Federal Security and Control

The **Administrative Department of Federal Security and Control**, colloquially the **Federal Police**, is the main police force of the Terran Federal Republic. It is the country's main civil law enforcement agency. The National Security and Control Service is the principal branch of the Federal Police. It is managed by each commonwealth and operates in their territory and systems. The Office of Internal Intelligence is the police intelligence service. The Dominion Security Service operates within dominions, whilst the Internal Security Agency operates in non-inhabited space.

The Federal Police, especially the Office of Internal Intelligence, often collaborates with the Bureau and BNS. The Federation has a relatively high rate of security agents per capita, with around 70 agents per 100 000 citizens.

Officers of FSC are called security agents or officers.

## History

The FSC first appeared as a military police force during the Unification Wars in newly conquered areas. With the ending of the Unification Wars, the FSC was detached from the military and progressively replaced the European Federal Police force. At the time it had over 350 agents per 100 000 inhabitants, over 5 times the current rate. The FSC participated in the mass arrests of political opponents, issued by the Bureau.

With the retirement of the Custodian and the softening of Terran authoritarianism, the number of FSC officers also progressively regressed in numbers. It was split into the NSCS and ISA in 2302, as crimes in interplanetary space became a large scale issue.

The FSC is one of the Federal institutions present in every dominion.

## Organisation

The FSC is split into several branches: the National Security and Control Service, the Internal Security Agency, the Office of Internal Intelligence and the Dominion Security Service.

### National Security and Control Service

The National Security and Control Service is the branch of the FSC which operates in Commonwealths and other populated areas of the Federation. It is managed by Commonwealths. NSCS officers are easily recognisable by their iconic purple ponchos, earning them the nickname *Ponchos* and *Purps*.

The NSCS is by far the largest of the fouf branches, making up over 90% of the total number of agents.

### Office of Internal Intelligence

The Office of Internal Intelligence, also known as O2I, is responsible for most large-scale investigations of the FSC and surveillance of the Terran population. Its role overlaps with that of Affairs, BFS and BNS. O2I is a member of the Directorate of Security and Intelligence.

### Internal Security Agency

The Internal Security Agency is the branch of the FSC which operates outside of commonwealths, most often on uninhabited space bodies or in interplanetary space. Whilst nominally a police force, the ISA is much closer to a bounty hunting organisation. When its officers aren't patrolling uninhabited areas, they are dispatched to chase after criminals and capture or eliminate them. Individual officers are given very wide autonomy, although they have to report on their actions on a regular basis.

The ISA has a very low number of officers, but these are much better trained and equipped than those of the other branches. Each officer is given a ship to patrol space, most often an MRGS-issued Condor-type Patrol-craft.

### Dominion Security Service

The Dominion Security Service operates in dominions. It operates similarly to the NSCS. It is the only branch allowed to recruit aliens - although current legislation is planning to open up the entirety of FSC to aliens. However, in urban areas of dominions most officers are human whilst aliens are more common in the rural areas.

It makes up around a twentieth of all agents.