International Police Signup/ OOC

[West Vorshka]

We also put in our semi-vote for the other two proposals.

[Teddy Bear Republic]

VOTING HAS ENDED FOR THE FOLLOWING:
They're being put up in the Factbook page of the ICPPO.

OFFICIAL WARRANT PROPOSAL*
Submitted Date:
Author:

Name of Warrantee?:
Warrant Form:**
Threat level:***
Reason for Warrant:

*Note: These are not really arrest warrant, just people of interest
**Country, Person or Organization
***Choosing from [Critical],[Severe], [Heightened],[Moderate], and [Low]Demonstrates dangerousness of criminal towards ICPPO values, and threat if left unnoticed by ICPPO etc

Vote for: 5 / Votes against: 0 / Abstain: 0

OFFICIAL OPERATION PROPOSAL
Submitted Date:
Author:
Operational Code Name:

Operational Area:
Objective:
On-ground Commander:*
Risk Level:**
Importance:***
Context:
Details of Operation:

* Basically a person who organizes the whole thing administratively. Is not a commander of your forces and cannot tell them what to do.
** Choosing from [High], [Medium], [Low]. This is a hazard assessment for operational troops.
***Choosing from [Critical],[Severe], [Heightened],[Moderate], and [Low]. Demonstrates importance of operation towards ICPPO values, dangerousness if left untouched by ICPPO etc.

Vote for: 5 / Votes against: 0 / Abstain: 0

Whereas it has always been necessary to preserve order,
Recognizing that there exists a need for an organization to combat the problem of crime, especially with mass criminal gangs now operate across borders,
Observing that there exists a good opportunity to act on sound values, and intentions,
Aiming to provide or facilitate communication between member countries regarding law and peace enforcement,
Determined to aid in the process of bringing criminals to justice at all costs within the bounds of the respective law,
This document hereby outlines all of the principals, procedures, and operations of THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE AND PEACEKEEPERS ORGANIZATION (ICPPO); and shall be considered The Charter of that organization.

