Kaiserliche Polizei Rheinland | Recruitment (inRP)

[Byzantion]

Application form #0821823
Surname, Forename: Schönau, Rolf
Age, Date of Birth: 25, 5th of May, 800 A.S.
Place of Birth: Planet New Berlin
Former Occupations:
- Criminal Justice Student
- Warehouse Security Guard
- Private Investigator
Qualifications:
- Familiarity with the laws and legal system of Rheinland.
- Experience with legal acquisition of evidence and information.
- Experience with light spacecraft operation, mostly via the IDC K-LF-337 Stargazer spaceframe.
- Basic small arms training.
Reason(s) to join the Polizei:
- To escape from the mountains of infidelity and debtor-hunting cases and to see some real action, catching the real criminals who do harm to the Fatherland.
S.K.Y.P.3 Protocol: Byzantion
Bio:
I was born to a struggling family on New Berlin. We were poor, actually. Very poor. My parents, they had practical qualifications, but there never seemed to be enough work in our city on New Berlin to go around, and so they were stuck doing garbage work and other low-skilled labor, often only as temporarily-assigned workers. It was a bleak life, and I'm amazed that it didn't turn them sour when they were raising me. A lot of that was probably in part to a friend of my papa named Erik Kalzburg. He ran a private detective agency near where we lived and he helped us get through some of the tougher months with his charity after more fruitful jobs. How he was helping us inspired me, I put him on a pedestal, saying I'd be just like Erik when I grew up. I got my chance; my parents managed to talk him into helping to pay for my university so I could help drag the family out of this desperate life. I was a okay student by my own estimation. Hardly "summa cum laude" material, I prefer my hands-on learning to digging my nose into a book, but I got by.

You'd think I'd have joined up with law enforcement then and there, but I was still thinking that I was meant for the private eye life. Erik even hired me to hook up with his firm, gott knows where he finds the patience to spend money on me. Well, goes to show that while the man's character might be exceptional, hard-working and generous, his chosen profession is dreary work. As mentioned above, most of our customers are petty couples looking for dirt on their mates to justify a divorce, or to track down some debt dodger. Sometimes we'd get cases from the state attorney in our urban district, and those were the ones that got me excited, but they were few and far between. Thankfully, I did manage to get a taste of space-flight when I accompanied Erik to and from Munich and Nuremburg for personal business, and he let me practice with the stick and flight controls. It was exhilarating, but it was negligible flight experience at best, I freely admit. Overall though, the pay is hardly worth the effort for all this, so I've since sobered up as to my current profession.

Two things made me think of the Federal Polizei. First and foremost, the state-provided accommodations for my family. They are getting up in age, soon they'll be unfit for work and they deserve a more comfortable lifestyle. Second, I like to consider myself a patriot. I had hard times growing up, but I never blamed our country or our chancellor for that, and I worked my way to a better life. Rheinland has its problems, but more security in space for innocent travelers and putting dangerous criminals and smugglers behind bars would go a long way towards making things better. If I get to finally get a taste of real, practical law enforcement and see some action while I'm at it, that's all the better.