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The Republic police gunship was a gunship model utilized by the Coruscant Security Force and the Coruscant Guard on the planet Coruscant during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. It was sleeker, smaller, and less heavily armed than the military-grade Republic attack gunship and so was more suited for performing law enforcement tasks on the dense city-planet.

Description
The Republic police gunship the civilian model of the Republic attack gunship and was sleeker, smaller, and less heavily armed. The police gunship possessed a spoked cockpit and solar gatherer panels which acted as the power generator for the ship. Two ball-mounted laser cannons were underneath the cockpit and one laser cannon was mounted on the rear of the ship which were better suited for patrolling the city scape as well as having a lower risk overall in causing collateral damage.

The police gunships were also equipped with searchlights in the event that they had to conduct searches at night or in areas of Coruscant where visibility was low, such as the underworld. The gunship's cockpit also had two seats for the pilot and gunner, with the pilot being slightly behind of and elevated over the gunner. The side hatches opened for entry, and had a ramp near the rear in the event that the circumstances required rapid deployment of its personnel.

History
The gunship was used during Clone Wars and available to both flesh-and-blood police officers and the police droids of the Coruscant Security Force. It could also be used by the shock troopers of the Coruscant Guard and the Jedi Order.

Two of these gunships were used on Coruscant by two teams of Coruscant Guards led by clone officers Captain Rex and Commander Wolffe and Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Plo Koon to search for Skywalker's padawan Ahsoka Tano in the lower levels, after Tano escaped from the Republic military base.

The gunships were utilized by several troopers of the Coruscant Guard to search the planet for the Trooper Fives. They eventually found him in a warehouse in the lower levels where he was shot by them.

During Grand Master Yoda's vision, he and Anakin Skywalker along with troopers of the 501st Legion utilized a police gunship when they searched for the two Sith Lords in Coruscant's industrial sector.

Behind the scenes
The Republic police gunship first appeared in the Season 5 episode "To Catch a Jedi." The ship was originally designed for another Star Wars-related project, and was inherited by the Clone Wars team for use in this episode.