Banks about the Culture.
• Special Circumstances from Scott Westerfeld's Uglies trilogy
• Section 7 - An intelligence organization run by the UEO in seaQuest DSV. Captain Oliver Hudson referred to them as "Gestapo bastards.". The older patches read "Sector 7" instead of "Section 7", leading some to believe this to be their original name.
• Sector 7 - An intelligence organization in the 2007 Transformers movie, they discovered the All Spark and built the Hoover Dam around it to mask the energy emitted by the Cube. The name might be a reference to another Steven Spielberg produced series, seaQuest DSV.
• Science Police from the DC Universe
• Public Security Section 9, a Federal Security agency and armed branch of the Ministry of Home Affairs in Ghost in the Shell.
• Office of State Security, or 'StateSec', or 'SS', an arm of the People's Republic of Haven in some of David Weber's Honorverse novels.
• Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.) from Hellboy (film)
• The GOTT ES Members From Kiddy Grade
• The Bureau of Grossology-Secret organization entrusted with the prevention of gross or disgusting crimes in the TV series Grossology
• Shinra Electric Power Company

Star Trek and its spin-offs

• Tal Shiar - Romulan secret police and intelligence agency
• Obsidian Order - Cardassian secret police and intelligence agency
• Starfleet Intelligence - Federation intelligence agency
• Section 31 - rogue and officially nonexistent Federation intelligence organization
• V'Shar - The Vulcan Intelligence & Security agency

Star Wars

• Imperial Intelligence - intelligence arm of the Galactic Empire
• Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) - secret police of the Galactic Empire
• New Republic Intelligence - intelligence service of the New Republic
• Bothan Spynet - intelligence service of the Bothans, affiliated with the Rebel Alliance and its successor state the New Republic
• Public Safety Service (PSS) - the successor of the Corellian Security Force, after the Imperial government turns the latter from a regular police force into a secret police.
• Galactic Alliance Guard (GAG) - the secret police of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances during the Second Galactic Civil War (fate after the war unknown).

Babylon 5

• The Nightwatch - Earth Alliance secret police
• Psi Corps - Earth Alliance secret police composed of telepaths, essentially "Thought Police", often working in tandem with the Nightwatch. They possess obvious references to the TV show The Prisoner and the Gestapo, which several characters comment on within the series ("...what are you up to today? Annexing Sudetenland?")

Fantasy

• The Cable Street Particulars from Terry Pratchett's Discworld - Ankh-Morpork secret police (under Captain Swing), and later merely the "plainclothes" division (under Samuel Vimes).
• The Owsla, the rabbit army/police and the Owslafa, secret police, especially of Efrafa, in Watership Down
• Bureau 13 from the role playing game Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic
• Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense
• The Dai Li from Avatar: The Last Airbender
• The Secret Police in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe headed by the wolf, Maugrim
• S.H.U.S.H. from Darkwing Duck
• Blades, the imperial secret service, from The Elder Scrolls
• The Laundry, from The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue
• The Order of Mata Nui From Bionicle.
• The Gale Force from Wicked
• SI:7, the secret service for human faction of Stormwind from World of Warcraft

Dystopian futures

• The Thought Police from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• The Finger, the secret police of Norsefire, the fascist government of England, in the V for Vendetta comic and film adaption.
• UNATCO and Majestic 12 from Deus Ex.
• Grammaton Clerics from Equilibrium (film).