Kaiserliche Polizei Rheinland Message Dump

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PRIORITY: High
ENCRYPTION: Medium
IDENTIFICATION: Oberst Thomas Wolthers
SOURCE: Brandenburg station, New Berlin system
SUBJECT: Report

Oberst Wolthers hier.

First of all I'd like to congratulate and welcome Inspekteur Steinmetz for his recent promotion. Though I have to admit this has come all of a sudden.
May I ask what has happened to Inspekteur Clausewitz? There was no announcement of her resigning so far.

Anyway, below you can find ein small summary about yesterday's patrol through Rheinland. I have to admit, I haven't seen so many smuggling attemps in such short time.

Slave smuggling attemp Nr 1
TLAG scanners highlighted several ships entering Rheilnand space from Liberty with slaves aboard. The Ragnar freighter Geilenkirchen was able to intercept the smugglers in Omega-11. After mein attempt to make them stop and surrender the poor people aboard, I had to open fire on the smuggling ships. Two transports were destroyed by the Geilenkirchen and Direktor Casten, their slaves freed to rescued to Solarius station.
Ein third smuggler was forced to pay ein fine of 3.555.000 credits - forwarded to the Arsenal - although the whereabouts of the slaves formerly on the ship are unknown.
Logs: * * * * * * *


Slave smuggling attemp Nr 2
Later on the day, TLAG sensors indicated another smuggler incoming from Liberty. This time, ein agent of the BDM was already present and was able to catch the smuggler.
He claimed to have "freed" these people, but both the agent and me doubted that story.
We ordered the freelancer to surrender the poor people to the Geilenkirchen so that they could be brought to ein safer location and medical treatment.
The smuggler tried to enter the atmosphere of Hamburg after his docking rights were revoked by me. The ship was ripped apart, the status of the crew unknown.
With the help of the ALG freighter Ragnar we were able to rescue ein part of slaves that were drifting in escape pods in orbit of planet Hamburg.
Logs: * * * *


Signing off.


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