Republic Security Council

The Republic Security Council was a branch of the Galactic Senate comprising representatives of planetary security forces (PSFs).

During the Clone Wars, the Chairman of the Republic Security Council was the Rodian Militarist Todouo Wedil and their headquarters was a wing of the Senate Building on Coruscant.

Organization
The Security Council worked closely with the Judicial Department to manage the operations and regulations of the PSFs and Republic Judicial Forces, and to organize cooperation between PSFs for anti-piracy, counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, and humanitarian aid operations.

The Senator of a sector would often meet with the representatives of PSFs in their sector to discuss their military interests, giving these representatives a degree of influence over the Senator's decisions as these representatives were also typically the leaders of the PSFs they represented, and thus collectively controlled most or all of their sector's defenses; a sector may have an upward of one hundred recognized PSFs, and as such the Republic Security Council had as many as 100,000 members and staff. The Security Council did not meet directly due to its immense size, but instead would usually have a specialized chamber at the capital of their home sector where the Senator would oversee gatherings between the ~100 officials and representatives of the Judicial Department of that sector, and the Senator would then bring the results of their discussions back to the Senate on Coruscant.

History
The Security Council was formed around half of a century before the Clone Wars when the Militarist Party successfully pushed for a means to have better oversight over the otherwise independent PSFs, which ranged from underfunded militias, to private mercenary armies, to tribal warrior castes, to organized national militaries. Following the passing of the Security Reform Act, the term PSF was no longer a catch-all for any pro-Republic armed force, but rather an official title that required meeting heaps of regulations to maintain. Worlds that did not have a means to produce their own equipment were given the standard PSF gear: a navy blue combat dress uniform with an armband depicting the Republic Roundel flanked by symbols depicting their PSF and their rank within, and an A-280 blaster rifle for enlisted troops and DH-16 or DH-17 blaster pistol for officers.

During the Clone Wars, the Security Council underwent a massive reform as dozens of sectors seceded to the Confederacy of Independent Systems; many of these sectors failed to remove all of their representatives from the Republic government as they were legally required to do so in the secession process, and as such they essentially had spies hiding in plain sight, which some planets did on purpose in order to leech information and attempt to commit political sabotage. Those who did not voluntarily leave the Security Council were arrested on charges of espionage, which some Separatist activists attempted to package in the media as being "unprovoked mass arrests of innocent, outspoken statesmen".

Following the rise of the Galactic Empire, most PSFs were absorbed into the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy, though the Imperial Security Council continued to exist as a chamber for representatives of what PSFs remained, the Imperial Security Bureau, and the Imperial Sector Rangers. The Security Council was finally disbanded in 0 BBY when the rest of the Galactic Senate was dissolved.