National Forces of Usambara

Armed Forces of Usambara

Usambara Schutztruppe

The Usambara Schutztruppe (Commonly referred to as the, Usambara Army or simply Army or the Truppe) is the army of the People’s Democratic Republic of Usambara, first formed in 1890 when the German government took over German East Africa as the Schutztruppe of German East Africa. The Usambara military evolved within the tradition of frontier warfare in combination with traditional central European warfare of the Prussian army. The Schutztruppe gained a lot of experience during the Mahid Revolution and World War I, many lessons that still carry weight today. After the British took control, they mostly left the military intact, so still to this day, the Schutztruppe is mainly dominated by 4. and 5. Generation German settlers as well as British settlers. Himba and Ovambo also have their place in the military, but rarely rise beyond the ranks of non-commissioned officers, because of the still present racist tendencies of the army. 

After Usambara gained independency in 1994, the Schutztruppe was heavily used for riot control together with the British Usambara Police Force. During the civil war, the Schutztruppe became infamous for their scorched earth tactics against the rioting Himba factions. While fighting against the Himba insurgency the Schutztruppe gained additional lessons fighting guerilla warfare, when the British lead UN forces came to Usambara, the Schutztruppe engaged in classic modern warfare with World War II style tank battles. 

With the end of the civil war, the Schutztruppe is trying hard to gain a better image within its own country as well as on the international stage. To prove their worth, the Schutztruppe is taking part in the Anti-Pirate operations of Task Force 42.

 

 
Law enforcement in Usambara

Law enforcement in Usambara is one of three major components of criminal justice system of Usambara, along with courts and corrections. Although each component operates semi-independently, the three collectively form a chain leading from investigation of suspected criminal activity to administration of criminal punishment. Also, courts are vested with the power to make legal determinations regarding the conduct of the other two components.

Law enforcement operates primarily through governmental police agencies. The law-enforcement purposes of these agencies are the investigation of suspected criminal activity, referral of the results of investigations to the courts, and the temporary detention of suspected criminals pending judicial action. Law enforcement agencies, to varying degrees at different levels of government and in different agencies, are also commonly charged with the responsibilities of deterring criminal activity and preventing the successful commission of crimes in progress. Other duties may include the service and enforcement of warrants, writs, and other orders of the courts.

Law enforcement agencies are also involved in providing first response to emergencies and other threats to public safety; the protection of certain public facilities and infrastructure; the maintenance of public order; the protection of public officials; and the operation of some correctional facilities (usually at the local level).

Federal

Team Fox of the Anti-terrorist unit Team Jackal.

At the federal level, there exist both federal police, who possess full federal authority as given to them under Usambara Code of Justice (U.C.J.), and federal law enforcement agencies, who are authorized to enforce various laws at the federal level. Both police and law enforcement agencies operate at the highest level and are endowed with police roles; each may maintain a small component of the other. The agencies have nationwide jurisdiction for enforcement of federal law. All federal agencies are limited by the U.C.J. to investigating only matters that are explicitly within the power of the federal government. However, federal investigative powers have become very broad in practice, especially since President Berko Adebayo took power. Most federal agenst are either british or
Ovamba. Only a handful of Himba serve in the federal law enforcements. The federal forces are considered ultra loyalists, radicals and racists.

Marshals‘ offices

Two Usambara Marshals in the outskirts of Kamanjab.

·  Full service - The most common type, provide all traditional law-enforcement functions, including countywide patrol and investigations irrespective of municipal boundaries.

·  Limited service - along with the above, perform some type of traditional law-enforcement function such as investigations and patrol. This may be limited to security police duties on county properties (and others by contract) to the performance of these duties in unincorporated areas of the county, and some incorporated areas by contract.

·  Restricted service - provide basic court related services such as keeping the county jail, transporting prisoners, providing courthouse security and other duties with regard to service of process and summonses that are issued by county and state courts. The Marshal also often conducts auction sales of real property in foreclosure in many jurisdictions, and is often also empowered to conduct seizures of chattel property to satisfy a judgment.

Municipal police

Police Officers of the KCPD standing guard.

Municipal police range from one-officer agencies (sometimes still called the town marshal) to the couple of thousand person-strong of the Kamanjab City Police Department. Most municipal agencies take the form (Municipality Name) Police Department. Many individual cities and towns will have their own police department, with larger communities typically having larger departments with greater budgets, resources, and responsibilities. Usambaras municipal police is widly considered corrupt and anti-Himba. 

