Liberty Police Incorporated

[Reverend Del]

Walking the Beat

The LPI is split into five groups, one each for the House systems and Management. Management is the corporate side of things, all the paperwork and financial shenanigans ultimately go through them. The other four groups are the cops, of course not every man and woman in those areas is a cop some are Management, but you get the idea. The general consensus among the flatfoots is that Management is an ass, but we get on with our jobs and bring in the scum regardless.

I’ll give them all a run-down

New York

New York is where the Headquarters of the LPI sits; as a result it generally has a higher concentration of officers than anywhere else in Liberty, with two bases here the LPI consider it an affront on their honour from anyone breaking the law here. Offenders are very likely to be shoved in one of the penal colonies for even the most minor infarction of the law.

Manhattan

LPI Headquarters, probably one of the five most well defended structures on Manhattan, the firepower the building itself can generate is nearly equal to a full sized battleship. The LPI likes to feel safe. Ignoring the monumental defences, the building itself is a majestic skyscraper emerging out of Manhattan’s corporate heart, the LPI paid an incredible amount to have Manhattan’s premier architect do the designs, and it paid off.

Headquarters is home to Management more than officers, officers tend to use the various blockhouses dotted through Manhattan, and the fighter jocks use Fort Bush. Not much actual policing goes in through the doors and the only thing that comes out is more quotas and targets.

One thing that does come out of Headquarters however is spin, lots of it. The LPI has an exceptional press corps designed to put a positive spin on absolutely anything, they can make the massacre of 300 kids on a school bus look like a birthday party. In fact because the LPI is a private corp. rather than a House department, it can afford to hire some of the best press officers in Sirius, and it frequently does.

>>Damn right it does, why just last week they managed to turn the death of 25 inmates into a riot rather than some LPI officer abusing the inmates with an electrified nightstick. Said officer was given a medical discharge and all his benefits remained intact.
>>Slammo!

Fort Bush

Let’s got one thing straight before we start here, Fort Bush is home to Precinct 112, but it is not Precinct 112. Precinct 112, as some of you will already know, is where the LPI sends all its really stupid officers, the incompetents, the derelicts and the generally useless, however Fort Bush is also home of Precincts 111 and 113 two of the finest fighter squadrons the LPI has to offer. Fort Bush is the space based headquarters of the LPI and also contains the offices of the current Chief of Police Matthew Myers. Myers is well known for continuing his Liberator patrols whilst attending to the needs of the LPI squadrons.

Fort Bush is where the patrols and other fighter based happenings are planned for the whole New York sector. In fact it’s where an awful lot of orders are created for all the systems under LPI control. These are then filters to sector Headquarters and acted on or modified as needed for each systems particular quirks and needs. Matthew Myers heads up Fort Bush, having just recently been promoted after the departure of the previous Chief of Police, John Baxter. It’s amazing the change that’s come over him since leaving Precinct 112, my guess is he’s been told the party line and told to keep to it.

>>Exactly, he was called to LPI Headquarters and given a good dressing down. No more incompetence from him, or he’d find himself in Huntsville for treason.
>>Hammerstein

Colorado

Colorado has only one police base and its Denver, the LPI here have a lot more to worry about, given the amount of Xenos hiding out in the Silverton field. The general order against the Xenos is vape on sight. Other than the Xenos the Denver branch of the LPI has to deal with Rogues and Hackers coming out of Galileo, given LPI jurisdiction ends at the Colorado -> Galileo jumpgate there isn’t much the LPI can do except repulse the invasions and hope they stay away.

The planetside duties however are somewhat easier, Denver is home to Liberty’s elite thusly most of the crime that goes on here is committed in the lower echelons of the city, well most of the crime that regular LPI deal with, the Financial Irregularities Office deals with fraud, insider trading and tax evasion, leaving the LPI to deal with the undesirables hiding out in the mountains and the occasional murder or kidnapping.

>>Let’s get this straight, right now. These undesirables are the poor, the homeless and the dispossessed of Denver, Denver is the first port of call for most of the ex-cons that don’t end up as Xenos or Rogues, they come looking for a new life only to find that Denver doesn’t want them, they move to the mountains to find like-minded folks.
The LPI regularly run grab and bag runs into the mountains, clubbing down anyone not quick enough to get out of the way, loading the unfortunates into paddy wagons and shipping them off to Houston and its factories.
>>Orange Queen

The other major headache on Denver is the Denver Research Institute, it’s the target of every group of psychos with a cause and the LPI is contracted to defend it, it’s newest defence systems are due to go online in 818AS but until then all the LPI can do is weather the storm.

