MCP

The Ministry of Civil Protection is the main governing body for the Civil Protection. Their function is to assist the Proxy Administrator in policing the local urban center.

The M.C.P. achieves this role by acting as the bureaucratic backbone of Civil Protection through handling internal affairs and maintaining order within the ranks.

In short, the M.C.P. is considered the top of the pecking order within the Civil Protection. From Rank 50 to RL, all units answer to the M.C.P.'s officers.

Duties

• Handle internal affairs and reports submitted by units regarding other units' improper implementation of Civil Protection protocol or standards.
• Monitor Civil Protection units' performance in a passive manner via remote means, such as unit black box recordings of field operations or live video feed.
• Dispense sterilized credit reductions or commendations for relevant conduct or performance.
• Work in conjunction with Proxy Administration to ensure ministerial side of city operations are handled.

Some duties, such as interrogations or monitoring units' performance, are shared with Civil Protections' RLs. These shared duties will be prioritized for M.C.P. intervention first, then dispensed to RLs if applicable. Court hearings are intended for M.C.P. only and should not be conducted if an M.C.P. commanding officer is not present.

Internal Affairs

Units are granted the power to submit citations to internal affairs for the M.C.P. to review. When a unit observes another unit improperly perform their duties, whether from misconduct, improperly following their directives, or otherwise stepping out of line, the unit can have a citation filed against them for review by the M.C.P. An officer of the M.C.P. will then review the citation and take the necessary steps to ensure that the involved unit is properly reeducated and reprimanded, if appropriate. Internal investigations are conducted and witnesses reports are taken, if needed. This is very free-form and fit to the officer's needs. This is purposeful, as conducting internal investigations is no simple nor easy task. As such, leniency is given in whether the identity of the reporting officer is revealed to the associated units in the process of these internal affairs. Sometimes the identity is divulged, sometimes it is not. It is fully up to the officer whether keeping the parties anonymous with one another is necessary.

Units found guilty of an infraction via internal affairs will be notified of their transgression and receive a 50% reduction to sterilized credits, as well as appropriate consequent actions after the fact, such as failed examination or even deservicing.

It is not unheard of that some internal affairs are dropped or not investigated. This is either in part due to an on-going investigation maintaining priority over other cases or the infraction is deemed unworthy of a follow-up. Regardless, the purpose of submitting citations is not to get rewarded, it is to do your due diligence and report what you see. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't expect a cookie when you're just doing your job.

Jurisdiction

M.C.P. officers rarely, if ever, leave the confines of the HPR. Their priorities are on the inner workings of the Civil Protection, as well as the confines of the command point. It is due to this that the M.C.P. does not directly oversee general day-to-day operations of the Civil Protection. At times, the M.C.P. may act as an ad-hoc Dispatch and mandate certain conditions to be met for field operations, such as requesting living subjects be brought in alive. However, the nitty gritty details regarding patrols, production line operations, workforce intake, and so on are overseen by either RLs or Dispatch. This is a result of the M.C.P.'s focus on the bureaucratic side of the Civil Protection's operations, as opposed to the practical applications and implementations of Civil Protection protocol.

Promotions

Units who reach rank ten with a positive track record and past internal affairs submissions may opt-in to pursue either a career in the M.C.P.'s administrative branch or become a rank-leader and continue to dispense street justice with added responsibilities. Units can alternative opt-out and remain as a rank ten unit.

M.C.P. option is offered in lieu of pursuing rank leader privileges. There is a fundamental difference between pursuing a career in the M.C.P. and a career as a rank leader. The former is focused more so on keeping the Civil Protection operating in an orderly fashion and managing internal affairs, whereas the latter is focused on day-to-day Civil Protection operations on the street and administering justice. Due to these fundamental differences between the two higher level career paths, great consideration must be taken into what kind of tasks and responsibilities you and your character are willing and able to undertake.