In the World of the Awakening, following the financial panics of a few years ago (early 2020s A.D.), the New South Wales state police were severely cut back, this led to the Tearmann Metropolitan Council contracting private security to create a new police force. The Tearmann Metropolitan Police (T.M.P.) have legal enforcement jurisdiction over the entirety of the metropolitan area and shared jurisdictional agreements with the surrounding shire councils. Their uniforms are a grey-blue shirt, with navy blue jackets and trousers. Their hats don’t have the draughts board patterned band of the state police, nor do the patrol cars. As opposed to the state police badge, they have the Tearmann city emblem with the word POLICE in capitals over it.
The all-white patrol cars have the initials T.M.P. on the driver’s side and front passenger side doors, the city emblem. The word POLICE is written with reversed letters across the car bonnet in black, in normal lettering across the trunk. On the patrol car roof is a row of red and blue rotating lights and a very bright spotlight (it can be controlled from inside the vehicle and has a camera as well). Nearly all of the Tearmann police patrol cars are upgraded 2012-2015 A.M.C. Brumby models that were previously owned by other police forces; these vehicles are armoured, with powerful engines and unexpectedly fast for their size.
The typical T.M.P. copper is equipped with a Midnight Arms Model 920 medium autopistol, ballistic undershirt vest, police-band radio with a 30 – 40 kilometre range under good conditions. For quelling riots, they favour the Condor Jelly Gun (the jelly-rounds have fluorescent dyes which can take days to remove from skin and clothing).
Drug and Firearms Squad
The Drug and Firearms Squad lead, manage and conduct investigations into upper level and/or organised criminal activities or networks involved in the supply, distribution and production of illicit drugs and firearms.
The Squad provides support to other NSW Police Force commands and units in their response to serious drug and firearms crime. This includes providing a professional consultancy and direction to the NSW Police Force response to drug and firearm crime.
The Criminal Groups Squad and Strike Force Raptor target groups and individuals who engage in serious and organised crime, in particular those who have a propensity for violence. This is achieved with proactive investigations and intelligence based, high impact policing operations with the intention of preventing and disrupting conflicts and prosecuting and dismantling networks engaged in serious criminal activity.
The Organised Crime Squad conducts investigations targeting high level organised crime, disrupting the activity, identifying those criminals and criminal groups engaged in it and effecting their arrest.
This includes organised crime activity targeting or connected with licensed casinos, New South Wales racing industries and sporting codes and money laundering activity within criminal groups in NSW. The squad also provides support and training to investigators to assist in the identification of assets eligible for seizure and forfeiture in accordance with the Confiscation and Proceeds of Crime Act 1989. In conducting its work, the Organised Crime Squad works with commands within NSW Police Force, Commonwealth, State and Territory Police Forces and other law enforcement partner agencies.
Computer related technology is evolving and improving at an incredible rate, with computers, smartphones and the internet now used in every part of our daily lives. Criminals are exploiting these technologies to commit new types of crime and traditional crimes in new ways.
The Cybercrime Squad leads and drives the New South Wales Police Force response to cyber enabled and cyber dependent crime. The squad is responsible for investigating and prosecuting complex cyber offences requiring advanced technical skill and capability and processes all reports received through the Reportcyber portal, determining the appropriate course of action. The squad provides specialist assistance to Police Area Commands, Police Districts and other NSW Police Force Commands.
The Homicide Squad leads and drives the NSW Police Force response to homicide and coronial investigations at all levels. This is achieved through the development of tactical intelligence products, policy advice and the provision of good practice and specialist investigative service for major criminal investigations including murder, suspicious deaths, coronial investigations and critical incidents.
CASC Squad (Child Abuse and Sex Crimes)
No other crimes seem to arrest the attention of the public and media as much as child abuse or adult sexual assault. This is because our community considers these crimes abhorrent and alarming. Abusing children, either by sexual or physical abuse or neglect, is one of the worst offences that can be committed.
The experience of sexual assault is different for everyone who experiences it, regardless of whether it is committed by a stranger or someone known to the victim. It is like any other major shock or trauma, with a whole range of short, and long term effects for the victim.
The Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad was established to ensure provision of a specialist sexual assault response to support Police Area Commands across NSW.
The Financial Crimes Squad leads and drives the NSW Police Force response to fraud, identity crime, motor vehicle theft/re-birthing (including precious and scrap metal theft) and arson (encompassing structural fires and bushfires).
This is done through the development and implementation of prevention strategies, proactive and reactive enforcement policy, intelligence products, best practice and provision of specialist investigative services across the three crime disciplines.
Robbery and Serious Crime Squad
The Robbery and Serious Crime Squad leads and drives the New South Wales Police Force response to Robbery, Extortion, Kidnap for Ransom, Product Contamination and other Serious Property Crime, including major breaking offences on commercial warehouses and distribution centres and receivers of the property.
The squad supports Police Area Commands, Police Districts and Regions through the provision of specialist investigative advice. Dependent on the circumstances the Robbery and Serious Crime Squad will provide initial assistance via telephone consultation and has the capability of an on- call response.
Tearmann Polair
The T.M.P. Air Wing as it’s officially named are the aerial component of the Tearmann Metropolitan Police. Twelve years ago they began phasing out the use of helicopters, most of the aerocraft are hover-capable VTOL 2-person vehicles and there are 2 rotodynes for large tactical operations.
Tearmann Tactical Response Group (T.T.R.G.)
A paramilitary unit of the Tearmann Metropolitan Police, the T.T.R.G. is trained and equipped for counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, and raids against heavily armed criminal gangs.
Technically a branch of the Tearmann Metropolitan Police, the S.C.S. are otherwise almost entirely autonomous with a separate hierarchy, funding, and resources. The S.C.S. were established as a more forceful, more capable, yet specialist organisation for countering terrorism and particular types of crime which the regular police wouldn’t be able to effectively engage against. These include kidnapping and extortion crimes that target the wealthy and V.I.P.’s. The S.C.S. isn’t publicly well-known, their successes are credited to the Police overall, since the regular police are nearly always involved in the S.C.S. operations at the end with the arrests and/or elimination of the crime perpetrators.
Among the offered S.C.S. services is constant yet discrete monitoring of potential V.I.P. targets; this service isn’t free, it has to be consented to and paid for. Only a handful of particularly wealthy individuals in Tearmann have paid for this for themselves, but in place of themselves being monitored, their loved ones usually are – such as children. On every item of clothing or gear which a child may have on them (or nearby) regularly, tracking bugs ensure their location is known. The tracking devices don’t transmit constantly, only when “pinged” for their location and otherwise transmit a dozen random burst transmissions each day. The tracking is automated; if the monitoring system computer software identifies that the tracked person isn’t anywhere near their usual probable locations, or is somewhere very different from where they should be, the system triggers an alert.
The S.C.S. “response team” follows a policy of no-holds barred ruthlessness more often than not. It’s rare that the kidnappers are simply arrested; most are found dead at the scene when the regular police arrive. The “response team” is also very heavily armed and equipped to military special forces standards (and they’re always ex-special forces anyway). The other important policy followed is secrecy; they leave as little evidence remaining after an operation that could reveal who they were as possible, sometimes not informing the regular police of the operation even happening.
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