Argonath RPG Police Department

General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Leonardo on April 22, 2016, 16:19:20 pm

Title: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Leonardo on April 22, 2016, 16:19:20 pm
DILLIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT, and it's legacy through Argonath
a foot-note by an ex-SAPD Lieutenant, DPD Commander, member and a true lover of that department.

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c284/Giac_Jr/sa-mp-383.jpg)

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I've never seen in this server anyone say "oh man, i miss so badly the LSPD, SFPD, LVPD days!" as people usually mention when they speak about the DPD. I shall write a little about this department and my history on it, and i invite everyone who have memories of it to also do it in this topic!

I firstly joined the DPD on a transfer request rightly after i've been promoted to Officer (that was like by the end of 2009). I had GiacJr to tutor me, so i've been really tilt to join the PD he led. I've did it, and it proved to be the best decision i could make! I spent nearly 2 years in the DPD, seen people come and go and it didn't even went through my mind the possibility of leaving. While in the DPD, i've seen 3 officers command it: GiacJr, Jcstodds and Swig. Each one of them with their own personal characteristics, but they all had that thing in common: they sucessfully kept the DPD spirit far away from the "professionalism" the other PDs were forced upon. In the DPD, officers had full freedom to assume whatever character they want, either be it a hillybilly, whiskey-addict patrolling in a Ranger or either a fancy-clothed officer who knew how to properly speak english on the radio (EW.)

Can't say it was easy though, as there were people who hated the DPD just for that factor, they thought our department "was not professional enough". Man, the answer was easy, "join LSPD if you want professionalism, we use the duty weaponry to kill birds here! *hick*". Anyway, i can sure affirm this PD was a character-shaper and taught the officers who were part of it indispensable values.

Below now, i'll list a few officers who were honorary DPD members, as i remember:

MrTrane - DPD Officer (now SAPD Deputy Chief)
Hidduh - DPD Officer (ex-FBI Director)
[Rstar]Jcstodds - DPD Captain
Swig - DPD Captain
GiacJr - DPD Captain
[Rstar]Paul - DPD Sergeant (ex-SAPD Chief)
Bert Karlsson - DPD Sergeant
StatuZ - DPD Lieutenant
[WS]Janar - DPD Lieutenant
Frank Serin - DPD Officer
Julio Collin - DPD Officer
Reece - DPD Officer
KhornateMonkey - DPD Sergeant
Gibson - DPD Sergeant
Ben - DPD Officer
Nexxt - DPD Sergeant
Smey - DPD Sergeant
Drix - DPD Officer (now SAPD Chief)
Paco Velez - DPD Officer

I myself acted as a DPD Lieutenant, also. There are a LOT more that i've likely forgot.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on April 22, 2016, 17:00:27 pm
DPD is still very much remembered and honoured by a select few who still actively roleplay as Sheriffs!

A few more names to add to this list:
Reece
Gibson
Ben

I still remember getting so irritable when DPD was closed in 2011 I think it was (the time I resigned from the SAPD), nobody else quite did, or indeed does now, county RP like DPD did in it's prime...

Simply, in regards to DPD I'd just like to say: Thanks for all the memories, I'd join again in a heartbeat.  :donut:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Leonardo on April 22, 2016, 17:13:10 pm
Just found out this masterpiece, also:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0M4DZgzZ7U#)
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on April 22, 2016, 17:34:24 pm
I seem to recall DPD holding the record for being the first official recorded video of a patrol vehicle jumping over a river... can't seem to find the videos/screenshots though...
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on April 22, 2016, 17:38:34 pm
The SAPD is missing this now, I believe. I see so many SAPD Recruits ripping into people over the radio for not being professional - Feels like they're trying too hard and losing the fun that comes with it.
It must have been early 2010 when I joined DPD, under Cap'n GiacJr. They were very good times.

We tried to do the same when the Argonath County Sheriffs came into play (Frank, StatuZ, Gibbo, Monkey & myself as Sheriffs of APPD, DPD, FCPD or EQPD), but with the recent introduction of LVPD, we never really recruited enough people. When the Sheriff Departments were disbanded in favour of the PD's it was disappointing, but to offset this Command merged SD's with PD's (meaning for a time, I was temporarily Sheriff in LVPD).

I love that we have one big department now, but we are definitely missing the Sheriff's, who 100% made sure people did not take themselves too seriously.

We've had very good staff members who grew from the Sheriff Departments. Some of those are mentioned below, but from our current Command Staff we have Captain Lionel Valdes, of the Argonath County Sheriffs!

