Public Security

Metropolitan Law Enforcement (MLE or "Metro") is one of the three largest police forces in Cyberia under authority of the ASC Department of Defense. 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.

Despite their official name involving "law enforcement", Metro 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
Metro'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 Metro is there to fix it. Metro 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.

Contrary to popular belief, police agencies are most often contacted through writing (police reports) or telephone for the purpose of giving information to the caller, as opposed to the purpose of acting upon an emergency. Similarly, civilians commonly contact their local Metro agencies to give any useful information to the police themselves, which they forward to the appropriate government employees.

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

Metro 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 electronically through many methods of identificationand contact.

Internal Structure
Though many civilians refer to any police employees as "police officers", Law Enforcement and the DoD 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.

Metropolitan Law Enforcement in fact adheres to the Department of Defense's 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 their lower-ranked brethren through any and all information available to them within the Law Enforcement division.