Law and Order - The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line is a World of Darkness - Tales from the 13th Precinct chronicle, following Enrique "Roscoe" Rosetto and Henry Newman, both ex military turned police officers, now partners.

It's been put on indefinate hold due to losing much of our material which was stored online, on the Wanton Wicked rp site that ran for a long time.

The Precinct
Henry and Roscoe both worked out of the central and biggest precinct in LAPD. It's important to note that due to not having knowledge about LAPD's actual precincts widely available, we simply redesigned the entire police force structure.

Metro-police command
All members of theMetro Police Command wear special uniforms when on the job, apart from the police commisioner who traditionally wears plain-clothes (suits, preferably, and often they go for suits that look somewhat uniform like, to give them a more official look), and the deputy o f administration (usually also suits, but dressing for the occasion). The Police Commisioner, Chief of Police and the 3 deputies make up the Command.

Police commisioner
A police commisioner isn't necessarily a sworn officer before he becomes commisioner. Mostly, they are politicians, and quite often have a law degree and commonly a background in the military as officers. A recent reform, changed the rules so that police commisioner candidates had to be able to pass all exams at the police academy, where “pass” is the key word. Normally, to be hired as a police officer, you will be graded and need to excell at one or more subjects. Also, a 10-week educational program was put together to assist future commisioners in passing their tests. Rumour has it though, that the mayor explicitly told the academy that anyone he sends through that 10 week program comes out with a badge. The thing is, the commisioner is appointed by the mayor (and approved by the city council, usually this happens through an election of several candidates that the mayor has put forward), so that the mayor has a politician with a badge, running the cops. The commisioner is the highest instance within the police force, but he can’t make too many decisions on his own, as he is stuck in a council (called the Metro Police Command) with the Cheif of police and all 3 deputy’s, and regarding most decisions that ever sees the commisioner’s desk, they all have to sign off on them. The real power in the commisioner’s seat, is that he holds the ability to promote, demote, hire and fire anyone he wants (within reason), of course there is always a hearing and the union will whip up a shit storm if he abuses this power to openly, but being a politician means having contacts and having lots of dirt on everyone, and having access to all files and all investigations only makes this so much easier. If he had a reason to go through all the channels that he needed and get one of the deputys or even the chief of police fired, he could, although, if the majority of the police commandl elects to have the commisioner of police removed, and are prepared to go to trial over it, they could also have him removed. The city council members are the ones who make or break a commisioner, and in order to become a police commisioner, the mayor or the candidate himself has to have a lot of contacts which means commisioners are quite often extremely well connected. The mayor can at any point remove a commisioner from office, but this of course looks bad in the eyes of the public, because he was trusted to elect someone who was able to carry the job out. The actual job of the commisioner, is to send requests, questions and orders down the latter, and send budgets, answers and results up the latter. When the mayor says that crime in the western district needs to be reduced by 4%, and the the war on drugs must be pressed further to keep this residential area clean, then the commisioner sits down with the chief of police and together, they work out what they want the deputy of operations to do, exactly. He then instructs his subordinates and makes sure it happens. While the chief of police is actually the one who usually comes up with all the answers or solutions that gets passed down the latter, the commisioner is the face of the police and the personal representant of the mayor.

====Abraham Smiths (Jr.) ====

Abrahams is a large man in his mid fifties, age has made him somewhat fat but he still has a powerful frame. He is surprisingly short compared to how he appears on TV, with classic sergeant haircut and eyes that remind most people of a bulldog. He has a loud and firm voice and a charismatic American accent that makes him sound like a boss in control. A former Tank Commander, he was an officer and served in the early wars in the middle east and much later took to the police education. He was never much of a detective, or so it's rumoured, but quite the political monster. He has friends in all the right places, and the military life gave him an attitude. Of course, having rich parents helped with the contacts. His father used to be a politician, and Abraham Jr. was one of his main campaigners. No one in the force are particularly close to Abraham, as he tends to mix with a crowd of much higher society people. It´s a little suspicious how quickly he rose in rank within the the Police. Some suggests, that the mayor made this happen to finally be able to appoint a commisioner of police who “climbed all the way up the ladder”. Needless to say, a former marine and academic  is always popular with the white people in Boston

Chief of police
Sort of the deputy commisioner, but unlike the commisioner, the Chief of police is a steady job that is usually kept from when a person takes the position, and until he/she retires. The Chief of police is expected to know everything that goes on inside the department, and when the commisioner brings to attention a new task or issue, the chief then has to work out a viable solution that the commisioner can present to the mayor who in turn can present it to the city council and the public. The Chief usually does this by consulting one of 3 deputy’s, who then reaches out to their subordinates. People inside the department usually consider the Chief the real boss, while they consider the commisioner to be the mayor’s newest poster boy, but most understand that being that high up the latter requires a certain mind for politics and the free time to actually BE a politician, and the Chief simply doesn’t have that kind of time.

====Collins Worth ====

Collins is not a man most would make for a police officer, more likely a lawyer or a politician. Used to be a captain of the Central Precinct, and is in his late forties. No one really likes the man (too much of a politician to have friends in the force), but he knows the system and he used to make things work. In his new position he does his job just as well, if not even better than he did before. Collins is from up north and was a navy guy. He still has a thing for ships and boats and recently bought a small yacht which brought him some unwanted attention. There was a case building against him, but the case seems to have gone cold for some reason. Not surprising considering that he used to be an intelligence detective. He is a very plain looking man with glasses, slim build and waning hair.