Section 1: Definitions
[spoiler=Section 1]Article 1: Criminals and Criminal Acts
The ICPPO defines a criminal as a person or entity who:
a) enables or encourages human traffic or slavery,
b) commits cruel acts, including but significant physical or mental harm, in torture or otherwise, on unwanting subjects
c) wrongfully deprives sapient beings of their liberty,
d) uses his/her abilities to unlawfully deprive sapient beings of their money or assets without proper compensation, (amended)
e) commits crimes against sapient beings,
h) misuses his or her position for personal advancement, or
i) breaks signed agreements, treaties, or contracts that cause economic, social or political problems on broad scale
Article 2: Suspected Criminals
The ICPPO defines a suspected criminal as any person or entity who is charged with any of the above by any sovereign entity if the charges fit the above criteria or the accuser can assume that the case meets I.P. values.
Article 3: Terrorism
The ICPPO defines acts of terrorism as acts that
a) are directly targeted against a government, company or individual
b) cause unneeded harm to non-associated individuals, and
c) are not part of a war between two or more nations or alliances,
e) have been planned by an individual or a group, if the government of said country is not oppressive nor using unlawful techniques on their citizens, and
f) the majority of I.P. members decides to classify the group or individual as "terrorists", if the clues needed to confirm this classification have been read by all members and they have made their decision accordingly.
Article 4: Critical Situations for Peacekeeping
The ICPPO Forces define a critical situation as a situation whereas the ICPPO decides to intervene.
The ICPPO will decide upon this matter on a case-by-case-basis. To qualify for possible ICPPO intervention outside of classifications regarding terrorism or crime, scenarios must:
a) harm basic human rights, or
b) seriously pose a threat to citizen's well-being unless those wounded are exclusively signed-up soldiers who, without being forced, agreed to fight for their nation
Section 2: Organizational Procedures
[spoiler=Section 2]Article 1: Limits and Jurisdiction
a) It is strictly forbidden for the Organization to undertake any activities for the purpose(s) of national diplomacy, and
b) This Organization reserves the right to extend its jurisdiction wherever the principals outlined in this document are contravened.
Article 2: Role of member nations
a) Any nation may become a member, and
b) Nations shall be accepted on the grounds that they do not support criminal organizations or let said organizations run unopposed.
Article 3: The Rights and Duties of Members
The role of a member nation is imperative to this organization; and the rights and duties are as follows:
a) They must update the organization with any new threats, suggest possible ways to solve them, and to occasionally, on behalf of fellow member states or this organization, to perform operations resulting in the detention of a known criminal.
b) A member nation may also donate forces, who, although are under the ICPPO command, are still considered part of the member nation's forces, and
c) A member nation may donate as many forces and withdraw them at their pleasure.
Article 4: General meetings
a) Member nations shall meet once a year to discuss tactics and the way forward.
b) They shall vote to elect or replace a General Secretary if required.
Article 5: The General Secretary and deputies
a) The General Secretary and deputies shall be elected for a term of no more than 5 years at a time. They shall not be elegible for re-election immediately after their term.
b) It is the duty of the General Secretary and deputies to maintain day-to-day operations of the force, legislation of the force, judicial operations of the force, and to be the face of the force.
Article 6: Role of the Founder
a) The Founder is a permanent character in the force. It has no legal power over the organization, and will only gain it during voting time of the General Secretary.
b) It is the Founder's duty to organize events, and help the General Secretary.
Article 7: Operations
An ICPPO operation is a ICPPO sanctioned operation where member states, under this single entity, form a coalition with a particular aim or goal; with the order of operation as follows:
a) During the course of the operation, an overall commander will be named to facilitate the operations on a ground level by a general meeting.
b) During ICPPO operations, police officers and other law enforcement agencies must respect the following guidelines:
i) You have the right to use force to defend yourself against an attack
ii) Hostile fire may be returned immediately
iii) Non-armed hostile elements are to be handled without lethal weapons, unless it is deemed necessary by the person being attacked
iv) We are a police organization, not a warring state. Our ultimate goal is to arrest, not kill
v) Treat all with respect, and
vi) Use minimum force to gain your objective
Article 8: Peacekeeping Conventions
If the ICPPO decides to intervene, it will
a) send humanitarian aid forces to the situation; these forces themselves will be guarded but have no right to attack, and are only allowed to defend themselves and the operation,
b) provide state-building and peace-building measures to be defined further by ICPPO members,
c) not side with any party of wars or war-like scenarios,
c) continue to pursue any criminals in the area as defined above, and/or
d) watch over the peace process and aid where necessary.
Article 6: International Court of Justice
If the criminal has undertaken crimes across various borders and if the country from where the criminal originates or carried out their actions wishes so, the criminal can be tried at the ICPPO INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE. This falls under the ICJ committee and the Dept. of Financial and Legal Affairs., which shall be defined in later laws. The International Court of Justice shall undertake the case on the basis of the laws within this document, and the punishment will be carried out as defined by future laws.
Article 9: Employees
The ICPPO can recruit employees directly for the organization. The duties of law enforcement officers employed by the ICPPO includes organizing and participating in operations on behalf of the ICPPO, issuing international warrants and guarding ICPPO facilities and persons.
Article 10: Court of Justice
a) The ICPPO's Court of Justice is the common law tribunal branch of the ICPPO.
b) The Court of Justice tries cases where a criminal which has been arrested by the ICPPO in an operation and/or where a criminal has committed several crimes in one or several member nations, and at the majority bequest of this/these nations.
c) The Court of Justice is a trial by bench, where a 20-judge panel appointed by a majority at a general meeting, shall review the trial and make the final decision.
d) These justices shall follow the laws set by the ICPPO in the above.
e) The punishments carried out by the Court of Justice shall be considered by the justices in question, and shall include an average weight of the punishments that would have been given in the member nation(s).
f) The Court shall appoint a prosecutor, approved by the ICPPO and member nation(s), as well as a lawyer for the defendant. The defendant may also represent themselves or use their own lawyers.
Article 11: Enactment and Amendment Procedures
a) Any member nation may propose amendments to this Charter at any point.
b) Any such proposed amendments will be voted on when at least a fifth of the members approve of moving the ammendment forward to the voting stage, and the vote shall be taken over the following 72 hours, or until an absolute majority is not achieved.
c) If the ammendment is supported by a majority, it will be included in these provisions.

