Imperial Security Bureau

The **Imperial Security Bureau**, abbreviated as **ISB** and also known simply **Imperial Security**, is the primary law enforcement organization of the Fel Empire and its predecessor the Galactic Empire. The ISB investigates and monitors local criminal activity and acts upon it to keep the peace and order within the Empire. The Bureau is organized into individual Sector Offices that are housed in each sector of Imperial Space. The offices are administered by the Commission of Operations, the leading body of the Bureau. The head of the commission is the Director Moff of the ISB.

The ISB operates in parallel with Imperial Intelligence, its sister agency that is responsible for watching the activities of various organizations in Imperial Space and the wider galaxy.

## Structure

### Organizational Structure

* **Central Office**: Administrative branch of the Bureau, oversee and coordinate the Bureau as well as cross-sector operations.
* **Sector Office**: Branch office of the Bureau is a sector of Imperial Space, administer and coordinate departments.
* **Branch Department**: A division of a sector office, in charge of a particular security field.
* **Planetary Precinct**: The main security facility on a given planet, a subdivision of its Sector Office.
* **Security Station**: A local security station of the Bureau on a planet, has jurisdiction over a given area of the planet.
* **Tactical Unit**: A unit is comprised of up to 12 squads of officers all of the same department specialization.
* **Squad**: A group of officers from 2-10 personnel.

### Rank Structure

* **Director Moff**: Leader of the Imperial Security Bureau, granted a permanent seat on the Council of Moffs. Only beholden to the Emperor, but advised by the Commission of Operations.
* **Commissioner**: Member of the Commission of Operations of the Central Office. There are 6 of them in total, each overseeing the Sector Offices in an Oversector. They coordinate cross-sector operations within their designated Oversector.
* **Sector Officer**: Leader of a Sector Office, answer to the Commission of Operations through their Oversector Commissioner liaison.
* **Deputy Sector Officer**: Second-in-command of a Sector Office.
* **Department Chief**: Head of a branch department within a sector office. Answer to their Sector Officer.
* **Deputy Department Chief**: Second-in-command of a Department.
* **Inspector General**: Leader of a Planetary Precinct and responsible for coordinating the different branch departments as well as the different stations on a planet.
* **Deputy Inspector General**: Second-in-command of a Planetary Precinct.
* **Chief Constable**: Commander of a Security Station and its assigned personnel.
* **Deputy Chief Constable**: Second-in-command of a Security Station.
* **Chief Inspector**: A senior officer in a station. Leaders of Tactical Units.
* **Inspector**: A supervisory officer in charge of a squad of 10.
* **Senior Constable**: A supervisory officer in charge of a squad of 2. Second-in-command of a squad of 10.
* **Constable**: The lowest ranked security officer. Directly concerned with day-to-day policing. They always work as a part of a squad.

#### Stormtrooper Ranks

* **Captain**: Leads a Stormtrooper Tactical Unit
* **Lieutenant**: Second-in-command of a Tactical Unit
* **Sergeant**: Leads a Squad of 10
* **Corporal**: Second-in-command of a squad
* **Trooper**: Lowest ranked ISB stormtrooper.

