Public Order Resentencing Directive

The Public Order Resentencing Directive (P.O.R.D.), also known as the Public Order Decree, was a law invoked by the Galactic Empire alongside the Imperial Emergency Act in the wake of the attack on the Aldhani dam in 5 BBY. It imposed harsher penalties on anyone convicted of criminal acts affecting the Empire, and classified the attacks as a Class One Offense. All outstanding fines and levies were to be paid in full.
==Context==
The P.O.R.D. was proposed to the Imperial Senate by Emperor Palpatine himself following of the rebel attack on the Aldhani dam in 5 BBY and was focused on imposing stricter measures and settlements to civil affairs. Alongside the Imperial Emergency Act which was focused on increasing Imperial authority in the military and intelligence branches, it formed the backbone of the Empire's new policies in the wake of the incident.
==Content==
===Civil affairs===
According to the P.O.R.D., all outstanding fines and levies, including those newly imposed by the Emergency Act, were to be immediately paid in full; all postponements were revoked and no tolerance was shown towards offenders.
===Justice system===
The Imperial justice and prison system was affected by the P.O.R.D.. All prison sentences already delivered were re-evaluated and those for crimes even indirectly affecting the Empire and its infrastructure were doubled, as these were now classified as Class One Offenses. In the case of Cassian Jeron Andor, arrested in Niamos under the alias Keef and charged with disruption, anti-Imperial speech, fleeing the scene of an anti-Imperial activity, and damaging Imperial property, a six-month sentence was reassessed and turned into a six standard year one. System-wide punishments were also arranged, as any system suspected of harbouring rebel activity would be forced to pay a tribute tax of five times the amount of money stolen from the Aldhani vault: 400 million credits.
Other consequences of the P.O.R.D. were not visible to the wider galaxy. Living conditions in Imperial prisons worsened. In particular, the Narkina 5 Imperial Prison Complex no longer released any inmates, instead simply recycling them through the system to continue serving their "sentence."
==Opposition==
The Directive met considerable opposition in the Imperial Senate by dissident senators such as Mon Mothma, who called it "the next step of an all too predictable march toward complete unchallenged authority." Mothma's criticism caused a certain amount of debate in the Senate, but the Directive was eventually passed nonetheless.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Empire laws and acts