Deputy chief Operations
The deputy of Operations is the boss of most of the people considered real police. Detectives and patrolmen both belong in this catagory, but it isn’t usually divided this way. The deputy of operarations has a number of Colonels working under him, who in turn, are responsible for all detectives as a whole, or all patrolmen as a whole. The deputy of operations also has a number of majors who are district commanders, or in charge of a specific Detectives beaureu city-wide. These people work specific districts that the deputy may concern himself with. For instance, if crime is increasing in the western district, and mostly an increase in homicides, the deputy of operations calls the homicide major (not all detectives beaureus are represented in all districts, but homicide in Boston, is a large enough matter to keep a task force of detectives busy working cases year round in all districts. Information crime might not be, how ever, and while northern or western district have organized crime taksforces, southern instead has a gang task force.) and asks him what kind of murders they are seeing, and he responds that it’s mostly gang related. The deputy then calls the major for organized crime and asks him what he’s got on the killings. The Major then consults his people and finds out that they have a few suspects that they could reel in, but all but a few are currently part of larger invesitigations in a major case, but suggests putting more patrolmen on the street, especially at night and in the more remote residential areas where the killings are happening. The deputy then calls the district commander for western district, and tells him to  step it the fuck up and make sure those mafioso’s are feeling the pressure, and also tells him to bust down a few doors if he can get with organized crime on it, and make sure to harass them as much as possible. So, as this example clarifies, it’s a leader position.

====Ulric Weiss ====

Ulric is a harrowed man in his late forties, who is both thinning and expanding in the wrong places, making even the most expensive tailored suits look  somewhat shabby on him. The job has taken it’s toll on this man, who was a shining posterboy for the department just a few years back. Now he’s divorced, and the wife and kids moved out of state, he has a lawsuit ruining him, rumor even has it, that he’s partially living out of the office. He’s showing obvious signs of alkohol abuse, but not on a scale that makes him unable to do his job (yet). He also shows heavy signs of a depression. Ulric used to take his job very seriously, but as of lately, he isn’t as useful as he used to be.

Deputy chief Administration
In charge of money and everything not directly police related, which is still handled by the department. Advertising, the police academy, the numbers and statistics, the press, passports (and the like), criminal records, finding money in the budget, prisioner transport, getting word from one public institution to another (such as communication between the police and the fire department, or the 911 central) and many other tasks. Administration is, in other words, mostly the civilian workers area, but also everything economical and IT wise, as well as buildings, cars and other materials.

====Sarah Crops ====

Sarah is a black woman in her early forties, and quite the climber. She's very unpopular due to having screwed over her share of people to rise as fast as she did. Fortunately most of the people she screwed over were back in Chicago where she's from. People are quite happy to see her parked in administration, while she seems to have taken it hard. Rumour has it that she's started drinking. For a woman in her 40’ies she looks stunning, and people comment that it´s probably another factor that helped speed her career. She's single, which isn't surprising with her personality.

Deputy Chief Support
The Support Division is in charge of all the other "sub-departments" such as aviation, CCTV, intelligence, K-9 and the ERU/SWAT/PRT/SRT (all those fancy names for para-military police units with big guns). The support division is mostly paper work, but also the occational hearing in court and bugging the chief of police to make administration channel more funds into the support division for new gadgets. Support division also runs all training of hired personnel and co-ordinates with the local police academy.

====Curt Mantis ====

Everyone likes old Curt. A likeable guy in his fifites who ended up running the entire support division. Curt knows how to do his job, and has always done it well. He's very helpful and quite the successful familyman with one child in the academy, one in first year in lawschool and one already hired and working as a CST, though still as an intern.

Curt is a short and relatively frail man who fought an impossible battle against cancer some years back. After that, he asked to be reassigned into traffic, happy to throw his energy at a quiet job that he was good at. Curt has maintained his position in traffic for a long time now. People hope to keep him there. He spent a short time in ERU before the cancer got him and before that, he was in k9. When Curt found out he had cancer, he transfered into the detectives bereau and was stuck with property crimes, as his cancer treatment was hard on him physically. Few months later, the cancer got worse and he was put on sick leave.

Colonels
While a lot of people tend to think that the colonel position is an attractive job, most police officers would hate to hold the job until they are about ready to retire, as it’s usually considered a dead end. The chain of command uses military rank from the lowest supervisors and all the way to colonel, then it stops using military terms, and starts using political terms. It’s very rare to see a colonel promoted beyond his station, usually district commanders or other Majors are promoted to the higher offices, and in truth, the job as Major swings more weight than that of a Colonel. The Colonels are strictly administrative leaders, who are ultimately in charge of a specific catagory of employees, this could, for instance, be patrolmen, or detectives. The colonels are stuck with the paperwork that comes with unit transfers, hirings and many other trivial matters, that however, cannot be carried out by a civilian employee, as a civilian would never have the same experience with police matters, which is important regarding such decisions. Most colonels are old men, and the job is usually awarded to major’s who do not have the potential to go beyond their station, but often it isn’t given out to anyone but the oldest of them, to bump their retirement a bit. It’s a quiet job, where good police come to die, as people say. That said, there are too many colonels, and new ones are promoted too often that I want to make a list for you guys. Colonels are plain uninteresting, and usually so old, that no one knows them. The most important part of the colonels job, by most officers accounts, are their dedication to work with the union. In a big city like Boston, the department has plenty of reason trying to find more excuses to have new colonel-positions open up every year.

Majors
Major is a rank with many different positions available, that vary in importance, making it more of a pay-grade.

===District Commander ===

A district commander is the man who is ultimately in charge of a district, and all the precincts and officers within one. This is a highly administrative and political position, involving statistics, campaigns and tactics. The district commander mostly handles the uniformed officers, but is in charge of the detectives too.

====Wallace Grimes ====

Wallace is an Irish American in his early fifties, ugly by most peoples standards, but very charismatic. He’s just “one of the guys”, and he appears that way to the public as well.

Wallace is known for his days back in patrol, where he was quite the rule-breaker, or so rumour has it. He is still known to cut corners, but not in a stricly bad way. While the man is obviously lazy and arrogant, he is also good police by most people’s standard. Wallace has never fired his service gun in the line of duty, and is actually somewhat against guns on the street, it seems.

