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--- shared_worlds:thick_as_thieves_city_gov [2015/10/30 23:46] – [Other security agencies] Petike
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 //**Dog Handler Troop, Falconry Troop, etc.**// - Various animal-handling departments of "The Watch Specials". Simply put, policemen with sniffer dogs, guard dogs and trained pigeon-intercepting or gull-intercepting falcons. They have quite a bit of history in The Watch, surprisingly enough.
-__See also:__ [[shared_worlds/thick_as_thieves_npcs_city_guards#city watch|City Watch NPCs and Ranks]]
+__See also:__ [[shared_worlds:thick_as_thieves_npcs_city_guards#city watch|City Watch NPCs and Ranks]]
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 As a professional thief, the only time you really have to worry about the Frontiersmen is when you're visiting the countryside portion of the Barony. The gendarmes leave the law enforcement in Melza proper to the City Watch. You might see them occassionally in the city's streets and especially at the various stations and ports, but they'll rarely attend to criminal investigation or crisis situation management in The City itself.
-__See also:__ [[shared_worlds/thick_as_thieves_npcs_city_guards#frontiersmen_corps|Frontiersmen Corps NPCs and Ranks]]
+__See also:__ [[shared_worlds:thick_as_thieves_npcs_city_guards#frontiersmen_corps|Frontiersmen Corps NPCs and Ranks]]
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 ==== Other security agencies ====
-**//Firemen//** - TBA.\\
+**Firemen** - TBA.\\
-**//Rescue Service//** - The rescue service is a fairly new organisation. It was spun off from the firemen and some of the municipal medical services only about a decade ago. As its name implies, it tries to offer salvaging and medical aid to people unlucky enough to sustain injuries in various accidents. The rescue service operates primarily in Melza and by extension the two nearby towns, but it occassionally ventures into deeper countryside as well. Though the financing and material base of the service have slowly increased over time, it is still largely a novelty, compared to the likes of established medical services (such as the city-run hospitals and the various private physician clinics). Don't expect the rescuers to get everywhere or to get there on time. Even after implementing swifter and more organised methods of transporting injured patients - such as civilian counterparts of the army's "flying ambulance" carriages - the rescue service still is not all that effective.\\
+**Rescue Service** - The rescue service is a fairly new organisation. It was spun off from the firemen and some of the municipal medical services only about a decade ago. As its name implies, it tries to offer salvaging and medical aid to people unlucky enough to sustain injuries in various accidents. The rescue service operates primarily in Melza and by extension the two nearby towns, but it occassionally ventures into deeper countryside as well. Though the financing and material base of the service have slowly increased over time, it is still largely a novelty, compared to the likes of established medical services (such as the city-run hospitals and the various private physician clinics). Don't expect the rescuers to get everywhere or to get there on time. Even after implementing swifter and more organised methods of transporting injured patients - such as civilian counterparts of the army's "flying ambulance" carriages - the rescue service still is not all that effective.\\
-**//Disease Response Unit//** - One of several newer, more recently founded medical bodies in service of Melza's municipal government. The unit consists of educated, trained and experienced "plague doctors", their assistents and other small-time auxilliary medical staff. Most of the unit's activities are conducted on the streets and are aimed at countering existing disease hotspots, and preventing the potential ones. Unsurprisingly, while at work, the employees of the unit wear protective clothing, including protective masks, in an effort to avoid catching a disease themselves. As recent as the unit's history is, its parent organisation and the tradition behind it go back several centuries... Originally, epidemics were handled simply by sending volunteers to collect and bury the dead. Gradually, the city's government started to employ more active measures against the spread of diseases. During a major epidemic in Melza some 80 years ago, the then government decided to found the Office for Disease Matters, the first official institution of its kind. Several decades later, the office's operations were already diversified enough to start employing their own full-time medical staff. Hence, the "dee-ar-yoo" (or "dear you", as the folk nickname goes) was born.\\
+**Disease Response Unit** - One of several newer, more recently founded medical bodies in service of Melza's municipal government. The unit consists of educated, trained and experienced "plague doctors", their assistents and other small-time auxilliary medical staff. Most of the unit's activities are conducted on the streets and are aimed at countering existing disease hotspots, and preventing the potential ones. Unsurprisingly, while at work, the employees of the unit wear protective clothing, including protective masks, in an effort to avoid catching a disease themselves. As recent as the unit's history is, its parent organisation and the tradition behind it go back several centuries... Originally, epidemics were handled simply by sending volunteers to collect and bury the dead. Gradually, the city's government started to employ more active measures against the spread of diseases. During a major epidemic in Melza some 80 years ago, the then government decided to found the Office for Disease Matters, the first official institution of its kind. Several decades later, the office's operations were already diversified enough to start employing their own full-time medical staff. Hence, the "dee-ar-yoo" (or "dear you", as the folk nickname goes) was born.\\
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