Servais Sector ISB
Under the control of Moff Sexton, the Imperial Security Bureau
(ISB) has become, along with the entire sector COMPNOR branch,
a legitimate branch of the ruling government. As per Moff Sexton's
orders, the ISB has been separated from COMPNOR, and converted
into a sector-wide bureau of investigations. This reorganized,
redeveloped ISB is responsible for the pursuit and prosecution
of those criminals who commit heinous crimes against the Empire.
The ISB's jurisdiction lies primarily in areas concerning treason,
sedition, high crimes against the Empire (such as theft of Imperial
property, etc.), and other capital crimes, such as murder, piracy,
and sedition. For the most part, the ISB's basic structure remains
unchanged, with the few changes occurring further down in the
substructure, and in its recruiting policies.
Now that the ISB is an officially recognized Imperial bureau,
it has the ability to openly recruit personnel from outside of
COMPNOR, which has given the ISB a recent influx of talented personnel
from the sector Ubiqtorate and Military Intelligence branches.
It also receives a greater amount of funding, which allows it
to better train its recruits from the civilian sector (from which
it gains approximately 65% of its personnel), and equip them with
state-of the-art gear. The other main advantage from becoming
"official" is that the ISB now has a public presence and maintains
this presence by keeping a large headquarters building in each
system; each HQ deals with its particular system, but remains
aware of other systems and communicates with a separate sector
headquarters. This has lead to an increase in efficiency and overall
productivity since its reorganization.
Modifications:
- Investigations Branch: Recent
modification and reorganization of this branch has resulted
in the development of a Military Investigations Branch, which
deals with investigations of alleged crimes and seditious activities
within the military. This was done to keep these types of investigations
as impartial and objective as possible, thereby reducing the
possibility of corruption inhibiting the pursuit and prosecution
of suspects within the military.
- Enforcement Branch: With its
status as a governmental bureau now established, the ISB, in
its pursuit of criminals, has sought to gain the assistance
of system and local law enforcement departments throughout the
sector. To do this, the ISB has created the Enforcement Liaison
Officers, which serve to assist and coordinate activities
with local constabulary throughout the sector. Although data
sharing is supposed to be practiced via this branch, it is oftentimes
overlooked if deemed to be in the interests of justice (or the
Empire). In addition to this modification, CompForce has been
added to the ISB in its entirety as the Enforcement Branch's
assault and special operations forces. CompForce is employed
in roles ranging from hostage rescue to black market busts and
raids, and any other imaginable situation where a force of non-military
assault troops is required. Every ISB station or posting has
a detachment of CompForce troopers assigned to them, in a size
proportional to the station's coverage area and their area's
population.
- Prosecution Branch: The Prosecution
Branch is a newly added branch of the ISB, which, of course,
handles all of the ISB's legal affairs. Because the ISB's primary
legal capacity is to prosecute suspected criminals, this branch
has taken that to be its identifying name. However, this does
not limit the branch to criminal prosecution alone; it is still
involved in legal research in cases dealing with legal precedents,
business law cases (which involve the Empire), as well as lending
its services to the community. As is required by Imperial law,
all of the Prosecution Branch's trial lawyers are droids. In
spite of this, the branch maintains a large legal staff of sentient
creatures trained in the legal field. These beings serve as
aids, investigators, researchers, clerks, and non-trial lawyers
in the various areas of the branch's activities.
By Thomas Hill
Copyright ©
1997 - 1999 Chris
Curtis, All rights reserved.
Where appropriate, copyright © 1997
- 1999 Thomas
Hill, All rights reserved.
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