Security trooper

A security trooper, colloquially referred to by clone troopers during the Clone Wars as "seccies", was a soldier who served a planetary security force. At the height of the Clone Wars, there at least 10,000 active planetary security forces in Republic space.

The term "security trooper" should not be referred to "security officer", which may refer to a member of a planetary security force but was also used loosely in a similar vein to the term "guard".

Organization and equipment
Most planetary security forces in the Galactic Republic were organized like a traditional defense force, however there was some variation such as some worlds having tribal warrior castes serving the role of a security force, or a PSF being demilitarized (either by the planetary government or by Senate mandate) and reduced to a mere police force. As such, the training and equipment of security troopers, as well as what legally defined a security trooper, sometimes varied. Nonetheless, security troopers were usually soldiers in all but name.

While planets like Alderaan and Naboo supplied their security troopers with distinct equipment, most planetary governments did not have a means to mass-produce their own designs, and so relied on standard-issue equipment brought to them from the Republic Judicial Department's stockpiles, which included the trademark navy blue dress uniform, A-280 blaster rifles, DH-17 blaster pistols, The helmet of the Republic security trooper was very similar to the helmets later used by some Rebel forces on planets like Endor, though other variants also existed. Due to legal restrictions, security troopers were never armed with explosives of any form (save for aboard Senate-approved vehicles), though did usually have access to flashbangs, smoke grenades, and sometimes stun grenades.