The Good Sec Thread(tm)

[Dachshundofdoom]

One big thing I never see Security do is communictae with the crew. It can be a big help to annoucne what you are doing and why so the crew knows that when you arrest someone, you are doing it for an actual reason, and is not a wannabe SS Guard.

I'd like to point out that this is entirely correct. If the whole crew knows that certain antags, traitor items, etc. are on the loose, they'll be more likely to help out or look for the offending party on their own, because god knows nothing gets the assistants excited than something they can legally beat to death. At the very least they'll be more cautious in lonely corners of the station. More in line with what he said, it's very common to walk in on a fight where both parties are covered in blood and screaming that the other guy started it, and while it's YOUR job to find out what happened, the crew has a bad tendency to just pick a side and help out when they see a fight. If they know that John McAntag is a changeling, they'll be less likely to rush in "to save the day from the facist Sec officers!" when they spot the whole security team bashing in his skull with harmbatons and dragging him to the crusher. Nothing hurts more than having that janitor who just killed 14 people with a cyalume get yanked out of your grasp by a sec-hating staff assistant who has no idea what he's playing with.

In fact, Sec should communicate more, period. I'm not happy unless there's constant radio chatter. Not only do you keep people up-to-date on your continued survival, but you make sure that the whole team knows about all the bad stuff going down. That's the difference between catching the guy with the boiling Dan's pen and having the Detective ask if anything bad is happening on the station while the guy with the pen is standing right next to him.