Presidential security service

Presidential security service preparing to defend the President ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II")}

The presidential security service is tasked with protecting the President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.

Hand-picked by Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama from civilians in the Fleet, the security service is responsible and answerable only to the President, with no allegiance to the Colonial military authority. They consist of former police, security personnel, or people with some kind of firearms training.

The service on Colonial One is a distinct entity from the military personnel aboard Galactica and, later, Pegasus. Lee Adama himself has intentionally designed their organization in this way as he thinks they should have a separate command structure from the military organizations, so the lines of authority establishing who is under whose control would not be confused.

Notable Encounters

Lee "Apollo" Adama and Saul Tigh in a Mexican standoff with Roslin's security staff aboard Colonial One ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II")}.

The presidential security service accompanies Laura Roslin to Cloud 9 for a meeting with the reestablished Quorum of Twelve, and can be seen later in the background during the Colonial Day celebration following Gaius Baltar's appointment as her vice president ^{(TRS: "Colonial Day")}.

When Commander William Adama sends Marines led by Colonel Saul Tigh and Lee Adama to Colonial One to arrest President Roslin, they engage in a tense standoff with the security service. Eventually, Apollo pulls a gun on Tigh, then Roslin orders Adama and the security service to drop their weapons, preferring to leave peacefully ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II")}.

Notes

• Ronald D. Moore discusses the presidential security service in his podcast for "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II".
• One of the officers is with Laura Roslin on New Caprica during the Battle of New Caprica ^{(TRS: "Exodus, Part II")}.
• The service is modeled after the United States Secret Service, Special Agent division, who protect the United States' heads of state and key government players.