Riot Force

Amadeus Riot Force First Strike (Riot Force)
The Amadeus Riot Force First Strike or ‘Riot Force’ as they have become known throughout the Halt Cluster, are the government funded law enforcement arm of the Amadeus Republic military. The Riot Force came into being in its modern form at the drafting of the Book of Law by Article 101, which stipulated that a non-regional law enforcement agency should be formed to enforce all laws at all levels of law and without jurisdictional limitations, and do so with the complete cooperation of local magistrates as well as any region specific private law enforcement bodies.

Initially the establishment of the Riot Force didn’t supplant local law enforcement but acted as an enforcement arm of the government to successfully break crime waves and to supplement law enforcement needs where local funding was inadequate to keep the peace or to adequately enforce local law.

But as of  ‘Amendment 1256.33’ all riot personnel now have the power to act as an active ‘military’ law enforcement organization, and have the same law enforcement authority and tools as other branches of the military. ‘Amendment 1256.33’ came about as a direct result of growing trade instabilities and the need to enforce Republic law in the far reaches of worlds where there is little or no other military or Republic authorized law enforcement presence, or where local law enforcement entities are not ‘welcoming’ of the presence of Riot Forces personnel and Republic law.

In recent times though, there is talk of reigning in some of the Riot Forces military authority due to fears of growing corruption within the organization and the need to modernize the 371 year old organization as a whole.