Law enforcement agencies in GTA VI: every force Rockstar has shown or named

Vice City has more than one police force. Rockstar's own stills and character pages show or name at least six law enforcement agencies in Leonida, from city police out to the swamp. A 2023 fan list adds six more names, but nobody has backed those up yet.

Here's every one, with where it shows up and who says so. We'll update this page after the game launches on November 19.

How we built this list

An agency counts as confirmed if Rockstar shows or names it: in the text of its official site, or lettered on a vehicle or uniform in an official still. Anything else needs two reputable outlets reporting the same sighting. Nothing here comes from leaked material.

Rockstar hasn't explained who polices what. When we say an agency "appears to be" something, that's our reading.

The confirmed agencies

1. Vice City Police

As shown: "VICE CITY POLICE" lettered on top of a police boat, beside a round seal that reads "VICE CITY POLICE DEPT".
What it is: Vice City's police department.
Where: A screenshot on Rockstar's Editions page. The boat and a police helicopter are chasing a Squalo speedboat.
Source: Rockstar Games (Editions page).

2. Vice Beach Police

As shown: "VICEBEACH POLICE", run together as one word, on the boot lid and rear bumper of a patrol car. An officer's cap, partly in shadow, appears to carry the same name.
What it is: A separately named police force. It appears to cover the beach side of the city.
Where: Rockstar's Vice City screenshot of two women being handcuffed beside the car. GamesRadar+ also says the big chase in An Extended Look (August 27, 2026) ends with "the Vice Beach Police losing our protagonists".
Source: Rockstar Games (Screenshots page); GamesRadar+.

Rockstar's official image of the Vice Beach Police at night: an officer handcuffs two women in swimwear beside a patrol car lettered VICEBEACH POLICE, while a second officer stands by and another woman takes a selfie. Image: Rockstar Games. — Image: Rockstar Games

3. Vice-Dale Police

As shown: "VICE-DALE POLICE" on the hull of a patrol boat, next to a gold seal.
What it is: The name is confirmed. It appears to be a county-level force around Vice City. The name echoes Miami-Dade, but that's our guess, not Rockstar's.
Where: Rockstar's Launch Gallery, posted November 5, 2026. Rockstar describes the image as "a wide shot of police surrounding a yacht with boats, cars, and a helicopter."
Source: Rockstar Games (Launch Gallery).

4. A sheriff's office

As shown: "SHERIFF" on the hulls of two swamp airboats, with a police helicopter overhead.
What it is: At least one sheriff's office. No county name is visible, so we can't say which one.
Where: A Jason and Lucia screenshot on Rockstar's site.
Source: Rockstar Games (Screenshots page).

Fans say Trailer 1 shows a Leonard County Sheriff's Office. That name is in the unconfirmed list below.

5. Leonida Penitentiary

As shown: Named in Lucia's official bio: "Fighting for her family landed her in the Leonida Penitentiary. Sheer luck got her out." On Rockstar's still of Lucia in an orange jumpsuit, the letters "LD" are visible on her uniform. The rest is hidden.
What it is: It appears to be Leonida's state prison. Rockstar hasn't named the agency that runs it.
Where: Trailer 1 opens with Lucia "in her prison scrubs", questioned by "a prison authority", as PC Gamer describes it. In Trailer 2, Jason picks her up from prison, TechRadar reported.
Source: Rockstar Games (Lucia's profile and screenshot); PC Gamer; TechRadar.

6. Coast Guard

As shown: Named, not shown. Cal Hampton's official profile says he "feels safest hanging at home, snooping on Coast Guard comms with a few beers."
What it is: A Coast Guard exists in Leonida, at least on the radio. It appears to be the real-world US Coast Guard. We haven't found a Coast Guard boat or uniform in Rockstar's stills.
Where: Cal's profile on Rockstar's site.
Source: Rockstar Games (Cal's profile).

Spotted by fans, not confirmed

Treat this section as speculation. Rockstar hasn't confirmed any of these names, and none has a second reputable source.

All six come from one list. A fan team posted a breakdown of Trailer 1 on Reddit, and Dexerto reported it in December 2023. Dexerto gives no timestamps, so we can't point you to the frames.

Leonard County Sheriff's Office. GTA BOOM's reference pages also name it and describe green-and-white patrol cars, but they don't give a timestamp either. Rockstar's own stills show "SHERIFF" with no county name.
Leonida Department of Corrections. GTA BOOM says Lucia's inmate uniform carries the agency's initials. The "LD" we can see on Rockstar's still fits, but we can't read the rest.
Leonida Highway Patrol. The name suggests a state highway force.
Port Gellhorn Police Department. Port Gellhorn is one of Rockstar's six named regions, a faded vacation town, so a local force would make sense.
Kelly County Police Department. Fan wikis say the trailer only shows "Kelly County" on a road sign, which isn't the same as a police force.
Ocean Beach Police Department. The weakest of the six. Rockstar's own still of a beach-side patrol car reads "VICEBEACH POLICE" instead.

The same fan list also puts the "United States Coast Guard" in Trailer 1. We've only confirmed the Coast Guard by name, through Cal's profile.

What Rockstar hasn't said

Rockstar hasn't published a list of agencies or a map of who patrols where. Beyond the Coast Guard line, it hasn't mentioned any federal agency. We've also left out how police chase or track you. This page covers who the agencies are, not how they work.

Even so, it's a crowded beat already: city police, beach police, what looks like a county force, a sheriff in the swamps, a state prison and a federal name, all before launch. The full picture arrives on November 19, and so will our update.