What are your police like?

[Himeu]

We use guns

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Minoa's policemen are literally the Bobbies on the Beat:


The latter found in cities. However, it is unlikely that police officers are armed as much as that.

[New Lusitaniagrad]

Law Enforcement in New Lusitaniagrad

The National Police Force

The National Police (Lusitanian: Fórsa póilíneachta náisiúnta) is the main civil law enforcement agency of The Empire, with primary jurisdiction over all cities and large towns (with the exception of the capital city), and will pursue criminals across state lines. It is also a heavily armed paramilitary force, equipped with various small arms, armored vehicles, and a fleet of armed helicopter gunships. The National Police comes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior and has about 253,699 employees.

The Colonial Policing Agency

The CPA is the heavily armed law enforcement agency that ensures that the Emperor's Laws are followed through out the colonies, and that no colonials have any ideas about separating from the Greater Lusitanian Empire. They have jurisdiction over all colonial territories, and maintain a strong preses in both urban, and rural areas. They also operate various armed sea vessels, armed Humvee, as well as light recon aircraft.

Local Constabularies

The Local Constabularies are the responsible government agency for enforcing the law in smaller towns through out the Lusitanian Fatherland. While not as heavily armed as their national counterparts, the Local Constabularies, are still a force to be reckoned with especially when it is backed up by it's local branch of the Citizen's Militia Auxiliary forces. Unlike the other police forces these police forces answer to their local County Council, and presiding Noble, usually a Duke.

The Metropolitan Police Force of Lisbonburg

The Metropolitan Police Force is the military police responsible for policing The Capital of New Lusitaniagrad, excluding the walled off Government Quarter of the city which is the responsibility of the The CCI Honor Guard. It's members are taken from various divisions in the Lusitanian Defense Forces, and is not a civilian police force. It's snipers are a common sight on government buildings, it's assault rifle toting officers are a common sight at major public areas, its heavily armed helicopter gunships and predator drones are a common sight in the skies above the city, and it's armed UTB boats are a common sight on the Mór River that flows through the city. The MPFoL also has significant national responsibilities such as co-ordinating and leading on counter-terrorism matters and aiding the CCIHG in the protection of the Royal Family.

[Costa Fiero]

Policía officers following a student protest in Asturias, Costa Fiero


The Policía Nacional carry out everyday law enforcement duties and are divided into two branches: the Policía Nacional and the Policía de Tráfico or traffic police. Both have the legal right to use lethal force and aprehend suspects.

Gendarmería officers on patrol in Vostroya, Vostria following recent civil unrest


The Gendarmería Nacional are essentially paramilitary security personnel with no legal right to arrest suspects but often are called into situations where it is too dangerous for normal police officers. They are often seen during protests, riots and protecting high value or high security areas. Currently, Costa Fiero has 500 Gendarmería officers deployed or being deployed to Vostria following a request from auhtorities there.

[Nordvolk]

The Nordvolk National Police (Rikspolisstyrelsen, or Polis for short) are the only policing agency in the Republic, operating from stations all across the nation. They wear bulletproof vests, carry handcuffs, radio, irritant spray, batons and tasers.



Their sidearm is the Sig P239 9mm pistol, however if patrolling sensitive areas some officers are trained to use the HK MP5.

[Solis Ortus]

Our police, really a branch of the military, is extremely strict. They are authorized, and encouraged, to use physical force to keep the peace, enforce the laws, and deter dissension. They are armed and armored with advanced weaponry. Lethal force, although not encouraged, is rarely questioned as being unnecessary.

[Anolil]

The police force is privatized. What they are like varies from company to company.

[Bonnaful]

Police force in most cities and towns

This is the normal police officre for most areas in Bonnaful. They go through a year of trainning before they allow to hit the streets. They are the public face for any operation done by the police or BIGA. They carry a pp.45 pistol and a remington shotgun or a LVD 7.62.


Police in Major cities and the captial

These are the officers that keep crime levels low in bonnaful with a iron fist. They must have serve 5 years in a normal police department before being move to the MCCP departments. They are the most feared type of police because of their ways the conduct police work. They carry a pp.45 pistol and a military grade assault rifle.