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Jcstodd's immigration patrols must be the stuff of legend by now, though Recruits would probably faint if they heard the stuff we got up to (I'm still butthurt now).  :lol:

Thanks for the memories DPD, still a fond friend.

I seem to recall DPD holding the record for being the first official recorded video of a patrol vehicle jumping over a river... can't seem to find the videos/screenshots though...
I'll dig this out, it's in the Argonath World Records topic somewhere.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on April 22, 2016, 17:55:27 pm
http://www.argonathrpg.eu/index.php?topic=60671.0 (http://www.argonathrpg.eu/index.php?topic=60671.0)

The record is here.
Can't remember quite when they did it though - AWR had two topics.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Lionel Valdes on April 22, 2016, 19:55:34 pm
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We've had very good staff members who grew from the Sheriff Departments. Some of those are mentioned below, but from our current Command Staff we have Captain Lionel Valdes, of the Argonath County Sheriffs!


Thanks for the mention, Ben. I still have some screenshots from FCPD, if only I can find them...
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Dusty on April 22, 2016, 20:29:25 pm
I have not yet joined Argonath when this ''DPD'' had existed.

But by looking at the info,history, I can see that it was really free. There was no proffesionalism forced in the department.

But, since I am a person who likes proffesional and serious organizations, if I was in Argonath back in the day, I would probably moan about DPD's unproffesionalism.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Leonardo on April 22, 2016, 20:39:03 pm
I have not yet joined Argonath when this ''DPD'' had existed.

But by looking at the info,history, I can see that it was really free. There was no proffesionalism forced in the department.

But, since I am a person who likes proffesional and serious organizations, if I was in Argonath back in the day, I would probably moan about DPD's unproffesionalism.

DPD had no specific guidelines about the officers' conducts on duty, differently from the city departments, who usually required a certain organization (usage of TeamSpeak, padronized callsigns, etc). You were free to perform as you wanted, as long as it was cop job - that does not means we didn't get the bad guys, i can remember well DPD was for once the most crowded PD, we even had to close the transfer requests as there were too much officers in it.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Rusty. on April 22, 2016, 20:46:17 pm
The first department I joined when accepted into SAPD years ago, I had transferred out after a short time period to San Fierro.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on April 22, 2016, 21:43:33 pm
I have not yet joined Argonath when this ''DPD'' had existed.

But by looking at the info,history, I can see that it was really free. There was no proffesionalism forced in the department.

But, since I am a person who likes proffesional and serious organizations, if I was in Argonath back in the day, I would probably moan about DPD's unproffesionalism.

When I first got DPD I don't recall being particularly pleased. My first stint on duty with them changed my mind. Immense group of guys and fantastic roleplayers. We're not talking about traffic stops here. We're talking large scale immigration patrols, torture in Tierra Robada, throwing people off dams. Hell, civilians would actually go TO people RPing sheriffs because they wanted to be arrested, because the RP was fun.

Had some mega names there too. It's not all about being serious, the SAPD are really serious now, DPD was like the polar opposite. The "city boys" did their thing and the sheriffs did theirs.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: MrTrane on April 22, 2016, 21:50:59 pm
The first department I joined when accepted into SAPD years ago, I had transferred out after a short time period to San Fierro.
Same here, good times.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: [R*]Drix on April 23, 2016, 00:08:00 am
I was DPD to you know..  :angel:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on April 23, 2016, 00:39:03 am
Command staff are all ex-DPD... sounds like a reopening could be in the works? <3
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on April 23, 2016, 00:49:40 am
I was DPD to you know..  :angel:
I thought so! You do have that more relaxed attitude  :lol:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Jcstodds on April 23, 2016, 10:55:00 am
I was DPD to you know..  :angel:
We always needed someone to clean the mess in the shower room  :lipsrsealed:

I love to reminisce about DPD, it was full of some of the most enjoyable, crazy and entertaining players, all come together to be cops of all types working together. There were big events and strange training sessions, but also the little things that some may not be aware of.
Ya see, the countryside was not a very active place for players. Patrolling it could be very boring, so part of being DPD was finding ways to entertain ourselves, and the best way to do that was to interact with the few people we actually saw. Organizing a patrol, with callsigns, objectives, air support - could take 20 min just to set up, and it would only take 3 minutes to cover the entire Red County (code 5) to find there was no one around. Same with all the other counties. So when we eventually came across another player, it was refreshing.
I enjoyed the illegal weed farmers. Because to the Sheriff, they are the workers and farmers of his towns - the main citizens! So we would roll up, they might be terrified that their weed will appear in front of the cops, but actually we would just check up to see if they had any problems. We would actively try to help our citizens. Sometimes we would have to chase off bandits who raided these farms and stole from our local farmers.
I would actually get 911 calls for people who needed help for roleplay reasons, or for genuine reasons of being attacked. Or from criminals taking advantage of the Sheriff's simple nature to fight for their own gain. It was brilliant!

