Anti-Skill

Anti-Skill (警備員(アンチスキル)) is the term used to refer to Academy City's police and security forces. Unlike Judgment, members of Anti-Skill are ordinary adults who work in the city. One is essentially a volunteer when one joins Anti-Skill, and as such are not paid to do Anti-Skill work; however, the city compensates for Anti-Skill member's help in the experiment, by giving them various gifts and privilages.

Duties


Anti-Skill is often assigned to situations in which members of Judgment are unable or not allowed to handle. This includes situations such as engaging terrorists, handling hostage situations, or stabilizing dangerous areas. Judgment is often assigned to assist Anti-Skill in these cases by evacuating civilians or handling crowd control, as well as dealing with rogue espers who abuse their powers. They are also shown to assist Judgment with meager work such as directing traffic, helping lost people and enforcing curfew, and can also be hired for events. Anti-Skill members are also tasked in training Judgment recruits.

Anti-Skill and Academy City's disaster relief organization, Multi Active Rescue, will work together during large-scale incidents such as the Poltergeist Incidents.

Anti-Skill's authority extends outside of Academy City, and is basically the city's 'official' armed forces, opposed to black ops like the Hound Dogs. This is shown first when Anti-Skill are sent to Avignon to suppress a riot, and later when they defend against Russia's attack in World War III. It has been revealed that Academy City has hired many soldiers to work in the city as teachers, with one of the HsF-00 pilots in World War III mentioning they only took up teaching for appearance's sake and are actually originally soldiers.

Organization
Though it is currently unknown who leads Anti-Skill, during operations such as engaging terrorists, Anti-Skills members are formed into small groups and follow a single leader. Some times Anti-Skill members are put into relatively minor work (enforcing curfew, assisting lost people, etc.), and as such are partnered to scan particular areas.

Abilities
Members of Anti-Skill are capable of properly handling rifles. They are also trained in various tactics and strategies to handle different situations, such as hostage situations, dealing with terrorists, etc... They are also probably trained in the implementation of first-aid.

Armor and Protection
Most members of Anti-Skills are seen with special SWAT armor as well as riot shields. If available, Security bots are also used for protection against enemy fire.

Weapons
They are shown to use semi-automatic fireams, as well as grenades and grenade launchers. Some times when the situation calls for it, they can use experimental weapons against dangerous foes.

Vehicles
Anti-Skill primarily uses blue armored trucks, to transport criminals as well as their own members, it is also shown to house communication apparatus.

Level Upper Incidents
Anti-Skill members role in Academy City is expanded upon in the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun sidestory (specifically Yomikawa Aiho and Tessou Tsuzuri), and is shown to be tightly controlled by higher-ups of Academy City and is stifled by bureaucracy, they appear from time-to-time to deal with the criminals Misaka Mikoto and members of the 177th branch of Judgment catches, especially in the anime adaptation.

Anti-Skill is later deployed against Kiyama Harumi to arrest her, as the creator of the Level Upper. They are swiftly defeated, after Kiyama Harumi is shown to use esper abilities (as the result of the Level Upper Network). Members of Anti-Skill later manage to aid Uiharu Kazari to spread the Level Upper treatment program.

Big Spider Arc
Anti-Skill later raids The Strange of Skill-Out members, as the result of the heightened attacks on espers by Skill-Out factions, specifically the Big Spider faction.

Poltergeist Incidents
They form a coalition meeting with members of Multi Active Rescue and Judgment in the Anti-Skill School District 7 Main Office to discuss about the true nature of the recent earthquakes, as the result of an occurence of RSPK Syndrome. They are later seen incapable of doing anything after MAR has solved the case of the Poltergeist Incidents.

They later assist in the rescue of Kiyama Harumi's Child Error students holding back members of MAR, after the true nature of Telestina is revealed, and is using MAR.

Toaru Majutsu no Index
Members of Anti-Skill from time-to-time in Toaru Majutsu no Index. They are first seen in the anime during the Index Arc, but are not introduced until the Sisters Arc, after Kamijou Touma calls them to the area where he saw the dead body of a Misaka clone.

Accelerator and Last Order
They are formally introduced in the light novels, were they are on the alert as an intruder has infiltrated Academy City (actually Touma accidentally triggering the alarm after coming back from the outside). This inconveniences Amai Ao, and allowed Accelerator to stop him and save Last Order.

Kazakiri Hyouka and the Imaginary Number Sector
During Sherry Cromwell's attack on Academy City, only a few members of Anti-Skill engage her (as many Anti-Skills were deployed to guard against the intruder that infiltrated Academy City, the previous day) and are swiftly defeated. They later regroup and help Kamijou Touma to fight Cromwell, which gave them the upper hand. Anti-Skill later takes Touma under custody after the incident.

List of known Anti-Skill members

 * Yomikawa Aiho
 * Tessou Tsuzuri
 * Kouji Masakage
 * Saigou Ryouta
 * Sugiyama Edao
 * Kameyama Ryuuta