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The Global Investigation Services (GIS) is the domestic security service of the United Galaxies Council and its principal law enforcement agency. The mission of the GIS is to protect the UGC and her citizen and uphold the laws thereof. The service's
Organizational Structure The GIS is organized very fluidly to allow the agents in the field to same flexibility their opposition uses. At the top of the organization is the Marshall and their Technical Offices. Each galaxy has a Special Agent In Charge (TG-09 or GS-05) who reports to Marshall, each county has an Agent In Charge (TG-07 or SG-02) who reports to the SAIC). Below them are the rest of the rank and file agents. For Field Offices with too many people for one person to supervise alone the county can be divided as many times and ways as is needed based on the AIG's recommendations pursuant to the endorsement of the SAIC and final approval of the Marshall. Headquarters The GIS Headquarters building is the Nova Satori Building, Optera, a part of Investigations Park, a 1,000 acre island site encompassing just over 5 million acres. Technical Offices The Marshall holds the authority to recommend the creation, elimination, merger, and bifurcation is Technical Offices. The Technical Offices serve in a variety of support roles, including Cyber Services (mainatinaing data and communcations netwros), forensic Services (laboratory testing), Audit Services (budget and fincial oversight), Facilites Service (ensuring GIS owned and occupied buildings are maintained), Legal Services (the GIS's in house attorneys), Public Affairs Services (managing information to the public), Counter Terrorism Divion (encompassing all parts of the GIS's counter terrorism efforts), Detantions Office (all matter involving those in GIS custody or the various prisons and jails across the UGC), etc. Most of the Technical Offices are located at Investigations Park, with Agents assigned across the UGC at SAIC offices as needed, and housed according to local availability. Weapons And Other Personal Equipment: GIS Agents carry the Gallant H-100A pistol without the stock adapted plate as their standard sidearm, but may with SAIC approval carry the -120D in its place. They may carry whatever they want while on leave, but they are otherwise always on duty and must carry the -100A. Certain personnel are authorized to access the H-1100 rifle without a bayonet lug or subposed weapon. All GIS Agents are required to wear Class 4 body armor (equivalent to UGC uniforms in protection) at all times (even on leave). Uniforms: With the exception of specific action units GIS agents are forbidden to wear a uniform; The only uniform item they possess is their sidearm and badge, displayed prominently when on the job or otherwise needed. Otherwise both are to be kept out of sight. Agents are also instructed to ignore non-violent misdemeanors when they're not working, and to observe and report to local authorities anything else not requiring immediate intervention whenever possible; Directly from the GIS Training Manual: for blowing a red, you will get in the local's way and you may very well get somebody killed. If you don't have to immediately intervene, don't. Everyone is better off this way."
MAST: MAST is the Services' counter terrorism strike team; Their mission is to enter the camps of known terrorists posing as civilians, then strike and strike very hard at mat'eri'el and weapons and munitions stockpiles, and avoid casualties as much as possible. By GIS policy, MAST teams can only be used when a specific arrest warrant is issued due to questionably necessary use early on combined with public objection at the use of "undercover swat teams" and can only be used to disrupt the target's material capabilities. Contrary to popular misconception, MAST vehicles are not based on ROBOTECHNOLOGY at all. They were first developed on Terra over a decade before The Visitor (later UEG MACROSS, SDF-1) arrived. Indeed, more was learned from MASK (as it was then known) by ROBOTECHNOLOGISTS than vis versa, as MASK had at this point been using transformable machines operationally for years to excellent effect. Agency History: The creation of the Global Investigation Services is one of the singularly most creative, controversial, and colorful chapters in the Inter-Planetary Alliance (later the United Worlds Alliance, then the United Galaxies Council) history- And it's still being written. After the final Invid Armistice, the remnants of Terra's FBI, GMP, GRU, InterPol, and similar agencies were collected up and placed back "on the job"; Catching bad guys, regardless the cost. They were also given hundreds of RDF-Era