The big events were great in their own way - for everyone to come together as a team, for a purely RP objective, or do some training which was not quite part of the SAPD guidelines. Some of the more active  things I remember: The DPD riot police aka "Hippie Bashing squad", Immigration Patrol, border checkpoints, paintball style training, SWAT style training with DPD twist, the Sheriffs whiskey tax (aka money truck or drug truck). 

Also DPD was very good at investigating criminals - because orange did not always = guilty. If we investigated and they gave a convincing story, or there were witnesses or reasons for the crime, DPD were some of the few officers who would not just jail because they are orange. Or if they were guilty, jailing was usually the quick choice for the criminal since we were quite creative in how to deal with the miscreants and bandits....

Anyway it's great to see that DPD hasn't completely faded into obscurity, and I hope the free style of RP where there is no winners or losers carries on in Argonath today still.


EDIT:
I found an old patrol report containing DPD stuff.
http://arpd.argonathrpg.com/forum/index.php?topic=27086.0 (http://arpd.argonathrpg.com/forum/index.php?topic=27086.0)
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Huntsman on April 23, 2016, 20:34:28 pm
It's probably gonna be strange coming from me, who actively roleplays as a Sheriff and leads a little Sheriff group of his own, and I want you to keep in mind I don't want to offend anyone or such, but I as an outsider, really disliked DPD. In my opinion, from what I observed outside the DPD, it was just a waste of SAPD's resources. Let's be honest here, DPD did produce some very good quality roleplay, but when it came to actually enforcing the law, well, DPD was never there. You'd rather find them roleplay a minority harassment in Los Santos rather than actually patrol the counties, and whenever there was a suspect in the counties, DPD was nowhere to be seen. It was a department for those who wanted to be SAPD, but did not want to actually work. Roleplay was fun and all, but I hardly saw DPD doing anything useful to the rest of the LEO's, well ,apart from those border operations, those were pretty neat. I really do not understand why people seem to be so nostalgic about DPD. Maybe it was fun for those who were in the department, but atleast during my stay in Argonath, I really witnessed nothing spectacular about DPD at all. I remember when we opened BCSD, DPD people complained that we're kind of intruding their jurisdriction, yet they were never to be found in it and SAPD just relied on us for backup. We, in the SASD, do in fact try to keep up a limited portion of the so called DPD legacy, we do roleplay being drunk, we do roleplay unofficial means of dealing with suspects and such, we do roleplay smartass rednecks for most part, but we do it alongside our SAPD responsibilities. We patrol, we respond to calls, and I always encourage the fellow Deputies to stay in the counties as much as possible, so if a situation arises, we're the first to respond. Espeically now, when after RS5.2 we've got quite an influx of visitors to the county. DPD did good on roleplay, but the latter part of my statement - not so much.

Once again, please keep in mind this is my opinion from an outsiders point of view. I serve no purpose of offending anyone with this.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on April 23, 2016, 21:00:41 pm
I'd agree that there was a difference between what we and the other PD's called infractions...
But we did some really good work, involving new Freecops (actual freecops, not ARPD Officers) in the roleplay, as well as civilians. Case in point is the current SAPD, who may be very efficient but struggle to negate the bad feeling between them and general populace (as well as the criminals).

DPD was, and still is, the much-needed balance which allowed the SAPD to role-play in different ways and engage with other members of the community. Punishments were given, and those who broke the law were still punished. Things were just done a little differently.

You'd be surprised with the criminals we brought in, but as you would expect we did not bring many people in for traffic violations - Less people, less infractions.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on April 23, 2016, 21:23:04 pm
Well look at the officers it has produced. You've seen for yourself that virtually the whole upper command staff were in DPD  :cop:
Perhaps you didn't get involved with DPD to the extent others did.

DPD never had a huge scale department like some other departments anyway, but we ALWAYS responded to calls just the same as anyone else. Perhaps you weren't ingame enough to see it?

