The Interstellar Commission for Law Enforcement and Security (German: Interstellare Kommission für Strafverfolgung und Sicherheit; ICLES–INTERSEC), commonly known as Intersec, is an international organization that facilitates international law and law enforcement cooperation. They work to ensure the safe apprehension of international fugitives and the prevention of illegal activities including but not limited to: human trafficking, narcotics trade, black market dealing, illegal arms sales, and potential acts of terrorism.
INTERSEC provides investigative capacity, direct and indirect support, expertise, and training for law enforcement throughout human space with whom share membership with the initiative focusing on a handful of transnational crime. Of these, terrorism, cybercrime, and organized crime are its primary focus. In line with its constitution, INTERSEC does not investigate matters of political, military, religious, or racial nature.
INTERSEC possesses an annual budge of approximately IAC ¢1.2 billion which is collected from contributions of all member states. The General Assembly, made of representatives from all members, elects the Executive Bureau and the President to oversee INTERSEC's policies are enforced and the general success of the administration. Its current president is Marthijn Schutterop, former Chief Deputy of Public Safety for the Intersystem Alliance. The INTERSEC Central Office is located at Havlíčekova ul. 49/5, 553 01 Nové Město, Prague.
The agency utilizes six common languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, and Mandarin.
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Etymology
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History
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Structure
All agencies and bureaus of INTERSEC are separated into smaller divisions to support individual regional offices that must be capable of working alone while simultaneously maintaining a reliable network between one another and the Central Office.
Administrative roles:
The Central Office acts as INTERSEC's headquarters and administrative nexus through which all regional offices administrative divisions maintain detailed records of past and ongoing investigations that involve INTERSEC and its agents.
The Office of Internal Affairs (OIA), also known simply as Internal Affairs, is an agency of checks and balances. Its purpose is to investigate and prosecute members of INTERSEC who break the Law of the Land. To avoid a conflict of interest, Internal Affairs is unaffiliated with the Bureau of Criminal Investigations and hires investigators from outside of the organization to facilitate that goal.
The Bureau of International Law mediates negotiations of international detainees by interpreting the Laws of the Lands in question. Its primary focus is on the validity of claims submitted by member states. The bureau is staffed by some of the best lawyers their nations can provide.
The Independent Contractor Commission is the administrative body overseeing the authorization, employ, payment, and records keeping of Authorized Contracted Personnel throughout human space. It is, by a wide margin, the largest agency within INTERSEC.
Operational roles:
The Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) is the international investigations agency tasked with solving international crimes and the arrest of those who are responsible. BCI Detectives work in a close partnership with local law enforcement as not to break the Laws of the Land in their pursuit of justice. It is second-largest agency in INTERSEC.
The Office of the Fleet conducts the transportation of international fugitives to stand trial before a court of the offended nation. Vessels owned and operated by INTERSEC (cutter and corvette-sized ships) are considered neutral territory, noncombatant transport ships so that they are allowed to sail through member states as to fulfill their purpose. In compliance with this consideration, offensive weapons are removed from any vessels that previously saw military service before their purchase. The office is a comparatively small agency within INTERSEC but is the source of a great portion of overall spending.
Methodology
INTERSEC is a supranational law enforcement organization that is only capable of acting with the consent of the nation for which they would conduct investigative and apprehending operations. It must be strongly expressed that ICLES-INTERSEC must attain a nation's explicit consent before the organization will deploy their teams to conduct an investigation for each and ever case.
The INTERSEC Central Office is loaned the most well-regarded lawyers from each member nation who acts as that country's voice during deliberations in international law enforcement operations and justice proceedings. Not only do they directly advise INTERSEC's directors of the Bureau of Investigations and Field Operations Bureau of local intricacies for their home region, they diligently work with teams of all nations involved in any authorized case to find legal standing for INTERSEC's involvement, together.
INTERSEC also works in nations that have authorized and facilitated a regional office, which acts as a nation’s INTERSEC headquarters. These offices offer a dual purpose: 1) As a hub for intensive international criminal investigations. 2) To act as a local office for Authorized Independent Contractors to pick up bounties or ensure their certifications are up to date.
Regional offices recruit the most qualified lawyers familiar in that nation’s criminal law so they can work hand-in-hand with local legal officials. This ensures the laws of the land are respected before INTERSEC even begins operations.
Regional Offices
Aside from the central office in Prague, INTERSEC maintains several regional offices throughout member nations that are the physical connections between INTERSEC headquarters and its agents:
New Geneva (Geneva Principa), Earth; Intersystem Alliance
Caer Eirantrone (Crown's Justice Quarter), Eiras; Eirangardian Kingdom
Erebus City, Nyx; Coalition Stratocracy
Veloport, Balvoir; Threshold Meritocracy
New Carthage (Outerwords Quarter), Atria; Isharan Eisharat
Madida, Thuus; Empire of Gaennaan
Han'ei, Edom; Covenant of Edom
Idithos, Foslara; Ionian League
Ravencrown, Persica Prime; Star Kingdom of Persica
Townsen City, Ivonia; United Star Commonwealth
Astia, Ker Ys; Ythian Federation
These offices operate at all hours of the day no matter the local cycle to ensure that member states, personnel, and contractors receive the operational support required.
