KPD

## (K0) Kodian Police Department

The undermanned, underfunded, and outnumbered universal police force for the Kodian Empire was founded during the Peninsular Campaign as a response to the overwhelming amount of public outcrying and hate towards the poor planning and waste of manpower in the Japanese Archipelago. There are two branches of the KPD, the KPD and the RPD, or Radian Police Force, which is the bigger and tougher brother to the normal KPD. KPD Officers are armed with railpistols and railrifles, as well as never travelling anywhere alone. THe KPD resembles a small military division, rather than a police department, with APC’s, artillery, and tanks available, as well as planes and other airborne units. They wear advanced suits of armor to protect against all legally accepted arms for civilians to make or own, and are also trained to handle situations against enemies that have illegal weaponry. KPD Detectives are rare and hold lots of power. Their rarity makes them high on the list of priority people to protect and save if they ever come into danger.

## Staff:

1. Allyson “Sparkles” Shiine- The Sergeant of Ryanstown’s KPD department, Shiine is Dr. Henry Freeman’s wife, and dies during Operation Tentacle’s Reach in 230 PND.
2. Bradley Lowell- A detective for the KPD that would eventually, with the help of his partner, become involved in the KFSI. Lowell would die on Archimedes, along with Dr. Henry Freeman. Lowell was also rumored to have been in league with the Great Martyrs (Mother Nature in particular) as one of their Champions.
3. Max Alter- Another detective at the KPD and Lowell’s partner, Max died on Archimedes and was always a loyal Kodian citizen. Despite being offered the chance at becoming one of the Champions, Alter turned the offer down due to being an Athiest.

## Description:

Founded in 2002 CE shortly after the Ark landed on Earth and revealed Kodian life to humanity, the KPD was established as the security wing for Kodian Enterprises and not originally separated from its parent company; shortly after The Fiscal Suicide of 2020, Kodian Enterprises officially separated and named the KPD as a public safety subsidiary. The KPD operates as the primary police force for the Supercities of North America and beyond, and offers their wide range of services on a contract-by-contract basis with each individual megacorporation; if a megacorporation does not want KPD protection, then they do not have to pay for it, but are expected to provide their own alternatives. Kodian Enterprises's massive size and global influence allows it to leverage the KPD as the largest private security firm in the world, although it is not the most well-equipped or combat-effective, as the KPD's primary goal is to combat crime rather than other megacorporations. The KPD operates under the motto of "Serve and Enforce." The KPD is affiliated most closely with Kodian Enterprises and the other KE subsidiaries, but also maintains some relations with all other megacorporations that operate in North America, Central and South America, Asia, and Oceania.

### Organization:

#### Headquarters: [REDACTED], Ryanstown

The KPD is structured very differently from standard megacorporations, assuming roles and ranks befitting a police or military organization as opposed to a company; as such, power within the KPD is centralized, not spread out amongst a Board of Directors or committee. The entire KPD is led by a Commissioner Marshal, a position currently held by [REDACTED] responsible for leading the organization at the highest level; the Commissioner Marshal controls the KPD's decisions on an international and even interstellar level, deciding where major resources should be dedicated, and managing the KPD's contractual obligations. The Commissioner Marshal is aided in their work by lesser Marshals, who advice the Commissioner Marshal and inform their decisions. Below this overarching body of leaders sit the Commissioners, who oversee the KPD's regional operations within a Supercity or equivalently large area of influence; the Commissioners manage regional resources, oversee important operations, and communicate with other Commissioners and security-focused megacorporations to ensure mutual respect and shared success. Below the Commissioners sit the Chiefs, who lead KPD resources at the Precinct level; KPD Precincts are the KPD's Corporate Branches, and come in many sizes and shapes, from small offices to military bases or production facilities, which means that Chiefs also vary wildly depending on the nature of their assignment. Chiefs manage Precincts and, through networks of other executives, secretaries, and advisors, deliver orders to their Captains, who oversee the many Units within each Precinct. Units of the KPD are dedicated groups of Officers that specialize in a particular criminal offense or manner of investigation and are equivalent to Corporate Divisions; many Units are standardized across all Precincts and Supercities, while some may exist in some Precincts and not others depending on the nature of the criminal activity in the area and the needs of the KPD. Below the Captains sit the Sergeants, who manage squads of Officers or Detectives within a Unit; Sergeants are the highest official rank of field Officer within the KPD. Below the Sergeants sit the Detectives, valuable and rare investigators within the KPD that are highly trained, well-equipped, and Chromed-out Officers that can either be assigned to a specific Precinct for their entire career or be moved around when their specific brand of investigation is needed elsewhere. Below the Detectives come the Officers, the patrolling men and women of the KPD that make up the bulk of the megacorporation's employees; these individuals are trained and equipped to face a variety of situations and stop or prevent crime in all of its forms. Notably, Kodian Enterprises has an incredible amount of influence within the KPD, and can force decisions or changes on the KPD on a whim; this has led to plenty of favoritism, nepotism, and outright corruption between Kodian Enterprises and its subsidiary, as KE employees are allowed to commit crimes in broad daylight and face no punishment.