In the game
 

Local police forces are somewhat poorly paid but they get the job done. They are not trained for enganging in direct frontline action, but since the civil war of 1995, municipal police forces became an adhog QRF for the goverment. They have a Troop Quality of D6 and a Moral of D8. They are irregulars and can wear body armor (+1 defense)

 

 


Federal police forces and law enforcement agencies

Anti-Terrorist Unit Team Jackal
Common Name	Jackal(s)
Abbreviation	Jacks
Motto	“To do the right thing”
Agency Overview
Formed	1997
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Usambara
Size
Population
Legal jurisdiction
General nature	Law enforcement Civilian agency
Operational structure
Headquarters	Kamanjab
Police Officers	Approx. 400
Unsworn Members	Approx. 30
Agency executives
Parent Agency	British Usambara Police Force (BUPF)
Companies	3

Anti-Terrorist Unit Team Jackal

Anti-Terrorist Unit Team Jackal (Jackal) teams are law enforcement units in the People’s Democratic Republic Usambara that use specialized or military equipment and tactics. First created during the first Himba Uprising for riot control, violent confrontations with gunmen and man hunts, the number and usage of Jackal teams increased in the 1980s and 1990s during the ethnic cleansings and the second insurgent wave. Jackal units became front line class teams in the late 1990s during the Civil War. Typically Jackal Team is deployed around 3,000 times every year, 80% of the time in order to serve search warrants, most often in search for illegal weapons and insurgent leaders. Jackal Units are increasingly equipped with military-type hardware and are trained to deploy against threats of terrorism, crowd control, and in situations beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement, sometimes deemed “high-risk”. Despite being a law enforcement unit, Jackal teams are used at the frontlines in the south/south-west to hunt down insurgent leaders and in the bigger cities to flush out insurgent cells.

Jackal Teams are often equipped with specialized firearms including submachine guns, assault rifles, breaching shotguns, automatic shotguns, sniper rifles, riot control agents, and stun grenades. They have specialized equipment including body armour, even though most Jackal Team Operators don’t use them, ballistic shields, entry tools, armoured vehicles and sometimes night vision and silencer.

The increasing number of Jackal units and their deployment in Usambara has contributed to the militarization of police and increasing number of police violence and unjustified use of force.

Team Jackal equipment

Jackal teams use equipment designed for a variety of specialist situations including close quarters combat (CQC) in an urban environment. The particular pieces of equipment vary from unit to unit, but there are some consistent trends in what they wear and use. Much of their equipment is indistinguishable from that supplied to the military, not least because much of it is military surplus.

Clothing

Jackal teams wear most of the time irregular uniforms and civilian clothing. Some Jackal teams also wear military camouflage patterns.

Many Jackal team operators don’t wear steal or kevalr helmets, instead they wear black fire retardant balaclavas to protect the face, as well as to protect the identity of team members. Ballistic vests, sometimes including rigid plate inserts, are available, but many operators prefer to wear simple webbing for better, easy and smoother movement.

Weapons 

While a wide variety of weapons are used by Jackal teams, the most common weapons include submachine guns, carbines, assault rifles, shotguns, and sniper rifles.

Tactical aids include flash bang, stinger, and tear gas grenades, Canine units may also be incorporated within Jackal teams, or may be used on an ad hoc basis.

Two of the most common weapons include the American M16 and the AK-47. The most common shotgun is the automatic SPAS12.

Semi-automatic pistols are the most popular sidearms. Examples may include, but are not limited to: M1911 pistol series, SIG Sauer series (especially the P226 and P229), Beretta 92 series, Glock pistols, H&K USP series, and 5.7x28mm FN Five-seveN pistol.

Many different variants of bolt action rifles are used by Jackal teams.

To breach doors quickly, battering rams, shotguns with breaching rounds, or explosive charges can be used to break the lock or hinges, or even demolish the door frame itself. Jackal teams also use many non-lethal munitions and weapons. These include Tasers, pepper spray canisters, shotguns loaded with bean bag rounds, Pepperball guns, stinger grenades, flash bang grenades, and tear gas. Ballistic shields are used in close quarters situations to provide cover for Jackal team members and reflect gunfire. Pepperball guns are essentially paint ball markers loaded with balls containing Oleoresin Capsicum ("pepper spray").

Jackal Teams are known to use a wide variety of vehicles such as civilian SUVs and other cars for low-profil missions, as well as heavy armed and armoured cars such as the American HMVEE and the British Bushmaster. 

In the game
 

In game terms the Rangers are considered regulars with a Troop Quality of D10 and a Moral of D12.Team Jackal are some of the most hardcore believers in white/Ovambo supremecy and they will happly give their lives to defend their nation. They are considered highly confident, they have more ammo then they can possibly spend (Supply lvl abundant) and are trained in ALS. They also have breaching gear, night vision, body armor (+1 defense) and flash bangs. If needed they can be equiped with silencers. Team Jackal is also stealthy.

Usambara Park Rangers

Usambara Park Rangers
Common Name	Usambara Park Rangers
Abbreviation	Rangers, Rags
Motto	To protect and preserve | Om te beskerm en te bewaar  |  لحماية وصون
Agency Overview
Formed	1961
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Usambara Wildlife parks
Size
Population
Legal jurisdiction
General nature	Law enforcement Federal agency
Operational structure
Headquarters	Kamanjab
Park Rangers	Approx. 2000
Unsworn Members	Approx. 300
Agency executives
Parent Agency	Usambara Wildlife and Park Association (UWPA)
Companies	20

