Trynser City Municipal Force

The Trynser City Municipal Force was that city's army (the Guard) and police force (the Watch).  They patrolled the city keeping crime and disturbances under control, investigated criminal activity, and mobilized to defend the city against threats.  The TCMF also supplied dominion troops to the Imperial Army.
The force was usually almost 20,000 strong.  More are mobilized in case of emergency.
== TCMF Guard ==
 Trynser City supplied a large number of troops of the TCMF to the Imperial Army as a part of its dominion levy.  The usual number supplied was 5,000 troops, a quarter of its ranks.  These troops were divided up into 5 regiments of about a thousand each. One regiment was further divided up into 20 groups of 50 which is deployed to various embassies around the world, more than one group going to more important nations.  
The current deployment of the ambassadorial regiment was 3 groups to Sung Xuo, 2 to Pengaldia, 2 to Arumelia, 2 to Lharasia, 1 to Venteel, 1 to Ardegon, 1 to Erendor, 1 to Nanduchar, 1 to Sapoth, 1 to Millisymph, 1 to Thissalanita, and 1 to Tasadeon.  1 group was normally assigned to Zazimar for embassy duty but they had been withdrawn due to the Zazimar War; this was restored after the end of the war in 1740. They worked in a support role throughout the Zazimar theater of operations coaching the Empire's troops on whatever they've learned about the enemy during their deployment. They returned to their post after hostilities ceased.  The other two groups were generally in transit to their locations or undergoing training for their deployments.
Two of the other regiments was forward deployed to the Pengaldian border, one was generally stationed in the Imperial Fortifications around the city, and one was stationed in Mantius to be rapidly deployed to a trouble area.
These troops were all infantry.  When there was a major war going on the city can mobilize up to ten more brigades for Imperial duty.  This was done during the Zazimar War.  A cavalry battalion is was also organized.
The TCMF troops were valued for Imperial service because they are well equipped and taken care of, drilled to exacting standards (mainly for capital parades), and have an investigation and law enforcement capability which was invaluable to the support poor dominion levies.  Historically, they had been used to occupy captured enemy territory behind the actual lines of fighting.
=== Local Garrison ===
About half of the military fortifications around the city were under municipal control.  Four thousand troops were permanently assigned to military duty.  One thousand manned the forts, or to be more precise, keep the forts in military order until they can be fully garrisoned in an emergency.  Another five hundred watched the gates and river inlets, fifty at each.  Three hundred guarded the city's prisons. One hundred keeps watched over city hall and another hundred over other local government buildings.  One thousand more drilled and train to keep in readiness, these were commonly found marching in parades.  The other thousand were deployed throughout the city's territory outside the city limits proper, patrolling the roads and outlands.  Three hundred of these were mounted.
The fortress garrison was entirely infantry aside from the detachments manning the artillery.    
=== Water Patrol ===
There was a force that patrols the rivers and the bay on small paddle boats, each with ten paddlers and five to ten policemen.  A detention cell with shackles and manacles was at the back of each boat.  The boats were twenty feet long and were paddled by non-duty personnel.  Some of the paddlers were volunteers, others are serving community service.  A few were off-duty policemen out for the exercise.  Beyond patrolling the waterways, the patrol boats shipped prisoners out to Karrag’s Rock and helped out the customs boats.
In addition the TCMF Water Patrol had three small coasters for patrolling the outer coast and bay, and up the rivers if needed.  Each could hold up to thirty policemen, but more typically patrol with about ten.
A thirty year old patrol galley was held in reserve.  Any trip in it out to the open sea would be unadvisable. At any rate, it would take at least a week to get it ready for any sort of deployment and recruit enough rowers.
== TCMF Watch ==
Nearly 10 thousand members of the TCMP patrolled the city, stood watch over whatever needs watched, and responded to criminal activity or other disturbances.  9 thousand were the foot patrolmen, the other thousand were mounted to patrol the major avenues and open park lands. Each company was located in a station somewhere in the city, generally one per borough. A chief commanded an entire ward.
Typically, a company deployed about half of its force in patrols each day, details whatever is needed for guard duty, and kept the rest ready in the station to respond to trouble.  Each station contained sleeping areas enough for about a quarter of the company.  Lodging was provided for officers, but most preferred their own homes.  There was a jail of four cells in each station, each five feet square (the New Trynser City Municipal Jail in Inner Riverside Ward is larger).  There was a small kitchen and pantry, mostly for providing food for prisoners, most police preferring to eat out.  And there were offices and desks for the leaders.
=== The Mounted Police ===
The thousand or so Mounted Police were stationed in locations throughout the city.  There was a ranch a mile south of town that keeps about a thousand horses.  This location had a couple hundred acres of land for the horses to roam around in.  About half of the force’s horses could usually be found here.  This location was also the base station for the 300 mounted troops patrolling the city’s territory. There was also three stations within the city that can stable about a hundred horses each and smaller stations that can stable ten or twenty.  The ranch had a fair sized jail that can hold a few dozen prisoners.  Aside from this, the Mounted Police stations did not have facilities for detaining prisoners, who were taken to the closest patrol station.
=== History of the Watch ===
The city guard had existed for centuries as the local military force. They did not do much actual policing around the city other than parading through the streets to show force and stifle dissent, and arresting those who the city authorities deemed necessary. Thus the local neighborhoods saw fit to institute their own watch, often composed of such local delinquents as could be caught and dragooned into service.
In 1652, Emperor Arlen decreed that there should be some sort of order to Trynser City, so the city was subdivided into wards and boroughs. This established the existing precincts for the watch, though the city guard still did their thing and the neighborhood watch their own.
In 1735, Emperor Artemius VII instructed Mayor Victor Nouveron to create a more efficient city watch, under direct city control. It was decided to do this by combining elements of the old city guard and whatever reliable people could be gathered from the neighborhood watch. The successive crises of Gormann's Horde and the Zazimar War kept the force from full integration until 1740, and as of 1742 there were still difficulties in the transition to a single cohesive force, notably the tensions between the old guard and local watchmen.
== Paytern Hill Ward ==
Paytern Hill, sometimes called Paytern Hill Ward, had a number of boroughs each with its own TCMF division.
=== Delctra's Cauldron Borough ===
Main article Trynser City Municipal Force (Delctra's Cauldron Borough)
The Delctra's Cauldron Borough Watch was overseen in 1742 by Capt. Hugo Ratcherd.
== Uphill Ward ==
Main article Trynser City Municipal Force (Uphill Ward)
The Uphill Ward Guard was overseen by Colonel Manoj Lewerenz as of 1736.
The Uphill Ward Watch was overseen by Watch Chief Dubrí Oché as of 1737. There the watch worked in cooperation with the guards of wealthy individuals and groups.
== GURPS Character Information ==
=== Police Rank ===
0..……..Patrolman
1...…….Corporal, leads 4-6 patrolmen.
2...…….Sergeant, leads a squad of 10-15.
3...…….Lieutenant, operational control of a borough's shift.
4...…….Captain, leader of a borough's watch commanding roughly 100 watchmen.
5...…….Guard Colonel, Watch Chief
6..……..Commander of either the guard or watch.
7...…….Commandant of the entire TCMF, both guard and watch.
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