Depending on the stardrive assumptions, you get battleships or fighters. A destroyer navy could be tricky.
A space police might use destroyers. They need a ship that is mightier then a frighter comandeered by criminals, with propably some impovised weapons attached. They need to carry enough space marines, to secure a freighter. Anything larger is overkill for their mission.
Alternativly one or more goverments might adopt the strategy to put their power in very few super dreadnoughts, and keep a relativly large fleet of destroyers, for scout and patrol missions.
That should work, for a mighty empire surrounded by smaller, weaker states (where some might prey on empire civilians, and claim ignorance afterwards, but none would risk a direct confronation), or if a mutual destruction setup can be achived that way, propably because it is much easier to destroy several vital enemy core worlds, then to protect all of your own.
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