# Institution: Policing

*The enforcement and order layer — the pre-arrest half of the law — of the **Institution** suite of
RimWorld 1.6 mods.*

Vanilla RimWorld keeps a rap sheet no one reads, and your own colonists never break the law. Policing
gives the colony a **climate of law and order**: colonists offend on a spectrum of criminal
propensity, the law catches them, and catching one changes how the rest behave.

> **Catching and punishing one pawn changes the disposition of the rest.**

That is the difference between enforcement that *cleans up* and enforcement that **governs** — the
reason to punish an offender is the message it sends everyone else quietly deciding whether crime pays.

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## The pages

| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| **[Policing](Policing.md)** | Colony crime on the propensity spectrum, witnesses and the constable's investigation, the weighed arrest and resisting it, prison riots, and the recidivism alert. |
| **[Deterrence](Deterrence.md)** | The colony's climate of order (0 lawless … 1 iron), moved by crime and punishment, drifting back to baseline, and fed back into every colonist's disposition. |

The climate of order only steers your colonists while Policing is installed. Core on its own keeps the
records but leaves behaviour untouched; add Policing and the feedback loop comes alive — visible
justice starts calming the colony, unanswered crime starts emboldening it.

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## The one shared record

Policing keeps no crime record of its own. It reads and writes the single criminal record that
**Institution: Core** holds for every colonist — the same rap sheet Contraband, Corrections, and the
gang systems read. A crime here adds to that record; Corrections grades and reforms over the same
history.

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## Requirements & load order

- **RimWorld 1.6**
- **Institution: Core** — required (the propensity and record system)
- **Harmony** — required
- Load **after** Core and Harmony.

The prison half — classification, discipline, reform, parole, regime — lives in **Institution:
Corrections**, which depends on this layer for the shared climate of order. A future **Judiciary** layer
— a court that tries and sentences — is planned; for now an arrest sends the culprit straight to a cell.

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*Part of the **Institution** suite for RimWorld 1.6: Core · Contraband · Policing · Corrections · Gangs
· Ward. Split out of the former Institution: Justice.*