Role guides

Going on duty

Police tools open only on duty

Start

/fduty · type it again to end

Needs

Police faction member · rank with duty rights

Where

Anywhere

Issued

At least 2 cuffs when you go on duty

Colleagues on duty get a notice when you start. Duty in another faction ends on its own.

Locker loadouts

Duty, uniform and loadouts in one window

Start

E at a locker point

Needs

Faction member · within 2.5m of the point

Taking a loadout

On duty · only loadouts open to your rank and division

1. E at the locker

2. Go on duty

3. Pick a uniform

4. Pick a loadout, take it

The locker list and distances are in the Locker tab of /fmenu.

Locker wardrobe

Change clothes free at the locker

Start

/fmenu Locker → Wardrobe button in the point details

Needs

Faction member · next to a locker point

Cost

None

Uniform

Change into a uniform your leader saved

List

/uniform

Put on

/uniform number

Take off

/uniform off · back to your own clothes

Needs

On duty · not in jail

On duty, /outfit has its own list of your work outfits for this agency.

Armory

Police guns and government-issue ammo

Start

Locker E → Loadouts

Needs

On duty · picking single items needs armory rights

Guns

Only what is in a loadout your leader made

Check

F2 equipment tab

Carrying cuffs

Cuffs are counted. Each use takes one

Your count

/mycuffs

Take · return

/takecuff [flex] · /putcuff [flex] · at a locker or by a patrol car

Hand over

/givecuff playerID [flex] · officer on duty within 3m

Max

4 cuffs · 6 flex cuffs

Cuffs come back when you uncuff. Flex cuffs are cut and gone.

Vehicle locker

Gun rack and duty gear in the trunk

Start

Left Alt on the car → Locker · or /locker

Needs

On duty with the car’s agency · next to the car

Patrol car

Shotgun, rifle, cones, barriers, spikes, police tape, work light, gloves, first aid kit, evidence bags, flares

Restock

/lockerrestock · near an agency garage or locker

Road gear like cones and spikes comes out of this locker. Picked up, it goes back in.

Showing your badge

Show who you are to someone within 3m

Start

/showbadge [playerID] · or Left Alt on a person → Show badge

Needs

On duty · within 3m

Blank rounds

Switch to blanks for training and events

Start

/blanks · type it again to turn off

Needs

Police on duty · not in jail

Who’s on duty

How many are on duty, per agency

Start

/onduty

Needs

Anyone

Patrol cars

Take out and park agency vehicles

Start

/fspawn · or the Vehicles tab of /fmenu

Needs

Faction vehicle rights

Garage

Lot behind Mission Row

Without the rights, nobody can start an agency car.

Lights and siren

Shift+E lights, Shift+R siren

Lights

Shift+E

Lights and siren

Shift+R

Horn

E

Needs

Driver’s seat of an emergency vehicle

Press the same key again while on to turn everything off.

Speed radar

Clock cars ahead and behind, lock speed

On · off

F5

Lock speed

Page Down

Needs

Police on duty · in a car

Unit

km/h

Plate reader (ALPR)

Reads plates, flags wanted vehicles

On · off

Page Up

MDC lookup

F9

Alerts

Stolen, BOLO, owner warrant, expired registration, unpaid fines, theft alarm

Needs

Police on duty · MDC lookup rights

F9 opens the MDC traffic screen with the radar speed and speed limit filled in.

Traffic stop

Signal the driver ahead to pull over

Key

N

Needs

A car locked on radar or read by ALPR · player driver

Driver gets

A chime and a pull-over notice

Helicopter camera

Thermal camera and searchlight

Start

/helicam inside a helicopter

Controls

Mouse to look · wheel to zoom · left click searchlight · right click view mode

Off

Backspace

Needs

Police or fire/EMS on duty

The default fleet has no helicopter.

