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The '''Federal Police''' is the {{wp|generalist}} criminal law enforcement arm and investigative agency of the [[Kiravian]] federal government. It is the default investigative authority for criminal cases that enter [[Kiravian federalism|federal jurisdiction]] (e.g. by crossing provincial boundaries or involving an issue of federal authority such as {{wp|banking policy|banking}}) but are not within the remit of a more specialised agency (e.g. the [[Federal | The '''Federal Police''' is the {{wp|generalist}} criminal law enforcement arm and investigative agency of the [[Kiravian]] federal government. It is the default investigative authority for criminal cases that enter [[Kiravian federalism|federal jurisdiction]] (e.g. by crossing provincial boundaries or involving an issue of federal authority such as {{wp|banking policy|banking}}) but are not within the remit of a more specialised agency (e.g. the [[Federal Forestry Service#Organisation|Federal Forest Police]]). The Federal Police also provide support services to specialist federal agencies and provincial police, and provide ordinary policing services at the subnational level by statute or by contract. The agency is subordinate to the [[Kiravian Territorial Executive|Territorial Executive]], Department of the Emperor's Peace. | ||
==Mission== | ==Mission== | ||
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===Capacity Building and Specialist Support=== | ===Capacity Building and Specialist Support=== | ||
Tasked by the federal government with some of the most challenging investigative and enforcement missions imaginable, the Federal Police have access to state-of-the-art scientific knowledge and technical capabilities, training and expertise, and intelligence and criminalistics knowledge bases, in addition to inter-agency and international contacts that subnational police forces lack. In the spirit of modern [[Kiravian federalism#History|coöperative federalism]], the Federal Police routinely shares its superior capabilities with provincial and municipal law enforcement agencies to assist the latter with major cases or to pursue investigations of joint interest to both parties. This is especially prominent in the areas of forensic science, psychological profiling, offender databases, and surveillence technology. The Federal Police also offer training and capacity-building programmes to strengthen subnational police forces. FP training programmes typically relate to subjects such as legal affairs, {{wp|special weapons and tactics}}, {{wp|bomb disposal}} and {{wp|hazmat|hazardous materials}}, drug enforcement, and {{wp|Military marine mammal|dolphin training}}. | |||
==Divisions== | ==Divisions== | ||
===Organised Crime=== | ===Organised Crime=== | ||
The Organised Crime Division (''Iskorvitheskra Iskorvibalvsk'') is concerned with the activities of [[Organised crime in Kiravia|organised criminal syndicates]], primarily the major ethnic crime families, prison gangs, and outlaw motorcycle clubs. Organised crime is a major problem in Kiravia, and efforts to combat it were central to the expansion of the Federal Police and its transformation from a glorified municipal police department into a sophisticated national investigative agency. The Organised Crime Division carries out intensive, often years- or even decades-long investigations of criminal groups through surveillence, infiltration, and the recruitment of {{wp|rats|informants}}, in order to gather evidence for mass prosecutions under the [[Index of Kiravian legislation|Racketeering Act]] and related legislation. | The Organised Crime Division (''Iskorvitheskra Iskorvibalvsk'') is concerned with the activities of [[Organised crime in Kiravia|organised criminal syndicates]], primarily the major ethnic crime families, prison gangs, and outlaw motorcycle clubs. Organised crime is a major problem in Kiravia, and efforts to combat it were central to the expansion of the Federal Police and its transformation from a glorified municipal police department into a sophisticated national investigative agency. The Organised Crime Division carries out intensive, often years- or even decades-long investigations of criminal groups through surveillence, infiltration, and the recruitment of {{wp|rats|informants}}, in order to gather evidence for mass prosecutions under the [[Index of Kiravian legislation|Racketeering Act]] and related legislation. | ||
It should be noted that, whereas the cases other investigative divisions frequently involve actors from the organised criminal sector, these divisions focus on the investigation and closure of specific criminal ''incidents'', whereas the Organised Crime Division targets criminal ''organisations'' themselves for monitoring, disruption, and decapitation. | |||
===Counternarcotics=== | ===Counternarcotics=== | ||
