Grenzipol

The Border Inspection Police (ᚸᛡᛂᚾᛉᛁᚾᛊᛈᛂᚦᛏᛁᚬᚾᛈᚬᛚᛁᛉᚨᛁ Grenzinspektionpolizai), usually called the Grenzipol, is a and the primary  authority of the Zusian Empire. It is charged with regulating overland international trade and collecting, and enforcing imperial border regulations regarding trade, , cross-border crime, and immigration. The Grenzipol is an armed and uniformed police force under the jurisdiction of the Security Secretary, a deputy of the Basilikar.

With 5,813 agents and a budget of ₰2.1 billion in 2020, the Grenzipol is one of the largest law enforcement agencies in Zusea. However, the morale of Grenzipol agents has been reported to be suffering amidst the Amphian refugee crisis, during which more than a million Kyrossic migrants crossed into Zusea, fleeing the violence of the Fifth Kyrossic War. Every year since 2019 the Border Control Council (Grenzschutzraad), the national labor union for border officers, has filed a formal complaint with the Imperial Chamber over insufficient funding and other issues.

There have been repeated complaints of Grenzipol agents mistreating migrants, exceeding their legal authority, and violating their oath of service. Basilikar Raphael VIII had reportedly tried several times to equip agents with body cameras, but was stymied by institutional resistance and interference from the Monocratic Party. Longstanding Border Master Vilhelm Braun rejected body cameras as too expensive, bad for morale, and unreliable; in 2015 he went so far as to require royal and local law enforcement to turn off their body cameras during joint operations with border guards. Only in 2021 did the Grenzipol announce it would equip all agents with the devices by 2030. The agency has the lowest proportion of female employees of all imperial offices. Das Tempo has called the Grenzipol an "unabashedly male-dominated organization." In 2020, the Grenzipol was also swept up in the Black Spear Scandal, during which it was revealed that many border agents belonged to, , or political networks. Though the involved agents were fired, Die Punkt reported that the networks had penetrated the Grenzipol "more deeply than any other uniformed service, more deeply even than the Räichsheer."