We are debating and drafting a regional security omnibus package. This thread is the overall management thread for the entire thing, though there are several sub-threads for addressing specific subsets of this larger reform:

[DISCUSSION] Regional Security: Delegate Service Record
[DISCUSSION] Regional Security: Naming
[DRAFT] Regional Security: Amend The Charter
[DRAFT] Regional Security: Amend Border Control Act
[DRAFT] Regional Security: Amend Judicial Act
[DRAFT] Regional Security: Amend Proscription Act
[DRAFT] Regional Security: Amend Regional Communications Act
[DRAFT] Regional Security: Amend Regional Officers Act
[DRAFT] Regional Security: Amend Criminal Code
[DRAFT] Regional Security: New CSI Act
[DRAFT] Regional Security: New DC Act
[DRAFT] Regional Security: Continuing resolution

The current recap of planned changes:

• The CRS and LegComm are dissolved.
  
• The DC (Defense Council) is formed, consisting of high-influence high-endorsement nations.
  
• The CSI (Council on Security and Intelligence) is formed, consisting of trusted individuals with, ideally, experience in regional security.
  
• The DC's requirements are the mechanical requirements of the current CRS (maybe slightly adjusted to fit with the times), plus approval by the CSI.
  
• The DC tracks and looks after things like SWAN and enforces the endocap as per CSI recommendation.
  
• The Delegate must be a legislator and either on the DC or be otherwise eligible for DC, and must have and include a service record with their campaign.
  
• The CSI handles Legislator Applications.
  
• The Cabinet receives a general mandate for handling all appointments (and the assembly maintains its mandate to confirm all appointments)
  
• The CSI is split into junior and senior ranks to lower the barrier of entry whilst ensuring confidentiality
  
• The CSI will be chaired by a senior member
  
• The provision allowing SPSF to have an intelligence office will be removed.
  
• CRS responsibilities that will be transferred to CSI: Declaring a state of emergency, ordering border control action for security reasons, Parole Board, Issuing authority for proscriptions, appointing boder control officers,
  
• CRS responsibilities that will be transferred to DC: Delegacy succession, holding border control, ordering border control action for endorsement cap violations (in coop with CSI for high-influence nations),
  
• Initial members of DC: Existing CRS
  
• LegComm becomes junior CSI
  
• Glen, Tsu become senior CSI
  

(old post below)

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Our situation, right now: We have a CRS, which is a bunch of high-endo high-influence nations whose job is to ensure regional security, but have de facto a negligible amount of power in the day to day business to ensure regional security (i.e. upholding the Coalition).

Let's approach this logically. The base requirement: The Coalition, as the sovereign and legitimate government of the South Pacific, must ensure its control over the in-game region against detractors.

This involves:

• Mechanical measures to emplace and uphold a legal Coalition-appointed Delegate as in-game Delegate.
  
• Intelligence and counterintelligence to recognize and oppose threats
  

These are two completely different things, with different skillsets, currently performed by a single group. I think that's highly problematic.

I propose something like following, in rough bullet points:

• The CRS and LegComm are dissolved.
  
• The DC (Defense Council) is formed, consisting of high-influence high-endorsement nations.
  
• The CSI (Council on Security and Intelligence) is formed, consisting of trusted security-hardened individuals.
  
• The DC's requirements are like the current CRS requirements, except they must also be vetted and approved by the CSI.
  
• The DC tracks and looks after things like SWAN and enforces the endocap as per CSI recommendation.
  
• The Delegate in the future is voted only game-side from willing DC nations. No more forum vote. The Delegate does not have to be a Legislator anymore.
  
• The CSI handles Legislator Applications.
  
• The CSI is appointed by itself and approved by the assembly.
  
• The CSI itself is structured into senior and junior ranks.
  

(I've been talking about this for over a year and a half now, about time I started a thread on it...)