Why does the Secret Police have a loyalty filter?

[Owlchemist]

I understand what the point of loyalty filtering is for other jobs, like teachers and such, but the secret police? How does this impact their performance?

[ryantheskinny]

They won't give you accurate data if their loyalty is low (iirc)

[Owlchemist]

Originally posted by ryantheskinny:

They won't give you accurate data if their loyalty is low (iirc)

Oh wow, I had no idea. So that could cause a cascading problem then, like teachers whom actually have lower loyalty than they needed to have.

[Tobijon]

yes but once you get the workers at secret police/teachers/radiostation above 40 loyalty its accurate enough that loyalty will go up on average, and the higher it gets the more accurate it becomes, its only when your loyalty is under 40 that you get a real problem.

[thegrandmystic]

Huh... I wondered that myself and never thought to ask! Thanks!

[SiberianDev]

Another suggestion for another use to the secret police - Corruption.
This was a big deal in the Soviet Union and for the most part still is here in Russia.
Salaries were not that high for cops, and big criminal organizations sometimes paid them off in exchange for the cops leaving them alone, this was especially a thing in the 90s.

In the game, the more corrupt a cop/investigator would be, the more likely he would be to throw out criminal cases, or even not respond to a call, and same would apply to judges. It could be determined by their government loyalty and criminality.

Secret police could act as the "police of the police" for example and arrest corrupt cops/judges/investigators. They too could be corrupt, with the more corrupt the secret police being, the more likely they would be to turn a blind eye on corrupt cops, but this would largely depend on their government loyalty, giving another incentive for the player to hire loyal secret police.

[longshots444]

Originally posted by ryantheskinny:

They won't give you accurate data if their loyalty is low (iirc)

IIRC?
That's a lot of help.
Does that mean my loyal citizens are being put in jail because of disloyal police?