Undead police force

The undead police force (often shortened as UPF) is an institution empowered by the Empire to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of the undead, and to prevent crime and civil disorder within or against the undead community. Their lawful powers include arrest, the legitimized use of force, expropriation and forceful removal (known as exorcisms and intracisms). The Undead police forces are defined as being separate from the regular police force, military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors. Undead police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes.
Law enforcement is only part of UPF activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order. In some scenarios, these missions develop into maintaining the class system and the protection of private property. 
Undead police forces have become ubiquitous in the modern empire. Nevertheless, their role can be controversial, as some view them as inherently discriminatory against the living (and vice versa). Also, some are involved to varying degrees in corruption, police brutality and the enforcement of authoritarian rule.
Members of the UPF are referred to as police officers, troopers, or civil guards. the UPF should not be confused with the Department of rogue undead management (DRUM) or its military branch, the biohazard assessment team (BAST). the former is in charge with the management of non Dalmer undead, and the latter with the management of military operations linked to non dalmer undead. 
== Origins ==
In most regards, the UPF followed the same development as the regular police force, but quickly went above and beyond regular police work to incorporate elements of economic, demographic, public health, urban planning and price supervision policies.
The contemporary concept of a specific police force for the undead community as a paid and funded functionary of the state was developed by legal scholars and practitioners in public administration, statistics as well as political economists and civil servants who produced an important theoretical work known as the sciences on the formulation of police. 
Philosophers who advocated for the establishment of preventive police forces and influenced the reforms for an overarching police function were inspired mostly by the root of the word police. Since police means "of the city" it was argued that their role should be more influence in city politics and planning.
The concept of preventive policing, or policing to deter crime from taking place in undead civilization, gained influence when undead police officers successfully acted as a deterrent by their continual presence on the borders of high crime quarters, in addition to being able to intervene if they spotted an undead related crime in progress.
The expansive role of the police isn't universally accepted, many argued that prevention ought to be the only concern of an undead police body, which was not the case in practice. The reason was that a preventive police would act more immediately by placing difficulties in obtaining the objects of temptation. In contrast to a deterrent of punishment, a preventive police force would deter criminality by making crime cost-ineffective.
Development of modern police forces around the world was contemporary to the formation of the undead as accepted citizens in the Empire, later defined as achieving a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force in undead affairs and which was primarily exercised by the Undead police and the military, represented by DRUM and BAST. The development of the modern state as part of the rise of undead, and the development of undead businesses, in which the undead police are one component of avoiding the Empire's repressive apparatus for subjugating the undead. By contrast, the pro UPF argue that the UPF's wide reaching jurisdiction equates to policing by consent. this because the power of the police is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behavior.
== Role ==
The role of the UPF is to act as agents of the department of missing limbs. As conceptualized, the undead police has an administrative, economic and social duty of procuring abundance for the undead. It is in charge of demographic concerns and incorporates the concept of empowering the population by supervision of the implementation of policies. This, according to theory, is to be the main strength of the state, represented by the DML as it lacks the resources and manpower to implement its policies by itself. Thus, its functions largely overreached simple law enforcement activities and included public health concerns, urban planning (which was important because of the placement of cemeteries and necropolises), and surveillance of prices.
On top of these functions, the UPF is in charge of exorcisms and intracisms.
===Undead crimes===
Some crimes are specific to the undead, and fall under UPF jurisdiction. 
Illegal Haunting 
Souls who haunt other race houses see their item of possession destroyed and are captured by a specialist team who then give the Soul to the appropriate judicial authorities.
==== Banning necrophilia ====
Gametes placed in a corpse returns it to an artificial form of life, under orders of the donor. This is why necrophilia is outlawed.
===Exorcism:===
Main Article: Exorcism
An exorcism in the simplest terms is the removal of an undead at the behest of the living.
Sometimes, the undead stay in places where they have no legal reason to stay, and, if forceful removal is necessary, exorcisms are practiced. Exorcisms are mechanically the forceful removal of undead entities from an area, object or lifeform.
Common examples include when the undead are parents who constantly annoy the current occupants about the faults in their current lifestyle, turning off lights to save money on energy, writing saving tips on walls and generally giving the occupants a hard time. This case arises the most as since succession laws in the Empire go from living relative to living relative, as such the undead are expropriated.
