Native Patrol

The GEO's High Commissioner for Justice has been faced with a serious shortage of law enforcement personnel on Poseidon ever since Recontact. Some natives accepted the presence of the GEO Patrol in their communities while others angrily refused to acknowledge their authority.

A strategy was developed to finance and outfit natives to fill law enforcement positions in settlements where the GEO was unwelcome. The Justice Commission, seeing a way to maintain a GEO presence without increasing the hostility of the natives approved of the plan.

As all crime reports and requests of police come through the GEO Justice/Emergency site on CommCore. Unfortunately, weather and distance disrupt transmissions from dispatchers at the Justice Commission’s Communication and Traffic Coordination Division. Native Patrol officers receive a far share of garbled messages, and miss quite a few completely.

Officers often receive news of a problem by word of mouth. Because the officer is a native, most citizens trust and maintain a high confidence in him. They offered detailed information where a regular Patrol would find them uncooperative and coldly silent.