Insecurity Officers

[atamusvaleo]

I like Frank Steins approach of the auto-population and I would not be too against it from that perspective but I must raise the query:

What do you want from security?
Is it just good enough having a shit officer? Is that as good as existance?
I'm getting conflicting information from this thead and the other thread that was necro'd, that you want a more "strict" security that follows "laws" and then this thread where any oaf will do once he's in uniform.

Concise Response
I would like to see Security autopopulated to ensure there is at least one person on station whose actual job is catching criminals. Whether or not they are efficient at that job is on them at that point and I won't tell anyone how to play the role; however, if they chose to act as a "proper" officer having a consistent set of laws and punishments to base their sentencing on would go a long way.

Elaborating
So often, I'll arrest people and brig them for whatever crime and I'll get longwinded complaints about how there's no law against that, how can you punish me, why, why, why!? Having that set of space laws to refer to would be quite the boon. Especially when I can literally throw the book at them.

As of now the most one can do is slap a 5 minute brig sentencing or beat someone to near death: the latter of which usually causes the other player to form a vendetta against you. If someone is continually griefing but not truly being antagonistic, a longer brig sentence is a nice way of punishing them without having to go through the mess of delimbing/whatever other methods someone is going to inevitably bring up.

Question to Derail Current Discussion
Should security really be cutting people's limbs off anyway?

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security is kind of like the ai, a mildly unpleasant position. much as ppl would complain at the ai for being a "supercop", its also easy for security boys to get unpopular and in turn make their play experience unfun.

what if roundstart security officers had their identities scrubbed and replaced with numbered callsigns like nukeops are? then you can be more of an asshole cop and youd only get blowback if you really stepped out of line and got the admins on your ass

I would be opposed to it mainly for the reason that if someone is typically a shit sec I would like the heads up of seeing their name and knowing, "oh, no here comes Johnny Mcbuttnugget to ruin my day again."

Also, I've had days where I'm playing only Security and antags started fearing me to the point that I became their first target each round so they could get me out of the way. Good times. I wish I could always be that robust.