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

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