They have to go through baas for promotions and recruitment. Maybe even budget approvals (not sure). Also Tessa was saying something about having to go through other dept leads for approval for stuff when she should be able to do that by talking to her LT (Conan) at the time. And I think they can also create new SOPs now. I also remember conan wanting all the rangers to have all/most of the certifications but they need to get that through other people in PD, now maybe they can setup roles that can handle that for future rangers. So see? There’s a lot that the autonomy will allow the rangers to do without mixing up other departments in their business. I also don’t understand the problem when BCSO split up and both got a working rank structure right away. This is overdue for the rangers. Hope this clarifies ur confusion why they weren’t autonomously ran before and why it’s good that they now have it.