Citadel Security Services
From Mass Effect Wiki
Citadel Security Services (C-Sec) handles law enforcement on the Citadel. It is a volunteer police service answering to the Citadel Council, and is headed by an Executor who often liases between C-Sec and the Council. The current Executor is a turian, Venari Pallin, whose office is located within the Embassies of the Presidium, near the Citadel Tower. The C-Sec Academy, which polices the Wards, is located in the Lower Wards.
Befitting their 'public service' culture, it was the turians who first proposed creating a police force for the Citadel, which may be why more than half of C-Sec's officers are turian. Humans appear to form the largest minority, followed by salarians and asari. The 200,000 constables of C-Sec are responsible for maintaining public order in the densely populated Citadel, as well as providing pirate suppression, customs enforcement, and search-and-rescue throughout the Citadel and surrounding space.
Contents |
[edit] Divisions
Enforcement: Uniformed officers who patrol the Citadel, discipline minor infractions, resolve disputes, and respond to emergencies.
Investigation: Detectives who gather evidence, solve crimes, and bring their perpetrators to justice.
Customs: Officers who screen the passengers and cargo that pass through the Citadel's ports, confiscate contraband, and arrest smugglers.
Network: Technicians who deal with "cybercrimes", such as identity theft, copyright theft, hacking, viral attacks, and illegal AI.
Special Response: Officers who deal with hostage situations, bombs, and heavily armed criminals. In the event the Citadel is attacked, they are the front line of interior defense, armed with military-grade weaponry.
Patrol: The ships crewed by the Patrol division serve "coast guard" functions, such as search and rescue, piracy suppression, and interdiction of illegally transported materials. They are not used to defend the Citadel from naval attack; that task is left to the Council fleet assigned to the station.
[edit] Recruitment
Joining C-Sec is prestigious; applicants must be sponsored by a Citadel Councilor or the ambassador of an associate Council race. Generally applicants have many years of distinguished service in the military or police forces of their respective nation, but an inexperienced applicant with demonstrable talent will be fairly considered. Most rookies are posted to the comparatively-calm Presidium to get some operational experience and familiarity with protocol before being assigned to the Wards.
[edit] Relations
C-Sec and the Spectres are often at odds. Many C-Sec members, notably Executor Pallin, believe that allowing Spectres to be 'above the law' is a dangerous practice. In turn, the Spectres are aggravated when C-Sec's dedication to procedure and due process hampers their investigations.
Many of C-Sec's own officers - usually detectives like Garrus and Harkin - also dislike it when restrictions placed by C-Sec prevent them from doing their job.
[edit] C-Sec Officers
- Executor Pallin
- Garrus Vakarian
- Harkin (recently suspended)
- Detective Chellick
- Officer Eddie Lang
[edit] Assignments Involving C-Sec
[edit] Assignments In the C-Sec Academy
- UNC: Hostile Takeover - can be obtained from a C-Sec computer
- Citadel: Jahleed's Fears
- Citadel: Planting a Bug
- Citadel: The Fourth Estate