BIGA agents

These are the men who know where you are at all times and can and will kill you within a blink of a eye. This the FBI/CIA of bonnaful and they are well trained and well funded. This part of BIGA was created to take out three major gangs and rid the streets of crime. They have sucessfully took out two of the gangs while the other merge in with rebels. They carrie a M80 submachine gun or a LAVD heavy assualt rilfe. These are the elitie of the elitie in bonnaful.

[Satirius]

I sense massive levels of government tyranny with some of the police forces here

[The Concordiat of Man]

I sense massive levels of government tyranny with some of the police forces here

So true!

[Knowlandia]

The Police is just another branch of the military, albiet without tanks and fighter planes, just Humvees and SMGs.

[Mediterreania]

Policía officers following a student protest in Asturias, Costa Fiero


The Policía Nacional carry out everyday law enforcement duties and are divided into two branches: the Policía Nacional and the Policía de Tráfico or traffic police. Both have the legal right to use lethal force and aprehend suspects.

Gendarmería officers on patrol in Vostroya, Vostria following recent civil unrest


The Gendarmería Nacional are essentially paramilitary security personnel with no legal right to arrest suspects but often are called into situations where it is too dangerous for normal police officers. They are often seen during protests, riots and protecting high value or high security areas. Currently, Costa Fiero has 500 Gendarmería officers deployed or being deployed to Vostria following a request from auhtorities there.

Finally, a reasonable police force!

[Syreene states]

TOPIC: Police Agencies and Departments in the Syreene States

The Police in the Syreene States are professional, helpful, and generally congenial. As there is little crime in the Syreene States, they're mostly involved in Community Policing and minor issues, such as Traffic Enforcement.


That said every city, and most districts, has a Special Duty Force to deal with particularly violent crimes, and things like Hostage situations. The governments of the individual States, alongside the Confederation Government also have Special Duty Forces, that are usually better equipped.


The Confederation also maintains several agencies responsible for Security and Law enforcement. (OOC: who are more or less equivalent to the USA's FBI and Secret Service, or the Federal Marshals.) Additionally, if needed, Military Police or the Syreene States Defense Force may be Deployed to deal with a Situation, or to provide extra security.

Both the regular police and the Special Duty Squads are usually equipped with the Syreene States Defense Force's normal service weapons. Most police officers carry an M2002 Pistol (a Licensed copy of the FN Five Seven) or M1998 Machine Pistol ( improved Chang Feng CF-05, in 5.7x28mm) along with an M1960 (FAL in 7x45mm) or M2004 Battle Rifle and a 12-gauge Shotgun, carried in the Trunk of the Patrol Car. Special Duty Forces usually have more potent weapons. While the average Detective or Agent carries only their Service Pistol, and tend to vary due to the Age of the Detective or Agent in Question, and their taste in firearms. The Normal Range encountered ranges from newly issued M2002s, to Browning Hi Powers, and a few 5.7mm Revolvers, to the Webley mark IV Revolvers traditionally used by Officers and Detectives in Ebro Township. Most regular police officers have never had to use a weapon while on patrol or on a call, but are well generally versed in the operation of their weapon none the less.

[Casseire]

The Northern Peacekeepers:
Although an unofficial law enforcement agency. The government has given them gear and weapons. Their task is to protect the border, police the native lands, and act as police when the regular police or military cannot act.

The CGS:
The CGS, Civil Guard Services, are the national police, militia, army, and navy.
A CGS City Police officer:

A CGS Sheriff officer:


[color=#FF0000]All agencies use Gray Jeep Wrangler Unlimiteds[/color]

[DASHES]

The DASHES Department of Law and Order is one of the most well-funded and one if the largest Departments in the DASHES government, and its largest office, which happens to be the DASHES Police, has over 10 Million members (making it more than 5 times larger that the DASHES military). It manages to be so large in personnel due to the inexpensive equipment it uses, which is domestically manufactured equipment of the same kind used by Soviet Russian armed forces during World War 2.
DASHES is NOT a russian/soviet nation, and its police force does NOT operate under soviet ideology or doctrine. Our police force simply uses copies of Soviet equipment used in WW2.

