Presently, the Discretionary Detainment precautionary offence does not mention that it cannot be applied to civilians not assigned to the ship (see below), but the CO Code of Conduct DOES make clear that COs cannot use this power on civilians not assigned to their ship:
DA’s cannot be issued to civilian personnel that aren’t directly assigned to the Commanding Officers’ Ship. (CO Code of Conduct, CM SS13 Forum)
In the Application section of Marine Law, it states:
The UCMJ applies to all personnel in the vicinity of a USCM Operation or onboard a USCM ship; this includes the Commander, Chief MP, UPP, Freelancers, PMC’s, other factions and organizations. (emphasis mine)
I would like to suggest that these sections be modified on the Marine Law page so that MPs can be aware of the limits of Discretionary Detainment without having to also track the Commanding Officer Code of Conduct forum page, specifically:
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The Discretionary Detainment Offence include the verbiage from the CO Code of Conduct on DAs not being used on civilians not assigned to the ship.
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That someone clarify and include in Marine Law whether a civilian survivor who agrees to be hired for a ship job under SOP, becomes a civilian assigned to the ship or not for the matter of Discretionary Arrests.
While the whitelist offers some protection from this being a major issue, I think it would still be best practice for Marine Law to reflect this restriction just as it reflects restrictions on the CO’s many other special powers.