Contracts, contracts, contracts.
While there's likely a ton of land in the direct control of the megacorporations (specially SuVee, which is supposed to be a major real estate player), there's likely a myriad of subcontractors and more or less independent corps. Even the megacorporate subsidiaries (say, Zainou for Ishukone) aren't necessarily patrolled by the forces of their parent mega.
So, let's assume that there's an Echelon Entertainment (KK) enclave in an area built mostly by Expert Housing (NOH) on land controlled by SuVee. Who's the police? Echelon might have Home Guard security, with Expert Housing having Internal Security on the communities, with system security controlled by Peace and Order Unit. The "regional police" would be the corporation which has the contract for that specific responsibility - which might be any of the three, or if the corps cannot agree on which one of them should be the police, then even a third party. ("Hey, Ishukone Watch doesn't have any direct interest in any of our businesses, let's contract them.")
Interplanetary space examples include cases where a certain installation is owned by a corporation separate from the nominal owner of the system, and may be patrolled by a third party - possibly even the Federation Navy, in the case of Gallente corporate property. (Technically, Fed Navy isn't allowed to be in Caldari State on its own, but the loophole in the peace treaty is that they can be invited in by someone.)
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