Security is a major industry in the Sixth World due to police privatization and the corporate need for security against intrigue and espionage.
Public Security
30% of North American cities maintain their own government police forces. The rest contract policing out to private corporations. In the UCAS, Lone Star holds 62% of the available municipal contracts, Knight Errant holds 34%, with the remaining 4% among myriad smaller companies.
Major Players:
Secondary Players:
- Ares Macrotechnology's Hard Corps
- Centurion Industries
- Eagle Security
- Mitsuhama's Petrovski Security
- Yakashima's Sakura Security
- Wolverine Security (Ares)
- Gendarmerie (Lone Star, Quebec)
Other Players:
- NYPD Inc.
- UCAS Protective Services (UCASPro)
- Winter Systems
- Indrajit (Vedacorp, South Asia)
Matrix Security
Major Players:
- Corporate Court Matrix Authority's Grid Overwatch Division (GOD)
- Lone Star Security Services' Division of Matrix Security (GridSec)
- Renraku Computer Systems' Securitech International
- Shiawase's Vector Matrix Services (VMS)
- UCAS Department of Justice Matrix Marshals
References
- Lone Star Handbook
- Corporate Security Handbook
- State of the Art: 2063, pp. 79-104
- State of the Art: 2064, pp. 69-98
- Matrix, p. 158
- Eagle Security holds contracts in the CAS, the UCAS, Sioux Nation, and Salish-Shidhe Council (sa64.73)
- Petrovski Security usually operates under local subsidiaries with different names (sa64.73)
- Sakura Security has contracts throughout Japan and regularly engages in metatype profiling (sa64.73)
- UCASPro (ngna.98)