===Deputy District Commander ===

The deputy district commander is in charge of the detectives mostly, but seeing as there is a major to handle each beaureu, this job is hardly demanding. The prime job as the deputy is to show up at different precincts and make sure the district commander knows whats going on. In other words, he’s sort of a detective for the District Commander himself.

Roy Peters
Roy is a slim build man with a slightly oversized head in his late thirties, and he wears glasses too. A slightly comical sight, if you didn’t know that he outranked you and that his a sly and mean SOB. A lot of people have hate for Roy, as he generally snoops in everyones business, always the critique, never the aide. Roy plays a special kind og dangerous political game, and he seems to be gathering favours and dirt on as many people as possible.

===Beaureu supervisors ===

These majors are in charge of specific detectives beureus district-wide, and they are not attached to a specific precinct (unless said precinct is the only district to hold a specific beaureu). There’s also a major in charge of any other specific “unit” on a district-wide scale. They have their main offices in which ever precinct they prefer within the district as long as there is an office available there.

====Major Ned Banks - Patrol Supervisor ====

Ned is a real patrolman in his mid fifites, slightly plump, gray hair, divorced once, remarried, lots of pointless hobbies, constantly talking about retirement and best of all; still one of the guys. Ned is out there, with the patrolmen as often as he can find an excuse for, if only to have a laugh with the people over some old and internal joke. Ned is known to take it very seriously when cops die, and will usually be in a very sad mood many weeks after funeral. He highly values traditions and while he generally seems too decent a guy to even consider having comitted police brutality, he actually constantly encourages his fellow officers to “go kick the shit out of them”. Ned usually says there are two kind of cops, there are the hard cops, who are put on troubled beats, and their job is to hit the gangsters hard... With their nightsticks... In the balls. The other kind of police are the face-cops, who are supposed to make people feel safe.

Precinct Captains
The Rank of Captain almost entirely exists ad the precinct commanders rank. The precinct captain is in charge of the precinct and everyone who works out of it, unless they outrank him. There are usually several precincts within a district, but this is not always the case, when when that happens, the captains role is severely diminished, as the district supervisors will have only one precinct in their district to focus their energy on, leaving the captain few- or no interesting duties. When there are more precincts in a district as usual however, the captain is the functioning commander of everyone working out of the precinct whenever the district commanders are no present.

Captain of the Central Precinct  Mike Inkman''' '''

Mike is the new precinct captain. Oppinions about him differ widely, but he seems to have obtained this position via contacts higher up. He doesn´t really mix well with the rest of the police department, being less of a cop and more of a politician. He seems to do his job well though, as he pretty much lets the experienced lieutenants run their shows, and stick to the press and the administrative work. For a man who's mid-forties, he looks better than most, but definately ageing.

Shift Lieutenants
Shift lieutenants are tasked with the administrative work that must always continue as long as officers are working in the field. Whenever someone is booked, the proper forms must be filled out and reports must be read and checked up on and bluestamped, and so on and so forth. When something goes wrong or a warrant is needed or some such, it is of impecable value when someone who knows the right people to speak to, how to convince them, what to promise and what not to promise. That is the job of the shift lieutenant. Shift lieutenants always work with the same squad, which means thet their shifts are determined by that of their squads.

====Bruce Tallehasse ====

Bruce is pretty young for a Lt. being in his early thirties, and quite proud of it. He hasn't been one for long, and was recently promoted out of his position as sergeant. He’s spent a good 6 years in patrol now, and people know and respect him. He´s a pretty plain looking guy. Bruce is a former officer in the military, a job he was less good at, as he openly admits. He only recently got entirely over a depression from feeling responsible for the loss of some of his men due to IED’s. Most people have a hard time imagining that Bruce will be good as a lieutenant due to the fact that his new job demands much more political understanding. He has done alright so far.

====Marie Strout ====

Marie is a stern looking woman in her late thirties who looks like she is in the middle of her forties. She always manages to seem incredibly professional and it´s hard to imagine that she used to pose as a hooker for undercover vice assignments. She was offered a position as shift lieutanant when she apparently just wanted out. She took it, but it hasn´t grown on her much. At least she does her job without any bullshit. Marie has always stuck to her own tiny social circle, and doesn’t really speak with anyone on the squad, which has caused to come off as a bit of a loner.

Dwayne Michaels
Dwayne is the guy they all refer to as “the real lieutenant” or simply Lt. Michaels. He is an older guy, turning 57, and no one really uses his first name, and people have a tendancy to forget what the “D” on his name tag, desk sign and door stands for. A slim man with a straight back, long legs and a thick bush of a gray mustache, he looks a lot like Jim Gordon (the commisoner of police from Batman). Dwayne is very effective at what he does, and a lot of people would want to see him in a higher position. Dwayne himself passed the detectives exam and worked in the detectived bereau for a while, but eventually went back into patrol and not soon after he became a Lt. Dwayne is your lieutenant.

Staff Sergeants first class
A staff sergeant first class is an administrative middle-management leader and instructor. They primarily deal with office jobs and paper work as well as organizing the work forces. It requires a sergeants examn, and is mostly considered a retirement option for those officers who never made it beyond sergeant or younger and partially disabled officers. They are also known as Shift sergeants, as they work a shift of patrol officers through the day, co-ordinating with the shift lieutenant.

