Civil Administration implements Executive Administration in Sørvestland; Forms law enforcementCivil Administration implements executive government administration in Sørvestland; Law enforcement service formed.Commissioner of the Internal Security Bureau, Martin Prestegard speaking to the media in Skalm.8th October,4371Governor-General of the State of Sørvestland, Jesper Wahlberg has recently announced the implementation of a functional government system in the province. Posterior to the war, local communities have acted as the de facto government in the chaos, managing the daily functions of the various province and their respect cities. With the formation of the Civil Administration, a functioning government system in the Sørvestland would pave the way for future development towards of semi-autonomous province. According to an official press release from Administration House, the official seat of the Governor-General, the Administration had formed several government departments with the aims of micromanaging the affairs of the province.
The Umbrella organisation for the various Government department, the Provincial Secretariat is broken into nine policy bureaux. The Infrastructure and Transport Bureau, the Education and Environment Bureau, the Health and Social Services Bureau, the Labour Bureau, the Finance and Economics Bureau, the Regional Government Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau, the Justice Bureau and the Home Bureau. As a precautionary measure, it was announced that Kazulian officials will be leading the mentioned provincial bureaux, mainly individuals of Kyo-decent.
Staffing of the various provincial bureaux would be done through a complex vetting process, as the Civil Administration is attempting to curb the clout of corrupted elements within the administrative system. It is estimated that around five thousand four hundred (5,400) persons will be working for the Provincial Secretariat within the various provincial bureaux (six hundred (600) persons within each bureau). With the administrative system established, Wahlberg has announced that the Administration will be moving towards forming a legislative body, consisting of Sørvestlanders, where it is expected that the actual ground work for reconstruction and development would begin.
In other news, the recently formed Home Bureau has announced the creation of a law enforcement service in the province. For the past years, there has been no apparatus solely aimed at maintaining peace and security in the province, with the only mechanism mirroring this being vigilantism by the local community members. Commissioner of the Internal Security Bureau and former Assistant National Commissioner of the Kazulian Federal Police, Martin Prestegard announced the formation of the Sørvestland Police as the asymmetrical response to the string of crimes being committed throughout the province in the absence of a law enforcement agency.
The police consists of persons of residing in Sørvestland, to be trained by the Federal Police and the Skalm Metropolitan Police. Currently it consists of around one thousand (1,000) person, mostly on lend-lease vehicles. As there is currently no defined law to enforce, the police force is aimed at assisting the Kazulian Armed Forces contingent institute law and order and crackdown on "destabilising sentiments". Commissioner Prestegard has stated that once a legislative body is assembled and laws within the province are defined, the police service will orient towards enforcing the various laws, but until then they would be assisting the Kazulian Armed Forces contingent (with Commissioner Prestegard watching the police force closely for corrupted elements).
Reconstruction: 90 Billion Krona Sørvestland Reconstruction.Government proposes 90 Billion Krona reconstruction package for State of Sørvestland.A transport helicopter with the Royal Air-Force conducts a geographic survey of damage on the provincial outskirts.8th October,4371The Infrastructure and Transport Bureau of Sørvestland announced that the government in Skalm was currently pushing for a 90 Billion Krona reconstruction plan for the territory. The Centre for Economics and Business has highlight that the fact that roads, bridges, ports and airports would have to be rebuilt, accompanied by the increasing demands for housing could affect the possible distribution of the package. Other repair costs such as common services including power supplies, telecommunication and water are to be considered as the highest priorities of issues to be addressed as it has been rumoured that the Infrastructure and Transport Bureau intends on overhauling the power, telecommunication and water system in the united provinces, shifting it from the poorly organised eastern system to the western model. With respect to housing, the Bureau intends on providing temporary housing for displaced persons and it also intends on intensifying its system of integration of persons wishing to apply for Kazulian citizenship.
The Finance and Economics Bureau and the the Labour Bureau has reached out to businessmen and women (whose businesses were not affected by the previous conflict) asking them to take in an increased number of unemployed persons in exchange for tax incentives per 10 unemployed person the respective companies employ. The Government in Skalm intends on taking a direct approach to breathing air into the economy of the united provinces but insists that construction must be completed before anything pertaining to the nation's economy could be done. Minister of Finance and the Economy, Kristine Olsen said:
The government, although it is prepared to revive and boost the economy of the united provinces, nothing can be done until construction has completed. With the various economic reforms and incentives coming into the united provinces after construction has been completed, I am certain that these provinces will surpass their expected economic yield.
The package is expected to pass by January, where construction will begin in February with assistance from construction firms and the Kazulian Armed Forces engineer corps.