This document is hereby adopted as the sole Charter or Constitution of the ICCPO

Votes for: 8.5 / Votes against: 0 / Abstain: 0

[Teddy Bear Republic]

I want to change the application to better suit the ICPPO:

Nation name:
Most common crimes in your nation:
Major criminal organizations in your nation:
List of major law enforcement agencies:
Location of ICPPO headquarters in your nation:
Are you willing to uphold the Charter (See Factbook and National Information):

Previous applicants need not reapply if this is reapproved. I'll take a simple count of hands (or rather, show of support) to pass this.

[Teddy Bear Republic]

I want to change the application to better suit the ICPPO:

Nation name:
Most common crimes in your nation:
Major criminal organizations in your nation:
List of major law enforcement agencies:
Location of ICPPO headquarters in your nation:
Are you willing to uphold the Charter (See Factbook and National Information):

Previous applicants need not reapply if this is reapproved. I'll take a simple count of hands (or rather, show of support) to pass this.

I'm also planning to make a new, more organized Factbook for the ICPPO with space for operations and lists of persons of interested and whatnot. Stay tuned for more.

[Teddy Bear Republic]

Several things:
- New Factbook page: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=161044
- Secondly, the proposed new signup form. I presume everyone's okay with that.
- We haven't decided how we will approve operations or persons of interests yet, so let's leave those aside until we think of something.

Crata: Operational proposals go here into the IC Page, by the way.

[Libraria and Ausitoria]

We are in favour of everything above.

By the way, the charter, as it is written out, has two Article 9s in Section 2. We feel that this should be renumbered in accordance with the intentions of this charter.

We move that the following Judicial Operations Resolution be adopted:
Firmly resolved to carry out the aims of our organization to the fullest,
Hence wishing to establish the operating principals of the Court of Justice, and
Whereas the principals and requirements of Section II of the Charter of the ICCPO allow for an indicate the need for this document,
The ICCPO agrees as follows:
Article 1: Judges of the Court of Justice shall be appointed at a general meeting for a term of one year at a time.
Article 2: A Judge may be nominated by his or her country for appointment as one of the Judges of the Court of Justice, and if there is a majority in favour of the appointment of this Judge, he shall be appointed; and if there is not, he shall be rejected.
Article 3: A Judge may be removed by three quarters of the membership.
Article 4: The Judges may elect by majority amongst themselves a President and Deputy President(s) to oversee the proceedings of the Court of Justice.
Article 5: The Judges may replace the President and Deputy President(s) at their pleasure.

[Libraria and Ausitoria]

OOC: For some reason, most of our IC business seems to be happening in this topic, in part because the signup is itself IC, not OOC. May we suggest that a new topic be made for Signups, a topic for anything OOC only, and all legal matters be moved to the IC topic?

[Teddy Bear Republic]

I'm actually more concerned about how we're going to vote these operations and persons of interests into effect, without being too bureaucratic. And I don't want the Founder to have too much power, lest it be seen as too authoritarian.

1. Signups on other threads occur on the OOC.
2. Proposals for operations / amendments /persons of interests are to be posted in the IC. Just ignore everything pre-2012, I was pretty naiive before then.
3. Will renumber soon.
4. No problem with that motion.

[Kommunist Karlzgrad]

Some may be surprised to see a nation such as ourselves getting involved in such a thing, but the United Socialist States of Kommunist Karlzgrad are looking for justice in the homeland, same as any other nation.

