The S/D Agency Files

[Athenian]

Director's Briefing

Listen up, men. And women. This concerns the PTS.

For those of you who may be unfamiliar with it, the Agency's Prisoner Transportation Service (PTS) is one of the largest transporters of prisoners in Sirius moving prisoners between judicial districts, correctional institutions and foreign countries, and supporting the judiciary of the major Houses through its scheduling and transportation responsibilities. As well as transferring criminals to hearings, court appearances and detention facilities, the PTS also provides regular international flights for the removal of deportable aliens. Military and civilian law enforcement agencies use the PTS to shuttle their prisoners between different jurisdictions at a fraction of what commercial sources would charge.

Today's PTS fleet has expanded to several Armoured Transports and a custom-built Prison Liner, the ConAir. These ships fly a large series of routes that serve nearly every major system.

The schedule of ConAir is kept secret from the public, and is known only to those directly involved in its operation. Even passengers scheduled to fly are given no advance notice of their flight and are taken by surprise. There are several benefits of keeping the schedule secret including:

- the location of ships is not known to those who may have an interest in sabotaging a flight or harming any of its passengers.
- as inmates are taken by surprise, they cannot plan their own escape or arrange with outsiders to aid their escape from custody.

Passengers aboard a ConAir flight are restrained by handcuffs as well as ankle and waist chains which are double or even triple locked. Those who pose additional danger may be given additional restraints, such as reinforced mittens that completely isolate and almost completely immobilize the hands and face masks to prevent biting and spitting as well as implants designed to deliver a shock which renders a person incapactitated.

Flight and seating arrangements are made carefully with the intent to separate inmates who may be of conflict to one another. Members of rival prison gangs may be transported on different days to help reduce the risk of an in-flight incident.

In future, ConAir routes will be determined over secure channels. Full escort will be assigned - that is to say, two gunships with a full squad of fighter/bomber support. Rendition will not proceed in the event of escort capacity being reduced for any reason.

That is all.


The Director

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