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Lieutenant Haniff Jackson was a male human Starfleet security officer in the 23rd century. In his late twenties, he served as chief of security aboard the Vanguard starbase, the Federation's main starbase in the Taurus Reach, from 2265 until 2268. (VAN novel: Harbinger)
Biography
Jackson was present from early in Vanguard's operational period, in early 2265. In response to the revelation that the Klingon Empire was taking an interest in planets surveyed by Vanguard's scout ship, the USS Sagittarius, Jackson was tasked by Commodore Diego Reyes with Lieutenant commander T'Prynn, the stations's Starfleet Intelligence officer, to be aware of spies on the station. Upon learning of Jackson's role, Ambassador Jetanien, head of the Federation Embassy on the station, called the security chief 'a capable officer', 'well suited to the task Reyes would soon assign him.' (VAN novel: Almost Tomorrow)
Later that year, one of Jackson's security team, Ensign Donovan Collig, provided weak paperwork on a cargo-theft case, meaning the station's JAG office could not pursue the case from a 'broken' 'evidentiary chain'. Although one of the senior officers, Lieutenant Holly Moyer, scolded the chief ("I ripped Lieutenant Jackson a new…well, let’s just say he didn’t sit comfortably the rest of that day"), the head of the JAG office thought to herself 'hat it was not the first time she had heard members of her staff complain of poorly assembled incident reports submitted by the security section.' She suspected in this instance that Collig's miswork had resulted in a failure to target Vanguard's resident Orion crimelord, Ganz, suggesting to her corruption on Jackson's security team. (VAN novel: Summon the Thunder)
About the same time, Jackson provided security for Ambassador Jetanien's emergency summit between the Klingons and Tholians, in an attempt to defuse the brewing hostilities between the two powers. (VAN novel: Summon the Thunder)
