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The paramilitary police enforce order among the civilian castes by patrolling cities and guarding Clan compounds.<ref name=TCWoK6263/><ref name=FMCC10/><ref name=FMWC12/> Enforcers from the civilian castes assist the paramilitary police in this role.<ref name=AToW363>''A Time of War'', p. 363: "Police Forces"</ref> Additionally, the paramilitary police serve as a planetary militia for the Clans.<ref name=FMCC10/><ref name=FMWC12/> For example, police infantry [[Trinary|Trinaries]] were part of the Clusters of conventional vehicles and infantry attached to [[Clan Star Adder]]'s Provisional Galaxies.<ref>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 119: "Second-Line and Solahma Assets"</ref> A Clan's [[Loremaster]] also holds the office of Provost Marshall, the commander of his or her Clan's paramilitary police.<ref>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 57: "Loremaster"</ref>  
 
The paramilitary police enforce order among the civilian castes by patrolling cities and guarding Clan compounds.<ref name=TCWoK6263/><ref name=FMCC10/><ref name=FMWC12/> Enforcers from the civilian castes assist the paramilitary police in this role.<ref name=AToW363>''A Time of War'', p. 363: "Police Forces"</ref> Additionally, the paramilitary police serve as a planetary militia for the Clans.<ref name=FMCC10/><ref name=FMWC12/> For example, police infantry [[Trinary|Trinaries]] were part of the Clusters of conventional vehicles and infantry attached to [[Clan Star Adder]]'s Provisional Galaxies.<ref>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 119: "Second-Line and Solahma Assets"</ref> A Clan's [[Loremaster]] also holds the office of Provost Marshall, the commander of his or her Clan's paramilitary police.<ref>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 57: "Loremaster"</ref>  
  
Traditionally, both [[trueborn]] and [[freeborn]] Clan warriors look down on paramilitary policemen.<ref name=TCWoK6263/> The strength and deployments Clan paramilitary police forces have been omitted from official documents describing Clan military units.<ref name=FMCC10/><ref name=FMWC12/> Most Clan paramilitary policemen are unhappy with their position, and consider themselves to be halfway between warriors and civilians.<ref name=AToW363/> As a result, the Clan paramilitary often vent their anger and frustration by inflicting brutal punishments on criminals they catch and convict, ostensibly as a deterrent against future crimes.<ref name=TCWoK6263/><ref name=AToW363/> Prior to the [[Clan Invasion]], a small number of Clan paramilitary policemen were trained as detectives, performing investigative functions, but they were not as skilled as those found in Inner Sphere law enforcement agencies.<ref name=TCWoK6263/>  
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Both [[trueborn]] and [[freeborn]] Clan warriors look down on paramilitary policemen.<ref name=TCWoK6263/> The strength and deployments Clan paramilitary police forces have been omitted from official documents describing Clan military units.<ref name=FMCC10/><ref name=FMWC12/> Most Clan paramilitary policemen are unhappy with their position, and consider themselves to be halfway between warriors and civilians.<ref name=AToW363/> As a result, the Clan paramilitary often vent their anger and frustration by inflicting brutal punishments on criminals they catch and convict, ostensibly as a deterrent against future crimes.<ref name=TCWoK6263/><ref name=AToW363/> Prior to the [[Clan Invasion]], a small number of Clan paramilitary policemen were trained as detectives, performing investigative functions, but they were not as skilled as those found in Inner Sphere law enforcement agencies.<ref name=TCWoK6263/> Contact with Inner Sphere law enforcement professionals breathed new life into the paramilitary police forces of several of the Invading Clans (with the notable exception of the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar|Smoke Jaguars]]).<ref name=AToW363/> For the first time, Clan paramilitary police were exposed to more sophisticated investigative methods and police officers who actually took pride in their profession.<ref name=AToW363/>
  
Contact with Inner Sphere law enforcement professionals breathed new life into the paramilitary police forces of several of the Invading Clans (with the notable exception of the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar|Smoke Jaguars]]).<ref name=AToW363/> For the first time, Clan paramilitary police were exposed to more sophisticated investigative methods and police officers who actually took pride in their profession.<ref name=AToW363/> Meanwhile, in the Escorpion Imperio, innovative approaches to policing eventually became the norm across all planets of the Imperio after being pioneered by a pair of prodigious brothers in the garisson caste.<ref>''Technical Readout: Dark Age'', p. 48: ARA-S-1 Araña MilitiaMech</ref>
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Clan leadership can interfere with paramilitary police investigations such as when Clan Wolf abruptly halted the investigation into the murder of [[Star Captain]] [[Martin Kerensky|Martin "Dingo" Kerensky]] on Tamar in 3115 where there was evidence linking his death to [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]].<ref>''Shrapnel Issue #3'', "Assassination Protocol: Katherine Steiner-Davion"</ref>  
 
 
In terms of investigative work, the upper hierarchy of Clan leadership can interfere with paramilitary police investigations if it implicates important figures of interest such as when Clan Wolf abruptly halted the investigation into the murder of [[Star Captain]] [[Martin Kerensky|Martin "Dingo" Kerensky]] on Tamar in 3115 where there was evidence linking his death to [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]].<ref>''Shrapnel Issue #3'', "Assassination Protocol: Katherine Steiner-Davion"</ref>
 
  
 
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