Public Safety Directorate

The Law Enforcement and emergency services provider of the Harmony of Horizon, the Public Safety Directorate operates entirely within the borders of the Harmony and tends to use older ships and equipment handed off from the Peacekeeper Directorate.

Volunteers to the Public Safety Directorate tend to come from the less urbanized newly settled outer worlds of the Harmony, and from the medical collages of the core worlds. Public Safety personnel recruits undergo a three year training stint at the Sanctuary Fleet Training Center before taking a final year of education at any of a number of the Harmony's academic facilities including the Antaria Valley Advanced Cognition School, the Stellar Science University of Stickine, the University of Deviance Studies of Tiriad, and the University of Mist.

Operationally, the men and women of the Public Safety Directorate act not only as national level Law Enforcement on all Harmony worlds, but also as first responders across every system of the Harmony, with most Public Safety personnel having been trained to respond to a variety of emergency situations. Most inhabited Harmony worlds have an at least bare bones orbital outpost from which the men and women of the Public Safety Directorate operate their familiar Alert pattern rescue corvettes and squadrons on in system first response shuttles and runabouts.

Public Safety officers and crew are generally seen as more easygoing and friendly than the men and women of the other Directorates, with the Public Safety Directorate being (in)famous for having much looser uniform and organizational standards than the other Directorates.

Operationally, the Public Safety Directorate is divided into fourteen separate squadrons assigned to each of the Harmony's fourteen Precincts. Each squadron is centered on one of the older Choreographer squadron tenders and their attendant corvettes.

Active Ship Classes

 * Choreographer Fleet Tender
 * Scientist Cruiser
 * Dancer Corvette - Deploy from Choreographer Tenders
 * Alert Public Safety Corvette

Precincts
There are fourteen Precincts - akin to somewhat smaller Federation sectors - patrolled by the Public Safety Directorate. These are maintained as numbered precincts, 1st through 14th.

Each Public Safety Precinct is handled by a Choreographer Fleet Tender, carrying a mixed load of Dancer and Alert corvettes. Each Precinct will also carry with it a cruiser, believed to be a Scientist class.

The Harmony is officially divided into five Segments: Core, Trailing, Spinward, Coreward, and Rimward. Each Segment is further divided into Precincts:


 * Core: 1st and 2nd Precincts
 * Trailing: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Precincts
 * Spinward: 9th, 10th, and 11th Precincts
 * Coreward: 6th, 7th, and 8th Precincts
 * Rimward: 12th, 13th, and 14th Precincts

Hull Markings
The colors of the Public Safety Directorate are white and blue, with their uniform pattern matching that of the other Uniformed Spacegoing Services except for the blue colouration.

Estimated Fleet Strength

 * 13-14 Choreographer-pattern Fleet Tenders
 * 2 Liberator
 * 23-26 cruisers
 * 40-45 Dancer corvettes
 * 80ish Alert corvettes