After the breakup of the old soviet union, the nation was left in a shambles of fractured states, and the mafia took control. Now we seek to clean up the organized crime that dominates the land, securing all the weapons, including nuclear, for the rightful cause of Raushin liberation.

We are forming a secret police force to work alongside other nations in this effort. Their uniforms consist of long black leather coats, black leather pants, black shoes, black hat... you get the picture.

Nation name: Kommunist Karlzgrad
Most common crimes in your nation: Oh goodness, where to start? Violent crimes, illicit gambling, illicit drug use, conspiracy and terrorist acts, illegal possession of nuclear arms, defacing public property...
Major criminal organizations in your nation: Various arms of the Raushin mafia: Leningrad mob, Novgorod mob, the Black Arms, the Red Barons, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra of Pain, the Greater Kamchatka Mafia, the Red Oktoberfesters. Most of the crime has already been removed from Karlzgrad, but the rest of Raushia is just a mess.
List of major law enforcement agencies: The army, the general police force, and the secret international police.
Location of ICPPO headquarters in your nation: Kremlin Square, Karlzgrad (the kapital city)
Are you willing to uphold the Charter (See Factbook and National Information): yes

[Teddy Bear Republic]

Some may be surprised to see a nation such as ourselves getting involved in such a thing, but the United Socialist States of Kommunist Karlzgrad are looking for justice in the homeland, same as any other nation.

After the breakup of the old soviet union, the nation was left in a shambles of fractured states, and the mafia took control. Now we seek to clean up the organized crime that dominates the land, securing all the weapons, including nuclear, for the rightful cause of Raushin liberation.

We are forming a secret police force to work alongside other nations in this effort. Their uniforms consist of long black leather coats, black leather pants, black shoes, black hat... you get the picture.

Nation name: Kommunist Karlzgrad
Most common crimes in your nation: Oh goodness, where to start? Violent crimes, illicit gambling, illicit drug use, conspiracy and terrorist acts, illegal possession of nuclear arms, defacing public property...
Major criminal organizations in your nation: Various arms of the Raushin mafia: Leningrad mob, Novgorod mob, the Black Arms, the Red Barons, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra of Pain, the Greater Kamchatka Mafia, the Red Oktoberfesters. Most of the crime has already been removed from Karlzgrad, but the rest of Raushia is just a mess.
List of major law enforcement agencies: The army, the general police force, and the secret international police.
Location of ICPPO headquarters in your nation: Kremlin Square, Karlzgrad (the kapital city)
Are you willing to uphold the Charter (See Factbook and National Information): yes

Accepted. Although a secret police is a bit extreme ... if you want to have a police branch that does not necessarily answer to lower elements of the civilian government (in case that part is corrupt or something), try a nicer audit bureau instead.

[Libraria and Ausitoria]

a secret police is a bit extreme ... if you want to have a police branch that does not necessarily answer to lower elements of the civilian government (in case that part is corrupt or something), try a nicer audit bureau instead.

Or a Supreme Court. Our Supreme Court can get very excitable. Have you heard about the time when they stopped a democratically elected government from bringing in the army to arrest them (because they had blocked a new Constitution) by interpreting the Unwritten Constitution so that the army had in effect sworn 'to defend the correct interpretation of the Constitution'? Then, because they had the government's bank account number, they took the government's money into 'safekeeping'. The army and civil servants, unsurprisingly, concluded that their new paymasters where in the right, and by clever accusing the perpetrators of treason; they managed to turn the population against the old government. That would have been about thirty years ago.

[Teddy Bear Republic]

I fail to see how that was related. If it was a euphemism for something, I apologize.

Moving on, though, we do need to figure out a method of implementing warrants and operations without going through a hassle. Time is the enemy in these cases.

[Crata]

Not regarding the warrant form, but moreso the Charter itself: We may need to adjust it later on (e.g. I'm still in favor of our older definition of criminals), but we can't have every nation vote on these. So what we could do is form some kind of "inner circle" (the administrative forces) that accepts willingly input from the outside but decides whether or not the changes are made. If we decide to do so, we could save a lot of time, but the Charter should contain the following:

Every member-state has the duty to check the Charter for changes and is free to leave the ICPPO at any time.

