Civil Protection is essentially the Combine's police force in all urban areas on Golmar Earth (including City 17) and all other Combine occupied territories. Its officers are named "Metro Cops", while the spelling "Metrocops" is also used. The term "CPs" is mostly used by the Citizens and Resistance members to refer to Metro Cops. The entity uses the term "Metropolice" (the original term), and the subtitles use "MetroPolice". The Overwatch Voice simply uses the term "Protection Team", or "Protection Teams". Part of the Combine Overwatch, CPs are ordinary human volunteers who have "willingly" joined the Combine, either for more privileges, such as additional food, better living conditions, an increase in authority and status over others, or out of genuine sympathy and identification with the Combine's aims, (though after the Golmar Earth Uprising future CPs were no longer made up volunteers and were replaced entirely by First Generation TransRace). As such, they were not bio-mechanically modified in any way, unlike the two other Overwatch units, at least until after the Golmar Earth Uprising. Barney Calhoun is notable for having infiltrated the Combine by joining the Civil Protection ranks as an undercover Resistance member Pre-Golmar and Post-Golmar some of the now purely Transrace CPs who later on joined the Alliance, stayed in the force to serve as spies.
History[]
The civil protection was set up first in Golmar Earth where the civil protection first served before it became a staple unit within the Empire of Combine races. They mainly use the pool of humans or races occupied by the Combine as manpower turning loyal subjects into civil protection servants just like the Advent Peacekeepers that the Eldar used. However, many of these civil protection units still have free will.
They serve as the official military police arm for the Empire of Combine races military and are stationed at occupied universes and settlements. While training can vary they have been great at keeping the peace even if they don't appeal to the hearts and minds of the occupied universe they reside in. While they can be friendly, many simply abuse their use of power which has given the civil protection a bad name over its existence.
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Unit 17: This was the original metro cop force that was used in Golmar Earth's City 17 though they didn't use their unit name openly.
Corp III: The African corps military police branch that operated in Combine controlled African colonies during the Second Earthican Civil War.
Ghost: A special counter terrorism branch of metro corps used by the Empire of the Combine Race. It was mainly used against Diamond Dogs though operated behind the scenes in most of the conflicts and battles the Combine took part in.
Batch 9: A transrace civil protection unit that was part of several that guarded the Combine's home planet.
List of Individuals who were a Civil Protection Officer[]
Pre-Golmar Uprising[]
- Barney Calhoun
Post-Golmar Uprising[]
Notes[]
- Following the Golmar Uprising, the Combines decided to have the force be made up of Transrace individuals, viewing them as more loyal then the volunteers that made up the earlier Golmar forces, and this is largely correct, but still had spies infiltrate it as its' members were made up of First Gen Transrace people then the majority Second Gen that make up the Combine's overall military.