Destroids, ASC-Era Battloids (both Southern Cross and Russian), a few *VT Cars* and a couple thousand cars of every description- Some of which actually RAN. The first people they found themselves hunting, unfortunately, was each other. More precisely, they found themselves tracking down rogue cops. One of the most infamous, Janice "MsKitty" RATCHINSKI, had been a teacher when Red Sky fell; After that, she became a constable of Ashford City, Australia. The man hunt to catch her would leave in its trail many dead and wounded officers. Legal or not (the point is still being debated), it was DONE, and the process of bringing criminals to justice began once again. As Sentinel Worlds entered the IPA/UWA/UGC, whatever law enforcement agencies they had above the regional (roughly state) level were absorbed into the then-titled General Investigation Services (this changed to Galactic Investigation Services and later Global Investigation Services with the act changing from the UWA to the UGC). Only two agencies in the history of the UGC have been disbanded- The TGE, who's image problems lead to their disbandment (most of their officers would join the GIS, though some reformed the TGE as a private, for-profit Private Investigations Agency) and Steiner Imperial Authority (!&); Under the terms of Armistice, IA (!&) was to be disbanded, their officers retired at FULL pay (no restrictions), and the UWA would pay for it (yet another Steiner Empire temper tantrum). An exception was made for those would WANTED to join the GIS- they would be grandfathered in- With their retirement clock restarted. (Since most of IA (!&) did, in fact join the GIS, this proved to be a major screw-job to them.) The GIS is now the PREMIER law enforcement agency in the UGC; Every region has at LEAST one office (usually in a larger Federal office complex), investigating domestic espionage and terrorism, kidnappings, organi In more recent history, the GIS updated their badges to be aligned to the Council's directives on universal badge clarity; For over 500 years they'd been using the same style, but this didn't fully comply with the intentions of the directive, a fact pointed out by local law enforcement to the continued embarrassment of the Service. The new style badge is a back badge with a second gold colored badge on top of that, leading to the "Two Badge" moniker (typically used as a pejorative). NOTE: A lot of local cops don't like the GIS; Reasons vary, but there's a definite UNFRIENDLY rivalry. Significant Operations:
Legal: Operation White Lightning: Operation White Lightning was a series of sting operations designed to arrest various smugglers from around the former IPA. The operation continues to this day, but not with nearly the degree of intensity, since local law enforcement "usually" take care of that. Operation Gun Walker: Operation Gun Walker is a deliberate action to put guns, usually defective ones, into the hands of criminal to see where they go. Every level of the operation is tracked as closely as possible, from clandestine manufactures and straw buyers to criminal wholesalers to end users. The Arrest Of Captain Jack: Normally, piracy is the territory of the SPAES or the Spacy. But what do you do if a whole society is supporting the pirate? The GIS spent 5 years hunting "Captain Jack," a pirate of Menkalinan System. GIS Field Special Agent KALEE Rahzell, originally a Hunter of Asterion II, went undercover in an attempt to infiltrate Capello Nero, even going so far as to fake his own death. Once inside the syndicate, KALEE found KINDSWOOG Jeef, another Hunter, leading Capello Nero. After destroying KINDSWOOG'S capital ship, the LIMA-Class Rendover, the two faced off in Tactical Self Deploying Missile Launchers (aka Atorian Battle Towers) in a duel that lasted over an hour. FSA KALEE won the duel. Illegal: Operation Roundhammer: Operation Roundhammer was a series of investigations of various persons critical of the UWA on a number of issues. Background: In the aftermath of the Atorian War, various individuals and groups began protesting "excessive" militry involvement in the affairs of the galaxy. Concerns were raised that some of these individuals and groups "may" take direct action, encourage others to do so, etc. The roundhammer concept was merely tracking and recording activities; However, with only a few exceptions, warrantless wiretaps and surveillance devices were used to accomplish this. Rumors of surveillance were common, and in fact several people WERE arrested on "acts of domestic terrorism." The operation came fully to light almost 100 years later, when the "Public Access To Pertinent Records" Act was passed, and several people who believed their ancestors