California

California has three police bases: San Diego, Riverside and, of course, Los Angeles. But even though it has three it’s not heavily patrolled. California is the most lax of the four House systems, Los Angeles giving the whole Sector something of a bad reputation for general slacking. To be fair California doesn’t have such a high proportion of civilian criminals as the rest of the House systems. Los Angeles is the only really inhabited planet and its crimes are few and far between.

Riverside Station

Riverside is the LPI fighter squadron’s home base, close to planet Mojave and by association the NY jumpgate, Riverside allows the 204th and 205th Precincts easy access to almost all the troublesome spots in California space. Riversides performance is distinctly average however with recent attacks on Mojave by the Liberty rogues causing untold amounts of damage to the Liberty Navy, rumours of a counter attack abound.

San Diego Border Station

This is where you go when you mess up; its quite possibly Managements favourite place to store LPI officers that are too old or have just plain messed up. Not so bad they get demoted but bad enough to merit a punishment. San Diego houses 206th Precinct a precinct that has the dubious honour of flying mainly Patriot light fighters, unsurprisingly San Diego has the worst arrest record in Liberty, as the Lane Hackers out of Magellan are their only adversary and very cunning adversaries at that.

Los Angeles

The Planet of Angels, Angelino cops have the least to do out of any of the Precincts LA is the playboy planet and it’s crime statistics prove it, most of the charges are for disturbing the peace and drunk and disorderly, there isn’t much in the way of hard crime so the local cops tend to take it easy on everyone.

>>That’s bull, utter bull. You can’t spit on the side walk on LA without a cop busting you. Ever wonder why LA has the lowest number of homeless in Liberty? Because they all get rounded up and sent to Houston to make consumer goods that’s why. LA tends to meet it’s quota every quarter, although it’s been dropping off recently with people figuring out that it’s safer to be on Manhattan and spending the last of their cred on a ticket.
>>Orange Queen

California Minor

Not the most pleasant of posting’s as it does mean you have to patrol the Tahoe Ice Cloud, but at least you get to do it in a Liberator rather than a Patriot like the poor shmucks at San Diego. Cali Minors increasing population means that the LPI here are kept quite busy, nothing they can’t handle at the moment, but the Precinct is going to need a boost soon, or there’s not going to be enough cops to do the job.

Texas

Texas, the prison system. There are more cons in Texas than there are civilians, and that’s an accepted fact. Out of the four habitable planets and structures three of them have prison facilities and two of them are prisons outright. The fourth is Beaumont but that’s Junker turf and doesn’t count, we don’t go near it, unless we’re chasing a smuggler.

Houston

The planet Houston, is pretty much a prison planet, there’s an awful lot of prison complexes housing a high number of inmates, these are being expanded all the time by Cryer’s Houston Heavy Technologies subsidiary so there’s always enough space for new convicts. All of Texas’s LPI fighter wings are based out of Houston, but all of them are required to do flyby’s of the Prison stations on their patrols.

>>Funny thing, Cryer was only awarded the contract for the prison expansions two years ago, everyone was expecting it to be DSE that got the job, but they suffered an unexpected set-back the day before the pitches were put in, DSE withdrew and that left Cryer, Samura, and Daumann, not really much of a contest as the LPI couldn’t be seen not to back a local corp.
>>The Smiling Bandit


Huntsville

Welcome to Huntsville, the Xenos home away from home, now the Xenos don’t run Huntsville but they have an understanding with those that do. They long ago learnt that so long as they keep cranking out the goods, the LPI was happy to let them get on with what they wanted. After all two thirds of the folks released from Huntsville end up back there after twelve months. So Huntsville remains a Xeno recruiting ground, and the LPI carries on making money of the back of it. Almost symbiotic.

>>Tex is a little out of date here, with the recent escape by myself and general porous nature of Huntsville's security up to that point the LPI has demanded a crackdown on the inhabitants here. The Xenos have borne the brunt of this.
>>The Unstoppable Truth

Sugarland

Sugarland is home to most of the Outcast prisoners taken in. It has the highest death rate of any of Liberty’s prisons. Although it’s generally understood that this is due to health rather than prisoner abuse. On Paper the LPI denies knowing what’s going on with the prisoners, but I can tell you for a fact that the LPI knows all about Cardamine withdrawal and simply prefers to work the prisoners to a slow and painful death. In recent years only one Outcast has survived his sentence on “The Wall” although he’s been very tight lipped about how he managed it.


Well those are the LPI’s haunts now let’s see who’s sitting on the board.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.