Health and Safety

*This article is about Hive England's protection overview. For more information, see Law Enforcement and Emergency Services.*

## Description

Authority in charge of protecting hive citizens

## Description

Health and Safety is the Hive-wide authority in charge of protecting citizens' security and well-being. It comprises both law enforcement, and emergency services, and the branches cooperate closely. The Telepath Units, who belong to Law Enforcement often calls open Health and Safety personnel to help with the victims or in taking over the care and treatment of the criminal - whenever a target is taken down, or a victim identified, Liaison will dispatch teams of either hasties or medics.

Most of the time, these services function with great professionalism and efficiency. Perilous, the prequel novella, shows what happens when they get overwhelmed by a major catastrophe, but also how well they work under normal circumstances: Amber is hurt and taken to a medical facility on a different level of the Hive, where she gets perfectly adequate and courteous treatment. Her medic gets arrested by a team of hasties with a Nosy (later revealed to have been Buzz), so in that situation both branches of Health and Safety intersect.

Law Enforcement uniforms are blue, while Emergency Services have striped blue-red uniforms.

### Law Enforcement

The entire Law Enforcement division is located on Level 20 in all zones. But only some of the Emergency Services personal are included. Those that reside on level 20 are selected during lottery as being absolutely loyal to the hive and able to keep it's secrets.

All residents of level 20 are imprinted with important secrets that the rest of the Hive cannot be allowed to learn, such as the fact that Nosies are fake, and the existence of telepaths and their units. To safeguard these secrets, the teens that grow up on level 20 are located together in special areas when they move to level 50 to make it easier for them to keep the hives secrets. They are usually allocated for work on level 20 when they go through lottery.

Personnel of all ranks reside on the same level, except for telepath units which are all located on Industry level 1.

### Telepath Units

Telepath units are located at the top level of the hive to give them space away from all of the rest of the hive. Most units are located in areas that are completely surrounded by equipment that was either abandoned or rarely needed maintenance to enable the telepath to have quiet.

Telepath Units are the most prestigious units within Law Enforcement, and they freely draw on all the resources of the entire service.

### Emergency Services

The unit or division of people that respond to emergency such as rescuing the people trapped in elevators during the Blue Zone blackout in Perilous and first responders to any kind of accident or injury.

### Medical Services

Consists of the usual emergency medical personal that are trained as first responders. Borderline Forensic psychologists assisting in major emergency response to do onsite evaluations of any victims and reset specialists.

### Hazard Response Teams

Teams of specially trained personal that respond to potential hazards such as compromised air, chemical spills, electrical hazards and more.

There are two types of Hazard Response teams, specialist that are with Law Enforcement and already know about telepaths and the Hazard Response teams that work for Health and Safety that do not know the hives secrets.

## Additional Services

### Game Control

The unit or division that monitors Teen Games.

### Tracking Bracelet

Until their tenth birthday, children wear a non-removable tracking bracelet, which allows them to freely move around the hive without worry. Parents are able to access the location of the bracelet at any time to find out where their child is.

On their 10th birthday, the bracelet is removed and the next day is their "Freedom Day" in which they are allowed to skip school and go where ever they want to.

The bracelets are removed by medical personal using a special tool.

Sometimes hasties, usually with the recommendation of a borderline telepath, will use a tracking bracelet on a teen to keep tracking of their movements to discourage them from unhealthy behavior.

In *Telepath*, Amber learns that when she was kidnapped as a child, the bracelet she wore had been taken off and discarded. There is one emergency run in the same book where another young child has a non-functioning bracelet.

## See also

* Law Enforcement
* Emergency Services
* Hive England
* Freedom Day

## References

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Perilous (Hive Mind 0.5)* (2017). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
* Edwards, Janet. *Telepath (Hive Mind 1)* (2016). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Borderline (Hive Mind 4)* (2019). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition