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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.
The pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Policing | 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 | 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.
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.
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.
Part of the Institution suite for RimWorld 1.6: Core · Contraband · Policing · Corrections · Gangs · Ward. Split out of the former Institution: Justice.