"Operative, this is Station Analysis. We have determined that a terrorist situation is occurring in your vicinity. As the nearest Squad available you have been assigned a Red BPN to deal with the terrorist situation. This BPN, reference #RED022924453-SA supersedes BPN #WHI022944563-DI that you are currently working on for the duration of the terrorist situation. Each member of the squad will be paid 200 credits and you are to proceed to the corner of Fifth and Wesson immediately. SHIVERS on the scene will brief you. This message has been recorded and by listening to it you are deemed to have fully accepted BPN #RED022924453-SA. Station Analysis out."

And the really annoying thing (besides the fact you can't just say no...) is that it always happens right in the middle of a surveillance, and you end up losing the person, or missing the vital clue that would have save you days of investigation work.

Oh well, such is life in the World of Progress...

More Info on Issuing Red BPNs

By Tim Dedopulos

Reds may be issued in one of a number of ways.

• BPN halls are located throughout Central, Uptown and Suburbia. A Red BPN will always be channeled to an available local BPN hall.
• Financiers are notified of Reds, and will often contact squads of theirs that are known to be local to the action, or pass the material on to a local squad.
• Sector-only broadcasts will be put out, transmitting through to all squads in the same sector, first as a 'please volunteer' and then as a 'you will volunteer' call.

Details of the emergency and its precise location will decide which of the above methods are used. For example, if there's a huge terrorist incident at the Spaceport, all three methods may be used simultaneously, as the number of squads required may be 'as many as we can get'.