Special Branch – Special Branch (an English TV series) and the actual unit the series is based on.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Branch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Branch_(Metropolitan_Police)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Branch_(TV_series)
When the Wide-Range Spiral Pekronometer goes down, Aegon Statz sends you to fix it. You find Special Branch has destroyed the equipment and is now ready to battle you.
The days of inflicting your sciency mumbo-jumbo upon our kind are over, Gravulum pest! We’ve already uprooted your machine. Branches, Attack!
Special Branch
Special Branch is a label customarily used to identify units responsible for matters of national security and intelligence in British, Commonwealth, Irish, and other police forces. A Special Branch unit acquires and develops intelligence, usually of a political or sensitive nature, and conducts investigations to protect the State from perceived threats of subversion, particularly terrorism and other extremist political activity.
The first Special Branch, or Special Irish Branch, as it was then known, was a unit of London’s Metropolitan Police formed in March 1883 to combat the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The name became Special Branch as the unit’s remit widened to include more than just Irish Republican-related counterespionage.
Special Branch stayed on as a unit of the London Metropolitan Police until it was merged with another unit to form Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) in 2006. It maintained contact with the Security Service and had responsibility for, among other things, personal protection of (non-royal) VIPs and performing the role of examining officer at designated ports and airports, as prescribed by the Terrorism Act 2000.
Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969 and 1974. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.
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