Forum:KB:The Imperial bureaucracy and "rumors of Jedi sightings"

[First time I've tried to start a thread on these forums, so I hope I'm doing it right. . .]

I spent some time reading certain articles recently -- about the Imperial Security Bureau, the Great Jedi Purge, the Inquisitorius, the Emperor's Hands, and so forth -- but I want to hear some opinions from my fellow fans on precisely how the Imperial bureaucracy would react to certain types of reports of "possible Jedi sightings."

Let's say this is all happening about ten years after Palpatine became Emperor -- so he's had plenty of time to create or revamp various government programs, including recruiting and training a bunch of Emperor's Hands, accepting the allegiance of some Dark Jedi, and so on and so forth. Things have settled down into a new routine.

Even after reading those articles I mentioned, I'm not terribly familiar with details of how the Empire actually got things done in the era between the two movie trilogies, so it's possible that there are "solid canonical answers" for the questions I'm about to pose. (Or someone may tell me "it might be handled differently at different times, depending on the mood swings of the Emperor or one of his minions.")

Situation #1. Suppose a report of a "possible Jedi sighting" reaches the bureaucracy on Coruscant. In the main city of an obscure (and usually very quiet) planet out in the Mid Rim, a planet the Emperor has never really cared about before, there has been reports of a few violent incidents involving a mysterious woman who's been in a few fights with thugs -- and the only reason this matters to anyone else is that eyewitness accounts (from the bruised thugs) suggest she  might be using the Force during those skirmishes.

(Then again, it could all be hysterical exaggeration from some macho male thug who doesn't like admitting an ordinary woman might have cleaned his clock in a fair fight. Who knows?)

Who would investigate such a low-level, unreliable rumor that might not amount to anything?

Ordinary field agents of the Imperial Security Bureau?

Or would a Force-sensitive Inquisitor be likely to get sent to that planet right away, on such flimsy evidence? (I gather the Inquisitors mostly appeared in the "Last of the Jedi" series of juvenile novels, which I haven't read, so I'm far from clear on just how trigger-happy they were about responding to vague rumors.)

Or would you expect someone else, from some other arm of the Imperial bureaucracy, to make time in his schedule to go check it out in the near future? If so, who?

Situation #2. Suppose nothing much happened right away in response to the first report. Now suppose that, a week or two later, a detailed follow-up report arrives. It was sent from the local cops on that same obscure little planet. It says that a woman, real name unknown, definitely has been seen brandishing a lightsaber in a recent fracas. She made a clean getaway afterwards, but it is believed that she is still in or near the local "capital city."

Having a lightsaber in her hand still doesn't prove she is any sort of Jedi, nor that she ever got as much as ten minutes of training from a "real Jedi." After all, any schmuck could pick up a secondhand lightsaber and turn it on and swing it around in the air, without even being Force-sensitive. But I'm sure the Imperial bureaucracy would want to check this out, just to be on the safe side. "A strange woman with a lightsaber" sounds just a tad more serious than "a strange woman who may or may not have somehow used the Force in a recent brawl."

Whom would you expect the authorities on Coruscant to send? (I'm assuming that even if the Emperor hears about this report right away, he can't be bothered to go investigate it himself -- and that, likewise, he has much more important things for Darth Vader to be doing over the next several weeks. After all, it's an awfully big galaxy!)

Would they send, for instance, an Inquisitor who just happened to be Force-sensitive, and who might be able to spot this woman in a crowd and try to recruit her to Imperial service. . . or would a full-fledged Dark Jedi with a lightsaber of his own be more likely to get sent out to that backwater planet in order to settle the hash of the person, trained or untrained, who was swinging a lightsaber around? Or what?