===Intracism:===
Main Article: Intracism
Intracism is functionally the opposite of an exorcism, which is the forceful removal of an undead at the behest of the living. An intracism is the removal of the living at the behest of the undead.
The most common example is the fact that graveyards inhabitants tend to detest night visits from the living, so when living Dalmer visit graves and disturb the peace undead police officers come out of their graves to escort the trespassers out, urging them to return during the day.
== Equipment ==
=== Weapons ===
In many jurisdictions, police officers carry firearms, primarily handguns, in the normal course of their duties. In the Empire, with the exception of specialist units, undead police officers do not carry firearms as a matter of course. However, they carry firearms in their vehicles, but not on their duty belts, and must obtain authorization before the weapons can be removed from the vehicle.
Police often have specialist units for handling armed offenders, and similar dangerous situations, and can (depending on local laws), in some extreme circumstances, call on the military (BAST). 
They are also armed with non-lethal weaponry, particularly for riot control. Riot control agents weapons include batons, tear gas, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons. Police officers typically carry handcuffs to restrain suspects. 
The use of firearms or deadly force is typically a last resort only to be used when necessary to save lives, although some situations allow its use against fleeing felons and escaped convicts. 
A "shoot-to-kill" policy was recently introduced which allows police to use deadly force against any person who poses a significant threat to them or civilians. 
=== Communications ===
Modern police forces make extensive use of two-way radio communications equipment, carried both on the person and installed in vehicles, to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly. In recent years, vehicle-installed mobile data terminals have enhanced the ability of police communications, enabling easier dispatching of calls, criminal background checks on persons of interest to be completed in a matter of seconds, and updating officers' daily activity log and other, required reports on a real-time basis. Other common pieces of police equipment include flashlights/torches, whistles, police notebooks and "ticket books" or citations. Some police departments have developed advanced computerized data display and communication systems to bring real time data to officers, one example being the NYPD's Domain Awareness System.
=== Vehicles ===
Police vehicles are used for detaining, patrolling and transporting. The UPF makes use of mechanimal mounts, carts and carriages for its operations. The average police patrol mechanimal vehicle is a specially modified, four door sentvi. Police vehicles are usually marked with appropriate logos and are equipped with sirens and flashing light bars to aid in making others aware of police presence.
Stealth vehicles are used primarily for sting operations or apprehending criminals without alerting them to their presence. 
This practice is controversial on the grounds that it endangers motorists who might be pulled over by people impersonating police officers.
Motorcycles are also commonly used, particularly in locations that a car may not be able to reach, to control potential public order situations involving meetings of motorcyclists and often in escort duties where motorcycle police officers can quickly clear a path for escorted vehicles. Bicycle patrols are used in some areas because they allow for more open interaction with the public. In addition, their quieter operation can facilitate approaching suspects unawares and can help in pursuing them attempting to escape on foot.
Special Undead Police forces use an array of specialty vehicles such as Whirlers, airplanes, watercraft, mobile command posts, Grepan, motorcycles, and armored vehicles.
=== Other equipment ===
Police cars may also contain Soul containers, Electrospectrometers, fire extinguishers or defibrillators.
==== Soul containers: ====
Main article: Soul container
In some cases, the UPF is responsible for the transportation of the dead to the nearest reconstructive surgery facility (but most often to a detainment facility). As such sometimes they must make use of Soul containers, in order to contain the newly created animi.
==== Electrospectrometers ====
Main article: Electrospectrometer
Special goggles that allow the user to spot incorporeal forms that are invisible to the naked eye.
Electrocspectrometers are designed to allow the wearer to see invisible animi and visually track them. They also see Ley lines, and can see in the infrared and thermal spectrums. 
The Electrospectrometer is capable of tracking down specific entities by the psychokinetic energy they emit. They are also equipped with night vision and can allow sight of an animi that has rendered itself invisible to the naked eye.
====Marionette Machine====
Main article: Marionette Machine
To visualize animi, a Marionette machine is used along with incantations. While under the influence of the Marionette machine they can be disciplined with strong electrical currents. Ghosts can spit ectoplasm and turn red when angered. 
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