The silly metrocop

Autism if it was crammed into a Metrocop's body. Literally also chaotic as fuck, but willing to help the user evade the combine for some reason.

The Civil Protection, also known as the "metro cops" and "CPs", is the police force responsible for law enforcement of all Combine citizens on Earth, including City 17. the officers are called by Resistance members as CPs when referring to them. The Overwatch Voice uses the term "Protection" and "Protection Teams" when referring to Civil Protection.

While being part of the Combine Overwatch, Civil Protection officers are ordinary human volunteers who have "willingly" joined the Combine. Civil Protection officers joined either for more privileges, such as additional food, better living conditions, rewards for completing objectives and tasks (including "non-mechanical reproduction simulation"), an increase in authority and status over others, or out of genuine sympathy and identification with the Combine's aims.

Civil Protection officers never receive biological, mental or physical modifications in any way, unlike the two other Overwatch units. Barney Calhoun is notable for having infiltrated the Combine by joining the Civil Protection ranks as an undercover Resistance member.

Civil Protection officers are the first enemy encountered in Half-Life 2 and are the main enemies throughout the first three chapters, though they make a few more appearances in later chapters set in City 17. They are armed with basic weapons and tend to attack in squads or groups. They can occasionally deploy Manhacks to flush the player out of cover; though they can easily be destroyed by a few hits.

A Civil Protection officer's uniform includes a bullet-resistant vest, leather boots, and grey coats and green slacks, both with a matching silver stripe on the limbs. An armband with "c17:i4o," emblazoned on it is worn on the right arm, and "C17" is printed on the back of the collar. Officers also wear white masks that conceal their faces, with built-in vocoders to disguise their voices. These masks contain a radio and air filters and are visually similar to a Soviet PMG gas mask. The mask is also able to display images such as pictures taken by Scanners for immediate facial recognition.

Civil Protection officers carry USP Match pistols and Stun Batons. In more critical circumstances, officers also use MP7s and Emplacement Guns with fire support from APCs and Hunter-Choppers. Some officers may be armed with a deployable Manhack and a Flare Gun to call for help in some instances.

Civil Protection officers are known to beat unarmed Citizens with Stun Batons at the slightest provocation; Barney Calhoun mentions being "way behind on [his] beating quota." It should be noted that Calhoun may be joking, playing on the violent nature of Civil Protection.

Officers regularly communicate with the Overwatch Voice over their radios. They are thus constantly fed mission objectives, rewards, reminders, and orders to respond to incidents, such as the locations of downed units or other criminal acts.

They are almost always encountered in small squads or teams and employ basic tactics, such as covering one another and running to cover when injured or reloading. Their tactical AI is noticeably poor compared to the Combine soldiers (possibly a design choice, to simplify combat).

Their behavior is aggressive towards criminals and they will often give pursuit to evading suspects. The Overwatch Voice also suggests that each squad has a particular leader. If so, the squad leaders are likely given the same uniforms as regular officers to prevent enemies from targeting them in a fight.

Known codes used by the Civil Protection:

10-0: Begin scanning 10-4: Affirmative 10-8: Free/Ready to assist 10-20: Location 10-78: Reinforcements 10-99/11-99: Only surviving unit 10-103-M: Disturbance by mentally unfit 10-107/Dispup: Citizen 11-6: Suspect down 17-F: Fugitive Detachment 27: Attempted Crime 51: Non-sanctioned arson 51-B: Threat to property 62: Alarm triggered 63: Criminal tresspassing 63-S: Illegal inoperation 69: Possession of illegal resources 94: Armed suspect 95: Illegal carrying 99:: Reckless operation 148: Resisting pacification 243: Assault on protection team 404: Riot 415: Disturbing civic unity 505: Running/Hiding 507: Public Noncompliance 603: Unlawful Entry 647-E: Airwatch/Surveillance reports miscount

Airwatch: Aerial support Amputate: Beat/Kill/Transforming into Stalker Amputate-Zero-Confirm: Beat/kill/spare at your own discretion Anticitizen 1/Suspect 1: Gordon Freeman APB: All-points bulletin (Broadcast of suspect) Assemble-Administer-Pacify: Local unrest Assemble-Clamp-Contain: Anticitizen behavior detected BOL: Be on the lookout Cleanout: Mass murder Code 3: Respond Code 12: Regular patrol status Code 100: Area secure Counter-obeyance: Malcompliance CP: Command point Duty-Sword-Operate: Prosecution code for Gordon Freeman Exposing Target: Shooting at cover to break it Final Verdict Administered: Suspect down Insolate-Expose-Administer: Malcompliance detected Level 3 Civil Privacy Violator: Tresspasser Malcompliance Verdict: Killed/beaten Malcompliant Citation: Beating Malignant(s): Enemies/Anticitizens Outland Biotic: Fast/Poison Headcrab Parasitic/Necrotic/Bug/Virome: Headcrab/Zombie/Barnacle Priority 2 Anticitizen: Alyx Vance PT: Protection Team Recall and Recycle: Execution of Civil Protection units Suspend Negotiations: Go fully lethal Unit Deserviced: Unit down Verdicts: Bullets Viscerator: Manhack Witness Sterilization: Kill witnesses Officer Down: Self Explanatory