The point of DPD was to do the job and have fun, and to provide fun for people other than themselves too. Some would argue that the SAPD lacked this RP ever since the closure of DPD.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Jaka on April 24, 2016, 17:33:39 pm
I always wanted to be a part of DPD but I was always way too f**king stupid to follow the rules, so I got community banned and when I came back DPD was gone, I absolutely loved seeing the videos and screenshots, I have read over the old DPD topic, if I go on duty I use the DPD vehicles. So yeah DPD is best PD.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Salmonella on April 24, 2016, 21:49:47 pm
DPD was great, another prominent member was =AV=StatuZ, whom I just remembered sent me this a long, long time ago, when something as great as DPD could still exist in SA:MP Argonath. :)

(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6363/2v7zad11.png)


Dillimore Police Department

(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6363/2v7zad11.png)

Dillimore, October 21th, 2010

To: Sergeant Salmonella, of the San Fierro Police Department
Regarding: Speeding and Reckless driving

Dear Sir/Madam,

During the course of the day on October 20th, you were caught by one of the Dillimore Police Department's Traffic Cameras. Now as you know it is illegal to speed in excess of 80 Km/h in the state of Argonath and even with the 10 Km/h allowance over this speed you reached the speed of 130. It imperative that you take into consideration the Citizens and the Police Officers of the United States of Argonath.

Being an Officer of the Law you need to take better stance against the Speeding in the Country. Now no matter what the reasons of your speeding your Emergency Lights were not on when you were breaching the speed limit past 80 km/h. Just because you are an Law Enforcer you do not have the right to break the Law and you can still be fined for your actions.

This is an Official Ticket from The Dillimore Police Department

The following actions are required to avoid legal actions and a mark on your SAPD Career.

1. $250 Ticket to any Dillimore Police Department Sergeant +

Failure to Comply with this Demand will result in the following.


1. A Lawsuit will be filed against you for the amount of $250 Plus court fee's plus the Officer's payment for missing work to tend to the legal service which comes to a grand total of $2500
2. A Note on your SAPD Application / A letter send to your Lieutenant / Captain

Below is a List of People who you may pay your fine to at Dillimore Police Department.


Captain

GiacJr
··Lieutenant
Smey
[SACS]StatuZ
··Sergeant
Bert Karlsson
=AV=Nexxt
[SACS]F.Serin



Have a Wonderful day.

Signed,

Dillimore Police Department Lieteunant StatuZ




Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on April 24, 2016, 22:34:58 pm
Mr. Walker, indeed. He's on the list!
Smey and Nexxt as well, can't believe I forgot either of them were DPD  :v:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: DeeJay on April 25, 2016, 03:12:40 am
And where's my name? I was the DPD Commander too.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on April 25, 2016, 08:39:25 am
Fakecop  :leroy2:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: DeeJay on April 25, 2016, 13:43:06 pm
Fakecop  :leroy2:
Well atleast I'm not as fake as you are.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on April 25, 2016, 13:53:18 pm
Fakecop  :leroy2:
Well atleast I'm not as fake as you are.
Not sure if serious  :trust:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: [R*]Drix on April 25, 2016, 15:18:00 pm
Let's not derail this beautiful topic!
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Leonardo on April 25, 2016, 18:32:54 pm
The current Chief and Deputy Chief of SAPD were proeminent members of the DPD... I guess even though all criticism, we were a formation school of decent officers, at least? :roll: :cop:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on April 25, 2016, 18:53:32 pm
The current Chief and Deputy Chief of SAPD were proeminent members of the DPD... I guess even though all criticism, we were a formation school of decent officers, at least? :roll: :cop:
Good times eh, haha  :v:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: [WS]Paco on April 27, 2016, 22:07:39 pm
Thanks for the remembrance here, Leo! Former DPD Officer here!  :police:
Pretty sure Mahome and/or Malcolm was a part of DPD too
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: [R*]Drix on April 28, 2016, 02:17:06 am
Thanks for the remembrance here, Leo! Former DPD Officer here!  :police:
Pretty sure Mahome and/or Malcolm was a part of DPD too
They LSPD
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Swig on May 25, 2016, 01:02:42 am
I can still remember the days we patrolled around the counties.. DPD was a very special division to be a part of, we had a lot of fun, all of the officers who worked in this department..
We also worked so hard to keep that department alive, just because of all the factors that made DPD so special at that time.. We had some great times together  :lol:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on May 25, 2016, 01:14:47 am
I can still remember the days we patrolled around the counties.. DPD was a very special division to be a part of, we had a lot of fun, all of the officers who worked in this department..
We also worked so hard to keep that department alive, just because of all the factors that made DPD so special at that time.. We had some great times together  :lol:

Bro <3
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: TinMan on May 25, 2016, 07:59:18 am
I only remembered DPD driving off road and using the wrong ramp.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on May 25, 2016, 09:02:03 am
I only remembered DPD driving off road and using the wrong ramp.