The Counternarcotic Division (''Dutrasopovix Iskorvitheskra'') exists to combat the {{wp|illegal drug trade}} by disrupting its logistical networks and apprehending middle- and high-level participants. It has amassed an enviable inventory of confiscated psychoäctive contraband. | The Counternarcotic Division (''Dutrasopovix Iskorvitheskra'') exists to combat the {{wp|illegal drug trade}} by disrupting its logistical networks and apprehending middle- and high-level participants. It has amassed an enviable inventory of confiscated psychoäctive contraband. | ||
=== | ===Economic and Cyber-crime=== | ||
Previously separate divisions, the Economic Crime Division and Cybercrime Division were merged in 2017 AD. This division is concerned with financial theft, {{wp|money laundering}}, {{wp|foreign exchange}} violations, {{wp|financial intelligence}}, analog {{wp|white collar crime}}, {{wp|public corruption}} not related to organised crime, {{wp|counterfeit}} trade and {{wp|Intellectual property theft|IP theft}}, {{wp|Cybercrime#Cyberextortion|cyberextortion}}, {{wp|darknet market}}s, and {{wp|MMORPG}} scams. | |||
===Armaments & Explosives=== | ===Armaments & Explosives=== | ||
The Armaments & Explosives Division (''Iskorvitheskra Dirdhūistul u Hegorstakôrsk'') | The Armaments & Explosives Division (''Iskorvitheskra Dirdhūistul u Hegorstakôrsk'') is concerned with enforcing federal laws regulating the manufacture, transport, distribution, sale, storage, and discharge of {{wp|conventional weapon}}s and explosive agents. It is home to the FP's {{wp|bomb squad}}s. | ||
===Counterterrorism=== | ===Counterterrorism=== | ||
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===Human Trafficking=== | ===Human Trafficking=== | ||
The Human Trafficking Division works to dismantle human<ref>[[Kikparis]] not included.</ref> trafficking networks. Its targets are often lower-profile and further down the supply chain than those of the Organised Crime and Transnational Affairs divisions. | The Human Trafficking Division works to dismantle human<ref>[[Kikparis]] not included.</ref> trafficking networks. Its targets are often lower-profile and further down the supply chain than those of the Organised Crime and Transnational Affairs divisions. The Division targets not only conventional, financially-motivated trafficking schemes, but also interstate {{wp|pædophile rings}}. | ||
This division is also responsible for enforcing laws against the production and distribution of illicit {{wp|pornography}}, as well as crimes against persons victimised in the process of producing the same. | |||
===Transnational Affairs=== | ===Transnational Affairs=== | ||
In a postmodern, digitising, and increasingly interconnected world, crime transcends national boundaries today more than ever before. The Transnational Affairs Division (''Iskorvitheskra Seritérnakamsá'') is responsible for liasing with foreign national law enforcement agencies and {{wp|international organisations}} such as Ixterpol. It also oversees the FP's out-of-country operations, which are mostly intelligence-based and focused on {{wp|transnational organised crime}} and {{wp|smuggling}}. | |||
===Forensics=== | ===Forensics=== | ||
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===Specialist Operations=== | ===Specialist Operations=== | ||
The Specialist Operations Division (''Iskorvitheskra Eluritix Ventavará'') groups together several units with a particular subject-matter or technical specialty. These include: | |||
*Bank robbery group | |||
*Heavy Tactical Units | |||
*Hostage negotiation team, Hostage rescue team | |||
*Kidnapping team | |||
*Aerial surveillence | |||
*Tactical aviation | |||
*Marine Unit | |||
===Support Capability=== | ===Support Capability=== | ||
Does nothing important. | Does nothing important. | ||
===District Operations=== | ===District Operations=== | ||
The District Operations Division is responsible for detachments assigned to provide ordinary policing services to particular areas of the Federacy, such as the Interlake Canal District. It is the oldest division but among the least prestigious, and government reports have noted that officers from other divisions are commonly transferred to District Operations as a form of punishment or {{wp|constructive dismissal}}. | The District Operations Division is responsible for detachments assigned to provide ordinary policing services to particular areas of the Federacy, such as the Interlake Canal District. It is the oldest division but among the least prestigious, and government reports have noted that officers from other divisions are commonly transferred to District Operations as a form of punishment or {{wp|constructive dismissal}}. In addition to the more mundance activities of District Operations compared to its sister divisions, the punitive value of reäassignment to this division is enhanced by the fact that most of its postings are in remote and inhospitable locations, such as [[Verastia Territory]], [[Itaho-Falkaria]], and the [[Coscivian Sea]] islands. | ||
===Rangpur=== | |||
