The Justice Complex

Three years ago Sanctuary opened its Justice Complex, which puts the courthouse, the Sanctuary Police Dept., the District Attorney's office and the Coroner's Office all in one area. Since Sanctuary has some strict zoning regulations for downtown buildings in order to keep the city center charming, the whole complex is red brick, with a certain Victorian look, although inside it is strictly Institutional Modern.

Sanctuary Police Department

While Sanctuary is a relatively peaceful place when compared to major cities, it has the usual problems of a small and prosperous city. There are rapes, muggings, burglaries, domestic violence, assaults, and murders. One reasons the crime rate is low is that the Chief of Police, saw the advantage in neighborhood policing, and there are minibranches throughout the city.

At HQ, there is a Violent Crimes Division, which handles sex crimes, assaults, muggings, and domestic violence. There's a burglary squad, vice, narcotics (marijuana is the drug of choice in the area, though crack shows up occasionally), and a small gang violence group (gangs in Sanctuary are still at the stage of vandalism and occasional fights; this isn't L.A. with drive-by shootings.

The SPD also has the local SWAT team, which is often used by the surrounding towns if there is a problem (there seldom is, but evening Sanctuary there is the odd occurrence). After the former head of SWAT was eaten by a demon, along with 1/4 of his men, they hired someone with experience with supernaturals.

Then there is the Paranormal Safety Task Force. There are the usual interdepartmental rivalries, but most of the police are Sanctuary born and bred and work well together. They have an investment in keeping their town safe.

Paranormal Safety Task Force

Recently reorganized, Sanctuary's Paranormal Safety Task Force, PSTF, known to the uniforms as “Pissed-Off” has quite a different look, but the same mission, to investigate any crime with a paranormal connection. Captain Ivan Asimov, known behind his back as "Ivan the Terrible", has been given direct command of the division following numerous high-profile supernatural crimes. Asimov had officers transferred to the division with whom he was familiar. This has caused some friction with the "old guard".

Bios for the officers can be found on the bio pages in the "humans" section.

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