Transformers Allspark: Prowl and Barricade

Good cop and bad cop, relatively speaking. Two members of Cybertonian law enforcement with two views of what a lawman should be.

Prowl believes that the law should be respected, and force may be applicable when needed, but he believes first and foremost that deescalating a situation should be a priority. There's more to proper police work than simply the guy that arrests people. A proper police bot should be one that looks out for the people he protects and serves. Prowl may be the junior partner, but that's mostly due to circumstance than any lack of competence. Recruitment for law enforcement has been quite thin in recent years.

Barricade is known for two things in life: Being more than happy to apply force as a first resort, and being utterly incorruptible. You can't bribe him, and he'll beat you to paste if you try to, and will then arrest you as an afterthought. He's lived the life of a law man, and has seen the awfulness of the commons and the wealthy, and rationalizes his brutishness as "the only way to make people respect, is that they should fear you first." He was once like Prowl, but he sincerely believes, with enough time, Prowl will learn to accept the truth as well. Cybertronians are a tribalistic, self centered group of people, and the law should not care for the tears of the unlawful.

So yeah, in my AU, Cybertron has localized law enforcement, so the Elite Guard and other such entities are that: Elite Guardians deployed only when situations call for it. Prowl and Barricade meanwhile are just the regular joes so to speak.