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From the desk of Mark Benjamin: Paranormal Protection Agency (PPA)                                        

The Paranormal Protection Agency (PPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that serves as nation’s primary resource for all things relating to paranormal affairs, thus giving the PPA jurisdiction over all paranormal related events within the U.S.  The PPA’s motto is “Verus Pietas ut Sanctimonia” or translated, “True Devotion to Purity”, thought by many to be the agency’s true sentiment concerning the “genetic diversity.”

 

 

                The PPA is headquartered at The Citadel, located in Washington, DC.  The agency also boasts over sixty field offices located in most major cities throughout the United States as well as over 500 outposts located in the nation’s smaller cities and towns.


History

 

The Paranormal Protection Agency was created in late 1973 as an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services.  The PPA was deemed necessary as a result of the assassination of President Richard M. Nixon on March 9, 1973.  Following the events of what would later be known as Black Monday, newly appointed President, Spiro Agnew along with Congress (led by then Senator Callum Maclachlan) passed the Callum Maclachlan or Paranormal Registration and Restriction Act (PRR Act or PRRA) of 1973.  This Act of Congress required that all paranormals born and/or living within the borders of the United States be registered with the government.  It would also eliminate the allowance of vigilantism by paranormals and placed Guardian, an agency within the Department of Defense designed to manage and support government sanctioned paranormal crime fighters, under the jurisdiction of the newly formed agency, in order to curtail illegal paranormal activity. 

 

Senator Maclachlan, who had championed the agency’s creation while a member of Congress, was named as the first Director of the PPA.  He would hold that post for the next 26 years, establishing many of the policies and precepts in place within the agency today.  Many of these policies are believed to have been created to further the Director’s prejudiced view towards Paranormals and were deemed by many oppressive.  Maclachlan believed the only way to keep Paranormals in check was to keep them under the heel of normal Americans.  Though this racist stance caused him to become hated by many, he  was forced to retire only after the onset of Alzheimer’s prevented him from continuing on in that post. 

 

The agency would go through a revolving door of Directors for six years before naming Persephone Peril to the post.  Peril, the granddaughter of legendary Heroic Age Champion Professor Ulysses H. Peril, would begin her career as a lawyer and further established her own name as the head of the PPA’s legal department.  It was a surprise too many that the young and relatively inexperienced Peril would be named Director over such luminaries as Thaddeus Payne, James Strong and Mark Benjamin. 

 


Peril’s promotion, though initially surprising, has turned out to be considered, perhaps, one of the PPA’s greatest achievements.  Director Peril, now thought by many to be the anti-Maclachlan, has spent much of her tenure attempting to overturn the policies put into place under the bigoted Maclachlan’s leadership.  She has been lauded for her progressive minded thinking, and is said to now command great respect amongst even the Elder Tribunal (Payne, Strong and Benjamin) of the PPA. 



Legal Authority

 

                Though established via 1973’s PRR Act, much of the legal authority given to the Paranormal Protection Agency is derived from Title 42, Chapter 4a of the United States Code.  This section provides the PPA with a broad scope of abilities in order to keep America safe and further "prevent the spread of the Paranormal Virus."

Organization

 

The Paranormal Protection Agency is divided into four divisions, each division being as equally important to the whole.  They are:

 

 

1.       Paranormal Registration

 

This division is responsible for the registration of all paranormals

                born and/or living within the United States.  They are able to obtain this goal primarily through a series of testing that allows them to determine an individuals genetic status.

 

Tests are involve checking blood samples for the Paranormal Trait or gene.  This gene is present only in paranormals.  Once identified the paranormal’s information is recorded in the U.S. Paranormal Database and the identified paranormal is given a Paranormal Registration Number.  This is a nine digit number similar to a social security number, but given a special sequence in order to differentiate between the two.

 

Once registered, the PPA requires all registrants to undergo fingerprinting at the age 14, dental structure recording at 21, and to provide a lock of hair used for DNA registration taken at birth or upon initial identification as a paranormal.  It is because of these requirements that the initial screening process usually begins as soon as a child is born.  Hospitals are required to send samples of all newborns’ blood to Paranormal Registration facilities so the testing process can begin. 

 

As paranormals existed prior to the implementation of theses regulations, other means are required to identify older paranormals.  Hospitals as well as primary care physicians are required to submit samples of patients’ blood, as with newborns, to registration facilities anytime it is necessary for blood to be drawn.  When identified, these older paranormals are also registered and required to follow the same procedures as newborns.

 

There are however, situations in which other methods must be utilized.  PPA Registry Agents are at times dispatched to homes and/or jobs when a person is suspected of being a paranormal in order to take the necessary samples.

 

 

2.       Domestic Policy

 

Because its main purpose is an advisory one, Domestic Policy is the smallest

division within the PPA.  Desipte its size, this division is in fact the country’s premiere “think tank” regarding paranormal-human relations.  Counsel from this division is given to both Congress as well as the President of the United States. 

 

 

3.       Paranormal Law Enforcement

 

This division serves as the arm of the Paranormal Protection Agency.  It is

divided into two factions, the first being the PPA-Legal Department and the second, the Guardian Program.

 

A.      PPA- Legal Department

 

The PPA Legal Department is responsible for the actual prosecution of violators of the Paranormal Registration Act.  Lawyers from this division, not the Department of Justice, represent the US in cases involving PRRA offenders.  The Legal Department also offers counsel when requested to both the President and Congress on laws concerning paranormals.

               

The other faction within this division is the actual law enforcement department.  To assist in this goal, the PPA was given control of the country’s already existing paranormal related task force, Guardian.  Prior to 1973, Guardian had been an agency within the Department of Defense since 1955.

 

B.      Guardian

 

Under the Paranormal Registration and Restriction Act of 1973, Guardian would be divided into 2 main divisions with several smaller units supporting them, the first being responsible for paranormal law enforcement. 

 

Any situation in which a paranormal was involved in a crime, suspected of being involved in a crime, or caught in violation of restrictive ordinance created by the PPRA or Title 42, Chapter 4a  would fall under the jurisdiction of the Guardian- Paranormal Law Enforcement Division (G-PLED) or as it is colloquially known, Neighborhood Guardian.

 

The second division is the Guardian- Corrections and Retrieval Division (G-CaRD) or the Guardian Watch.  This division is responsible for serving as Correctional Officers within all US regulated Paranormal Correctional Facilities, as well as the apprehension of any escaped paranormal prisoner(s). 

 

 

4.       Paranormal Corrections

 

Paranormal Corrections is responsible for the actual detainment of prisoners convicted under the Paranormal Registration and Restriction Act of 1973.  This division is responsible for all administrative concerns related to Paranormal Correctional Facilities.  Because of this, it should be noted, the Guardian Watch Program works extremely close with this division.  And although it technically belongs with the Guardian program, it usually is responsive to this division.



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