Editing Patrol Block (section)

== ''Modus operandi'' ==
Unlike [[PRT]], Patrol members, despite being armed, are not expected to engage [[Parahuman|parahumans]], but to ensure security of civilians and serve as police auxiliaries.<ref>You guys know the basics when it comes to capes, you can inform the cops if something comes up, you know her story, and you’ll be a few more people in uniform keeping the peace and giving protesters a little more reason to hang back.  If it gets bad, any real danger, you back off. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/09/11/daybreak-1-1/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.1]]</ref> Specifically near portals and on the frontier. The Patrol regularly sends people to distant settlements.<ref>The initial wave of trucks and cargo from the train began to flow from the station and out into Earth N.  I’d seen the process before, but it had been as part of the Patrol block, and I’d usually had duties, or I’d been a part of the convoy. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/06/16/torch-7-8/ excerpt] from  [[Torch 7.8]]</ref>

The Patrol tracks [[parahumans]], which implies some independent intelligence gathering.<ref>They’d disappeared, they’d reappeared after Gold Morning, Sabrina back with her brother, and I knew about them because the patrol blocks were keeping tabs on them. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/11/pitch-6-9/ Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.9]]</ref>

The Patrol Group is popular with students that they are angry at the state of affairs between capes and civilians or seek positions of authority.<ref name="D1.1prt">An unfortunate share of the students were here because they were angry.  Because the patrol block had been started up by some ex-PRT folk and Gilpatrick’s speech aside, a lot of people looked at the armor, looked at the guns, looked at how we touched on the power stuff and the portals, and connected the dots. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/09/11/daybreak-1-1/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.1]]</ref> Even though students receive no pay until they have been with the Group for at least a year, the Group still received more recruits than they wanted or can use.<ref>We had more kids than we wanted or could use, even though we didn’t pay any wages until they’d been with us at least a year, and we did everything we could to keep them miserable.  Powers were compelling.  Too many had reasons for wanting to be here. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/09/11/daybreak-1-1/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.1]]</ref>