SID's MISSION

Mission of Starfleet's SID: First and foremost the SID will be that of protecting the ranking officers of Starfleet.  This includes personal safety of their families as well as ensuring their professional saftey.  Second, will be intelligence gathering.  This falls in with the primary mission of protection.  After all a forewarned Admiral is a forearmed one. Third is infiltration. Members of this team will, at the CO's request, perform additional duties, such as engineering, operations, medical, etc.  This will allow the SID officer to infiltrate possible subversive organizations. Fourth, through the utilization of the above four, the SID can  and will be used for probing of Starbase, Starship and Security defenses.  This probing can be either covert, or overt, with or without the Commanding Officer's  approval.  (Although approval must come from the Flag officers in this case). Fifth, for the SID is to conduct criminal investigation where prosecution is not the primary motive. The Jurisdiction of the SID extends into areas covered by other Starfleet operatives, and units.  Which unit (ie. Security, Special Forces, SSD etc.) has precedence over these other departments. The SID may, for example, be called in to investigate a Base's Security force, or to interdict possible contraband smuggling.  If it is found that Starfleet Security has a part in illegal activities, SID could be called in to infiltrate the Security Section in question to gather evidence.