I am seeing a lot of small discrepencies in the distinction between Law Enforcement Officers.
This is what I have gathered so far (please let me know if I have anything mistaken :)):
County Departments = Sheriff's Department. Enforce State laws, sometimes spending their time to assist city police enforcing City laws. Officers are called Deputies. Natalie and Clark are Deputies, as is Jett?
City Police = Cops, Police Officers, Detectives, and whatnot. They enforce City laws, and can help state and federal officers in cases. Llidya works for New Orleans Police Department
U.S. Marshalls = Federal Gov't Officials. They enforce Federal laws, usually disdaining to waste their time with city or even state laws. Ash and Titus are US Marshalls.
Fire Marshalls = Marshalls who enforce city codes on fire restrictions and investigate fires. Shamira is a fire marshall.
I'm sorry if I missed anyone, but I hope this helps. I really hope I am not stepping on any toes, just wanted to clarify the distinctions.
The U.S. Marshal's look good. The main focus of the Marshals in today's society is to execute federal warrants and maintain court security in most federal courthouses. The only investigating I have seen them do is only to track down fugitives.
Clark and Natalie aren't sheriff deputies. they're police detectives for the NOPD. I believe that Jett is as well.
Also, the FBI are the ones that are like the federal police officers. and do the day to day grunt work of federal law enforcement.
The Sheriiff's office handles matters that pertain to the county, there are state police that would take care of all of the matters that would handle the state (usually refered to as the Highway Patrol... State Troopers)
-- Edited by CLARK KENT on Tuesday 12th of July 2011 06:36:07 AM
The overall information looks great but Shamira is actually part of NOFD Special Operations Division Unit. SOD includes; Hazardous Material unit, Flying Squad, Rescue Squad, First Responder program, Louisiana Urban Search and Rescue Unit, Louis Armstrong International Airport Fire fighters and the newly formed Water Rescue.
She's a Firefighter in the HazMat Unit. NOFD Hazmat is to bring under control and mitigate any hazmat incident that may occur inside of New Orleans and, in some cases when requested by Mutual Aid, to assist in the surrounding parishes. The Hazardous Material Unit is responsible for all hazmat incidents that happen inside of Orleans Parish.
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Look at that, I did some real research and everything!
U.S. Marshals also handle fugitive apprehension and kidnapping cases that cross state lines. And yes, they do cover witness protection. Have friends in the field and boy do they have some stories....
im not gonna touch this one. Other then to say that the Fed Marshalls are quite different in LoSt world (which no matter the name we still are).Then they would be in actual life. Next..NOPD have several districts of onkiers (im from nola ive earnd the right) want some insight on nawlin cops come talk to me and manders...Oh and how come no ones been down with OPP yet? :)
Well, if you really want to be accurate. Louisiana is not segregated by counties. It's parishes. So there really wouldn't be a county department. The Law Enforcement is also segregated by parishes. So for Orleans parish, there would be police officers, deputies, detectives, and cops. There is only one Sherriff for each parish (like Harry Lee, he was the sherriff for Jefferson parish). Then there are state troopers, and that's really self-explanatory. They cover the entire state no matter what parish you're in. The fire department is actually more segregated than the law enforcement. For each town/city that's in the parish (for example Kenner, Metairie, Harahan: they are in Jefferson parish) they have their own fire department, and they patrol what is assigned to them. And it's even more segregated than that because there are multiple fire stations in each city (For example, Kenner is divided into districts for the fire department, so wherever there's a station, they cover those surrounding neighborhoods that they live in). Police officers are also segregated by which city they're assigned to patrol (like Kenner cops, Metairie cops, New Orleans cops). As far as US Marshals go, well that's really self-explanatory as well. Hope this information helps!
-- Edited by EURIDACEE on Tuesday 12th of July 2011 12:30:12 PM
Sorry, I have no clue what an "onkler" is. Also, I am not down with OPP, because I believe cheating is wrong in all senses.
Manda, does each parish have separate stations for the deputy sheriffs and the P.D.?
Thank you everyone who posted valuable information, not only for me, but for all players who play cops! I just wanted to clear up exactly what each person is, and what their jurisdictions are, for everyone involved.
Yes, there are separate stations for the police officers as well. Again, using Kenner as an example, they have their own station. Metairie, Harahan, Laplace, all have their own stations for the P.D. located in each city/town. Same with New Orleans. Because there are so many districts inside the city, like Central Business District, Uptown, Midcity, New Orleans East, they all have their own station and police officers that live in those districts patrol those areas.
-- Edited by EURIDACEE on Tuesday 12th of July 2011 12:40:18 PM
The thing is that though Ash and Titus are technically Federal Marshalls they are a certain type who were grandfathered in due to their executioner status.
Similarly, in the books and the game I think, there is a preternatural division of law enforcement that would have certain priority in supernatural cases over regular police.
Obviously since real life law enforcement doesn't have to contend with vampires and lycanthropes what happens in the game will not always match up exactly with what would happen in real life. It's unavoidable. So if you are looking for an exact match you probably won't find it.
But basically Ash and Titus would or could butt into what they wanted though probably wouldn't bother if it isn't supernatural.
Cops on a normal beat would probably call in people from RPIT for supernatural cases and RPIT officers wouldn't be called out for say a gas station robbery.
And fires...well I guess that one is kind of self evident
-- Edited by KNOX on Thursday 14th of July 2011 11:42:15 PM
Right. I just wanted to make sure I was getting everything correct in the jurisdictions. I understand that as Executioners they would take pretty much any case dealing with Supes. The main point was that while they are all Law Enforcement, police and deputies rarely work alongside each other.
However, with that said, I still don't want to make people think I am saying "it has to be done the way I said" I just wanted to share my limited knowledge on the subject so they could possibly implement it to make their own experience better. If they don't want to, or it doesn't mesh with their char, then it really doesn't bother me. But thanks for the info.
Yeah, this looks like a basic guideline and a foundation for characters in the supernatural world. I think we have a basic understanding of the law enforcement issues. All the departments I have worked with honestly segregate themselves from other departments. In the Federal system, Marshal's don't work with the FBI, DEA, or CIA honestly they absolutely have to. You can see it in the small picture too, cops rarely work with deputies or state troopers unless they have to. Also, and I don't know if it's the same in Louisiana, but normally the sheriff's department is in charge of local jails and then prisons are funded by the state or actually privatized, meaning a company runs them. Kentucky is a rarity because we elect jailers instead of letting the sheriff's department run the jails. I think Kentucky and one other do that, can't remember which state though, it my be Louisiana
What are the requirements to join any of these? I know for the Sherriff station here, they have to run 2 miles in under 14 minutes. And that's just to get in, after that there's not really any fitness test ever again.
Different departments/stations/cities have different physical agility test standards. Some have obstacle courses, others have sets of physical standards that must be met - push ups, sit ups, a metered dash and a mile run in so many minutes. It really just depends. Some departments also have annual physical agility tests while others only require the initial one to be admitted into the police academies.
It being New Orleans I would see a much stricter set of guidelines, like an obstacle course. When I was at the jail we had an annual physical but it was just 30 push ups 30 sit ups and you had to make a mile in *gasp* 12 minutes.