The three most pertinent operational goals of the DASHES Police are to A.) Continuously protect innocent civilians from violent crime by acting as both an ever-present deterrent and a reactionary force against violent criminals in Residential, Commercial, Industrial areas and beyond, B.) find and raid operational facilities found to be harboring criminal activities harmful to those involved and/or society at large (including narcotics distribution points, sex brothels, slave-trading locations, and unauthorized WMD/IED workshops) and C.) receive and fulfill the safety needs of the citizen, protecting both public society at large from abuse at the hands of criminals, while protecting the individual from abuse at home (the DASHES Police have absolutely no tolerance of sexual/racial discrimination, workplace abuse, child abuse, or domestic abuse of any kind, coming from any individual or group), and the DASHES Police uphold this operational goal by listening to the people of DASHES and responding rapidly to protect them.
The DASHES Police also proudly enforce the parental licensing program in DASHES.

SMALL ARMS
Service Rifle: Mosin-Nagant M1891/30
Service Pistol: TT-33 Tovarev (Issued to executioners or senior officers as a sign of rank and as a convenient backup weapon)
Sub-machine Gun: PPSh-41 (Used during raids and counter-terrorism operations requiring weapons suited for effective close quarters combat)
Heavy Machine Gun: DShK (Used for protecting high value targets such as shopping centers and city squares)

VEHICLES
In the DASHES Police Force, the ZiS-5 is the only vehicle used. It serves as a personnel carrier, logistics vehicle, and [with a DShK mounted on] a guntruck)

AIRCRAFT
Aerial Surveillance: PO-2 Polikarpov
Combat Air Support: IL-2 Stormovik (Used in case of invasion or in case of a force of police officers get into a situation they cannot solve/survive without aerial fire support)

DASHES Police Cadets from class of 2011 upon graduation. Taken with no-color camera, as per tradition. The Mosin-Nagant rifle depicted is the standard service rifle issued to nearly all on-duty DASHES police officers in the field.

DASHES Police aren't 'conventional'. Besides the occasional 2-man buddy-team walking through the streets or the odd Zis-5 Police truck stroll, you won't see them on city streets. However, if you look up, they are everywhere:

Picture used conceptually. In reality these officers would be using Mosin-Nagant's instead of AR-15's.

This is because DASHES Police take to the rooftops of every avenue and monitor their cities. Since the cities of DASHES are designed to have no dark alleyways, or any other kind of space that can be otherwise considered a 'low-visibility area', the Police on rooftops see everything that occurs on the streets.

If a crime does occur in the sight of a DASHES Policeman or Policewoman, that said policeman is to intervene in the crime violently, immobilizing the perpetrator by shooting him/her in the legs, thus allowing the victim(s) to better defend themselves, and keeping the perpetrator from escaping police custody and a criminal investigation, which will then determine the severity of the crime committed and the resulting severity of the guilty perpetrator's punishment.
Medical treatment of the perpetrator's wounded legs will be provided by the state, but the accumulated costs of this treatment will be added to the individual's monthly taxes and must be paid off as such. Due to several centuries of instituting such policies, DASHES hospitals have become among the best in all of the United Republic of Nations in healing leg injuries and gunshot wounds in general. The implementation and development of prosthetic limb technology for patients have made great advances as well, thanks to these Police policies.
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Of course, if a DASHES Policeman or woman is found to have intentionally shot a DASHES citizen unjustly, the officer is to be shot in the same exact area they've unjustly shot that citizen. If they survive, they are suspended for 3 months without pay, a period of time in which they would ideally use to heal, reflect on their mistakes, practice their marksmanship, and seek temporary work until they are approved to return to service. If a DASHES Policeman accidentally shoots a innocent citizen, or fires a shot that misses and hits another citizen, S/he is suspended for one month, in which they are to use to practice their marksmanship and perform volunteer work that goes towards paying for the victim's medical expenses. When they return to service, a portion of their salaries will go towards paying off the rest of the victim's medical expenses (The size of this portion will depend on the officer's pre-existing living expenses).
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Corruption is not tolerated in any office or area of the DASHES Government or DASHES Police Force, and as such it is not uncommon to see teams DASHES Policewo/men forcibly overthrowing members of the DASHES Government or even Police Force leadership on orders of civilian-operated anti-corruption agencies.
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In situations requiring anti-terror operatives, off-duty DASHES Infantry Core soldiers are called in to assist (due to their extensive training), and they are given weapons tailored to CQC/CQB warfare such as the PSh-41 SMG.

This concludes this overview of the Law Enforcement of DASHES. We hope you have enjoyed it.

[Wolny Kraj]

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