Is this a reference to something from an old Elite novel or a previous Elite game? I've not seen anyone mention it on these forums.
What (and where) is GalCop space?
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GalCop are the police.
Anywhere they could be found policing the area was "GalCop space".
Anywhere they could be found policing the area was "GalCop space".
GalCop (also spelled GalCo-Op) were the Galactic Cooperative of Worlds, a Federation of planets - not sure if they turned into the Federation we know and 'love'.
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Nope.
GalCop are the police. Galactic police, police colloquially known as coppers, or cops, or a cop in the singular. Galactic Cop(s) or GalCop.
GalCo-Op are the cooperative.
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What happened to the Popular People's Front of GALCOP?
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I have done.
The manual makes it very clear that GalCop are the police of the Cooperative.
GalCop is the enforcement arm of the Cooperative.
They are not equal, GalCop is subordinate to the Cooperative of Worlds (government).
GalCop are the police.
The term GalCop is twice used to refer to the Cooperative but in my view this is not correct usage. That they are both in the same place and part of the same organisation (much that the police are part of UK PLC) only confuses matters. One could say that the UK police are the UK as everywhere the UK is so are the police, but they are not the same thing.
Someone looking in from outside, and in the absence of any other information, could easily equate the police with the UK.
Just as it's easy to equate GalCop with the Galactic Cooperative of Worlds. But they are not the same thing.
The manual is clear that GalCop are the police. It's less clear on the Cooperative however.
It was early days so no wonder there was a bit of confusion. There are an awful lot of gaps that the player is left to fill in themselves which leads to stimulating discussions like this one.
I'm glad it's not the same structure in ED as it was rather simplistic.
They probably got their works published even though it was written in crayon 
http://www.shmoop.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/cops.html
http://www.shmoop.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/cops.html
Not so Clear
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A CORIOLIS SPACE STATION
Every world registered with the Galactic Co-operative has several Coriolis space stations in orbit at various altitudes. Coriolis stations are "neutral" territory, controlled equally by GalCop and the Planetary Government.
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Combined with
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Of the 2040 officially registered planets in the GalCop
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Suggests Galcop can be used as Galactic Co-Operative.
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A CORIOLIS SPACE STATION
Every world registered with the Galactic Co-operative has several Coriolis space stations in orbit at various altitudes. Coriolis stations are "neutral" territory, controlled equally by GalCop and the Planetary Government.
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Combined with
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Of the 2040 officially registered planets in the GalCop
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Suggests Galcop can be used as Galactic Co-Operative.
Are there GuyCops too?
No, back then they just called them cops.
If Galcop was a Power would anyone sign up?