1st SSgt. Fernando Raia
Sergeant Raia is a solidly built Hispanicman in his late 50s with close-cut, graying hair and a neatlytrimmed mustache. His uniform is spotless, every crease ra-zor-sharp, shoes polished to a reﬂ ective shine that you couldcomb your hair in. He keeps his posture ramrod straight,even in civilian gear. Off duty, Fernando goes for jeans andbuttoned-down shirts. A cruciﬁx tattoo covers his left bicep,and both of his hands are covered with tiny scars. Raia stands as an example to all the officers on the force, reknown as one of the most honest and hardworking cops on the force. It’s widely known that he took the detectives exam but returned to uniformed work. He is the kind of poster-boy that is sent to public schools. He is soon due for a promotion. Further more, Raia had a short career as a professional boxer before he joined the force, an art he learned in the marine corps before they modernized. He often says: “I used to box honourably, but then I joined the force". He still teaches boxing for officers who belong to that generation. Raia still carries the long nosed colt revolver as his sidearm when he’s on duty. He looks like an older, and fit, version of Sgt. Batista from Dexter (played by David Zayas)

===='''1st SSgt. Jacob Finkelstein''' ====

One of the only jewish men on the force, and along with Raia, one of the relatively few practicing religous people on the force. Jacob is a tall and stern looking man in his late forties or early fifties, with obvious jewish heritage. Not a lot of people know a lot about Jacob, as he keeps his private life and professional life seperate. Jacob is at least 48, most people would recon, but he rarely speaks of it. Jacob is often used, when the jewish witnesses or suspects are called in and the detectives on the case needs to pull the sympathy card. Jacob has a background in organized crime.

1st SSgt. John Harrison
A black man, former marine, in late thirties He has a leg injury but used to be on the ERU team in San Diego. John Harrison is currently working on a detectives exam. Rumour has it that he used to be special forces. John is a very large man, more muscular than Stew Green and with an expression twice as mean. All that aside, Sgt Harrison is, by most people's account, one of the guys. He isn't currently rotated out on patrol, due to his work on that exam. He bears an uncanny resemblence to Sgt. Doakes from Dexter played by Eric King. He doesn´t strike people as quite taken with the office work, and probably got this position temporarily while his leg is getting better.

Staff Sergeant detective
The SSD's are somewhat respected, despite being officer workers. Usually a job granted to older somewhat burned out Sergeant detectives, or CST's who who have been with the force for a long time. SSD's handle evidence that is sent into the station, and their jobs are primarily administrative. Any evidence that comes into the possession of the police is propperly examined and catalogued by Sworn SSD officers before the CST's get a chance to examine it again (again, meaning that they are usually the ones who find said evidence on the crime scenes). They also "police" the CST's to make sure that they follow protocol and don't tamper with evidence. They have special CST courses (not the full education, but instead they get some competence granting courses that makes them better at spotting mistakes made by CST's) making them qualified to handle such delicate matters as evidence.

====SSD Richard Bucknell ====

Richard is 37 years old and very good-looking, with blond hair and piercing blue eyes. His uniformis always immaculate. When off duty, he favors semi-casualattire, with chinos and nicely pressed shirts. In conversa-tion, Richard is highly literate and professional, but quiteconservative in his views on every topic other than sexual-ity. Even there, Richard is dismissive of what he considersthe sex-obsessed lifestyle of most gays, and he longs for asteady monogamous relationship, complete with a civilunion (as opposed to a same-sex marriage, which Richardopposes). Richard was all over the news a few years back when participating in a sting oppertation caused him to be outed as ahomosexual to his co-workers. While he suffers from someharassment, he is generally well liked.

====SSD George Halliburn ====

George, 31, actually wanted to be a CST, but realized that it required him to specify in one of a wide selection of fields. When he read that the SSD's worked Evidence Lockup were they get to “handle evidence”, he was sold. He ended up quite surprised when he found out what was meant by that. Alas, George seems content enough with his position, but often speaks of transferring into homicide. He hasn´t made any inquiries yet, though. George is very short for a police officer, and easy to excite. He seems almost desperate to fit in, and always laughs a bit too long at jokes. He is also a bit of a geek, and it´s widely known that he plays computer in his sparetime. When the IT guys are busy, people usually turn to George.

====SSD Elsa Peterson ====

Elsa is the oldest ELSgt. on the job, and got her position by requalifying. She used to be a desk sergeant, but had the papers needed to undergo the demanding education. She´s a very nice woman, most would say, but she´s getting a little old and absent minded. She's 53, and despite wearing glasses, she has the eys of a hawk, and will immediately notice if something is up with her evidence.

Staff Sergeant
A Staff Sergeant is technically a higher rank than sergeant, but is nor regarded as such. The "Staff" in staff sergeant is a very fitting prefix to the rank, as they are also known as "desk sergeants" or receptionists. They sit and watch security monitors all day, and handle the occational civilian who needs to file something, otherwise a meet, greet and send to appropriate person kind of job.

Staff sergeant Morgan Preacher

A man in his early thirties with fat cheeks and a bored expression. Morgan strikes people as anything but a morning person. He tends to be forgetful and lazy, and most people are happy he isn’t their partner, but behind a desk instead. Infact, it´s widely known that he ended up there as a sort of punishment. Not much more to say about Morgan. People tend not to notice him. Despite not being an early bird, he is never late, and always works the morning shift (the A-shift).

====Staff sergeant Eric Mcgee ====

A fat man in his late twenties, very chatty. Eric used to work security before he finally pulled himself together and managed to crawl through the police academy. He barely lasted through his probitionary time, but due to having an uncle somewhere high up, he was repositioned to the desk sergeants duty without really being on patrol for much more than a year. Mcgee isn´t too bright, but he has a sticky brain and always does his utmost to complete a job. Sadly he often lacks the skill or focus to do so. He is generally well liked if somewhat pitied. Fat, balding and with an irritating nervous and sort of nasal voice, he isn´t a person people spend too much time talking to. The Desk sergeants job seems perfect for him. A lot of people suspect him of being autistic, which is actually enough to get a person declared unfit for police work entirely, but no one really wants to break his heart and go above his head and demand that someone has him checked for that. He normally works the B shift, but is flexible about that, and generally moves around alot, sometimes working two shifts in a row, which is another reason he is generally well liked.