You always seemed to be in love with that intersection...  :lol:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on May 25, 2016, 09:31:07 am
Well he is the Protector of Mulholland Intersection...
 :app:

I can still remember the days we patrolled around the counties.. DPD was a very special division to be a part of, we had a lot of fun, all of the officers who worked in this department..
We also worked so hard to keep that department alive, just because of all the factors that made DPD so special at that time.. We had some great times together  :lol:
Good times, good times.  :v:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Swig on May 25, 2016, 19:10:33 pm
Well he is the Protector of Mulholland Intersection...
 :app:

I can still remember the days we patrolled around the counties.. DPD was a very special division to be a part of, we had a lot of fun, all of the officers who worked in this department..
We also worked so hard to keep that department alive, just because of all the factors that made DPD so special at that time.. We had some great times together  :lol:
Good times, good times.  :v:

yeah :D and all those immigrants we deported ;p
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Hidduh on September 16, 2016, 12:18:07 pm
I just noticed this topic and man, not enough words to explain how much I miss this. :D
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Jason J. Dilworth on September 16, 2016, 14:38:51 pm
I got shitloads of pictures, might share a few. Also, you forgot me from the list, I was a DPD Sergeant back then.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Kyle McDane on September 16, 2016, 18:12:02 pm
Suck It! SFPD fo Life!! :cool:

On other note, yeah DPD was really good. I used to be more of a criminal during those days and well, DPD guys were in general known as trollers.  :roll:

But yeah, never liked too much professionalism and if DPD really was like how you mentioned it, I hope it'd be back one day.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on September 17, 2016, 01:21:24 am
I got shitloads of pictures, might share a few. Also, you forgot me from the list, I was a DPD Sergeant back then.
Mr Walters  :D
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julian_Garver on September 17, 2016, 08:08:12 am
I personally was SFPD but DPD was a aight group and Khornate monkey was awesome :p
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on December 23, 2017, 00:08:33 am
Bringing this topic back for the new boys. Let's continue to share the love and make cop/civilian RP something to enjoy.  ;)
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on December 23, 2017, 00:28:41 am
Rereading this topic has made me so nostalgic. That was such a brilliant group of guys who roleplayed fantastically and had good senses of humour!

The SAPD may have been professional and fundamentally enforced the law, but DPD as a subgroup was by far the most fun to RP with and made cop RP fun for me to be honest. This didn't make them ineffective though, I seem to recall the old DPD SWAT team having a fearsome reputation.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Hevar on December 23, 2017, 21:14:55 pm
omg i remember my time in DPD during 2010, it was lit
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: John Ley on December 24, 2017, 01:22:10 am
Well, can we bring DPD back ? Is it too late ?
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Ben on December 24, 2017, 01:27:16 am
Well, can we bring DPD back ? Is it too late ?
Difficult to do now unfortunately, with less SAPD staff. We keep the spirit alive when we patrol the counties though  :v:
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: KhornateMonkey on March 14, 2019, 21:23:46 pm
Now this sure is a blast from the past
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Badandy on March 14, 2019, 21:39:11 pm
Now this sure is a blast from the past

That is sure a long time ago, I remember when I was in SAPD back then.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Kowalski. on March 14, 2019, 21:53:43 pm
Now this sure is a blast from the past
lol wb monkey
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Jcstodds on April 04, 2019, 14:54:36 pm
Here is a small collection of patrol reports from DPD for your nostalgic enjoyment.

I will hope to bring some of this back in GTA V:MP. (http://arpd.argonathrpg.com/forum/index.php?topic=27086.msg259878)

Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Julio. on April 04, 2019, 17:50:38 pm
Looking forward to it Jcs, looking to do more PC gaming again now so I reckon GTA V and CS:GO will be the "go to" games.
Title: Re: DPD and it's legacy
Post by: Reece on April 14, 2019, 23:14:38 pm
Obviously this topic is very old, but what a great time.

DPD were the best times I ever had in Argonath.
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