The Combine also offers other rewards and encourages members to apply for memory replacement.They are generally armed with lighter weaponry. Civil Protection officers are not as organized or effective as the Overwatch units.Civil Protection officers are known to beat unarmed Citizens at the slightest provocation.They joined for more privileges, treatment, and better living conditions. Civil Protection officers are unaltered humans that have been either forced into being them or are willing to work for the Combine.Civil Protection Squad Leader may be confused with the Elite Metro Police, because of their similar appearances.Civil Protection units are not only motivated by privileges, they are also threatened with punishment should they fail in their duties.The majority of codes and abbreviations used by the Combine are actual police codes.The name of Civil Protection can be understood as: "Protection of civilians" but a more correct name is "Protection against civilians."
Civil Protection could be read as a protection of the state from the Citizens, instead of protecting the Citizens themselves.The term "Civil Protection" could be seen as "doublethink," or the ability to accept and believe two mutually contradictory beliefs at the same time, which becomes apparent fairly quickly due to the way they treat Citizens.This was sadly cut from Half-Life 2 but the textures remained in the leaked files. Just like the Overwatch Soldier has the Overwatch Elite, Civil Protection was to have its own elite version, the Elite Metro Police.Originally, the Civil Protection officers were to be named "Metropolice," a name that survived in the Civil Protection entity.Improved gas mask with white-focused lenses, two standard CMB filters, and a lattice filter. They are now identical to the Elite Metro Police. On the head, they're wearing a basic gas mask, with blue glowing diodes on its back. Like all the other units, they have an identification armband on the right arm, which says from which city they're from (grey bandage with a white label "c8:i4"). Black uniform with minor enforcements and shoulder pads. They're wearing the most standard uniform. While they have a low efficiency at combat, their quantity may be the key part of their force. Their behavior is aggressive towards criminals and they will often give pursuit to evading suspects. They're regularly patrolling the city, watching the order among the citizens, and are responsible for keeping the populations of the combine city under control.
Civil Protection officers do not receive biological modifications in any way. The Overwatch Voice uses the term "Protection" and "Protection Teams." They are mentioned to be part of an entity known as the Ministry of Civil Protection. Union units are the most common officers of Civil Protection. A Trooper of the fine variety usually wielding a "Pistol" (Not pictured in above image) DescriptionĬivil Protection units (Combine), simply referred to as CP or Metrocop, are the cannon fodder in the universal union, and the first role as a combine for all players.