====Staff Sergeant Arthur Delgado ====

Art is 61-year-old white male who is clearly too out of shape for ﬁeld police work. He has grayhair and glasses and is portly, bordering on obese. Despite hisage and apparent health problems, his coworkers describehim as “pretty spry.” In fact, he conceals great physicalstrength and agility behind the demeanor of an over-the-hill cop counting the days to retirement. Art is a nice guy, and he enjoys the company of his co-workers, while most people know little about him, he pretty much knows everyone. Art has been on the force for a very long time, but has been the desk sergeantin most of that time for some reason.

Field Supervisors
Better known as Sergeants, they make up the experienced cops. Sergeants are always partnered up with the most promising PO’s out of the academy, to make sure that there’s made the most of them. Sergeants are assigned to beats, and usually the most dangerous and complicated ones, and they work that beat with other cops as well, always a second car with minimum one SPO. Having to seperate cars cover one beat means the sergeant can drive around to other beats and assist other cops with difficult assignments or give them small lectures during coffee breaks, this is called high mobile patrol (HBP). It happens that a sergeant applies to keep his partner or be partnered with a specific person, and when these requests are granted, the sergeant is no longer used for high mobile patrol, but sticks to a difficult beat. Being a sergeant in patrol is considered one of the most attractive jobs to hold for a person under 40 years of age in the force, as it allows for a lot of freedom, generally a relaxed atmosphere, an acceptable paygrade, authority and a quite admirable pension. Most sergeants end up as staff sergeants or Staff sergeants first class if they don't advance prior to turning 45.

====Sgt. Wade Whitfield ====

Wade is 39 years old, with red hair thathe wears full in front to conceal a receding hairline. He hasa wide face that could be quite open and friendly if he were capable of those demeanors. Most often, though, his smiles look more like sneers. Wade is in fairly good shape but doesnot work out regularly. When out of uniform, Wade favorsblue jeans and T-shirts, usually featuring either patrioticslogans or depicting NASCAR stars.Wade is the redneck sergeant on the force, and by anyones account and asshole through and through. He is partnered with officer Stewart “Stew” Green, of all people.

====Sgt. Shiela Brighton ====

Shiela is a white woman just in her thirties. With her long black hair and her deep brown eyes, she tends to fool people into believing that she´s a real princess. The truth is, however,  is that she is quite the machocist. She has a background in the US army, though as most people on the force are former marines she falls outside of the group of people considered “ex military”, and is yet to tell any stories about it. Before army, she became world champion in female kickboxing once, and she remains one of the most capable close-quarter combatants on the force. Having only been a sergeant for a short while, Shiela is currently working on getting into SWAT, but despite having the skills, she is holding back for some reason. She bears a close ressemblence to Anna Pihl, only with a much more athletic build. Her husband is Sergeant Shaw. Most people wouldn't want to admit it, but she's quite capable of taking on most of the male officers, and she is definately the most capable female non-SWAT combatant in patrol. Shiela has shown a considerable talent mentoring female cops, as they have a tendancy to look up to her, and as such, an exception was made when it was decided who to partner Shiela with. Instead of giving her a promising academy graduate (predominately male graduates fall into this category), she was partnered with a female graduate whom was believed to be in need of this kind of mentoring. Shiela is very well respected, especially amongst the female officers. She has a detectives exam, but seems reluctant to transfer. She is partners with PO Marie Bay.

====Sgt. Michael Shaw ====

Shaw is currently the leading hand to hand expert in patrol. A white man, tall and with the build of a decaying football player, Shaw is the spitting image of a good honest cop. A stern expression on his face, a straight back and intelligent and empathic eyes, Shaw emitts a calm aura of authority and control. Shaw might never have been the looker, but his professional and charismatic demeanor makes up for it a hundred times over. Shaw has the black belt in karate, but abandoned the sport in his teeens to persue other martial arts. He was captain of the wrestling team in highschool, and managed to obtain an expert degree in Krav Maga during his time in the military. He is a former sergeant with a lot of time abroad on his CV. Shaw tried out for commando training. and actually made the cut for recon, but after everything was said and done, he realized that it wasn't what he wanted to do. Spending every day of your life training for those few times a year you actually get to do something felt wrong to him, so he quit, joined the force and met Shiela. Shiela and him were partnered up, and it took several years before neither of them could any longer deny the chemestry between them. When they decided to be upfront with their superiors and wanted to get married, both of the well liked cops were promoted to sergeants, which meant that they effectively had to be split up. Shaw is also trying out for SWAT as it is, but he seems less eager than Shiela, but has mentioned his enthusiasm for the secondary response team quite often. While quite happy with his job, Shaw intends to at least try and stay in the same divison as Shiela and is considering a transfer into k9 when it opens up. He is partners with George Blumen.

====Sgt. James Ruler ====

James is a new sergeant, recently promoted. He tends to be rather moody due to having lost his partner prior to his promotion. He holds himself responsible for what happened, even though, according to the report, he is not at all to blame. James is currently riding solo, but that is likely to change soon. James is of average build and frame, with his pretty generic looks he has a tendancy to melt into the surrounding woodwork. He had a short career in the military as a sniper, and it was originally his plan to apply into SWAT, but as he says himself, “it’s not going to be right now”. He just had kids and moved to a larger house, and just turned 31.

====Sgt. Marcus Fox ====

Marcus Fox is a a black man, build like basketball player, only not as tall, and he is turning 30. He has the long and athletic muscles often seen on basketball players or runners, and wears glasses. He transfered in from the sheriffs department, as he experienced a lot of racism out there. He generally never speaks of his family, but it is known that most of his close relatives live in the same giant house on the outskirts of L.A., and it’s also known that his brother was recently convicted for car jacking. Marcus was in the air force as a technician before he decided to try out for police work, which he proved to be good at. Marcus is generally well liked for being a calm and professional individual knowing just when to be casual, and casual exactly. Despite that, he is currently suspended while IAB looks into his brother. Marcus is partnered with SPO Chang Li, normally.