Usambara hosts huge areas of national parks, including the world famous Usambara Wilde Life Reserve. The park has a large and diverse wildlife population. Species found in the park include African buffalo, African elephants baboon, eastern black rhinoceros, Bushnell zebra, cheetah, Coke's hartebeest, Grant's gazelle, hippopotamus, African leopard, African lion, Thomson's gazelle, eland, impala, Masai giraffe, ostrich, vulture and waterbuck.
Elephant hunting and elephant poaching and exploitation of the ivory trade are illegal in Usambara and pose a major threat to elephant populations. In the 1970s, 1900 elephants were killed in Usambara for their ivory tusks, increasing to 8300 elephants in the 1980s. In 1989, as a dramatic gesture to persuade the world to halt the ivory trade, Usambaran President ignited twelve tons of elephant tusks.
Illegal elephant deaths decreased between 1990, when the 1990 CITES ban was issued, and 1997, when only 34 were illegally killed. Ivory seizures rose dramatically since 2006 with many illegal exports going to Asia. Poaching spiked seven-fold between 2007 and 2010. Arrests continue at Nairobi's international airport, where 92 kilos of raw ivory were seized in 2010, and 96 kilos in 2011.

Though elephant hunting has been banned for a 40-year period in Usambara, poaching has not reduced. Given the poverty of many of the people, and the high value of elephant tusks, they are shipped overseas and sold on the black market. Although Usambara has many national parks and reserves protecting wildlife, elephant populations are still at risk, a problem which is made worse by corruption and some officials supplementing their income with permitting poaching. The Usambaran government has attempted to crack down on elephant poaching with the aid of multi-nationals but has often been too late in preventing the poaching of many elephants whose tusks have been seized en masse in cases at Nairobi Airport and in Bangkok Airport where Usambaran tusks have often been imported.
Trophy hunting, purely as sport and as a conservation action, is now being considered for adoption in Usambara, as such a programme appears to have yielded positive results in the other Africa countries of Namibia and South Africa under a community managed conservation programme titled “Community -Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM)”. Under this programme, while cash was offered as an incentive for sport hunting, the basic aim was wildlife control on the communal land for providing benefits to the community as a whole. It is believed that trophy hunting might attract elephant poachers into moving into legal hunting and leaving elephant trading.

The Food and Agricultural Organization's (FAO) report states: "Trophy hunting is generally self-regulating because low off-take is required to ensure high trophy quality and marketability in future seasons. Trophy hunting creates crucial financial incentives for the development and/or retention of wildlife as a land use over large areas in Africa, including in areas where ecotourism is not viable. Hunting plays an important role in the rehabilitation of degraded wildlife areas by enabling the income generation from wildlife without affecting population growth of trophy species."

The policy of trophy hunting has been adopted in 24 sub-Saharan African countries. The income generated in total in Africa is quoted to be USD 201 million/year, derived from about 18,500 international hunting clients covering an area of 1.4 million km². Since there is a lack of consensus among the clients about the efficacy of this method of biodiversity conservation in Africa, a study carried out by the Africa Wildlife Conservation Fund indicates that if Usambara makes trophy hunting legal again, nearly 90% of the clients would be interested to pursue this activity in that country. In this context, the importance of effective regulation of hunting operators and clients has also been highlighted.

Between 1970 and 1977, Usambara lost more than half of its elephants. Large scale tourism promotion picked up in Usambara following the imposed hunting ban in Usambara since 1977. It has been noted that "photographic tourism", or non-consumptive wildlife use, is contributing 12% of Usambara’s GDP. Hence, some groups have recommended that tourism be promoted rather than any kind of hunting or consumptive wildlife use, as it could divert the attention of the government of Usambara from the policy goal of wildlife preservation.



Organization

The Usambara Park Rangers were mobilizied in 1961. They are tasked with the protection of the wildlife parks and the enforcing of anti poaching laws. Two months after the first unit of park rangers started partrolling the wild life parks, the first skirmish left eight rangers dead in the sand. Since then, nearly every month, park ranger patrols are engaged in deadly skirmishes with poachers and ever since then, the park rangers becoming more and more of a military style light infantry unit. At the moment the UWPA has 20 park ranger companies, each 100 strong, patroling in the various parks. Of these 5 are mounted on horseback. Each company is led by a Ranger Captain and split into 10 patrols. Each patrol is 10 men strong. The overall command of the Park Rangers has the Commander.

Clothing

The Park Rangers have an distinguish olive green uniform, that every Ranger should be wearing. Some of them wear some pieces of BDU camouflage, even though it is more or less forbidden. Many Ranger wear some sort of soft hat, officially coloured khaki, but some ditched the helmet for a helmet or a khaki beret. 

Weapons 

The most common weapon used by Rangers is the trustworthy but old Lee-Enfield.

In every Patrol there are two Machin Gunner armed with the Vickers Machine Gun.

Sometimes some of the Rangers get their hands on some AK-74 or some M16 assault rifles, but those weapons are – in the most cases – quickly collected by the officers and kept for themselves. 

In the game
 

In game terms the Rangers are considered irregulars with a Troop Quality of D8 and a Moral of D6. They are well trained but poorly payed. Since they are only armed with Lee-Enfield rifles and old Vickers MGs they are considered as out gunned (they lose a firepower dice).

All Rangers armed with Lee-Enflieds are designated marksman. Their confidence lvl is confident and their is supply level is poor.