Richard Harnley's HoS application

[GamerCake]

Recently I have played a lot of security shifts alongside Richard Harnley, and I would like to say first off that you are a good officer that I like to see working alongside me. I've had great experiences with you both as an officer and socially, particularly highlighting a recent round on Oshan which started with a comedic confrontation and ticketing of Lynda Lee during a monkey hostage situation; and subsequently dealing with Lynda accordingly when it turned out she was an arcfiend and began assaulting people. This showed to me the kind of fundamental attitude that I expect from the HoS myself, being that you can disengage and have fun when appropriate but also put on the serious pants when the time comes.
I've also recently seen you tending to the training and needs of security assistants, ensuring they're equipped physically and mentally for the task ahead, showing to me that you're capable of taking on the feedback given to you here; another key marker of a good attitude.

That being said, with the standard disclaimer that this is my opinion based on personal experience, I do not think you are currently ready for Head of Security. Please don't be too disheartened by this, I think with more experience and time you are more than capable of growing into the role which I would like to see happen.

I believe you have two main areas that need work, radio communication and initiative. These are exceedingly hard skills and the only real way to get better with them in my humble opinion is to try, try and try again.  I do not have specific examples for poor radio communication, however on a couple of rounds I have seen you be confused, repeat old information, relay information far too late, or otherwise miss conversations over the radio. I think this is because you are incredibly observant to the things going on around your character (security tunnel vision) and have a small amount of blindness to the chat box. Were this to happen only occasionally it would be perfectly fine as it is an inevitability that happens to everyone once in a while, however it feels like something (to me) that happens consistently between different rounds.
Now for your initiative. Another difficult skill that only really is improved through time and experience, Though I believe this one to be especially important when considering someone for the HoS role. The crux of the problem here is that I rarely, if ever, see you deciding on things like sentencing and punishment of arrested antagonists. There could be a few reasons for this, Though I would say if you are making these kinds of decisions just a short message over the radio saying something like "x arrested for Y, I've sentenced them to 30 seconds in the brig" would go a long way to show you are making those kinds of decisions.

Though now, I'm going to go into another recent round where I was actually on the receiving end of being arrested by you. Once again, opinion based off personal experience. I was an arcfiend and had tried to set the captain free from the court room while he was on public trial.

- After I initially fled you found me in the maintenance tunnels. You did not immediately go for the arrest and instead briefly talked to me, allowing me the opportunity to weigh up my options and decide on my next move. This was good and how I would handle this situation myself. I then attacked, you tazed and cuffed me.
- On the way to security you passed the HoS, Roselin Wu, who told you that they have to go find the captain who had escaped their trial and they needed you to handle me.
- We reached interrogation, then the entire arrest process screeched to a halt. Instead of searching me and possibly striking up a conversation about the contents of my bag you simply put my entire bag into contraband without even looking inside, Then we silently sat opposite each other for a beat until I struck up conversation, around this point I slipped out of my cuffs.
- After a short chat I asked if you were going to interrogate me and you said something along the lines of "No, we're waiting for the HoS". Since I don't have your radio and I didn't hear you use it I didn't know if it's because Roselin said they were on the way, or if it was something you decided; nor how long I would be waiting.
- After another short wait, I grew impatient and decided I would try to take you hostage, attacking you again. Upon hearing the commotion in the interrogation room Roselin and another officer charged in. I was cuffed again then exiled by Roselin, who let you throw me out of the airlock.

This is all to say that during this entire encounter, upon hearing Roselin tell you to handle it I really wanted to see you take the initiative and see what you would do but that didn't happen. During an interrogation, it is the officer that is setting the tone and pace of the next 2-3 minutes of RP and to me it just didn't feel like you were quite there.

Once again I'd like to reiterate that you are a good security officer who I thoroughly enjoy working with, I just think you need some more time and experience under your belt to work on those skills that will one day make you a great leader and Head of Security.

Hi!
I wanna thank you for the thorough and helpful feedback you gave! Initiative and general leaderership abilities is something I've been actively working on, such as advising the team what to do when no Head of Security is present or the entire team is utterly confused.
And yes, the "security tunnel vision" you mentioned is definitively a big hurdle I need to overcome, sometimes when things get chaotic and few people are reporting what's going on, I tend to look into the situation myself and report it to the team, a bit redundant but I'd like to think it still helps.

Now about that round where you were arrested by me, which was already a pretty out-of-hand shift since we had a corrupt captain and an active court-case to handle.
HoS Wu had ordered me to put you in interrogation and wait for them there, during that wait I recapped things to myself which probably seemed like a very long silence. But I do admit not properly searching you, or rather processing you was a mistake on my end!