I am happy to announce that effective from today, the Rheinland Federal Polizei is handing out special equipment to their pilots. These equipments consist of special weapons, which the Polizei is in possession of.

The list of equipment we currently have will be updated in the future, as we upgrade our armory in the future. All equipment may be requested here, and will be decided by the Polizei Direktor and Inspekteur der Polizei.

For the reason of keeping these weapons on a safe place, the RFP|Arsenal was comissioned to service , which is a Rheinland Armored Transport not long built at Oder shipyard.

Todays flight was full of unusual and annoying events. First off, as I just took off from New Berlin, I've been joined by Kadett Hans Dobrecht. We were about to head to Frankfurt, where the Rheinwehr was intercepting a possible pirate group. Even though they reported that they are keeping the situation under control, I felt like we should take a look, just in case. However, on my way there, I found something interesting. A mining ship , fully loaded with Rheinland built military vehicles and equipment. That was something unusual, so I asked the captain to stop his ship for a cargo scan and questioning. Nobody replied and the ship jumped to New Berlin. I followed the vessel and ordered Kadett Dobrecht to intercept the before mentioned ship. I got on to them at New Berlin. The vessel still refused to reply or stop, even after multiple disruptor shots. After I tried to contact the ship's captain again, all of the sudden, the mining ship opened fire on me and the Kadett. At this point I ordered him to return fire, while I did the same.

After the destruction of the vessel, not only we found the full load of vehicles, but a HEIMDALL-class weapon aswell. Since then the before mentioned weapon was placed on board the RFP|Arsenal, while the military hardware was taken back to New Berlin by Daumann transports.

From here on, we've headed to Hamburg , because we got words of Libertonian vessels attacking our space. By the time we got there, multiple Rheinwehr vessels were present and took care of most hostiles. However, we found ourself another trader. Thisone was a freelancing captain aswell, and failed to comply upon my request to stop for a cargo scan. After notifying the captain 3 times, I ordered the Kadett to give him a few warning shots, to make his mind up. It worked and as a penalty of not being able to comply, I asked the captain to return to Liberty, or as a fine, drop his cargo. He chose to return to Liberty via Bering. However, he tried to escape by jumping out of the trade lane half way towards the Bering Jumpgate and passing around Hamburg using cruise engines. The guy was unlucky since I spotted that. From that point, I was a lot less friendly, and ordered the pilot to drop his cargo and leave Rheinland or face something a lot worse. The captain still decided to run, and made it to Planet Hamburg, where even though the Rheinwehr pilots returning from their missions requested the planet to shut docking rings and gates down, he managed to dock. Planetside authorities were waiting for the pilot. From this, we now know the ship was only transporting superconductors, so I don't see the reason of running.