====Sgt. Jack Carter ====

Jack is mean old marine drill sergeant who shipped out to operation desert storm back in the days, and lost many friends there. Many people call him “Fury” or, more recently, “Meaneye Macmeanie”. Jack is a very professional person, so professional, most people wonder if he even has friends. Jack has been under the loop of the IAB several times for playing ruff with suspects, but has never been found guilty of anything. Being relatively short, he is built like an athlete, if somewhat decaying from age. Due to an old injury that prevents Jack from rapelling, he has been found unfit for duty with SWAT. He seems intent on staying in patrol until he drops dead, much to many of his fellow officers dismay. Jack is partners with PO Despin Walters. he is closing in on the 45.

====Sgt. Shane Wilkers ====

Shane is a very honest and somewhat naive man who transfered in from the Sheriff’s department, just turning 40. He moved to the city when he married his wife, and now patrols the exact same area as he did as a sheriff, only now he patrols the Metro police’s side of it. It means he still has to cooperate with his former coworkers which suits him fine. When he was promoted to sergeant, he was given a sheriff’s hat, only black and with the LAPD written in white on it instead of Sheriff, and was allowed to wear it. He drives the metro version of the sheriffs off-road cruisers, and sometimes has to ask himself if his job ever really changed. Unfortunately, other people tend to ask the same questions behind his back, because the truth is, Shane is a terrible police officer, which is exactly why he was given the beat the he now patrols. No one really wants to be Shane’s partner, due to the fact that he cannot keep his head cool under fire or conduct any form of actual police work for that matter, at best he pulls a few people over for speeding and lets them off with a warning. Officially, Shane’s partner is SPO Lance Schachter, but Lance spends his time at the precinct, helping ULt. Mal Lesperance with the union work, and Shane has always prefered riding solo anyways. Shane might not be a good police officer, but the area he patrols is a low to no crime area, and usually the Sheriff’s department can handle anything Shane can’t, and Shane is actually a good social character, if given the right audience. The people living in the county area are just his sort of people and he makes them feel very safe and secure by driving around and chatting people up. The department is considering to promote Shane to “County Lt.” or some such, and make him responsible for the administrative work and cooperation between the Sherrif’s department and the Metro PD.

Corporals
Corporals are police officers in patrol who have at least a few years (normally 2) of veterancy, after completing their trial period. Corporals are partnered up with Constables and have authority over them

Corporal Alejandra “Alex” Quintero
Alex is an attractive female ofﬁcer, in her mid twenties with Hispanic features: olive skin, deep brown eyes and blackhair, usually pulled back in a ponytail. Her uniform is invari-ably spotless. When Alex lets her hair down, so to speak,she becomes a stunning beauty. Alex works out regularlyand also competes every year in the Midway 10K Run. She also studies martial arts and has asked Neil Hurst to sparwith her, though he refuses to do so out of fear of injuring his partner. Alex has a romantic relationship with a successful lawyer, a public defender, who has a talent for getting evidence passed over due to police misconduct. This has made Alex quite unpopular. Alex however seems to take great pride in her job, especially as it allows her to be a rolemodel for the latino commuinty which she cares a lot about. She experiences a lot of bigotry, racism, sexism and hate on the force, but paired with a guy like Niel Hurst, people tend to keep it to them selves. She has a good reputation amongst the more decent cops however, and the detectives too. They say she’s an honest cop and always helpful to have along when the latino’s are involved.

====Corporal Lance Schachter ====

Lance could have stepped out of a recruit-ing poster, and is only 26. Tightly curled blond hair frames a handsome, boyish face with deep blue eyes and a disarming smile. Hispatrolman’s uniform sports a worn set of aviator’s wings over the nametag, revealing a background in the airforce. Lance is widely regarded as the precinct nut-case, but also well liked at the same time. He had an accident years ago that apparently could not be rationally explained by himself,and it cost him his position as aviation squad lieutenant, much to the ERU team´s dismay. Lance is still a good officer, and now more than anything he dedicates his time to helping Mel fight the good fight for the officers on trial.

====Corporal Chang Li ====

Chang is your average asian guy with grown up with western influences, in his mid to late twenties, hard to tell. Western influences having caused him to have a disturbed body ideal, namely that of a non-asian male. Suffering from severe inferiority complexes, he is almost constantly sweating it in the iron room, having build up so much muscle mass by now that it’s affecting his balance and ability to run for extended periods of time. Chang is a very defensive person, always jumping to conclusions about peoples intentions, and he has a hard time dealing with the less physical aspects of police work, constantly struggling with several reports and remembering the police codes. Chang is a korean and a such, he considers it a given that he practices both hapkido and taekwondo, both are, however, martial arts ill fit for police work, despite that, he prides himself on having the black belt in both. Chang has a grudge against Sgt. Shiela who once defeated Chang during a sparring match with ease. While a lot of people consider Chang to be a bit of an idiot, most people recognize his good intentions try not to be too hard on him. Chang Li is the partner of Sgt. Marcus Fox, which is unusual, but the department does not consider Chang fit for mentoring duty or ready for reassignment yet, how ever due to Marcus being suspended, he is currently riding solo, which has already started causing the administrations hairs to gray as the pile of unfiled reports on his desk keep piling up.

===='''Corporal Carl Mantis '''====

A late addition to the force, Carl is a tall and slim guy, early thirties. Carl isn´t exactly a looker or a very charismatic speaker, but he is well respected due to being a professional through and through and a very nice guy. Carl has no military background and was actually working in IT before deciding to go for a huge career change. He had no trouble getting through the academy though. He is currently working on a detectives exam, despite realising that the only place the department will ever grant him a detectives desk is in information crimes. Despite not having the exciting life he envisioned to look forward to, he seems generally content.

