1. No, he will be considered as a New Amsterdam resident as this will actually make it easier for him to travel back to New Amsterdam.
2. No dorm housing is available, but the training is paid!
3a. He can certainly pursue CID/Detective status, but this will take a very long time to achieve via conventional means. In our modern world, this training takes about five years of experience on the job, plus another couple years of education. However, his instructors won't hold back if he's interested in that route, and will provide him with the supplemental information to get started. As we've shown, there are ways to get around these limitations in game, and we're also willing to be flexible depending on any other plot opportunities that arise.
3b. Going undercover in Meadowlark's world is treated as a separate skill set, and they typically do close examinations of potential recruits during the testing and training process. People who are best suited to undercover work will be profiled for this work, and pulled aside. After all, this is a world where so much is caught on camera, and these individuals would need to have a heavy divide between their work and their home life. It would all but require them to work a double life.
Some characteristics that they would be looking for are individuals who can adapt quickly, are capable of duplicity, resourceful, aren't married and don't seem likely to marry, able to keep a cool head and excellent observation skills. Since many of these officers would start on this line of work, they would be trained on the job, slotting into an undercover position from the very beginning.
None of these officers would go by a fake name, instead trained to use their real identity to slip in and out of these walks of life. There is a high risk of someone falling apart under the pressure of this position, and there is a high percentage of officers who end up defecting and becoming loyal to the people they're trying to investigate. This is a high risk, high reward position for most departments around the world, but it's proved necessary given the heavy social media presence in Meadowlark's world.
4. The UNA does handle any situations that might require extreme force. They are a very well-ordered force and can deploy rapidly, so the local police does not have access to heavy military-esque equipment.
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1. No, he will be considered as a New Amsterdam resident as this will actually make it easier for him to travel back to New Amsterdam.
2. No dorm housing is available, but the training is paid!
3a. He can certainly pursue CID/Detective status, but this will take a very long time to achieve via conventional means. In our modern world, this training takes about five years of experience on the job, plus another couple years of education. However, his instructors won't hold back if he's interested in that route, and will provide him with the supplemental information to get started. As we've shown, there are ways to get around these limitations in game, and we're also willing to be flexible depending on any other plot opportunities that arise.
3b. Going undercover in Meadowlark's world is treated as a separate skill set, and they typically do close examinations of potential recruits during the testing and training process. People who are best suited to undercover work will be profiled for this work, and pulled aside. After all, this is a world where so much is caught on camera, and these individuals would need to have a heavy divide between their work and their home life. It would all but require them to work a double life.
Some characteristics that they would be looking for are individuals who can adapt quickly, are capable of duplicity, resourceful, aren't married and don't seem likely to marry, able to keep a cool head and excellent observation skills. Since many of these officers would start on this line of work, they would be trained on the job, slotting into an undercover position from the very beginning.
None of these officers would go by a fake name, instead trained to use their real identity to slip in and out of these walks of life. There is a high risk of someone falling apart under the pressure of this position, and there is a high percentage of officers who end up defecting and becoming loyal to the people they're trying to investigate. This is a high risk, high reward position for most departments around the world, but it's proved necessary given the heavy social media presence in Meadowlark's world.
4. The UNA does handle any situations that might require extreme force. They are a very well-ordered force and can deploy rapidly, so the local police does not have access to heavy military-esque equipment.