State Police

The State Police are the general police force in Service Territory

Introduction
The State Police are the dominant police force in 2034. The SP were founded shortly after the Service Unionists won the 2017 Elections in Britian, and were the very first uniformed organization founded by the Service Unionist Party, as although the State Guard technically predates the SP, the SG were not at the time anything more than a ceremonial guard. The State Police were notorious for their regular attacks on members of political parties other than the Service Unionists, and seemingly random arrests. To this day, the SP use a mixture of intimidation and military-style training to keep order in the cities. The State Police have come into conflict in the past the State Guard, for various reasons.

Uniform
For troopers and squad leaders, uniform consists of grey field jackets, tunics and trousers, grey field cap, and black boots. Coats are often provided in cases of inclement weather, as are gloves. As with the SA and SG, rank ignasia is displayed on the left collar board, with their division on the right, but the shoulder boards are blank. The State Police ignasia is displayed on the right pocket of tunics and coats. Squad leaders have badges on their caps and carry Unionist iconography on their shoulderboards. If the trooper belongs to the engineering division, their uniform will have a green trim, and if they belong to the medical division, the trim will be red.

Whilst on parade or formal duty, they wear a dress uniform variant of their uniforms and wear blue armbands with their district, city and the Service Unionist ignasia of eagle and crescent, around their right arms.

The uniform of officers has differences, including the exchange of field caps for peaked caps, and the addition of higher quality tunics and coats. Officers may also carry ceremonial swords at formal occasions.

Command Structure
Being a highly militant organization, the State Police have paramilitary ranks and organization as opposed to traditional police ranks. These ranks are identical to that of the State Security Guard, although the SSG, like the Service Army, also use the prefix "Knight" to designate more senior or experienced officers.

Recruit
Units with this rank are not strictly speaking yet a member of the State Police, and as such do not yet enjoy the luxuries of being a member of the Service Unionist Party. They must be accompanied by a non-commisioned officer at all times.

Enlisted
Graded one to three, the Enlisted members from the backbone of the SP. They are trained to the just below same standard as the Service Army, due to the threat of attack from Road to Freedom members, who are often led by former military officers. The Enlisted cannot order each other or Recruits.

Corporal
Although strictly speaking not a commanding unit, Corporals are often appointed as temporary team leaders due to their rank and experience if a Sergeant is not available.

Sergeant
Sergeants form the bulk of commanding units on the feild. They can often be indentified by slight variations in their uniform, such as the presence of shoulder boards, which are absent on the uniforms of Enlisted and Corprals. Sergeants are also generally better equipped. Sergeants often find themselves responsible for discipline with the SP, and they known for being brutal individuals. Each Sergeant is theoretically in charge of a squad of 5 men, including himself - although he may be in charge of more or less men, or may just be a general non-commissioned officer.

Lieutenants
Juniour officers such as Lieutenants may or may not be assigned to a protection team, consisting of 2 squads. If they are not, they often make themselves useful as general officers.

Captains
These officers rarely leave their working space, as they are often busy with paperwork. They are assigned a contigent, but they will usually leave it in the hands of the contigent's Liuetenants. However, when they are required, they command with absolute authority, with years of experience behind them. Although Districts do not usually have an individual State Police leader, some senior captains are appointed control over a District by the city's SP Commander.

Commander
Each City has a SP Commander as it's head of law enforcement. The Commander is ultimatley responsible for the safety of the City and discipline of the residents. State Police Commanders often hold positions of authority within the Service Unionist Party. The rules and regulations can vary wildly upon each City, as Commanders are given relatively free reign of their State Police. Commanders are valuable and rarely set foot outside unless it is totally necessary or they are on formal duty for a Party official.

Specialist Contigents
A member of the State Police may or may not be a member of a Specialist Contigent, such as the Medical Corps or Engineering Corps. Their ranks and authority do not change, although a member of the SP usually has to be the rank of 2nd Grade Enlisted before he can apply to one of these divisions. Specialist Contigent are usually headed by a Division Officer, who typically has the same authority as a Captain. SP units are grouped into Squads of their own specialization where possible.

