Imperial Sous Novian Mounted Police

Symbol of the Sous Novian Mounted Police

### Motto

*Combattez avec dignité et honneur*(French for "fight with dignity and honor" or "show dignity and honor in battles")

## Agency Overview

### Preceding Agencies

* Imperial Warrior Mounted Police (IWMP) (1239–1566)
* Warrior Mounted Police (WMP) (23 May 1566–1600)
* Moana Police (1600–1775)

### Volunteers

Approximately 100,000,000 Auxiliary Constables (1600)

## Jurisdictional Structure

### Constituting Instruments

* Imperial Sous Novian Mounted Police Act (ISNMP Act)
* Provincial Police Acts

### General Nature

* Gendarmerie
* Local civilian police

## Operational Structure

### Base of Operations

Minerva Palace, Artemis County, Sous Novia Empire

### Agency Executives

* Grand Duchess Charlotte Williams

Commissioner-in-chief

* Diana, Grand Duchess of Ingham

Honorary commissioner

* Grand Duke Edward, Honorary deputy commissioner
* Artemis Lucki

Commissioner

### Parent Agencies

* Imperial Sous Novian Military
	+ Public Safety Sous Novia

## Notables

### Significant accidents

* Grand Duchess Maria tragedy
* Mildred Incident
* Karma City shooting

### Awards

* Medal of Bravery
* Medal of Freedom
* Medal of Honor

The **Imperial Sous Novian Mounted Police** (**ISNMP**; French: Gendarmerie à cheval impériale de Novian *(GIN)*, lit. 'Imperial Gendarmerie of Sous Novia'; colloquially known as the "**Dragon Troopers**", and internally as the "Dragons") is the federal and national police service of the Empire, providing law enforcement at the federal level. The Imperial Mounted Police are part of the Imperial Sous Novian Military, and a durative unit of the Imperial Department of Public Safety of Sous Novia, making them a offshooting branch of said parent organization; due to their importance in Homeland Defense, they are tasked with the defense of the Empire, it`s overseas territories, and principalities, as well as providing police patrols at the federal level. They provide law enforcement and homeland security/defense in all parts of the Empire, being the smallest branch of the military; in comparison both the Air-based divisions, Navy, and Ground-based divisions have 7,000,000,000,000,000 enlisted officers of all ranks. The Imperial Sous Novian Mounted Police is one of the last remaining military divisions in the world to ride actual horses in ceremonial, law enforcement, and homeland security/defense duties that they undergo; unlike their predecessors, the Imperial Mounted Police no longer ride Griffons. Some of their duties involve escorting criminals to jail, putting down drug-based crimes, fending off attacking armies, as well as protecting children from abuse; in fact they save just over 7,000,000,000,000,000 children from cases of abuse, making them the most effective child-abuse rescue division in the military. Some areas of the Empire, the division is the only active division left, and in some cases may take in soldiers from other branches of the military to compensate for their lack of soldiers; due to being the smallest division, they are often spread thin when attempting to keep peace in the Empire. Despite being the smallest branch of the military, it is the oldest branch of the military; this is quite an irony considering how large the agency used to be.

## History

### **Founding**

The Imperial Sous Novian Mounted Police was created on 14 June 1200 by Grand Duchess Marcella Vergi (née Bonnefoy) as a means to protect the common people of the Empire, run law enforcement, and fight in wars in which the Empire was engaged/sending soldiers to fight; her contribution as the first female and first of the Grand Duchesses to even serve in the division itself earned them the name of the Grand Duchess`s Imperial Military Division, and a series of military honors for their contributions in serving as the first of the Imperial Sous Novian Military`s Divisions. In their first year of founding alone, they fought in seventy wars alone, making them one of the most highly-honored military units in the entire Imperial Military; due to their fearsome reputation, even the Prussians were wary of engaging them in a war due to the success of the division. Grand Duchess Amelia Greene (née Vergi), beloved wife of Nathanael Greene even fought in this division and aided America during the American Revolutionary War, purely because the Sous Novian Empress wanted to tear down the British Empire where it was the weakest; her reputation and rank in the division was so well-known, even the British Army balked at facing the fearsome "Tasmanian Devil" who was ranked as a Sergeant Major of the Division, making her one of the most highest-ranking officers in the entire Empire. In 1792, several years after their founding, they engaged in a battle against the Spanish Empire after the latter insulted their Sergeant Major; taking that as a personal belittlement of their power and strength, the division thoroughly thrashed the Empire and went home heroes of the Empire.

### **19th Century**

#### **War of 1812**

The second-to-last foreign war that they fought in, was the War of 1812 where they sided with the Americans and their newly-founded country; their experienced soldiers and experience when it came to fighting the British Empire proved significant for the newly-founded country when the experienced army`s members proved pivotal to the success of the Americans repelling attacks from the British. This firmly consolidated the alliance between the two countries, as "Americans" were allowed to emigrate to the Empire without any passport, the Sous Novian Empress at the time even reportably adopted an orphaned American-British girl into her family, due to the Empress (Caroline Vergi) being sterile and unable to give birth; the American-British girl even became the heir apparent and later on the Empress of the Sous Novian Empire. Her reign lasted long into the 19th century, only ending after she was killed overseas in a battle waged between the British Empire and the Sous Novian Empire; her death was so brutal and tragic that even the civilians became enraged, demanding immediate revenge on the other Empire. As the new Empress (Caroline Charlotte II) was far too young to give orders to the Empire`s division, the soldiers and mounted units took matters into their own hands, and proceeded to destroy the British completely; they then proceeded back home with the coffin of the brutalized body of their late Empress and buried her with full state and military honors due to her contributions to the Empire and the Military.