The {{wp|Rangpur Division}} (''Rańpurix Iskorvitheskra''), formerly the 'Executive Division' (''Vekturilix Iskorvitheskra''), is the most elite division of the Federal Police, handling matters such as national acute crisis response, major and special investigations, {{wp|CBRN}} investigations, and politically sensitive cases. It is ordinarily the division to which investigations specially ordered by the [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy]] are assigned (hence its former name), and is said to be staffed by the FP's top detectives and operatives. | |||
==Sky Marshal Service== | |||
[[File:SkyMarshalIslandsFlag.png|thumb|Flag of the Sky Marshal Service]] | |||
The Sky Marshal Service (''Asûrsidhraterma'') is administratively subordinate to the Federal Police, but operates as a semi-autonomous agency with its own rank structure, chain of command, statutory basis, and symbolic identity, rather than as an ordinary FP division. The Sky Marshal Service was organised in 1973 AD to foil {{wp|aircraft hijackings}} and {{wp|air piracy}}, which had slowly emerged as significant threats due to the expansion of commercial air travel in the preceding two decades. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many hijackings of [[Kiravian Overseas Airways]] and [[Kirav Atrassic Airways]] flights were attempted - some successfully - by far-left militant cells sponsored by the [[Kiravian Union]]. | |||
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==Facilities== | ==Facilities== | ||
The Federal Police is headquartered in Kartika's D-District. It maintains a large campus in Spantrasar, [[Sergion Countyship|Co. Sergion]], [[Hanoram]], that houses the agency's capital region field office, main training facility, and central ballistics and explosives laboratory, among other things. A significant number of FP personnel remain at the Sunderance-era headquarters in [[Cities of Æonara#Vaśyansar|Vaśyansar]]. | The Federal Police is headquartered in Kartika's D-District. It maintains a large campus in Spantrasar, [[Sergion Countyship|Co. Sergion]], [[Hanoram]], that houses the agency's capital region field office, main training facility, and central ballistics and explosives laboratory, among other things. A significant number of FP personnel remain at the Sunderance-era headquarters in [[Cities of Æonara#Vaśyansar|Vaśyansar]]. | ||
Most major cities and, failing that, provincial capitals, are home to a Federal Police regional field office (''rymnikántix adikuv''). 500+ regional branch offices (''rymnigæstrix adikuv'') are found in smaller cities across the Federacy. The largest regional field offices are in [[Valēka]], Vaśyansar, and [[Pontevedra]]. | |||
The Sky Marshal Service is headquartered in unincorporated [[Stirovon Countyship]], [[Ventarya]], adjacent to [[Kólsylvar National Airport]]. Its training facility is located in [[Kernea|Kernea State]]. | |||
==Controversies== | |||
Like any national law enforcement agency [[salt trade|worth its salt]], the Federal Police have been the subject of a long litany of controversies related to allegations of politicisation, {{wp|human rights}} abuses, general misconduct, and the occasional operational blunder. | |||
It is alleged that high-ranking FP officers from the Executive Division (now the Rangpur Division) were responsible for framing [[Green Party of Kirav]] leader Cládiuv Luatorkár for unnatural acts with livestock in 1999 AD and fabricating video evidence to that effect. | |||
==Famous Operations== | |||
*'''The Ortego Incident''' - On April 20, 1992 by the Gregorian calendar, the Federal Police attempted to apprehend Musa Zindabad, a [[Kandaran]] national residing in [[Niyaska]], for involvement in a criminal enterprise selling counterfeit Caphirian luxury leather goods, the proceeds of which had been linked to the [[Minor_Kiravian_Political_Parties#Prohibition_Party|Prohibition Party]], a designated terrorist group. Zindabad was tipped off about the impending arrest by an associate and went into hiding, but was unable to bring his wife and eleven children along. Zindabad was living in Kiravia on a Class HH-14 humanitarian visa, which would lapse if he travelled outside the Kiravian Federacy, and because his family members were all addenda to his visa, they would be deported to Kandara if he were found to have fled the country. They would likely face sectarian violence or even death if they returned to Kandara, because the family adhered to a minority religious sect. The visa would also be cancelled if he were convicted of a felony. In a stroke of brilliance, Zindabad used his occupational knowledge of {{wp|smuggling}} techniques and routes to stow away on a cargo ship leaving [[Cities_of_Kiravia#Śervinak|Śervinak]] for [[Cities of Sarolasta#Mahavi|Mahavi]], [[Sarolasta]]. After completing that leg of his escape, Zindabad stole a small pleasure yacht from a Mahavi marina and piloted it to the small islet of [[Ortego]], [[Ortego islet dispute|disputed between Kiravia and Daxia]] and under the ''de facto'' control of Daxian authorities based on an intentionally beached merchant vessel, the ''Choronzon''. There he surrendered himself to Daxian troops aboard the ''Choronzon''. His hope was that he could obtain some sort of asylum from the Daxian government and remain on Ortego, where Kiravian police would be unable to seize him, but also preserve the validity of his visa because Kiravian prosecutors could not claim that he had left the country without contradicting Kiravia's claim to the islet. | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Latest revision as of 23:59, 25 June 2024