Corporal Julius Cornado
Julius is quite the wild kid, mid twenties. Instead of trying out for a formal education, he went into a career as an MMA fighter and got pretty far. He over extended his elbow during his last match and was forced out of the MMA environment. He then joined the US Navy and later decided to join the academy. Julius is widely known to be a bit careless and humouristic. He has often been accused of having priorities that interfere with his work as an officer. Julius was a light-weight MMA fighter, standing just below average height, he is build like an athlete, and heavily tattoo’d under his uniform. It’s widely known that he had some associations to a hispanic gang which is usually enough to bar one from the academy, however Julius seems generally free of those ties and is overall a good officer most would recon. However rumour has it that he has once in a while been caught using drugs and drinking too much. He obviously still knows a lot of people in the hispanic environment and for that reason he is given a beat as far away from the hispanic neighbourhoods as possible. Julius has great respect for SWAT and would probably love to be there, but he is too out of shape for that sort of work as it is, even though that is impossible to tell from looking at him.

====Corproal Thomas Finn ====

Thomas is a young (mid twenties) hotshot on the force, he was a football quarterback in highschool and then enlisted in the Army. After one trip to Afghanistan he left the military, and became a profession tri-athlete. He participated in the olympics once where he won a silver medal. Thomas started to experience a weird humming feeling in his legs, and checked with his doctor who told him to stop running and biking for sport. While Thomas still swims on a semi-professional level, running was his forté, and he decided to join the force. Good looking and well liked, Thomas has found a home away from home and loves his job. Thomas aspires to join SWAT, but has a long way to go. Thomas was the top graduate from the academy and learned fast, and he was promoted to Corporal very quickly. Thomas is good friends with most people, and doesn’t really have any enemies, maybe except for Constable Stewart Green. Thomas is deeply religious, but tends to not hold religion against people. ====Corporal Trisha Lane ====

This aging (turning 30) coffee addict is usually one of the earliest arrivals for her shifts. Taller than your avarage male PO, and quite strong for a woman she would look quite fierce if not for the glasses, the long carefully combed hair (that enivitably curls up at the end of her shift) and the smiling face. Trisha was actually a national champion in female judo, but shortly after injured her shoulder badly. She has been in college and joined the force after that. She hopes to become a homicide cop. She is a bit of a geek, but people tend to not mind that, but she is teased in a friendly manner with that from time to tome. She has always been into acting, on an amateur level, and she has quite the singers voice and once a week she plays with her country band. Trisha is a member of a relatively unknown pagan religion, and as such does not wear a wedding band, but she is actually wed, which she was back in college and she has a daughter, and both of these facts tend to surprise people a lot. She also apparently is into some sort of reenactment, though it isn’t something most people know a lot about. As a side note, she speaks Japaneese, almost fluently. She is Partners with Constable Mohammad Al Sharin

Constables
Making up the bulk of patrol, these, normally young and newly trained police officers are usually partnered up with a Corporal or sergeant for guidance. To build more driving experience, it's an unspoken rule that the Constables do the driving when on patrol, the other reason being that the Corporals know the radio procedures better and can bettar handle all internal equipment in the car.

Constable Stewart “Stew” Green
Stew is a 36-year-old African American who stands six foot eight and weighs nearly 300 pounds,almost all muscle. He keeps his head shaved at all times andprefers wearing the archetypal cop mirror shades. He hasa tiny scar on his left cheek, a memento of Desert Storm.Stew’s uniform is always ﬁ nely ironed, and he polishes hisuniform boots every night with the attention that only an ex-Marine can give them. When out of uniform, he favorscomfortable clothes with a slight ethnic feel to them. Foryears, he insisted on wearing a Malcolm X cap when off dutyto annoy the white ofﬁ cers. A few months back, someonewho works at the 13th stole it from his locker as a prank,to his barely concealed consternation. Stew was born in the ghetto and raised there too, which he does nothing to hide. For a ghetto kid, he seems oddly well spoken, and asking around reveals that he used to do some political work until his brother died in a riot. Stew is obviously a black supremacist, he does everything to intimidate and harasswhite people, and protect black people no matter their crimes, but there seems to be two sides to him, he’s also known to go through the ghetto with his night stick beating fear into the dealers and keeping everyone there on their toes and to keep the younger ones from getting into the life of crime simply out of fear. He is Partners with Sgt. Wade Whitfield

====Constable Marie Bay ====

Marie is a typical hipster girl with short cut dyed hair and glasses in her mid twenties. She has quite long legs and isn’t physically as in shape as she wants to be. She sports numerous tattoo’s of what she believed to be wise wrods written in chineese, but she recently found out that at least one of her tattoo’s simply says “Cum slurbing cunt” in Korean when Chang made her aware of this. She hasn’t really been interested in finding out what the rest of them say since that discovery was made. Marie is not very respected, especially due to her being quite easy and having been involved with several other officers. Marie has a college education and is fluent in Swedish, due to having a Swedish father, and she actually wants to be a homicide detective, having always loved the TV shows. Currenty, she is considering to take the CST education instead, but being partners with Sgt. Shiela Brighton has made her hold off with that so far.

===='''Constable Alice Caine '''====

Alice, early twenties, isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but she makes up for that by looking exceptionally sexy in a uniform. She actually wanted to be a nurse, but when she got the date of last application mixed up, she ended up in the police academy. Alice is quite popular due to her looks, but she isn’t exactly easy and seems to be quite unaware that most of the attention she gets is from male officers with desires that go beyond friendship. She laughs a lot, and typically talks about simple trivial matters. She wants to get into the k9 unit once it opens up, as she simply loves dogs and all other animals. She used to hate weapons until she ended up on the force, rumour has it that her rich parents recently gifted her a desert eagle. Most people remember her by the hilarious episode when she asked Stewart Green if he could teach her to use it properly. The man just looked at her and asked her what she was implying, already getting defensive. She then responded that she had no idea what he meant by that, but that Sgt. Wade had told her it was a (probably not the way Wade put it) gun frequently used by black men. Stewart was so stumped that he just looked at her for several seconds before people decided to take Alice away from the awkward situation. Recently, she has been getting close to Sgt. Sammy Atkins from the k9 unit. Her partner is Carl Mantis, perhaps the only man on the force who wouldn’t dare as much as think impure thoughts about her.

