New Caprica Police

New Caprica Police recruitment poster.
"Keeping your streets safe!"

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Close up (Occupation)

The Cylon Occupation Authority creates the New Caprica Police (NCP) in response to security issues with the captive humans who inhabit New Caprica.

The NCP consists of humans who are either coerced into working for the Cylons or join the police voluntarily, because they believe that they could deal with the human population better than the Centurions and thus possible prevent some of the suffering or deaths.

With numerous security restrictions and heightened levels of control and repression on the planet, a band of human resistance fighters, regarded by the Cylons as insurgents, begins to strike back against the occupying Cylon army. The NCP was formed to counteract the insurgence by allowing the Cylons to find resistance through the anonymity that NCP members enjoy.

Wearing black ski masks, blue body armor, and green uniforms with white armbands, the New Caprica Police are considered traitors to the human race and are regarded with both disgust and disdain by the majority of the planet's human civilization.

The NCP is often tasked with performing "dirty work" for the Cylons, rounding up both suspects believed to be part of the resistance as well as innocent civilians who are often illegally imprisoned, beaten and executed.

The Resistance estimates that up to 200 humans are secretly working for the NCP.

The most significant damage the resistance inflicts on the NCP comes when the group is infiltrated by Tucker Clellan. In a spiraling depression caused by the death of his partner Nora (The Resistance - Episode 4), Clellan agrees to be wired with and detonate an explosive device in a suicide attack during the graduation ceremony of a New Caprica Police academy class. Casualties include thirty-three NCP cadets and numerous Cylons. James Lyman, a New Caprica Police captain and former deckhand under Chief Tyrol on Galactica, survives the attack. The intended target, Gaius Baltar, chose not to attend the gathering ("Occupation" , "Precipice").

After the human population escapes New Caprica and reunites with the Fleet, a number of known and suspected collaborators, including Lyman, are charged with and convicted of "crimes against humanity", and treason. They are summarily executed by the Circle, a tribunal secretly created under the executive order of President Tom Zarek to investigate and decide the fate of people implicated as collaborators during the Cylon occupation of New Caprica (Collaborators).

Notes

• The recruiting poster seen in Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance depicts a man in black clothing, despite all police seen on duty being dressed as described above.