Police drone

Fly a camera drone, watch from above

Start · land

/drone · or land with Backspace

Controls

W A S D move · Space up · Ctrl down · Shift faster

Needs

Police on duty

Call alerts

911 calls pop up as cards; K to respond

Accept · route

K

Needs

CAD lookup rights · responding needs unit dispatch rights

Types

911 emergency · 991 police non-emergency · 311 non-emergency

Unit sign-on

Set your callsign and unit status

Sign on

/pduty [callsign]

Status

/unitstatus available|code6|code7|unavailable

Location

/unitlocation [location]

Respond

/responding

Unit types: patrol, traffic, K-9, investigations, air, supervisor, command. You can invite colleagues to your unit.

Dispatch board

Calls, units, BOLOs, stolen cars on one screen

Start

/dispatch · /pcad · or the MDC Dispatch tab

Call list

/niners

Needs

CAD lookup rights

1. Pick a call

2. Respond

3. On scene

4. Create a report or attach to an existing one

5. Close the call

Panic and backup

Send an urgent call to your location

Panic

/panic · all agencies

Backup

/backup [reason] · your agency · /backupleo police · /backupemergency all agencies

Cooldown

30 seconds

Radio

Police frequencies work only on duty

Settings

/radio

Frequency

/setfrequency slot frequency

Transmit

/r text · /r1~/r19 · add low for quiet

Police band

LSPD 9120~9199 · police and EMS joint 9110~9119

You need a radio. The police band stops sending and receiving when duty ends.

Inter-agency radio

One channel all agencies share

Transmit

/dep text · quiet /deplow text

Who hears

Police, fire, EMS on duty and City Hall staff

Frequency

None to set

Megaphone

Speak loud to everyone within 80m

Start

/megaphone text

Range

80m

Needs

Police or EMS on duty

Agency broadcasts

Local PA and server-wide notices

Local PA

/pa text · 60m

Server notice

/govannounce text · /policebroadcast

Notice needs

Leader or broadcast rights · once a minute per agency

Agency hotline

Take civilian inquiries, call back

Civilians

Phone Services app · /phonedirectory

Police

Check and call back in /fmenu

Needs

Agency inquiry view and handling rights

Shots and crime alerts

Gunshots, robberies, alarms come in on their own

• Gunshots: when you are nearby, the chat tells you how many shots were heard.
• Robberies, ATMs, break-ins, car alarms, tire theft: come in as CAD calls.
• Lockpicking, robbery and break-ins only work when enough police are on duty.

Target menu

Left Alt to act on people and cars

Key

Hold Left Alt

People

Cuff, frisk, drag, show badge, show license

Cars

Lock, trunk, locker

Cuffing

Cuffs or flex cuffs on someone within 3m

Cuffs

/cuff playerID

Flex cuffs

/flexcuff playerID

Uncuff

/uncuff playerID

Needs

On duty · cuff and jail rights · within 3m · cuffs on you

Frisk and seize

See and seize a cuffed person’s items

Start

/frisk playerID

Needs

On duty · search and seize rights · target cuffed · within 3m

Seize to

Your inventory or an evidence bag

Consent search

See items without cuffs, with consent

Ask

/frisk request playerID

They accept

/acceptfrisk requesterID

They decline

/frisk decline requesterID

Valid

Within 3m · 2 minutes

A consent search is look only. To seize, cuff them first and use /frisk.

Dragging

Walk a cuffed person along with you

Start · let go

/drag playerID

Needs

Police on duty · target cuffed

Into the car

Seat a cuffed person in the back

Put in

/putinvehicle playerID seat

Take out

/removevehicle playerID

Needs

Cuffed: no consent needed · otherwise they accept

Jailing

Set the sentence and charge at booking

Jail at once

/arrest playerID minutes reason

Booking window

/arrest playerID

Where

Mission Row detention booking desk

Needs

Cuff and jail rights · target cuffed · treatment done

1. Cuff them

2. Take them to booking

3. Enter sentence and charge with /arrest

4. Book

   They go to a cell

Each detention facility has a maximum sentence. Time only counts down while the inmate is online.

Release

Let an inmate out early

Start

/release playerID [reason]

Needs

Cuff and jail rights · within 3m

Check inmates

/prisontime · /prison

Tackle

Knock down the person ahead while running

Start

/tackle while running

Needs

Anyone · has a cooldown

Parking ticket

A $25–$500 ticket on a parked car

Start

/ticket plate amount reason

Amount

$25~$500 · whole dollars

Needs

On duty · fine rights · near the car

If an impounded car has over $250 in unpaid tickets, the owner pays those before getting it back.

