Anyone know who provides policing services for the UK? Is it still government run? Knight Errant? Someone else?

A quick search of Shadows of Europe and the 6th World Almanac haven't revealed the answer, I'm hoping someone here knows...

Thanks!

This is 20 years old of course, but London Sourcebook has the following:

"The police in Britain are an armed, national force. The country is technically divided into a number of local sprawl areas over which chief constables have jurisdiction, but co-operation is so extensive and instantaneous that the system is really a national one. The British police are hard to bribe, hard to bluff, and generally do not overlook minor misdemeanors. They are corrupt in more fundamental ways. Racism is endemic (both anti-metahuman and anti-ethnic) and so is a genuine dislike for people at the bottom of the social ladder. The British police are not nice people, but they don't express their prejudices too overtly most of the time."

Later on it tells of the British SAS having become a secret police: "Their original anti-terrorist brief was merged with that of the more traditional MI5 anti-subversion role to form a security force whose accountability is almost impossible to pin down [...]. The SAS eschew any form of magical firepower or detection, but are equipped with technofixes of amazing ingenuity. The SAs are, simply, state terrorists, but they're an organization anyone in his right mind keeps well away from."

That's all from 2052, so there may have been changes of course.

Back then at least, mages had to be registered and provide DNA samples, and any form of personal augmentation (even cybereyes) required a license, with temporary 30 day licenses available for visitors.

Vice mentions Scotland Yard as an example of remaining government police agencies in 2071 or 2072 (Vice current time on the login page is "February 28, 2072" but the part on Scotland Yard mentions the Lord Protector Office or LPO, while Sixth World Almanac, released later, has the LPO dissolved in july, 2071).

So, basically, Ashes to Ashes, only Gene Hunt doesn't have Alex Drake to moderate his activities and extremist tendencies. And they have fuckloads more advanced technology...


I'm not seeing the Shadows of the UK being a very safe or fun place to do any Running.

"1984, hm, reads like a guidebook on how we should run our country, say what?"

Yeah, that seems to be it, basically.

Fits well with the early SR fiction on Britain as well.