had been targeted demanded the records in question. Operation Roundhammer was technically speaking legal, but far from popular. The aftermath of the records being released was somewhat interesting to say the least; In thousands of cases the GIS had in fact developed information on criminal activity, yet did nothing with the information as it had been collected in a fashion that might not pass legal muster and wasn't related to terrorism. They had maintained a scrupulous focus on terrorism only, and the agents involved in Roundhammer were directed not to speak with other investigators unless a signed order to that effect was acquired; Even then they were not to speak to other investigators directly, but to send the information on to their supervisor, who would then forward it to the supervisor of the agents who needed the information. Very few of these orders were ever signed, and almost all involved kidnapping cases. Notable Members: First Marshall, GIS: Nova SATORI The former GMP Officer was a tough, no-nonsense Marshall. That's because it was either do the job or go to prison. SATORI had "retired" from the GMP at the close of the Second Robotech War, turned porn star, and was pretty much living her life as she damned well pleased, when her former bosses came knocking- The needed her back, and NOW. Her FIRST job was to track down and arrest Dana STERLING. In fact, this was the original reason for recalling the disgraced former GMP Officer turned porn star: "Get Dana. Before someone ELSE finds her and kills her." Dana STERLING and her "Merry Band Of Broken Children" had raked up over 50 warrants in 5 YEARS, from smuggling to minerals theft to slavery. The very real fear was that someone would hunt them down, shoot first, and not even bother with the questions- Or worse, that STERLING and her crew would shoot back, and revive the only legally dead interstellar war. Admiral HAYES-HUNTER: "Find STERLING. Bring her in ALIVE, Captain. We didn't say 'unhurt.' We said alive." General REINHARDT: "Don't think of it as arresting her. Think of it as saving her LIFE, because we already know of at least 50 bounties on her head. Not all of them are legal." General HUNTER: "You leave ME to face the Admirals STERLING, Nova. Besides... I needed a little humbling anyways..." And so, quite literally, it began; SATORI was sent back to Earth (Terra) with orders to reconstruct whatever law enforcement she could and FIND STERLING. Using her new career in porn and stripping, she built a network of informants to build a picture of STERLING and her activities, until the day she tracked her old friend to a mining operation on Garuda- This surely would have gotten her killed, had the Garudans found it first. Luck held out, SATORI found her first, and even managed to both bluff her into believing there was a MUCH larger force of Garudans coming with the intent to do nothing BUT kill her and a second force of REF coming to arrest her (and implied that if the two forces met, there would probably be bloodshed, which would be on Dana's hands). STERLING and her associates surrendered. Most of them only did a couple of years in prison. Julie FETELL, Forensic Scientist: Julie FETELL watched one too many episodes of Bones. It really was that simple. As a teenager she studied the cases of Dr. Henry Chang-Yu LEE of the State Of Connecticut avidly, even going so far as to sample test a case (to compare her findings to that of the doctor's). As the GIS began to grow, Marshall SATORI recruited the 35 year old FETELL to build the GIS's own Forensic Examination Unit, a multi-billion credit laboratory, "Dedicated To Finding ANSWERS Where There Are None." The GUNIER Memorial Forensic Laboratory (located on Antwater, a moon of Gaurda), became obsolete over a century ago, but is now used to test and measure regional facilities to ensure compliance. All this is based on the standard set by Dr. FETELL. General Information Name: Global Investigation Services Director: Marshall of the Galactic Investigation Services Assistant Director: Deputy Marshall Mission: Track down fugitives from justice, investigate crimes involving police officers (as suspects or victims), assist local agencies, and investigate organized crime. Size and Orientation: Mega-organization (500) Features: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Super specialized strike teams; A combination of undercover and HERT specialiaizing in anti-terror operations. MAST is only brought in when absolutely necessary; SAIC's woudl rather bring the Army in than MAST due to the built in headaches needed to activate a MAST team. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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