Public Security

Public Security (aka "Public Security Police" or PSP) is one of the three largest police forces in Cyberia under authority of the ASC Department of Justice. They are regarded as the most "basic" police force out of the three, in the context that they are the most common one that civilians come into contact with, and are easily compared to other countries' policemen.

Public Security handles a wide range of cases, not all of which are criminal in nature; they address and monitor civil safety, relatable examples of which include ticketing speeding drivers, investigating car accidents and responding quickly to other such civil emergencies.

Duties and Functions
Public Security's main duties are to maintain the peace and order in the civilian sector through patrol and fast response. They forwardly assert that they exist in order to serve the public by giving it an organization to look up to for problems that they wouldn't be able to handle on their own. In essence, Law Enforcement is the government's answer to relatively minor disturbances in the public sector; giving civilians peace of mind.

A policeman's work is never done. There is always something going awry, and Public Security is there to fix it. Public Security responds to the most public and private disturbances out of the three Cyberian police forces. They respond so quickly due to the way they patrol all over cities with a large number of personnel at their disposal, ensuring there is one policeman at the very least able to provide their civil service in a timely manner.

A major operation of Public Security is that they respond to fire and medical emergencies alongside said fire and medical agencies, as investigative personnel.

Public Security is also responsible for issuing citations to minor offenders, most often for the violation of traffic laws such as speeding or reckless driving. They can even do this indirectly through many methods of identification and contact.

Internal Structure
Though many civilians, especially foreign ones, refer to any police employees as "police officers", the DoJ in fact recognize a distinct difference between "policeman" and "police officer". This difference is the fact that a "policeman" is a police employee that is only of junior enlisted rank, as opposed to a non-commissioned officer (NCO) or higher rank.

Public Security in fact adheres to the Cyberian Military Forces' ranking hierarchy which includes junior enlisted, non-commissioned officers (NCOs), senior non-commissioned officers (SNCOs), and commissioned officers.

Enlisteds, NCOs, and SNCOs do the most of the "field work", meaning they spend the most time out in the "field" that is the public sector. That is, they operate most often outside of an office.

Commissioned officers by contrast, spend most of their time in an office, observing and managing their lower-ranked brethren through any and all information available to them within the Law Enforcement division.

Uniform and Weapons
Despite being employed by the DoD, Public Security Police don't wear the same camo patterns as their army-job brethren. They wear beige coats and pants with a black stripe down the flanks and sides.

Public Security Police armaments are somewhat on-par with Military Police, if not slightly more than so, in that their general weapons include a sidearm, a taser, a baton, and sometimes pepper spray. Public Security Police also drive police cruisers, aka interceptors, which are civilian-like cars contracted from a car manufacturer to be fitted with many modifications. This is in great contrast to the Riot Control Corps which are seemingly armed to the teeth and operate majorly in military vehicles.