Vehicle fine

A fine on the car; the owner pays with /fines

Issue

/vfine plate amount reason

Cancel

/takefine plate [number] · without a number, the latest

Needs

Fine rights · within 5m of the car

Fines follow the plate. They stay when the owner changes, and a car with long-overdue fines cannot be sold.

On-the-spot fine

Pick violations in the MDC, issue at once

Start

F9 · or MDC → Issue fine

Needs

Fine rights

They pay

/fines

Impound

Send a nearby private car to the lot

Start

/impound reason · private car within 5m

Needs

On duty · fine rights

Owner pays

$250 + $50 a day · up to $1,000

Pick up at

Davis Impound Lot · /impound

Taking a license

Suspend a license on the spot

License

/takelicense playerID license reason

Driver’s license

/takedriverlicense playerID reason

Needs

On duty · next to them

The issuing agency restores it.

License and ID check

The card shown and whether the photo matches

Civilian

/sdl officerID · /showid · vehicle /vinfo

See again

/viewlicense

Photo

A mask means no match

Vehicle lookup

Real plate, owner, stolen, fake plates

Lookup

/vinspect · /videntity · /vdocuments

Remove fake plate

/inspectplate

Needs

Police on duty · within 5m of the car

Vehicle search

Seize illegal items from the trunk

Start

/vsecuritysearch

Needs

On duty · search and seize rights · within 5m of the car

Recovering stolen cars

Clear the stolen flag, see the tracker

Recover

/vrecover · within 5m of the car

Clear by plate

/reportplatefound plate

Tracker location

/trackcar plate · reported-stolen cars only

Spike strips

Lay them on the road to pop tires

Place

/spike · /placespike

Pick up

/removespike

Stock

Your gear or your agency’s vehicle locker within 30m

Lasts

10 minutes

Road control

Cones, barriers, flares, work lights

Place

/roadblock [cone|barrier|sign] · /cone · /flare · /worklight

Nearby list

/roadblocks

Pick up

/roadblockdel

Lasts

30 minutes · flares 10 minutes

Flares are gone once they burn out. The rest goes back to the car locker when picked up.

Police tape

Each post links to the last one

Place

/tape · /policeline

Pick up

/roadblockdel

Lasts

30 minutes

Opening the MDC

Lookups, reports, warrants, dispatch in one

Start

/mdc · /mdt

Needs

On duty · MDC lookup rights

Search

Name, plate, gun serial

Language

Screen in English · text you enter is translated to your language

Person lookup

Licenses, vehicles, guns, record, warrants

Start

MDC search → Persons

Photo

Only when they are nearby

Needs

MDC lookup rights

Reports

Write incident, arrest, traffic reports

Start

MDC Reports → Write report · or Create report from a CAD call

Types

Incident · Arrest · Traffic

Needs

MDC records rights

Warrants

Request and review arrest/search warrants

Request

Person record → Request warrant · MDC records rights

Review

Warrant review rights

Types

Arrest · Search · 1~30 days

Sentences from court convictions also come in as arrest warrants. Police serve them in the MDC.

BOLO

Put out an alert for a person or vehicle

Start

MDC → New BOLO

Types

Person · Vehicle · Other

Needs

MDC records rights

End

Found · Close

A vehicle BOLO alerts when ALPR reads the plate.

Stolen flag

Mark a vehicle record stolen, or clear it

Start

MDC vehicle record → Report stolen · Clear stolen

Needs

MDC records rights

Owner report

/reportstolen plate reason

Fine appeals

Handle appeals civilians file

Start

MDC → Appeals

Needs

MDC lookup and fine rights

Void a fine

Fines tab → Void

Firearm trace

Owner and history by serial

Start

Serial in the MDC search box

History

Issued, transferred, stored, returned, serial filed off and restored

Fleet locations

Where agency cars are, who took them

Start

MDC → Fleet tab

Info

Plate, model, driving/parked/stored, who took it out

Route

GPS button

Blood and DNA

Collect blood, match it to DNA

Collect

E at the red markers you see on duty

Register DNA

/dnaswab [playerID] · a cuffed person or yourself

Match

/dnalab

DNA shows a name only if that person’s profile is on file. Results take time.

