The Urban Police Division was a department of the Imperial Stormtrooper Corps tasked with enforcing Imperial law in major cities on certain worlds. Over 125 worlds housed UPD units, and over 8,200,000 stormtroopers served the UPD as of 10 BBY. Police stormtroopers were often equipped with standard stormtrooper armor and various E-11 blaster variants. Apart from their law enforcement role, police stormtroopers were still considered regular infantryman and most saw wartime combat. UPD units were typically assembled in cities that housed terrorists, insurgents, or heavily-armed criminals and often cooperated with local lawmen in their operations. On top of patrolling heavily populated areas and military facilities in their areas of operation, police stormtroopers also participated in raids on facilities that housed contraband or highly wanted criminals. In the event that a major city was attacked by a large enemy force, police stormtroopers and local policemen stood as the first line of defense, though stormtroopers from other departments (or Imperial Army troopers) were typically deployed as reinforcements. Galactic City, which spanned more than 90% of Coruscant's surface, housed over 2,000,000 police stormtroopers (of a total estimated 6,500,000 stormtroopers including cadets, reserves, and support personnel), which was nearly a quarter of all UPD troopers in the Empire's arsenal. Other cities such as Theed on Naboo or Ko Hentota on Nar Shaddaa housed only around 100,000 police stormtroopers. There were many other stormtrooper departments that played similar roles but were not considered part of the UPD, such as the Military Police Division (whose members were trained as shocktroopers; not to be confused with the Imperial Army's Field Police Department and Imperial Navy's Fleet Security Department, who played the same role but did not serve as law enforcement in civilian areas), who served as both military police and civilian police and thus had more authority than UPD troopers. While armor with red markings was typically associated with shocktroopers of the Military Police Division and some special forces units, some UPD units issued its members red-marked armor without providing them shocktrooper training.
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