[GA - not at vote] World Assembly Law Enforcement, Part 2

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World Assembly Law Enforcement, Part 2
Category: International Security | Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Jedinsto | Onsite Topic​


The World Assembly hereby enacts the following articles:

Article I- Definitions:

  1. A "war crime" shall mean any violation of World Assembly law in regards to war or the treatment of prisoners of war.
  2. A "crime against the Assembly" shall mean any violation of World Assembly law committed on or against World Assembly property deemed serious enough to warrant imprisonment as determined by the WAJC.
  3. A "crime against humanity" shall mean any repeated, widespread and systemic act that involves the destruction of cultures or peoples, or the violation of fundamental sapient rights.
Article II- The World Assembly Police Department:

  1. The World Assembly Police Department (herein WAPD) shall be created to execute international arrest warrants provided to them by the World Assembly Judiciary Committee (WAJC).
  2. The WAPD shall work with other offices to protect the facilities of the WA, and any intentional destruction or damaging of WA property shall be illegal.
  3. The WAPD shall only execute a warrant when at the time of execution the target is alive.
  4. WAPD officers shall not use excessive force on any individual.
  5. WAPD officers shall be equipped with body cameras which shall be activated and recording whenever the officer is engaging in law enforcement activities. All recordings must be saved and stored.
  6. The Law Enforcement Transparency Committee (LETC) shall be created as a subset of the WAPD.
  7. Any person who believes their rights established by WA law have been violated by an officer of the WAPD or member of the WAJC may report the incident to the LETC, who shall then investigate the incident.
  8. If, after investigation, the LETC discovers that there was, in fact, a rights violation committed by an officer of the WAPD or WAJC, the offending official shall face penalties regarding their employment, and at the discretion of the LETC, may have charges pressed against them to be heard by the WAJC.
  9. Any body camera footage requested by the LETC must be provided to it.
  10. Should the WAPD have probable cause to believe an individual has committed a crime that a body created by the Assembly could issue a warrant for, the WAPD may arrest the individual.
  11. Any assault or crime committed against a WAPD officer shall be considered a crime against the Assembly.
  12. Officers shall be appropriately equipped to perform their specific duties and be provided just compensation for their work.
  13. Officers must receive adequate training from more experienced law enforcement officers prior to engaging in law enforcement activities.
Article III- Punishment for Crimes

  1. Should an individual be arrested by the WAPD for a crime against humanity, war crime, or crime against the Assembly, and is found guilty of the same crime by the WAJC, the WAJC may sentence the person to a fixed or indefinite term of imprisonment.
  2. Should an individual be sentenced to imprisonment by the WAJC, the individual's imprisonment shall be carried out by a WA member nation.
  3. Of all member nations that offer to take the prisoner into their custody, the WAJC shall exercise its discretion in choosing the safest, most secure and fit nation for the imprisonment to be carried out, and the prisoner shall be sent there for the remainder of their imprisonment.
  4. The aforementioned prisoners shall have the same rights as native prisoners in that nation.
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Non-WA and not voting, but here to deliver a warning about the contents of this resolution.

The obvious point is that it establishes a World Assembly Police Department. It is not clear that this is a preferable solution to - for instance - requiring member states to work to arrest serious criminals to the best of their ability (especially given that GA#440 "Administrative Compliance Act" requires sanctions against noncompliant members that do not recant or pay the IAO fine).

However, it also requires that those arrested by the WAPD and then sentenced to prison by the WAJC must be imprisoned in whatever the WAJC believes is "the safest, most secure and fit nation" of all those volunteering (Article III in general). There are many WA resolutions on standards for imprisonment; it would once again make sense for (say) the member where the arrested/convicted person lives in, or was arrested, to incarcerate that person.

It also requires that "Any assault or crime committed against a WAPD officer shall be considered a crime against the Assembly" and thus warrant imprisonment (Article II.11), even if that assault or crime was - for instance - conducted in an abolitionist member state, or one which does not generally impose prison sentences for all forms of assault (as it is well within its right to do under the current GA canon).

And it authorises the WAPD to arrest anyone who they believe "has committed a crime that a body created by the Assembly could issue a warrant for" (Article II.10), as opposed to - for instance - a crime that prior and standing GA law allows the issuance of warrants for. Since a committee can theoretically issue arrest warrants for any crime, it is not beyond the pale that the WAPD could be arresting people for far more than those offences enumerated in Article I.
 
Strongly against. The powers to the WAJC and the WAPD are way too broad and I am opposed to establishing either one on principle as described in the resolution.
 
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This is nonsense. I don't understand why the author thought it was a particularly good idea to establish a "World Assembly Police Department" right after the repeal of GA#2.
 
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