The KPD recruits primarily from outside the corporate sphere, drawing in people with military backgrounds, experience as mercenaries, bounty hunters, or private security, etc.; the KPD is also infamous for attracting power-hungry, power-abusing megalomaniacs who see the organization as an easy way to bully other people without consequences. Those positions within the KPD that do not see field work, like executives and secretaries and advisors, are hired from local universities and centers of high education, or outsourced from other megacorporations under contract.

The KPD dedicates most of its resources to fighting and preventing crime across the regions and properties which the megacorporation is contractually obligated to protect; areas outside of the KPD's contracts receive no protection. The KPD operates across the world, on all continents besides Europe.

The KPD maintains a relatively strict policy when it comes to the employment of mercenaries; mercenaries are only employed unofficially, and as a last resort when an investigation or act would cause harm to the KPD or its reputation. In other words, the KPD uses mercenaries as bounty hunters and unofficial enforcers, including in various unsightly methods of crime-fighting, such as the application of mercenaries to a neighborhood to instigate gang wars and weaken organized crime in an area.

#### List of Standardized Units:

1. Gang Unit: KPD Officers that specialize in investigating, analyzing, and combatting organized crime.
2. Homicide Unit: Detectives and Officers that specialize in investigating, analyzing, and combatting homicides of all kinds.
3. Drug Enforcement Unit: Officers that specialize in combatting drug operations, from production to distribution and use.
4. Bloodhound Unit: Detectives and Officers that specialize in finding people and investigating CON fraud and the illegal, CONless of society.
5. SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics; power-armor wearing elite soldiers of the KPD on-call at local Precincts, ready at all times to respond to major incidents that standard KPD Officers are incapable of handling.
	1. [ANTI-CRAZY COPS]:
6. KAWT: [REDACTED]
7. Traffic Unit: Officers equipped with the KPD's infamous patrol vehicles, tasked with preventing traffic crime and petty crime they spot on the street.
8. Liaison Unit: Officers of higher rank assigned as partners to other private security firms, to allow for a free-flow of communication and intelligence between the various Megacorporations.

#### List of Regional Units:

1. (Los Angeles) Speed Bump Unit: Detectives and Officers that specialize in investigating, analyzing, and combatting biker gangs, illegal racing circuits, and similar crimes in LA.
2. (Los Angeles) Financial Security Unit: Heavily armed Officers that specialize in preventing, responding to, and combatting LA's epidemic of bank heists, robberies, thefts, and similar crimes.
3. (North America) Hyperway Logistics Enforcement Unit (HLEU): A specially equipped corps of patrol vehicles and officers that handle crimes and incidents along North America's Hyperway, which links the continent's Supercities; they make use of the KPD's fastest patrol cars and widest, most eclectic range of training to best manage the Hyperway's long winding roads, and are tasked with ensuring that trade and travel between Supercities remains unimpeded.

#### Hierarchy:

1. Commissioner Marshal: Oversees entire organization at the highest level.
2. Commissioners: Oversees Supercities/regional KPD activity.
3. Chiefs: Oversee Precincts and manage local resources.
4. Captains: Lead KPD Units and manage the Officers and resources assigned to it.
5. Sergeants: Directly lead, manage, inform, and work alongside small groups of Officers on specific tasks, investigations, and cases.
6. Detectives: Investigators responsible for solving crimes, analyzing statistics, and preventing further crime; may specialize in a particular form of crime or be assigned to a Unit.
7. Officers: Foot soldiers of the KPD responsible for carrying out their superiors' orders and maintaining law and order.

### Equipment:

The KPD maintains a top-of-the-line level of technological development, and is often considered to be the most advanced policing megacorporation in the world. The KPD's forces have access to everything, from railweaponry to hover-vehicles or power armor. While the KPD is still limited in its militarization, the megacorporation has faced significant backlash in the past for its heavy firepower and "contingency" stockpiles of heavy weapons and even tanks.

The KPD does not employ Mutants, and actively hunts the Mutant population within their areas of operation as part of the company's contractual obligations. The KPD does, however, employ a Psionics Division comprised solely of Psychics; these men and women are used as weapons as often as they are used for investigations, and many such members find themselves quickly scaling the ranks of the KPD.

Like many other security megacorporations, the KPD encourages its employees to invest in Chrome or Organic Augmentations; the company itself will pay for augmentations which will directly aid in an employee's job, although these augmentations are therefore the property of the KPD and will be deactivated or confiscated should the employee quit or be fired. Similarly, the KPD requires certain augmentations for certain ranks and jobs, like Detectives, who are outfitted with advanced visual suites and cranial enhancements to heighten their investigative skills.

### Corporate Culture:

The KPD's Corporate Culture is primarily inwards-focused, centered on managing the beliefs and behaviors of its employees first and influencing the public second. This culture of discipline and law-abiding has no gods, although it does idolize plenty of concepts; similarly, the KPD places a heavy focus on obedience, self-responsibility, and guilt. The KPD does not believe in an Afterlife or any form of the supernatural; the KPD's Corporate Culture does not have a particular manner of worship, and has few holidays in its calendar year, all of which focus on important historic events.

