Club Penguin Police Department
| Club Penguin Metropolitan Police Department (CPMPD) | |
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| Details | |
| Name | Club Penguin Metropolitan Police Department (CPMPD) |
| Type | Police Force |
| Location | Club Penguin, Club Penguin City |
| Members | 55,000 |
| Headquarters | Club Penguin Metropolitan Area |
The Club Penguin Police Department (CPPD), officially the Club Penguin Metropolitan Police Department, is the law enforcement agency for Club Penguin and Club Penguin City.
History[edit]
The Club Penguin Police Department can trace its roots back to Colonial Antarctica, when the Puffish government founded a night watch system to prevent crime. Later it was renamed the Penguin Town Police Department. After the fall of Colonial Antarctica, in 2005, during the founding of Club Penguin, city leaders decided to merge the old Landsowne Police Department and the Penguin Town Police Department into one police department, the Club Penguin Metropolitan Police Department.
After its founding, the CPPD saw action in many incidences, such as Operation Blackout, and Operation: Puffle. They have been looking for Herbert and caught him many times, but he escapes because of a curse on the EPF. They also try to remove Mwa Mwas from the Pet Shop and other places.
Uniform[edit]
The official uniform of the CPPD is a light blue shirt and navy blue pants. They also wear a navy blue police hat. Occasionally, they wear a bullet-proof vest, such as when they are going off against an armed suspect or infiltrating a building.
The CPPD SWAT unit, however, wear a coat over their uniform and a bullet proof vest over the coat. Instead of a hat, they wear a helmet. They also wear boots on their feet.
Transport[edit]
The CPPD sometimes use motorcycles to travel easily through the busy streets. They also use a sedan or an SUV. However, the most common form of transport is a sedan. Sometimes they use a helicopter. The SWAT unit uses an armored truck to transport the SWAT team. Their Harbor Patrol sub unit also uses boats to control CP's shipping lanes and to stop pirates.
Qualifications[edit]
In order to be a CPPD Police officer, potential recruits must attend the CPPD Police Academy, located in a remote camp in the CP Mountains. The Academy is open to everyone; male and female, penguin and puffle, although background checks are always done first in order to ensure that attendees do not have a criminal record. It is there that the potential recruits learn discipline and cleanliness from strict Tact Officers, gain physical fitness from intensive Physical Training (PR), and learn all essential Law Enforcement subjects in a classroom setting. The Academy is attended for six months. Graduates have 12 months to be hired or else they will need to retake the Academy again. The CPPD Academy is also good for Police positions within the Sub-Antarctic State as well. Besides the Academy, the CPPD requires that applicants must also have received at minimum an Associates Degree at an accredited college within the USA (of which must be completed before going to the Academy). Once a potential recruit has completed these two requirements, they can apply for a Police job if the Department has opened any positions.
Recruitment Process[edit]
An applicant must apply for the Police job online at the CPPD's website under the Penguin Resources. The applicant must send in an application online and provide essential information and documents such as the Academy Graduation and Associates Degree Certificates and must provide references who are willing to speak on the applicant's behalf. At this point the employers will do a background check (like in the Academy) for each applicant to ensure that they do not have a criminal record. If the applicant is appealing to the employer, the employer will invite the applicant to an interview, where they will be interviewed by three police officers sitting at the same table. Applicants are required to wear formal clothing and will be heavily scrutinized. The majority of applicants who fail will fail at this stage. If the applicant succeeds, the applicant will be asked to fill out paperwork regarding their personal information and to take a psychiatric test and will be asked to take a polygraph (lie detector test) as well. If the applicant succeeds, the department will re-evaluate their candidate one more time on their own and will hire the best qualified applicants and will hire as many applicants as the police positions that are currently open.
Trivia[edit]
- It is one of the largest police forces in the USA with 50,000 officers. They are only beaten by the South Pole City Police Department, which has 55,000 police officers.
- The CPPD inspired a TV show called also called CPPD.
- CPPD officers are considered some of the bravest officers in Antarctica, as many of them protected CP during the Operation Blackout and Operation: Puffle.
- Despite all of its good reputation of stopping crime, the most of the department is actually quite corrupt, and takes bribes from rich lawbreaking members, with only some officers being fair and just.
- Though ranked some of the best officers in the United States of Antarctica, the officers are some of the most underpaid, with the non member officers in the force making only about 20,000 Fish a year.
