Police



Frilandic police
The Frilandic police is called "laghod" (law protection, law enforcement) and officers are known as "laghodars" (law keepers). It's known for being one of the least corrupt police forces of Europe. However, it does have the reputation to be more strict than the police in many other countries. Every municipality has its own force (stadlaghod), that deals with lighter police tasks such as enforcing local regulations, traffic laws and countering, for example, disturbances, vandalism and littering. Above that there is a national police organisation (landlaghod), which monitors and supports the municipal police.

Riot police with dogs at a demonstration in Isarnhaim
Departments
The national police is divided into the following departments:
  • Spurjung (Criminal Investigation): deals with serious crime, organized crime, property crime, terrorists / violent activists and the smuggling of drugs, weapons, people, etcetera.
  • Wedwurkan (Infrastructure): police for traffic, water, air travel and public transport.
  • Biwakung (Guarding): deals with prisons, juvenile penitentiaries, detention of illegal aliens and guarding sites or buildings.
  • Markhod (Border enforcement): border guard, customs and immigration service.
  • Saihod (Naval enforcement): coast guard and search and rescue service.
  • Sundarskulan (Special Units): these include the riot police, SWAT teams, counterterrorist units, helicopters, divers, etcetera.

    Hiverian police
    Hiverian law enforcement consists of the regular police and the gendarmerie. During a large reorganisation in 2007 the gendarmerie was transferred from the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Justice, meaning that it is no longer formally part of the military but has become a paramilitary police force. Its authority was strongly expanded; the gendarmerie is now allowed to body search people without a reason and citizens are obliged to be able to show their identity pass at all times, on penalty of a fine. The regular police has been made subordinate to the gendarmerie, which can take over any of its tasks and investigations without giving a reason. Human rights organisations complain that the gendarmerie has been turned into an authoritarian, politically motivated organisation after president Collignon took office, but according to the Hiverian government the reorganisation was necessary to counter domestic terrorism.


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