#### Corporate Values:

1. Discipline: Both KPD employees and those outside the company are expected to live disciplined, regimented lives of self-control designed to prevent moral corruption and wrongdoing; this discipline also seeks to root out corruption where it appears.
2. Security: KPD employees are expected to understand that security is more important than privacy; intensive surveillance is harmless if you don't have anything to hide, right? Protection of law-abiding, contributing members of society is the top priority.
3. Obedience: KPD employees are expected to obey the order of their superiors without question; likewise, outside members of the public are expected to obey the orders of KPD employees in order to guarantee the safety of the public and the employees; breaches of this principle can and will lead to severe punishment.
4. Self-Responsibility: All people are expected to self-analyze themselves for signs of corruption and hold themselves responsible for their thoughts and actions, both the good and the bad; policing affects all aspects of life, and should extend to within the individual as well as without. It is in this self-reflective manner that behavior can be understood and corrected.
5. Justice: Wrongdoers are to be penalized while the victims receive restitution and the satisfaction that the perpetrators have been duly punished; only the law-abiding are worthy of receiving Justice.

#### Cultural Aspects:

The KPD's common symbols come in the form of their famous circular badges and the Precinct-specific variations that exist around the world; like Kodian Enterprises, the KPD places cyan, white, orange, white, and black as their brand colors. Learning is passed down within the company through the megacorporation's intensive training programs and education centers, where prospective employees are properly equipped for their new careers and are taught the KPD's Corporate Values.

The KPD uses art as propaganda tools and marketing schemes to discourage crime, encourage obedience, and increase recruitment in times of need. To this end, the KPD applies photos, videos and films, radio messages and written messages, even song and dance to illustrate their messages; the KPD is also known to use this art as a form of psychological warfare. The KPD's many posters, holographic messages, radio reports, and online sources provide plenty of media for law-abiding citizens to discover current events, areas of high-crime activity, and receive updates about curfews, changes to local law, alterations to enforcement methods, etc.

The KPD's average age of employment is in the mid-20's, as many of the standard Officers are young men and women while the higher-ups in the megacorporation are older, wiser, and more experienced. When a prospective employee passes their tests, passes training, and officially becomes an assigned member of the megacorporation, these new employees are celebrated by their peers at a formal graduation ceremony; after this ceremony, many graduates go out with their friends and families. Individual Precincts may also have their own special "rituals" and traditions which they carry out.

The KPD has strict Human Resources policies, especially surrounding the formation of romantic or sexual relationships between employees; while the KPD does not discriminate against any gender or sexuality, the megacorporation does discourage employees from becoming romantically involved with one another, partially due to the complications that such relationships create within a stressful work environment, but also out of an understanding that the psychological toll of losing a loved one to crime is too high for some people to bare. The KPD values the mental health of all of its employees, and provides free psychological consultation to all members!

However, all is not always cheerful in the KPD; as stated previously, casualties will inevitably occur as the brave Officers of the KPD stand up to lawlessness and anarchy. As such, the KPD's funerary rites are very formal, respectful, and strictly followed in the case that an employee is killed in the line of duty; those who die outside of the line of duty are given funerals befitting their beliefs and status. When a KPD employee dies by laying their life down for the name of justice and security, the KPD pays for that individual's full funerary service, including any wake, transportation fees, etc. that the family may have; furthermore, the KPD provides a KE-branded luxury coffin and flag to be placed over the coffin, and conducts a multi-gun salute for the deceased, the size of which depends upon the deceased's rank at the time of their death. The families of deceased employees also receive appropriate pension and will receive special prioritization if any other family members want to join the megacorporation as a result of their relative's passing. In the event that a KPD employee is murdered, families can apply for a 1-use Clemency License, which they can use to get their revenge on the person(s) responsible for their relative's death without fear of legal repercussions.

Cultural taboos within the KPD include cowardice, corruption, laziness, and poor discipline.

The KPD views outsiders - the public - as lawless animals which need the KPD in order to survive; as such, KPD employees are trained to think accordingly, and are taught to understand that the public must be spied upon, penned-in, and even incarcerated for their own good. Similarly, the KPD also views CONless individuals as subhuman, views criminals as subhuman, and perceives addicts as immoral victims of their own lack of discipline; the KPD is known to be particularly harsh with these individuals, and has faced backlash in the past for cases of police brutality against "innocent" people whom the KPD assaulted or arrested. The KPD's very black-and-white moral code often collapses under the weight of years of field experience, hence the KPD's reeducation facilities, intensive propaganda campaigns (targeting employees and the public), and mandatory psychological evaluations to ensure the loyalty of their employees; a person is either innocent, and therefore worthy of receiving justice in the event they are victimized, or guilty, and therefore deserving only of punishment. The KPD beliefs do not distribute "innocence" and "guilt" equally, which allows the megacorporation to excuse their preferential treatment of the wealthy and mismanagement or outright neglect of the poor.