Shell casings

Find and collect casings nearby

Find

/casing · map markers and a list

Collect

/pickupcasing

Clear

/deletecasings

Fingerprints

Send prints, tool marks, traces to the lab

Collect

/dust · surroundings and the car next to you

Results

/lab

Print results

1~3 candidates

Ballistics

Compare casings, and casings to a gun

Compare casings

/ballistics casingID casingID

Test fire

/testfire slot · agency HQ forensic lab

Results

/lab

Tool match

Match tool marks to a suspect’s tools

Start

/labtool labID playerID

Needs

Target cuffed

Gunshot residue test

Whether their hands fired a gun

Test

/gsrtest playerID

Needs

Target cuffed, or 2 minutes of consent with /gsrconsent

Result

The kit sometimes misses

Evidence bags

Bags, seals, cases, evidence lockers

Start

/eb

Needs

Evidence view, submit and withdraw rights

Locker

Locker points

1. Issue a bag

2. Put seized items in

3. Label and seal

4. Create a case

5. Submit to the locker

Serial restore

Bring back a filed-off gun serial

Start

/restoreserial gunSlot

Where

Your agency HQ

Needs

Evidence view or submit rights · carrying the gun

Alcohol and drug tests

Check blood alcohol and drugs

Alcohol

/breathalyzer playerID · /checkalcohol

Drugs

/drugtest playerID

Limit

Blood alcohol 0.08

Needs

On duty · within 3m · they see the result too

Prescribed drugs show as (Rx) in the result.

Phone trace

A phone’s location by cell tower range

Start

/trackphone number

End

/untrack

Grounds

A valid warrant for the holder, or a 911 call from that number in the last 30 minutes

Range

120m circle · 3 minutes

Phones that are off, indoors or not carried give no signal.

City CCTV

City cameras live and recorded

List

/cctv · nearest camera /cctvnear

View

/viewcctv cameraID

Wipe a covered lens

/cleancam

Exit

F4

Footage requests

Ask shop and home owners for footage

Request

/requestfootage businessID time reason

Owner answers

/footage accept number · /footage decline number

If accepted

Attached to the MDC report

Witness tips

Buy tips that witnesses sell

Buy

/tips buy

Needs

On duty · witness within 5m

Weight

Not evidence · not linked to the MDC

Examining a building

Building description and storage summary

Start

/pexamine inside a building

Needs

Police on duty

HQ raid

Seize a crime org’s HQ storage

Start

/searchhq in front of the HQ

Needs

Search and seize rights · a search warrant on a member or intel

Cooldown

Same org once every 24 hours

Lab raid

Shut a drug lab for 72 hours

Start

/raidlab near the lab

Needs

Search and seize rights

Result

Closed for 72 hours

K-9

Search, track and take down with a dog

Commands

/k9 call|dismiss|follow|stay|seat|search [id]|track [id]|attack [id]

Quick menu

/k9menu · shortcut in key settings

Needs

On duty · K-9 handler rights

Detects

Drugs · guns with serials

1. Call with /k9 call

2. Move with follow, stay

3. search a person, car or room

4. /k9 dismiss when done

Removing graffiti

Clean off the nearest tag

Start

/removegraffiti

Needs

1 cleaner

Also

Police on duty

Ankle monitor

Track people on probation or parole

Fit

/anklemonitor playerID duration reason · 1 hour~14 days

Remove

/removeanklemonitor playerID

Location

/parolemonitor

Needs

Cuff and jail rights · within 3m

The wearer sees time left with /probation.

Court and lawyers

Sentences, calling lawyers, visits

• Convictions: fines go to /fines, sentences come into the MDC as arrest warrants.
• Lawyers: /listlawyers, call one with /calllawyer [reason].
• Inmates: visit requests /visits, cell stash /stash.
• Public court records: /court.