> Commissioner of Public Safety > During the first six months of his appointment, the CoPS *must* trump > up charges against one PC (player character)
Could you clarify what you mean by 'trumped up' please Greg? During the JSJ/AdS affair the implication was that a case against someone who was actually guilty of treason (by conspiring to defraud the treasury, for example, though not yet having been caught by the MoJ) would _not_ qualify as a bona fide conviction for the CoPS, and that the CoPS had to make some completely spurious charge stick to keep his job - something which I must admit stretched my own 'suspension of disbelief' well beyond breaking point. > Furthermore, arrests made directly at the behest of the King, or other > ministers (e.g., MoJ for embezzlement)...do *not* count toward your PC arrest requirement. I don't find any implication anywhere, in either the house or the GDW rules, that the CoPS needs to be involved at _all in_ embezzlement cases. The MoJ _can't_ trump up charges against anyone, he can only bring people to trial if they have been caught through a poor dice roll (presumably by the guilty party's subordinates at the Ministry of Finance & The Marine / Army Commissariat shopping him to the MoJ). The implication is that the MoJ then sends constables from the Ministry of Justice to arrest the guilty (as he must be to have been shopped) party and tries him (a mere formality) at his convenience. Now that the number of actions available to the CoPS has _already_ been reduced from ten to five (in that, contrary to previous practice, it is no longer possible to arrest someone without trying them or vice versa) it seems a little rich to say that the CoPS now has to fit the Ministry of Justice's dirty work into this reduced remit _as well_.... Cheers, Paul
