APF
The Alt Human Police Force, more colloquially known as the APF, is the government super human law enforcement branch. Working similarly to the FBI, the APF has a national presence, with their largest forces centered in the major cities across the country. As a government lead policing groups, the APF has had a long and history shaded just as heavily with stories of heroism and valor, as those of corruption and bucked responsibilities.
The APF began in the early 1900s, forming to bring together the best and brightest of the time to try and bring some level or order to the chaos of the C&M world. As more and more Alt Humans appeared over the years, the APF grew, and even began taking on those with more jaded pasts. While the APF always claims to work hard at vetting and monitoring these “reformers”, it’s well known they also uses the program as an excuse to bring in many powerful but equally horrible and unrepentant individuals. They argue that bringing in these types will strengthen the organization overall, and thus allow them to save and protect more people. There is mounting concern as the APF has recently been known to give too much leeway to some of these supposed ex-menaces, even ignore concurrent actions, with scandals surrounding power brokers with secret labs, and menaces who pass reformer prep, but still moonlight (if they ever stopped), in their old menacing ways.
While it has it’s faults and downfalls around some of their personnel and methods, the APF still represents the law, and is by and largely respected. This is in part because of the popularity of its highest ranking members, captains in each of the major cities in the country. It’s a list that includes figures like Visionary out of Georgetown, Warden out of Midgust, and Captain Courageous in New Amsterdam. he Presidential Guard, traditionally a Cape or APF officer who is chosen by each President to act as their personal guard, is also a member of the APF. As the most publicly seen APF member, the Presidential Guard becomes sort of an unofficial mascot for the APF, the public face in a way. These figures are icons of their time, and represent the APF to the people, bringing trust in the APF’s decisions as a result.
Like any organization, the APF has good members and bad members, people who honestly believe in the system and want to protect and serve, and those who would exploit it to gain power through fear and intimidation.