SpecOps is a fictional overarching British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 governmental force in Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written several books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and begun two more independent series: The Last Dragonslayer...

's Thursday Next

Thursday Next

Thursday Next is the main protagonist in a series of comic fantasy, alternate history novels by the British author Jasper Fforde. She was first introduced in Fforde's first published novel, The Eyre Affair, released on July 19, 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton. , the series comprises six books, in two...

 series of novels. It was established in 1928 to handle policing duties "too unusual or too specialized" to be handled by the regular police. The force and divisions are similar in name (for example SO27) to the real world Specialist Operations

Specialist Operations

Specialist Operations is a directorate of the Metropolitan Police. At its peak, SO was a group of twenty specialist units, which were formed to give the Metropolitan Police a specialist policing capability. The SO designation was implemented in 1986 as part of Sir Kenneth Newman's restructuring of...

 of the Metropolitan Police Service

Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service is the territorial police force responsible for Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police...

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Known SpecOps divisions

• SpecOps 1: The division that polices SpecOps itself.
• SpecOps 2: Weirder Stuff (aliens according to an unpublished chapter of The Eyre Affair).
• SpecOps 3: Office for Alternate Universe Travel (as opposed to time travel) a.k.a Weird Stuff The Eyre Affair
  The Eyre Affair
  The Eyre Affair is the first published novel by English author Jasper Fforde, released by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. It takes place in alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.-Plot summary:In a parallel...
  
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• SpecOps 5: Search & Containment. SpecOps 5 is given a man to track until "found and contained" (a euphemism for killed), then is posted with another target. SpecOps 4 is "pretty much the same" but after a different target. SpecOps 5's assignments have included Acheron Hades and his sister Aornis.
• SpecOps 6: National Security, the department responsible for protecting the president
  President
  A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
  
   and prime minister
  Prime minister
  A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
  
  . It has also been responsible for protecting Mycroft Next, presumably from the Russians, as he is a scientific genius.
• SpecOps 9: Antiterrorism.
• SpecOps 12: The ChronoGuard, or the Office for Special Temporal Stability. Responsible for policing the timestream, dealing with Anomalous Time Ripplation and repairing paradoxes and timephoons.
• SpecOps 13: Genetic detectives, responsible for the destruction of chimeras and the regulation of genetic engineered pets, including those formerly extinct. SpecOps 13 is also responsible for Neanderthal
  Neanderthal
  The Neanderthal is an extinct member of the Homo genus known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia...
  
   affairs.
• SpecOps 14: Tactical support, known for its sharpshooters and trigger-happiness.
• SpecOps 15: Drug Enforcement Agency.
• SpecOps 17: Suckers & Biters, the Vampire
  Vampire
  Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
  
   and Werewolf
  Werewolf
  A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...
  
   Disposal Operation. Despite a three-point confirmation procedure, every so often one of its operatives stakes a goth
  Goth subculture
  The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify...
  
   by mistake. SpecOps 17 also deals with Supremely Evil Beings, thousands of which are contained and placed in plain glass jars at the Loathsome Id Containment Facility; and ghosts, zombies, demons, and other supernatural beings.
• SpecOps 21: Transport Authority.
• SpecOps 22: English Aviation Authority.
• SpecOps 23: Food and Drugs administration.
• SpecOps 24: Art crime.
• SpecOps 25: Industrial Safeguards.
• SpecOps 26: Pasta Police.
• SpecOps 27: The Literary Detectives, the agency responsible for dealing with forged or stolen manuscripts and works of literature.
• SpecOps 28: Inland Revenue Services, including assessing income taxes.
• SpecOps 29: The Shakespeare division, granted its own wing of SpecOps rather than falling under the purview of SO-27.
• SpecOps 30: Neighbourly Disputes. (Note: on Jasper Fforde's official SpecOps website, SO-30 is given as the Public Services Enforcement Authority.)
• SpecOps 31: Good Taste Re-education Authority. In First Among Sequels it is the Cheese Enforcement Agency.
• SpecOps 32: Horticultural Enforcement Agency.
• SpecOps 33: Entertainments Facilitation Department.
• SpecOps 34: GlobalWebPolice.

SpecOps 5

• Fillip Tamworth (expired)
• Filbert Snood (expired)
• Agent Buckett
• Thursday Next
  Thursday Next
  Thursday Next is the main protagonist in a series of comic fantasy, alternate history novels by the British author Jasper Fforde. She was first introduced in Fforde's first published novel, The Eyre Affair, released on July 19, 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton. , the series comprises six books, in two...
  
  
• Agents Kannon and Phodder, Agents Dedmen and Walken, and Agents Slaughter and Lamb.

SpecOps 12

• Lavoisier
• Colonel Next
• Friday Next
• Filbert Snood
• Captain Marat
• Colonel Rutter
• Bendix Scintilla, Chronoguard recruiter