Public Security Forces

The Public Security Forces are a paramilitary organization within the EuF charged with enforcing federal law using methods up to and including lethal force and violent coercion. Distinct from a Gendarmerie, they are not part of the Federal Ministry of Defense, but utilize much of the same equipment and selection processes, and in times of crisis may be called upon to supplement defense of federal territory.
As a federal ministry agency, the Public Security Forces are not required to acknowledge former national borders or institutions and operate freely within any territory claimed by the European Federation. Their role is separate from and above that of the Federal Police, focused less on law enforcement and more on high-risk incident resolution, violent confrontation with criminal elements, riot control, hostage recovery, and anti-terrorism operations against dissident elements of European society, such as the infamous purging of clone infiltrators seeded by the Engineers throughout Europe. Public Security agents are highly proficient in these fields, and especially gifted individuals will be diverted from Public Security Forces teams to instead act as bodyguards for persons of high value to the Federation.
The Public Security Forces were initially intended to be organized by population density, but different levels of dissidence throughout the European Federation quickly resulted in certain areas having a heavier PSF presence than others. For example, the British Isles population is far more docile and easily intimidated than the French, whom require the most policing in the Federation due to their multiple active resistance movements. As a result, despite being the center of the EuF government, the PSF has no special presence in Britain. Defense of the capitol instead falls to Federal Police and the Parliamentary Guard.
Being a police response force at their core, the PSF uses lighter equipment than MoD organizations. The SFP9-SF is the common service sidearm of all PSF agents, while responders are usually equipped with H&K UMP 9s, P90s, and more rarely the G36C, with the PSG-1 serving as the preferred sniper rifle. The organization possesses a small number of Carapace MK 1 suits that they use for high-danger entry operations.
Category: PACYOA: TECategory: European FederationCategory:Military Organizations (TE)