Just an idea. Feedback?

[Libraria and Ausitoria]

Not regarding the warrant form, but moreso the Charter itself: We may need to adjust it later on (e.g. I'm still in favor of our older definition of criminals), but we can't have every nation vote on these. So what we could do is form some kind of "inner circle" (the administrative forces) that accepts willingly input from the outside but decides whether or not the changes are made. If we decide to do so, we could save a lot of time, but the Charter should contain the following:

Every member-state has the duty to check the Charter for changes and is free to leave the ICPPO at any time.

Just an idea. Feedback?

We approve of all of this, and move that the proposed addition to the Charter be made in II, 2, as c)

Moving on, though, we do need to figure out a method of implementing warrants and operations without going through a hassle. Time is the enemy in these cases.

Possibly members could appoint themselves as members of a Legislative and Operational Council, for a tenure of a maximum of something like a week at a time? Then anybody who hasn't been active for a week wouldn't need to be counted for voting purposes?

TBRE, are you going to call a vote on this? and shall we move IC stuff to IC and OOC stuff to OOC?

[Teddy Bear Republic]

IC stuff is in IC stuff (or at least will be from this point onwards, and so should only be used for passing motions), and the OOC is already here.

Alright, I'll call a vote for the amendment and charter) but before we call a vote on this, one last thing to add by myself: do we really need a General Secretary?

Regarding voting:
- For WARRANTS, no vote is needed if the entity has consistently broken the law under ICPPO regulation.
- For OPERATIONS, a nation proposes for one, and we'll see if anyone joins up / objects. After two days, the operations is passed.
- For AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER, a vote is needed and lasts 3 days.

I also believe we may need a section for warrants in our charter. The above voting procedure need not be put in the charter, just the organizational procedural section.

I'm also planning to come up with a Notification form to nations / people who have been put up on our warrant list, something like this:

OFFICIAL NOTICE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE AND PEACEKEEPING ORGANIZATION
To whom it may concern,
Please note that on [date] forwards, [name of entity] has been declared a suspected criminal threat under ICPPO definitions, and therefore there is a warrant out for [name of entity]'s arrest.
Active measures sanctioned under the ICPPO charter will automatically be carried out against [name of entity], which include peacekeeping intervention, ICPPO sanctioned arrest and a trial by the ICPPO Court of Justice.
Reasons for this include [INSERT].

Sent by [Your Nation name],
on behalf of the INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE AND PEACEKEEPING ORGANIZATION

[Intonisia]

i would like to sign up for the internasional police force

[Teddy Bear Republic]

It might be helpful if you actually fill out the form. And please, capitalize your letters.

[The Greater Aryan Race]

So far, I have no problems.

[Teddy Bear Republic]

Okay, just to reiterate for everybody:

ADDITION TO THE CHARTER
*Every member-state has the duty to check the Charter for changes and is free to leave the ICPPO at any time.*

GENERAL SECRETARY
As in, do we really need one?

REGARDING VOTING:
- For WARRANTS, no vote is needed if the entity has consistently broken the law under ICPPO regulation.
- For OPERATIONS, a nation proposes for one, and we'll see if anyone joins up / objects. After two days, the operations is passed.
- For AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER, a vote is needed and lasts 3 days.

REGARDING NOTIFICATIONS TO BE SENT OUT TO THE WARRANTEE (?)

OFFICIAL NOTICE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE AND PEACEKEEPING ORGANIZATION
To whom it may concern,
Please note that on [date] forwards, [name of entity] has been declared a suspected criminal threat under ICPPO definitions, and therefore there is a warrant out for [name of entity]'s arrest.
Active measures sanctioned under the ICPPO charter will automatically be carried out against [name of entity], which include peacekeeping intervention, ICPPO sanctioned arrest and a trial by the ICPPO Court of Justice.
Reasons for this include [INSERT].