Authorized Contracted Personnel
INTERSEC's Independent Contractor Commission (ICC) acts as the administrative body of and oversees the employment of Recovery Agents, Independent Investigators, and general freelance contractor work related to the overall mission of the organization.
Because of the overall size of human space, both INTERSEC and local law enforcement are often overtaxed. The ICC offers both institutions the breathing room they require through the use of independent contractors to ensure that criminal investigations and recovery is done. It also falls to the ICC to police the conduct of these independent contractors to make certain no one person abuses their authority and that offenders are stripped of their licenses and authorizations.
Recovery Agents
Recovery Agents make up the bulk of personnel under the employ of INTERSEC's Independent Contractor Commission. Agents, known most often by the historical title "bounty hunters," work within their nation of registry's boarders to apprehend fugitives listed by any ICLES-INTERSEC member nation.
Recovery Notices, bounties, are issued to Agents who are eligible and act as proof of said eligibility upon successful recovery of concerning fugitives; once both are submitted to local or INTERSEC authorities, payment for services rendered.
International fugitives recovered within a Recovery Agent's jurisdiction must be surrendered to one of these two agencies before transferring across international borders, otherwise ordinary Recovery Agents may be convicted of wrongful imprisonment. Only recognized International Recovery Agents are authorized to move international criminals across national borders without facing consequences provided the International Agent possesses the relevant Recovery Notice and licensing.
International Recovery Agents
International Recovery Notices are conducted by International Recovery Agents. These notices must be authorized through both ends of a pipeline, first where the notice originates and second where the suspect has been sighted.
Should a nation want to try someone for a crime or crimes they have allegedly committed but official extradition is conceivably impossible, the originating legal team posting the Recovery Notice works with local legal agencies to decide whether or not there is legal precedent to issue the notice in both nations. If there is legal precedent in the second nation, the notice is approved and offered to qualified International Recovery Agents. If not, it’s placed on the originating nation's local notice board that where it will take effect in the event the alleged offender returns to the nation of issue.
Though criticized as an overly-long and arduous process, it has prevented INTERSEC's dismissal from nations on more than a handful of occasions where local laws were on the verge of being broken in the pursuit of justice.
Independent Investigators
Independent Investigators act as their name implies, authorized with the power to conduct investigations when neither local law enforcement nor INTERSEC is capable of doing so. As with Recovery Agents, Independent Investigators work within their nation of registry's borders which act as their bounds of jurisdiction. Unlike Recovery Agents, however, Independent Investigators do not have an opportunity to work internationally. Should an investigation lead personnel beyond the their jurisdiction, e.i. beyond international borders, then Independent Investigators are required to turn over any findings to local authorities as well as their regional INTERSEC office.
Payment to Independent Investigators are often issued at a premium to attract personnel to conduct investigations that have had little prior commitment.
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Objectives
Constitution
The role of INTERSEC is defined by the general provisions of its constitution.
Article 2 states that its role is:
To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities within the limits of the laws existing in each member country and in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
To establish and develop all institutions likely to contribute effectively to the prevention and suppression of ordinary law crimes.
Article 3 states:
It is strictly forbidden for the Organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious, or racial character.
Article 9 states:
It is strictly forbidden for the Organization to undertake any intervention or activities solely in the name of corporate interests.
Funding
In 3419, INTERSEC's revenue was IAC ¢1.2 billion wherein 82 percent was collected via member states annual dues and received 18 percent from private industry which engaged INTERSEC for investigative services and donations from private foundations looking to support INTERSEC's mission. Officials in charge of funding have carefully worked to keep from the mistakes of their predecessors in the now-defunct INTERPOL. The Secretary of the Treasury is, by design, an incredibly public position to discourage misuse of the organization's funds or abusing the office's authority.
From 3410 to 3416, INTERSEC's external auditors was the Gaennid Imperial Auditor Ministry. In July of 3416, the Imperial Audit Court was replaced by the Intersysem Alliance Audit Court for a six-year observation period with preference to renew for another six-year period.
Criticisms
Abuse of Authority
INTERSEC's efforts to remain neutral have not gone without criticism. Rather than its neutrality, however, it is the apparent hypocrisy of the initiative's actions in the face of its public position as an entity removed from political motivation that is under scrutiny. On more than one occasion, INTERSEC investigators have been accused of acting under political pressure from member states in order to remove rivals from advantageous positions.
Other instances include Authorized Contracted Personnel, specifically Recovery Agents using excessive force to apprehend fugitives and Independent Investigators breaking the law to solve crimes.
On several occasions INTERSEC officials have taken bribes to overlook serious corporate crimes or misbehavior by politicians in regards to crimes against their own people. There is at least one instance of an official being bribed to specifically target a corporate rival which resulted in significant losses for the company.