Police Vs Navy

[Tenacity]

Intra-House cargo interdiction and policing should be left to police factions - meaning that if it happens inside of the core systems of a house, it's the Police's responsibility and area of jurisdiction. Inter-House - meaning everything happening on the borders of house space (either within a house controlled system or a system bordering a house's territory) is where the military factions come in.

Of course, there's no reason that the two shouldnt be working together when it's needed. A group of house police in light fighters and freighters arent going to be able to stop a hostile in a battleship, so they can call in house military forces for heavier firepower. Similarly, house militaries can coordinate with house police to track down vessels using tlagsnet, and to help monitor traffic coming into or going out of house space.


It gets trickier when the hostile is moving between houses. We dont have an 'interpol' here, so there's no force that can really take over in the uncontrolled territories. In some cases, such as between liberty and bretonia, or bretonia and rheinland, or rheinland and kusari, it makes sense for the military to pursue the enemy to the other house's borders, and then link up with military or police forces within the house. However, military forces entering a house that they dont belong to can be viewed as an invasion, especially between houses that are already at war with one another.

Typically i would say that police forces shouldnt be leaving their house's territory or controlled systems, but if it's necessary they can do so to track down a target they've been pursuing.

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