Sent by [Your Nation name],
on behalf of the INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE AND PEACEKEEPING ORGANIZATION

REGARDING THE SECTION ON WARRANTS IN THE CHARTER:
Article x: Warrants
a) The ICPPO may release a warrant for an entity, be it a person, organization or nation, suspected in participating in criminal or terrorist acts, as according to ICPPO definitions.
b) These warrants are to be sent to the entity in order to notify them to change their ways.
c) Warrants may be issued at any time by any nation immediately after learning of the entity's breach of ICPPO values.

[The Greater Aryan Race]

I'm not sure if the post of General Secretary is a good idea. It has the potential to lead to flagrant abuse of power.

[Teddy Bear Republic]

I'm not sure if the post of General Secretary is a good idea. It has the potential to lead to flagrant abuse of power.

That's not my concern, it's just that I want less of a bureaucratic mess and more action. A General Secretary is unnecessary, because what would they do? Can't we all be the voice / face of the ICPPO? Anyways, you've got me to organize stuff, and I have no legal / authorative power over anything anyways. Apart from accepting people, I guess, but that's trivial.

[Libraria and Ausitoria]

I'm not sure if the post of General Secretary is a good idea. It has the potential to lead to flagrant abuse of power.

That's not my concern, it's just that I want less of a bureaucratic mess and more action. A General Secretary is unnecessary, because what would they do? Can't we all be the voice / face of the ICPPO? Anyways, you've got me to organize stuff, and I have no legal / authorative power over anything anyways. Apart from accepting people, I guess, but that's trivial.

No, that's your job and privilege, as founder: to assist the General Secretary. In the absence of a General Secretary, this means you assist nobody in organizing affairs. And you do a good job at it: so good that we do indeed hardly need a General Secretary.

We think that the post of General Secretary should maybe be revised to be the principal vote-caller (like the Speaker), to be voted in or out of office at any time the assembly calls such a motion? Although TBRE seems to be doing fine at this anyway. We'd be happy to support TBRE formally taking up such a role, unless TBRE would prefer someone else to do it? But anyway, we'd need a few deputies anyway, for instance when the speaker/General Secretary position is up for election or faces a no-confidence motion.

[Teddy Bear Republic]

Thanks for the compliment. I'm okay with deputies. Although I don't like the term, 'cause it makes me seem like a leader. I'm merely the paper pusher who got here first. I suppose we could have a legislative council, with no voting authority apart from helping out organizing this and calling forth motions.

Gah, so many things to vote for! The list includes:

- Additions to Charter (part about membership)
- Additions to Charter (part about warrants)
- Notification (to warrantee)
- General Secretary / lack thereof
- How to vote warrants / operations into effect (just get them approved by the legislative council, maybe?)

[Teddy Bear Republic]

Sorry, more on my viewpoint of a legislative council:

- There's an unlimited number of them.
- It consists of nations who are dedicated (will stay on NS for some time) and have a proven track record. Of what, I'm not sure yet.
- They can approve operations / warrants into effect, judging by if they fit with ICPPO values.

[Libraria and Ausitoria]

Thanks for the compliment. I'm okay with deputies. Although I don't like the term, 'cause it makes me seem like a leader. I'm merely the paper pusher who got here first. I suppose we could have a legislative council, with no voting authority apart from helping out organizing this and calling forth motions.

What we meant by our suggestions was a General Secretary and deputies for vote-taking/counting, and a legislative council to be the ones voting. The legislative council would be free to all who appoint themselves to it weekly. Then rather than having the whole unwieldy membership meant to vote on everything; only the active ones would be expected to do so.
Then of course, there's the Judicial set-up, which we've moved a resolution to establish.

We will be happy to provide a series of amendments in a while to legally lay out exactly what we mean for the legislature and the 'executive'*, if there is some support for these ideas?

(*Note that by 'executive' we mean the people organizing the legislature, only with the confidence of the legislature, rather than anything else.)