| Federal Police Rektārkax Áldalak | |
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 Emblem of the Federal Police | |
| Abbreviation | FP |
| Motto | "Open up!" |
| Agency overview | |
| Employees | 73,727 |
| Legal personality | Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Kiravian Federacy |
| Governing body | Territorial Executive |
| Constituting instruments | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Kartika |
| Officers | 32,385 |
| Agency executives |
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| Child agency |
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| Divisions | 11
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| Website | |
| www.rektārkaxáldalak.āri.kr | |
The Federal Police is the generalist criminal law enforcement arm and investigative agency of the Kiravian federal government. It is the default investigative authority for criminal cases that enter federal jurisdiction (e.g. by crossing provincial boundaries or involving an issue of federal authority such as banking) but are not within the remit of a more specialised agency (e.g. the Federal Forest Police). The Federal Police also provide support services to specialist federal agencies and provincial police, and provide ordinary policing services at the subnational level by statute or by contract. The agency is subordinate to the Territorial Executive, Department of the Emperor's Peace.
Mission
Criminal Investigation
Most criminal law enforcement in Kiravia is at the provincial level or below, and more specialised federal agencies provide ordinary police services on federal lands (e.g. Forest Police in Federal Forests, Military Police on military bases) and protective and investigative services to federal institutions (e.g. Diplomatic Security Service, Stanoral Guard). For all other crimes that enter federal purview, there is the Federal Police.
- Spatial jurisdiction
- Domestic crime traversing provincial boundaries ("provincial diversity jurisdiction")
- Transnational crime
- Crime in federal airspace and (theoretically) in outer space[1]
- Crime on federal land for which no other law enforcement agency has been specified, including (but not limited to):[2]
- National Historic Sites
- Federal Reclamation Lands
- Revenue estates of the Emperor
- Federal Laboratory network
- Federal Spaceflight Authority sites
- Subject-matter jurisdiction
- Bank robberies (Kiravian banks are federally-insured)
- Major fraud against the KF Government
- Public corruption in which federal officials are implicated
Full-service Policing
The original mission of the Federal Police was to provide ordinary municipal police services in the District of Coīnvra, the federal capital district containing Kartika. This rôle would later be extended to the second federal district, the Interlake Canal District. During the Sunderance, the Federal Police provided the same service in the now-defunct District of Sarosten surrounding the capital-in-exile, Vaśyansar (today in North Æonara). After reunification, responsibility for policing in the District of Coīnvra was devolved to a new local administration.
Today the Federal Police provide ordinary police services in the Interlake District. They may also provide the same on a transitional or long-term basis to provinces and localities unable to meet their own policing needs, most often on account of recent establishment, sparse population, and/or extreme environmental conditions. In some Kiravian mainland provinces without statehood, such as Itaho-Falkaria, local constabularies exist but the Federal Police assume the role normally played by provincial police.
Capacity Building and Specialist Support
Tasked by the federal government with some of the most challenging investigative and enforcement missions imaginable, the Federal Police have access to state-of-the-art scientific knowledge and technical capabilities, training and expertise, and intelligence and criminalistics knowledge bases, in addition to inter-agency and international contacts that subnational police forces lack. In the spirit of modern coöperative federalism, the Federal Police routinely shares its superior capabilities with provincial and municipal law enforcement agencies to assist the latter with major cases or to pursue investigations of joint interest to both parties. This is especially prominent in the areas of forensic science, psychological profiling, offender databases, and surveillence technology. The Federal Police also offer training and capacity-building programmes to strengthen subnational police forces. FP training programmes typically relate to subjects such as legal affairs, special weapons and tactics, bomb disposal and hazardous materials, drug enforcement, and dolphin training.