====Constable Otis Long ====

Otis is quite your average joe, in his mid to late twenties and always complaining about something. Either his back is hurting from the uncomfy seats in the sqaud car, or maybe he slept bad or what not. Despite his complaining, people tend to actually agree with Otis about most things he complain about, which has made Otis somewhat unpopular upstairs. Otis frequents the cop bar after hours, a bit more than most people. Otis only just meets the requirements to be a cop, but seems otherwise quite intelligent. What made him decide to be a cop is a mystery as he seems to generally dislike police work. Otis was in army, and as such doesn’t discuss his military past. Otis is partners with Thomas Finn who seems his polar opposite. The two have had some falling out.

====Constable Casper Frederiks ====

Casper is quite small for a police officer, but is well liked for always being quite happy and good at spreading his mood. Caspar is already married and has kids. He belongs to a Catholic family but is somewhat lax about it, he is turning 28. He likes driving, and is one of the better drivers the force has seen for a while. He was actually a mechanic before joining the force. Caspar is currently in the hospital, having been shot while on duty. he is partners with Julius Cornado.

====Constable Despin Walters ====

Despin is a bit of a weird and silent guy, in his late twenties. He is very professional and is in great physical shape. He strikes some people as too serious and moody, but he is the perfect fit for his partner Sgt. Jack Carter. Despin isn’t much of a social guy and practically speaks to no one. Despin has had a very short career within one military branch or another, and rumour has it that just before signing up for the academy, he was an employee of Blackwater and it also quickly got out that he was in the foreign Legions parashooter division as a sniper. When occasionally asked if he has an interest in SWAT, his answer has always been, that of course he had an interest in SWAT, but right now the detectives exam was his goal.

====Constable Mohammad Al Sharin ====

Muhammad is one of very few arabic people on the force, also an older constable, closing in on the 30. He recently came home from Iraq where he was a translator for the higher ranking police officers who were down there to help reestablish the Iraqi police department. Muhammad is used to having a temporary rank of sergeant, which he had down there, and is most likely due for promotion for his exemplary service. This has made  a lot of people angry, but fortuantely not everyone in the department are racist. Muhammad is not a very well known face in the department, but it is known that his real ambition is to apply for the FBI eventually. He was given special permission to take the detectives exam before his promotion. His partner is Trish Lane, but fortunately for the both of them, that is a very temporary arrangement.

====Constable George Blumen ====

George is a pretty decent guy by most people’s account. Though it seems that his personal life is completely in pieces, but at least he manages to get up in the morning. George has always been looking for thrills, and found none in the US army, and decided to join the police force, hoping to have an exciting job. So far, it’s not been too exciting for him. He hopes to apply for SWAT, but being a chain smoker and on an unhealthy diet of pizza and no breakfast, it seems unlikely. George often speaks of his family up north, and tells that he recently moved to L. A. with his friend from the army. When George say that he’s from “up north”, not a lot of people expect that he actually means Canada. Despite seeming quite like a lost cause, George was one of the top graduates from the academy and as such he was been partnered with Sgt. Michael Shaw.

Support Division
In order to join any of the more specialised branches within  the police, the rank of corporal must be achieved prior to entry, either as a detective or patrol cop. In rare cases, the administrative sergeants are also admitted.

K9 Unit
There is no existing k9 unit central in the 13th precinct area, but one is currently under construction. K9 units function as regular cops and are traditionally partnered with a person from patrol, typically also a sergeant, however this partnering goes from being a patrol car, to being a support car when ever k9 expertize is needed. The k9 unit containts everything from bombsniffing dogs to regular police attack dogs. The past decades, several animal handlers have experimented on figuring out how to properly train dogs for several funktions, and the results are good. German Shepherds and variants of that race have proven one of the most effective for this kind of cross training which yields nearly as good results on all fronts as the dogs with raical benefits. Recently, a new sub-breed of dogs have been bred to contain many of the racial benefactors that enables certain speciments of the canine races to be more effective at various police dog tasks, and while the first many attempts were utter failures, some of the more recent attempts have really paid off.

Sgt. Sammy Atkinson
K-9 Officer Sammy is 41 years old, having served for several years with the National Guard and with the Washington County Sheriff ’s Department before moving to the MPD. He is a bit overweight and somewhat out of shape, but not so much as to fail to meet MPD standards. Sammy has a wide face with an infectious grin, and his sandy brown hair is only just starting to gray. Sammy’s po-lice uniform is slightly small for his expanding frame, and he insists that the uniform “shrank in the wash.” When out of uniform, Sammy favors blue jeans, work boots and comfortable ﬂ annel shirts. He almost invariably wears some kind of cap, whether an MPD K-9 Unit cap or any one of a dozen or so baseball caps. Sammy is what most people would describe as a typical cop, a well meaningsimple and kind man with quite a few problems of his own that he doesn´t quite know how to deal with. Sammy is currently the only k9 officer at the 13th precinct, and is supposed to be the lt. for the upcoming k9 central, and as such he is currently unpartnered and his job consists mostly of the occasional “sniff out” as he calls the specified k9 assignments, and otherwise he is currently undertaking the detectives exam to better qualify for his coming position as Lt., and the selection process for the k9 unit has already begun.

Aviation Squadron
The Aviation Squadron is located out on the police departments own airfield, a former military airbase, on the outskirts of town, and as such, no Aviation officers work at the 13th precinct, but the precinct does have a landing pad for a helicopter on the roof, mostly used by SWAT for rapid deployment, but also when the Chiefs are in house. They apparently have become fond of getting flown anywhere. As of 2010, all police officers must during their time as a PO, go through a small aviation course where they learn how to be evacuated or deployed via a helicpter, and how to act as a spotter from a helicopter.