jdhmnovel Chapter 174 Plan
Chapter 174 Plan
"This winter will not be peaceful."
Brett Carter, the National Police and Sheriff, stared intently at the enormous map before him. With the unification of Amelia, the police department had been renamed the National Police and Sheriff.
Now that the war is over, his work has just begun. 656 is a watershed year. With the establishment of the department's headquarters in the new district of Dreyer, more modern equipment has also entered service with the department.
However, the security situation has not improved with modernization. With the application of modern administrative management and investigation methods, crimes that could not be detected in the past are now being exposed.
The security situation was most severe in the South. With the end of the unification war, the South was officially unified, and most of the administrative institutions were constantly being handed over and rebuilt. However, the old upper class was not seriously affected, and a new economic structure had not yet been established, which led to the continued deterioration of the situation in the South.
Versailles in the south is currently the economic center, but this so-called economic center is in serious trouble. The Battle of the Imperial Capital has severely damaged the city, and the purge of the usurpers and the suppression by private soldiers have led to another period of martial law in Versailles, which has severely damaged the city's economic foundation.
Before the war of unification, the South accounted for 40 percent of the country's GDP, but now it accounts for less than 20 percent.
Alice's decision to prioritize the South in the second national industrial plan was not merely to appease the Southern faction, but also to reverse the economic situation.
After all, it's their own territory, they can't just ignore it.
However, industrial construction takes time. A factory can't be put into production for at least one or two years after it's built. Now, Alice is offering preferential policies to companies that establish themselves in the south, including tax exemption and access to low-interest government loans.
However, the economy is one thing, and public security is another. While American law has been accepted in the South for four or five years, customary law is still the mainstream in the South. Moreover, the public's quality is relatively low, and illegal acts that have been virtually eradicated in some parts of the North are still rampant in the South.
Bright and Alice held a short meeting and decided to take a two-pronged approach: on the one hand, to allocate manpower to build an efficient police force in the South, and on the other hand, to promote industrial upgrading and industrialization in the South, creating a large workforce.
There is no doubt that a society with abundant material resources will gradually improve the quality of its people, but this is a long-term process that still requires severe measures!
Bright took the plunge and personally led a team to the south. After several months, they returned and discovered many problems.
For example, armed conflicts were commonplace in the South. Originally, it involved broadswords, crossbows, spears, and occasionally magicians. But after the Second Amendment, gunpowder revolvers, rifles, and shotguns suddenly appeared.
Mountain bandits in several regions have started equipping themselves with that thing, and the local police can't do anything about it. After all, according to the Second Amendment, police equipment is also considered civilian equipment!
"Your Excellency, this is the police report from the Calais district. As you can see, a group of thugs near Cambrai attacked the local town bank and stole more than three million dollars. Ten police officers were killed and 18 were injured when they arrived. Almost the entire town police force was wiped out. It was later discovered that they not only had a considerable number of breech-loading rifles, but also Spencer repeating rifles. They even used a car to pull a Napoleon cannon to break into the bank vault."
Alice had to admit that the current security situation was extremely serious, and the existing manpower was insufficient to cope. After thinking for a moment, she said to Bright, "That's right, so we must crack down hard for the next period of time. I will also allocate more budget to the national police and security departments, and allocate more funds, and establish special weapons and tactical groups... As for large-scale bandit-level illegal armed groups, I authorize you to establish armed police departments, equipped with light weapons and light armored vehicles..."
Black Carter admired Alice's decisiveness, and the results came quickly:
His department received more funding and established a subordinate Police Equipment Bureau, which then publicly tendered for its equipment.
SWAT teams (Special Weapons and Tactics Teams) were established in various regions, serving as special police forces and providing training for designated special forces. At the same time, SWAT relaxed weapons restrictions, allowing the use of military-grade weapons.
An armed police force was established, with weapons and training comparable to the military, but subordinate to the police department. Alice gave it a total of 5 men in three divisions, which could be equipped with armored vehicles and military automatic weapons, but were not allowed to be equipped with heavy weapons, including artillery and mortars.
The establishment of a secret intelligence agency, a special operations unit connected to TICAC, and the independent operation of the national police and public security departments, while sharing intelligence to a certain extent.
The Amelanian Federal National Police Act was established, and the Amelanian National Police Academy was set up to train professional police officers.
With these measures in place, Brett Carter clearly felt much better. The National Police Department immediately expanded its manpower, and Smedley, as the head of the Department of Defense, also consulted with the Supreme Military Council. It was later decided to convert three newly formed infantry divisions into armed police. These three infantry divisions formed the Amerlane National Armed Police, which was under the command of the Joint Command Committee of the Army and Police Departments.
Following this, the Secret Intelligence Service's Special Strategic Operations Team, the Navy's Special Boat Service, and the National Police Department made contact and began training SWAT teams in De La Leyer City at the Carmel Training Base in the Central Region.
With the support from above, Brett Carter was able to establish a national task force to combat organized crime. In the New Year of 657, the National Police and Public Security Department issued the "657 National Anti-Organized Crime Special Action".
This announcement caused a huge uproar, as reporters were surprised to find not only the police department's logo but also the insignia of the newly established National Armed Police Force at the press conference.
Well, the series of changes in the police department at the end of 656 were already a sign of impending trouble, and the special operation of this era has further fueled public opinion.
After all, everyone knows what this operation is targeting. The South is in complete chaos. In some of the worst-hit areas, officials sent in either become corrupt or are "accidentally killed" on the same day.
I heard that the taxes in a small county have been collected for eighty years to come!
However, no matter how fierce the rumors were, Bright continued to make preparations. The training of 40,000 armed police, TICAC cooperating agents, and SWAT all needed time.
With both economic and administrative measures in place, she won't be afraid of anyone standing in her way, Alice.