Federation Security Agency

Created by Supervisory Special Agent Alexander Kelley on Tue Jul 2nd, 2019 @ 10:08pm

The Federation Security Agency or FSA is the civilian intelligence and law enforcement agency of the United Federation of Planets. It’s mandate is based on the authority and responsibility assigned under section 18 of the United Federation of Planets Security and Policing Act.

The mandate of the FSA is to enforce laws, prevent crime, and maintain peace, order and security.

The four major areas of the FSA include:

Federation Operations: Provides policing, law enforcement, investigative, and protective services to the federal government, its departments and agencies and to Federation citizens.

Technical Policing Operations: Provides policy, advice and management to predict, research, develop and ensure the availability of technical tools and expertise to enable front line members of FSA and partners (such as Starfleet Security, Starfleet Intelligence and local/regional police agencies) to prevent and investigate crime and enforce the law, protect against terrorism, and operate in a safe and secure environment.

Protective Policing Services: Directs the planning, implementation, administration and monitoring of the FSA Protective Security Program including the protection of dignitaries, the security of major events and Special Initiatives including summits between the Federation and non-Federation powers. From 2381 on, an elite division of FSA known as the Protection Detail became responsible for protecting the Federation President.

Criminal Intelligence Operations: A program for the management of criminal information and intelligence in the detection and prevention of crime of an organized, serious or national security nature within the Federation or from outside as it affects the Federation.

The FSA leader is known as the Federation Security Agency Director. As one of the Federation's primary law enforcement organizations, the Federation Security Agency operates a fleet of interceptors which are crewed by officers and empowered to enforce Federation law in its territory.

Jurisdiction

The jurisdiction of Federation Security extends to all Federation member worlds, facilities, colonies, installations and vessels. However, it is important to note that the authority of Federation Security does not supercede that of local/regional law enforcement or Starfleet Security except in the case of a crime or its perpetrator crossing from the territory of one Federation member world to another -- or in the case of a suspect leaving Federation space entirely.

Federation Security has arrest and detention power over any Federation citizen (with just cause, of course). That includes Starfleet officers, though prosecution of Starfleet officers is generally handled via military tribunal or court martial rather than civilian court, unless under exceptional circumstances.

As is to be expected given their mandates, there tends to be significant overlap of Federation Security and Starfleet Security, particularly on large installations with sizeable civilian populations. In general -- certain personality conflicts notwithstanding -- the two organisations have a respectable working relationship and will frequently combine their efforts to ensure both uphold their respective mandate.

Based on the duties and responsibilities of the organization, the Federation Security Agency is comparable to real-life organizations such as the United States Secret Service, which is tasked with protecting the nation's leaders. As well as the United Kingdom's Security Service (MI5), and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); both of which are tasked with domestic intelligence and security operations.




Credit to sources edited:
https://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=Federation_Security
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https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Federation_Security_Agency