Divisions
Organised Crime
The Organised Crime Division (Iskorvitheskra Iskorvibalvsk) is concerned with the activities of organised criminal syndicates, primarily the major ethnic crime families, prison gangs, and outlaw motorcycle clubs. Organised crime is a major problem in Kiravia, and efforts to combat it were central to the expansion of the Federal Police and its transformation from a glorified municipal police department into a sophisticated national investigative agency. The Organised Crime Division carries out intensive, often years- or even decades-long investigations of criminal groups through surveillence, infiltration, and the recruitment of informants, in order to gather evidence for mass prosecutions under the Racketeering Act and related legislation.
It should be noted that, whereas the cases other investigative divisions frequently involve actors from the organised criminal sector, these divisions focus on the investigation and closure of specific criminal incidents, whereas the Organised Crime Division targets criminal organisations themselves for monitoring, disruption, and decapitation.
Counternarcotics
The Counternarcotic Division (Dutrasopovix Iskorvitheskra) exists to combat the illegal drug trade by disrupting its logistical networks and apprehending middle- and high-level participants. It has amassed an enviable inventory of confiscated psychoäctive contraband.
Economic and Cyber-crime
Previously separate divisions, the Economic Crime Division and Cybercrime Division were merged in 2017 AD. This division is concerned with financial theft, money laundering, foreign exchange violations, financial intelligence, analog white collar crime, public corruption not related to organised crime, counterfeit trade and IP theft, cyberextortion, darknet markets, and MMORPG scams.
Armaments & Explosives
The Armaments & Explosives Division (Iskorvitheskra Dirdhūistul u Hegorstakôrsk) is concerned with enforcing federal laws regulating the manufacture, transport, distribution, sale, storage, and discharge of conventional weapons and explosive agents. It is home to the FP's bomb squads.
Counterterrorism
The Counterterrorism Division (Dutrabinladevix Iskorvitheskra) investigates terroristic threats of national significance and unlawful activities by ideological radicals and organised extremist or anti-government groups. Its work is complementary to that of the Domestic Security Agency, with which it is supposed to coöperate. The DSA invests heavily in "background intelligence" and makes extensive use of open-source methods and long-term infiltration, whereas the Counterterrorism Division is more concerned with near-term threats and relies on conventional surveillence and informants. The DSA is also focussed exclusively on organisations, whereas the Counterterrorism Division also concerns itself with "lone wolves".
Human Trafficking
The Human Trafficking Division works to dismantle human[3] trafficking networks. Its targets are often lower-profile and further down the supply chain than those of the Organised Crime and Transnational Affairs divisions. The Division targets not only conventional, financially-motivated trafficking schemes, but also interstate pædophile rings.
This division is also responsible for enforcing laws against the production and distribution of illicit pornography, as well as crimes against persons victimised in the process of producing the same.
Transnational Affairs
In a postmodern, digitising, and increasingly interconnected world, crime transcends national boundaries today more than ever before. The Transnational Affairs Division (Iskorvitheskra Seritérnakamsá) is responsible for liasing with foreign national law enforcement agencies and international organisations such as Ixterpol. It also oversees the FP's out-of-country operations, which are mostly intelligence-based and focused on transnational organised crime and smuggling.
Forensics
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Research & Development
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Specialist Operations
The Specialist Operations Division (Iskorvitheskra Eluritix Ventavará) groups together several units with a particular subject-matter or technical specialty. These include:
- Bank robbery group
- Heavy Tactical Units
- Hostage negotiation team, Hostage rescue team
- Kidnapping team
- Aerial surveillence
- Tactical aviation
- Marine Unit
Support Capability
Does nothing important.
District Operations
The District Operations Division is responsible for detachments assigned to provide ordinary policing services to particular areas of the Federacy, such as the Interlake Canal District. It is the oldest division but among the least prestigious, and government reports have noted that officers from other divisions are commonly transferred to District Operations as a form of punishment or constructive dismissal. In addition to the more mundance activities of District Operations compared to its sister divisions, the punitive value of reäassignment to this division is enhanced by the fact that most of its postings are in remote and inhospitable locations, such as Verastia Territory, Itaho-Falkaria, and the Coscivian Sea islands.
