San Andreas Police Department | Q&A

[PulseEffect]

I'd like to speak to the SAPD Prosecutor, does anyone know who that might be or such? 

[Andrew Banks]

Caion is the prosecutor

[PulseEffect]

And a reminder to everyone else, ONLY SAPD Command Staff are permitted to respond. Anyone else answering will have your post removed.

[Milano Alvarez]

Lieutenant Caion Cortis is the current SAPD Prosecutor.

SSgt. Rosso

Please do not post here when you are not part of Command Staff.

[Omar_Miles]

I would like to post out some tencodes that would be useful in my opinion.

10-10 = Negative
10-11 = Traffic Stop
10-12 = Standby
10-31 = Requesting Pickup
10-32 = Requesting Additional Units  (BACKUP)
10-35 = Off Duty
10-36 = On Duty

These are pretty used in-game and would be better to put them as a ten-code as they are shorter and more realistic.

[Milano Alvarez]

I would like to post out some tencodes that would be useful in my opinion.

10-10 = Negative
10-11 = Traffic Stop
10-12 = Standby
10-31 = Requesting Pickup
10-32 = Requesting Additional Units  (BACKUP)
10-35 = Off Duty
10-36 = On Duty

These are pretty used in-game and would be better to put them as a ten-code as they are shorter and more realistic.

The '10-32' one will be a good addition, the last two are already codes? Anyways, I'll leave a message for the people that have the authority to change this.

Edit: Not going to happen, our objective is to reduce the amount of radio codes, so studying and acknowledging for several players will be easier.

[Ben Martin]

Dear our bravest Commissioner,Chief, Deputy Chief, Captain, Lieutenants, Supervisory Sergeants, Sergeants ,Supervisory Officers, Senior Officers, SAPD Officers and ARPD Officers

I am writing this post to report about an annoying fact.. and offering a solution for it.
As you know SAPD has plenty of vehicles, tens of Police Bikes ,tens of Police Cruiser, 2-4 Police Ranchers, 1-2 Boats and 3 Police Helicopters
I am disturbed not because of the number of the Police vehicles, My problem is that Officers sometimes leave their Police vehicles in the middle of the road or on the roofs or in the middle of no where, they forget that other officers are wasting their time looking for those vehicles.
Why am I so bothered about this thing? Because I patrol mostly with police helis and I keep wasting daily 5-15 min looking for a heli.
Some officers who pick up a helicopter from any of the three stations DPD, SFPD and EQPD leave their heli in some wierd places,Glen Park, Jefferson, Bone county, in Places that the heli isn't supposed to be left there, and I mostly find the heli on LSPD Heli pad on the roof which isn't reachable.
So I suggest to enact a new law about this which forbid officers leaving the Heli anywhere out of the marked stations which are DPD , SFPD and EQPD.
I would like to hear what you think about my idea and if you think the solution is too strict offer a new solution.

Thanks for reading,
Officer Ben Martin.(=AV=Ben)

[[Rstar]CBFASI]

No law will be made... however it should be encouraged to return vehicles to base on finishing duty...

However if your killed and your transport is left behind... (and this is often why so many vehicles are spread around)

[Ben Martin]

Then please suggest a solution for us who like to use rare vehicles that are hard to find because 5-15min of duty is alot to spend on finding a helicopter

[Ben Martin]

I am actually still waiting for a respond 

[Leon Arallian]

You can't avoid others to take the helicopter, and for them to dump them at hard-to-reach places is unfortunate.
Solutions to this could simply be to ask an administrator to look where the vehicle is (assuming you and he/she knows the ID) and/or to respawn it.
Alternatively you can ask an air division member if you can patrol with him; assuming they've time for this(Since both Andrew and I have administrational duties for instance.) and if you want to, of course.

We can't make a rule on it as said earlier, but recommendations are a given.

If neither can be done, what else can we say but: tough luck? 

[Ben Martin]

I have been working on this program you're suggesting for a while I even ask admins to respawn helis that are not in use and I am not going to use them.
But do you believe the soloution for my problem is asking an admin to respawn a vehicle for me, everytime?
sometimes admins are busy, sometimes there are no admins. what do I do then? tough luck you said ehh?
And you're an ATC member right? I don't get it why you're against making such law, I thought ATC care about people not abandoning their Air vehicles anywhere in the map. I believe this rule is necessary and if you don't think so then tell me what you have to offer ?
I would be happy if you put this subject to be discussed by all ranks..

If a high rank tells me nothing will be done about this idea then I guess I will leave my idea sink in the deep ocean 

[Rusty.]

If we could force people to return PD vehicles to where they were found we would, but this being Argonath it just wouldn't fly.  I'm just annoyed as you but with the cruisers, I hate seeing a messy PD garage or five of them dumped in a pile in some desert.  There is very little we can do to make people return them (with fuel!!!).  Unless the developers created some sort of system where if you want a PD vehicle you could "spawn" one at a PD garage/helipad if on duty and it would disappear when you logged off.

[Ben Martin]

I believe you shouldn't block this idea, and give it a chance.
My idea was:
 "enact a new law which forbid officers leaving the Heli anywhere out of the marked stations which are DPD , SFPD and EQPD."
and you can spread the idea and use it for other vehicles too
I would love if you give other officers the chance to say what they think, since argonath is democratic...

[Jake Parker]

If we could force people to return PD vehicles to where they were found we would, but this being Argonath it just wouldn't fly.  I'm just annoyed as you but with the cruisers, I hate seeing a messy PD garage or five of them dumped in a pile in some desert.  There is very little we can do to make people return them (with fuel!!!).  Unless the developers created some sort of system where if you want a PD vehicle you could "spawn" one at a PD garage/helipad if on duty and it would disappear when you logged off.

Even if it is argonath this idea could help but the messy srreets with pd cruisers won't be solved cuz people will just spawn it again, in my opinion this how it is now is still the best way and the most realistic way.

[Ben Martin]

You know if this new law works out, officers who breaks the law gets cop banned , this way we will be able to avoid messy roads and become alot more organized.
also "this is argonath" or "the most realistic way" isn't an excuse to make this idea fail...
I know you all bothered as much as I am

[Milano Alvarez]

And how are we supposed to see who leaves which vehicle where?

[Ben Martin]

thats another whole subject first I need an approval if you agree that we need this rule or not

[Milano Alvarez]

It's not my call. My opinion is that we cannot enforce people to return vehicles to base.

[Ben Martin]

Government provides officers with equipments and if people don't take care of those equipment they should get punished
like: not returning the vehicles they take.
it is as much abuse as shooting everyone with your duty gun or abusing the radio chat