## Departments

* **Department of Customs**: also known as *Imperial Customs*, is the department responsible for ensuring imports and exports that traveled through Imperial Space were legal and complied with Imperial laws and regulations. Furthermore, Customs also helped deter pirates and participate in search and rescue missions. Formerly its own Bureau, Imperial Customs was combined into the structure of the ISB to make it more effective.
* **Department of Enforcement**: The muscle of the ISB. Responsible for most law enforcement activities like patrolling the streets, first response and conducting operations against criminal elements. Works closely with Investigations to catch criminals. Its members are the common security officers of the Bureau as well as guards and other security personnel. Deployment of *ISB Stormtroopers* falls under the control of Enforcement. ISB Stormtroopers are officers with superior training and equipment to deal with more dangerous scenarios like patrolling dangerous regions, riot control or raids on criminal compounds.
* **Department of Internal Affairs**: Responsible for investigating possible criminal activities within other departments within the Imperial Security Bureau and other Imperial organizations. The only organization it does not have jurisdiction over is Imperial Intelligence, which has its own Bureau in charge of internal affairs. Notable for their wide array of innocuous terms to describe their activities and operations.
* **Department of Interrogations**: Responsible for extracting information from live targets caught by Enforcement or Investigations. Infamous for using any and all interrogation methods at their disposal, such as direct questioning, drugging, and torturing victims. However, methods utilized are always conducted in incremental levels of damage to the target, with direct questioning always being the first method utilized.
* **Department of Investigations**: Responsible for the investigations of all criminal activities within the Empire, from fraud to robbery, to murder, to organized crime or rebel activity. Members of the department are skilled detectives. They have the authority to request enforcement assets and, in more serious cases, military assets.
* **Department of Re-Education**: Responsible for the rehabilitation and reeducation of criminal elements, as such only present in prison complexes. In minor cases, criminals simply passively observed while they serve their sentences. In more serious cases, direct involvement of Reeducation agents are required to rehabilitate the criminal, such as brainwashing violent, psychotic or seditious individuals.
* **Department of Surveillance**: Responsible for analyzing data to look for potential threats and tasked with uncovering criminal and unlawful activities. One of its most important tasks it to predict criminal activity before it happens. Many of Surveillance's targets were later turned over to the Department of Investigations for more thorough action.

## Technology

The Imperial Security Bureau employs a variety of technologies in its work.

### Droids

* RO-2 security droid: A model of security droid used by the Bureau as security or enforcers.

### Starships

* Cursor-class Carrier Corvette: A model of carrier corvette used by the Imperial Navy. The Bureau employs it when conducting systems patrols and customs checks. When used by the Bureau for customs checks, the hangar is often made empty so that the targeted starships can dock inside for checks - it is large enough to fit light freighters. Larger vessels were merely locked by a tractor beam and boarded by an Imperial Shuttle.

## Specializations

### Security Officers

The Security Officers make up the common personnel of the Imperial Security Bureau. They wore gaberwool uniforms consisting of a white double-breasted tunic, black trousers, a pair of black boots, a pair of black gloves, a belt and a black kepi cap. Officers were always armed with blaster pistols and served all around the Imperial Space. The uniform was standard across all ranks, from Constables to the Director Moff. Their rank was shown in rank insignia plaque on the left breast of the uniform. The insignia followed similar denominations to the Imperial Military. Officers also carried a code cylinders that denoted their unique officer identification code, as well as which station and department they were assigned to.

### Enforcers

The Enforcers were the officers of the Department of Enforcement and were responsible for the day-to-day policing in the streets of Imperial planets. Their base uniform was similar to those of the Security Officer: a white gaberwool tunic, black trousers, black boots and gray gloves. What differentiated them from the base officer was their combat armor. They wore dark gray and red plastoid armor chestpiece, bracers and leg guards. They wore a dark gray and red helmet, which had a HUD that aided them in identifying clues, communicating and coordinating their patrol droids. They wore a belt with cuffs and spare ammo clips.

Enforcers were aided by Patrol Droids, which were small spherical droids that had motion sensors, life/droid detectors, several different vision modes and evidence collectors. They were usually employed in pairs. Members of the Department of Investigations were in possession of larger more advanced Analysis Droids that could collect and analyses clues and evidence on the field.

### Stormtroopers

The Imperial Security Bureau employs its own Stormtroopers. Unlike their Imperial Army counterparts, the ISB Stormtroopers are the elite officers of their organization. They wear dark gray and red plastoid armor attached to a black bodysuit. They have black capes that cover the upper parts of their backs. Their helmets feature a more advanced version of the Enforcers' HUD, giving them better information for the combat scenarios they are involved in. Furthermore, their helmets are equipped with rebreathers that allows them to survive in toxic and hazardous environments. They are deployed as special tactical troopers, given tasks like raiding criminal compounds, quelling riots, and solving crises situations. The Stormtroopers are sometimes used as patrol officers, but only for the most dangerous areas on Imperial planets.