Rangpur
The Rangpur Division (Rańpurix Iskorvitheskra), formerly the 'Executive Division' (Vekturilix Iskorvitheskra), is the most elite division of the Federal Police, handling matters such as national acute crisis response, major and special investigations, CBRN investigations, and politically sensitive cases. It is ordinarily the division to which investigations specially ordered by the Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy are assigned (hence its former name), and is said to be staffed by the FP's top detectives and operatives.
Sky Marshal Service
The Sky Marshal Service (Asûrsidhraterma) is administratively subordinate to the Federal Police, but operates as a semi-autonomous agency with its own rank structure, chain of command, statutory basis, and symbolic identity, rather than as an ordinary FP division. The Sky Marshal Service was organised in 1973 AD to foil aircraft hijackings and air piracy, which had slowly emerged as significant threats due to the expansion of commercial air travel in the preceding two decades. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many hijackings of Kiravian Overseas Airways and Kirav Atrassic Airways flights were attempted - some successfully - by far-left militant cells sponsored by the Kiravian Union.
Facilities
The Federal Police is headquartered in Kartika's D-District. It maintains a large campus in Spantrasar, Co. Sergion, Hanoram, that houses the agency's capital region field office, main training facility, and central ballistics and explosives laboratory, among other things. A significant number of FP personnel remain at the Sunderance-era headquarters in Vaśyansar.
Most major cities and, failing that, provincial capitals, are home to a Federal Police regional field office (rymnikántix adikuv). 500+ regional branch offices (rymnigæstrix adikuv) are found in smaller cities across the Federacy. The largest regional field offices are in Valēka, Vaśyansar, and Pontevedra.
The Sky Marshal Service is headquartered in unincorporated Stirovon Countyship, Ventarya, adjacent to Kólsylvar National Airport. Its training facility is located in Kernea State.
Controversies
Like any national law enforcement agency worth its salt, the Federal Police have been the subject of a long litany of controversies related to allegations of politicisation, human rights abuses, general misconduct, and the occasional operational blunder.
It is alleged that high-ranking FP officers from the Executive Division (now the Rangpur Division) were responsible for framing Green Party of Kirav leader Cládiuv Luatorkár for unnatural acts with livestock in 1999 AD and fabricating video evidence to that effect.
Famous Operations
- The Ortego Incident - On April 20, 1992 by the Gregorian calendar, the Federal Police attempted to apprehend Musa Zindabad, a Kandaran national residing in Niyaska, for involvement in a criminal enterprise selling counterfeit Caphirian luxury leather goods, the proceeds of which had been linked to the Prohibition Party, a designated terrorist group. Zindabad was tipped off about the impending arrest by an associate and went into hiding, but was unable to bring his wife and eleven children along. Zindabad was living in Kiravia on a Class HH-14 humanitarian visa, which would lapse if he travelled outside the Kiravian Federacy, and because his family members were all addenda to his visa, they would be deported to Kandara if he were found to have fled the country. They would likely face sectarian violence or even death if they returned to Kandara, because the family adhered to a minority religious sect. The visa would also be cancelled if he were convicted of a felony. In a stroke of brilliance, Zindabad used his occupational knowledge of smuggling techniques and routes to stow away on a cargo ship leaving Śervinak for Mahavi, Sarolasta. After completing that leg of his escape, Zindabad stole a small pleasure yacht from a Mahavi marina and piloted it to the small islet of Ortego, disputed between Kiravia and Daxia and under the de facto control of Daxian authorities based on an intentionally beached merchant vessel, the Choronzon. There he surrendered himself to Daxian troops aboard the Choronzon. His hope was that he could obtain some sort of asylum from the Daxian government and remain on Ortego, where Kiravian police would be unable to seize him, but also preserve the validity of his visa because Kiravian prosecutors could not claim that he had left the country without contradicting Kiravia's claim to the islet.
Notes
- ↑ On the basis of the Emperor's authority as a universal monarch, the Extraplanetary Legal Foundations Act establishes a criminal code for Kiravian spaceflight, and designates the Federal Police as the competent investigative authority for violations and the default civilian police power.
- ↑ More specialised police forces patrolling federal lands include the Federal Forest Police (federal forests), Federal Pasture Police (federal pastures), Federal Park Police (federal parks &c.), military police (military reservations and other Defence Executive lands), Maritime Cutter Service (federally-owned offshore islands).
- ↑ Kikparis not included.