Police work in the current situation is a demanding and
often thankless task. While petty crime has changed little, and carries with it
many of the same struggles as the modern day, cybercrime is on the increase,
and organised crime has revolutionised its command structures to make use of
robotic personnel. To combat these changes, alterations to existing police
structures were required, and two specialist divisions have risen to prominence
in many nations. In addition, a new section of Interpol specifically dedicated
to Talinz related crime has proven key in combatting international threats in
an ever more connected world.
The Talinz Corruption
and Misuse Bureau
In the wake of the Avogadro Incident, the two officers that
lead the investigation, Gaston Lambert – a French Interpol agent – and Sara
Abbasov – a local Azerbaijani expert – put forth a joint proposal to Interpol.
To employ a number of new, specialist agents to deal with international
incidents of Talinz related crime. This
division would co-opt members from the existing white-collar, computer and
smuggling crime divisions, to track all angles of potential disturbance, from
corruption at the company level to the distribution of illicit modules.
Aiding in managing this huge amount of data is ARTHUR, an
unintelligent supercomputer network. Cyber-crime divisions across the world
report to the gigantic database automatically, all related criminal records and
files being uploaded and provided to all other terminals. Some claim sharing
all this information with other governments is too great an infringement of
personal privacy, others regard the decision as necessary to track the global
nature of these crimes, when a file on the internet can be as dangerous as a
bullet in a gun.
One of the major roles currently of the Talinz Corruption
and Misuse Bureau is the issuing and distribution of ‘Grey Notices’, an
Interpol Notice informing relevant countries that police have sufficient
evidence to assume that an individual that may be crossing borders is robotic in
nature, and thereby an illegal Talinz unit. The receiver of the Grey Notice has
full control over their response to such a warrant, and the effort that is
placed in capturing such a Talinz unit varies remarkably from country to
country. In common parlance of liberated Talinz communities, however, the Grey
Notice has gained a level of infamy akin to the Black Spot.
Most police officers will rarely meet an agent from the
Talinz Corruption and Misuse Bureau in person, as a majority of interactions
with regular law-enforcement personnel occurs through a secure network,
allowing agents to observe moving data and provide remote assistance from the
ARTHUR Institute in Lyon. However, response teams and individual agents are
regularly dispatched to deal with crimes of significantly large magnitude to
support local law enforcement. In this capacity, they often act as specialists
in a law enforcement team that lacks them, or lacks those of a high enough
proficiency to tackle to current threat.
Talinz Heavy Support
When dealing with Talinz units, some police departments have
taken the ruling that there is no overkill. As a unit can lose all limbs and
still function, provided there is no damage to the central processing unit,
armed response teams have taken to using electromagnetic weaponry to deal with
these threats. Most criminal syndicates move the hard drive processing unit to
an unexpected and frequently random part of the body to prevent incapacitation
of the unit by a simple firing drill. In response to public outcry at rising
officer fatality rates, many police departments set up specialist Talinz Heavy
Support units. Beyond an armed response team, these units are generally only
called in under very specific circumstances, and are often unavailable to
officers fighting in more urban areas.
The main reason for this is that heavy support is a grav
tank. Most police departments share one between districts. Most police
departments only need one. Most never use them.
Large and bulky, grav tanks were an innovation early in the
Talinz War, using tilt-rotor technology to navigate uneven surfaces and ‘fly’
though they cannot achieve a lift beyond a few cm, due to the weight of the
machine. However, these heavily armed units are often equipped with powerful
ion cannons. Provided the police department is fine with shutting out all
electrical communication in a mile cubed of the incident area for around 2 or 3
hours, and informs all potential aircraft to plot a route above or around the
shot-site, such weaponry can prove remarkably effective. To counter such
methods, many criminal syndicates have started to supplement Talinz units with
humans carrying night vision goggles, to be deployed when the lights go out.
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