Imperial Police

=Drakon Imperium Imperial Police=

Organization
The Imperial Police consist of two major sub units.

The Urban Cohorts
These men operate as the heavy-duty Imperial Police officer. They men have the following duties;
 * Hostage rescue
 * Riot control
 * Perimeter security against snipers for visiting dignitaries
 * Resolving situations involving barricaded subjects
 * Rescuing officers or citizens endangered by fire
 * Counter-insurgent operations
 * Providing assistance on high-risk arrest warrants and search warrants
 * Special stealth operations with silenced or suppressed weapons.

The Urban Vigiles
These men operate as the day-to-day law enforcement officers, emergency responders and firemen.

Uniformed Imperial Police
Preventive Imperial Police, also called Uniform Branch, Uniformed Imperial Police, Uniform Division, Administrative Imperial Police, Order Imperial Police, or Patrol, designates the Imperial Police which patrol and respond to emergencies and other incidents, as opposed to detective services. As the name "uniformed" suggests, they wear uniforms and perform functions that require an immediate recognition of an officer's legal authority, such as traffic control, stopping and detaining motorists, and more active crime response and prevention.

Preventive Imperial Police almost always make up the bulk of a Imperial Police service's personnel.

Detectives
Imperial Police detectives are responsible for investigations and detective work. Detectives may be called Investigations Imperial Police, Judiciary/Judicial Imperial Police, and Criminal Imperial Police. Detectives typically make up roughly 15%-25% of a Imperial Police service's personnel.

Detectives, in contrast to uniform Imperial Police, typically wear 'business attire' in bureaucratic and investigative functions where a uniformed presence would be either a distraction or intimidating, but a need to establish Imperial Police authority still exists. "Plainclothes" officers dress in attire consistent with that worn by the general public for purposes of blending in.

In some cases, Imperial Police are assigned to work "undercover", where they conceal their Imperial Police identity to investigate crimes, such as organized crime, that are unsolvable by other means. In some cases this type of policing shares aspects with espionage.

Imperial Police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time, after which officers must transfer out or return to patrol duties. This is done in part based upon the perception that the most important and essential Imperial Police work is accomplished on patrol in which officers become acquainted with their beats, prevent crime by their presence, respond to crimes in progress, manage crises, and practice their skills.

Detectives, by contrast, usually investigate crimes after they have occurred and after patrol officers have responded first to a situation. Investigations often take weeks or months to complete, during which time detectives spend much of their time away from the streets, in interviews and courtrooms, for example. Rotating officers also promotes cross-training in a wider variety of skills, and serves to prevent "cliques" that can contribute to corruption or other unethical behavior.

Auxiliary
Imperial Police may also take on auxiliary administrative duties, such as issuing arms licenses.

Specialized units
Specialized preventive and detective groups exist within many law enforcement organizations either for dealing with particular types of crime, such as traffic law enforcement and crash investigation, homicide, or fraud; or for situations requiring specialized skills, such as underwater search, aviation, explosive device disposal ("bomb squad"), and computer crime.

Mission

 * Preserving the peace and security, of any and all persons and territory within their jurisdiction.
 * Enforcement of the local and Imperial law.
 * Investigation of potential violations of the local and Imperial law.

Structure
The Drakon Imperium Imperial Police is made up of three components: the active component, the Regular Imperial Police; and a reserve component, the Imperial Police Reserve. The reserve component is primarily composed of part-time soldiers who train once a month, known as Battle Assembly or Unit Training Assemblies (UTAs), and conduct two to three weeks of annual training each year.

The Imperial Police is led by a civilian Minister of the Imperial Police, who has the statutory authority to conduct all the affairs of the Imperial Police; under the authority, direction and control of the Minister of War. The Chief of the Imperial Police who is the highest ranked military officer in the Imperial Police has dual roles; one as the principal military adviser and executive agent for the Minister of the Imperial Police, i.e. its service chief; and secondly as a member of the Military Council, a body composed of the service chiefs from each of the eight military services belonging to the Ministry of the War who advise the Imperator of the Drakon Imperium, the Minister of War, and the Imperial Security Council on operational military matters, under the guidance of the First Minister of the Military Council.

Operational control of the services follows a chain of command from the Imperator to the Minister of War directly to the Unified Combatant Commanders, who have control of all armed forces units in their geographic or function area of responsibility. Thus, the Ministers of the military ministries (and their respective service chiefs underneath them) only have the responsibility to organize, train and equip their service components. The Imperial Police provides trained forces to the Combatant Commanders for use as directed by the Minister of War.