Recruitment
To join the State Police is actually a relatively simple affair, as the requirements consist of little more than passing a Loyalty Test and being reasonably fit, although as with the rest of the State Police Doctrine, this can vary widely depending on the personality and decisions of the Commander, and it is not unknown for some of the more "elite" State Police divisions such as the London State Police to have stricter. entrance qualifications, (note that the London State Police no longer exists, see "Comflicts and Controversy") simply because their Commander decides that they have a more important duty, protecting the Service Capital, in comparison to the other State Police forces. The State Police is a huge organization which includes at least a quarter of the population within a City. The State Police also includes some former Service Army officers who decided to stay within the cities rather than be asigned to areas such as World's Edge or the Service/Segiet border.

Duties
The State Police really is the catch-all force in Service territory, although they are assisted by the State Security Guard and any stationed soldiers from the Service Army, who find themselves being ferried around often.

The State Police often patrol in their squads, or at the very least pairs. This is not so that they can better police the city, but for their protection. The SP are a very-much hated organization, and any one who is wearing the uniform alone on the streets is likely to be attacked, mugged, and stripped of his possesions. A district will always have at least two State Police teams in it at any one time. The SP often patrol carrying firearms and trudgeons with which to subdue any uncivilized activity. The State Police are notorious for their brutality both inside and outside of detainment ; it is not uncommon for them to get over-zealous with their trudgeons, and reports of broken bones and the need for stitches are far from being unheard of.

The State Police are also notorious for their storm-trooper mentality. If there is someone they want arrested, they will kick the resident's door in and rush in and beat and arrest their target, then smash up and destroy any of the person's possesions for good measure, whilst they divide any credits they find amongst themselves. If and when the resident is released, they often return home to find their residence ripped apart and stripped of any and all valuables, which are now most likely locked away in the houses of the State Police.

People who find themselves in SP detetention will often find themselves beaten and robbed of their credits and possessions.

Power
The State Police is the primary, and technically the only offical, law enforcement agency. They take orders from their officers, who take orders from their Commander, who in turn takes orders from the High Commander. The SP are, however, frequently overshadowed by the State Security Guard, who have established their own policing divisions. Since the two organizations are not connected, this can rise to disputes between the two. The State Police is so large, because it is needed to counter the massive levels of civil unrest within cities.

The State Police are, by default, lesser members of the Party, and as such have access to luxuries such as their own living areas, the right to have a legally recognized family, and access to food other than the rations provided for Residents.

London Uprising
In early 2032, the Road to Freedom movement had established an extensive escape system through the abandoned underground train system and sewers with the assistance of Sergiet spies. The London State Police, arguably the most experienced and elite of all SP forces, was tasked by High Commander Haartze to systematically shut down the various RTF cells, arrest the ringleaders, and destroy any exits.

SP Commander Robert Carter decided to tackle the problem by stepping up State Police patrols and recruitment rate. It worked for a while, and the State Police had arrested an estimated 30% of RTF leaders by the Summer. However, with the introduction of the new State Security Guard policing divisions in the Autumn, arguments began between the two organizations as the SSG refused to take orders or directives from Commander Carter, as they saw themselves as the elite and above taking orders from the SP.

This made Commander Carter's plan harder to carry out - not because he as lacking in numbers of State Police, he had plenty, but because that the SSG decided to employ their own tactics that disrupted the SP's plan, and the SSG was openly accused of deliberatley disrupting Commander Carter's plan by some more outspoken members of the State Police. The Party, who's headquarters was based within London itself, refused to comment on the issue, and instead both factions turned to the local Service Army leader, Knight-Colonel Christopher McCallum.

Knight-Colonel McCallum was nervous on taking sides in the issue as he did not want the reputation of the Service Army to be tarnished by his actions. However, he did also hold an auxilary position within the SSG, which helped him to be swayed by the SSG Commander, Sarah Hunter. Eventually, he announced that the State Security Guard had the support of the Service Army.

As the attention of the Service was focussed on this, the RTF and it's Sergiet allies were preparing for an all-out war to break through to Strongpoint and destory the power network, which would throw the city into dissaray. It was later