1. Go to the police station front desk, press E → Apply. Your application goes to the department Inbox.
2. The chief (or someone with hiring rights) offers you the job. New officers usually start as a Cadet.
3. A Field Training Officer ticks off your academy modules. Two tick themselves when you pass them:

• Firing range: E → Firing range qualification. Hit at least 70% of 15 targets in 45 seconds.
• Driving course: E → Start the driving course. Drive every checkpoint before the timer runs out. Each missed checkpoint adds time.

1. At the station duty spot press E → Clock in.
2. Wardrobe: uniforms saved for your rank.
3. Stash: your personal locker and the storage rooms your rank may use.
4. Armory: check out pistols, the taser, nightstick, ammo and more. Guns are registered to you by serial, and every take and return is logged.

On duty you get alerts and the Police section in your F1 radial menu:

1. You can only cuff someone who is not fighting back: hands up (X), downed, tased or otherwise subdued, or approached from behind.
2. Behind the back: they can only walk slowly. In front: they can walk and ride as a passenger, but not sprint, fight or drive. Cuffing from the front gives them a skill check to break free.
3. Press G next to a cuffed or downed person to escort them. G again lets go.
4. Next to an unlocked car: Move → Put in vehicle or Take out of vehicle.
5. Pat down finds weapons and bulky items. Full search / seize shows the whole inventory and lets you take items.

1. Escort the cuffed suspect onto the station booking spot and let go.
2. Press E → Book the suspect on this spot.
3. Take the mugshot (front and side) and their prints.
4. Pick the charges from the penal code. Fines, months and licence points add up by themselves.
5. Sort their property: Evidence (illegal items, unregistered weapons), Property (returned on release) or Keep (stays in their pockets).
6. Pick the outcome: Cited and released, Holding cell (minutes in a station cell) or Prison (each month is one minute).
7. Finish. The fine goes to the department budget and any active arrest warrants are served.

Press F7 (or /mdt) on duty. At a station computer spot, E opens it without using battery.

Warrants go to a judge for approval (see doj). If no judge is on duty, a supervisor can approve them. Approved warrants last a week.

1. Hold your flashlight and aim at the ground. Casings, bullet fragments and blood show with a label and their age. Evidence fades, faster in rain.
2. Walk up and press E → Bag it (needs an empty evidence bag).
3. Use Investigate → Dust vehicle for prints on a car. Gloves leave no prints.
4. At the station lab, press E → Crime lab. A casing names the gun's serial and holder. Blood and prints give a match if that person was booked before.
5. Store bags in the evidence locker under a case number. Every check-out is logged.
6. Use the Evidence Camera for scene photos and attach them to a case.

Surveillance tools: GPS Tracker (track a car for a couple of hours), Ankle Monitor (track a person), Police Drone (a flying camera with thermal), bait cars and VIN checks (the real plate behind a fake one).

• Radar and plate readers: in a police car press F5. Stolen, BOLO or flagged plates give a hit. The Radar Gun works on foot.
• NPC traffic stop: lights on behind a local driver, Traffic → Pull over, then E at the driver door → Talk to the driver. Some are clean, some are not, and some flee.
• Write citation: they get an invoice on their phone.
• Impound vehicle: set a fee and a hold time. A mechanic tows it, or the city tow comes if nobody takes the job.
• Pursuits: Call pursuit shares the car's live position. In a patrol car, J fires a GPS dart at the car ahead. Lay a Spike Strip from your inventory.
• Helicopter (Air division): a passenger presses E for the FLIR camera and G for the spotlight.

Item	How it works
Taser + Taser Cartridge	One cartridge per shot. A tased person can be cuffed for a few seconds
Beanbag Rounds	Loads a few beanbag rounds into the pump shotgun. The target falls and can be cuffed
Pepper Spray	Short range, a few uses. Blurs their screen and makes them cuffable
Nightstick	A hit staggers them and counts as subdued
Armor Plate	Adds armour to your vest
Riot Shield	No sprinting, only pistol or taser while held

Every taser and beanbag use is logged for Internal Affairs.

With the K9 division, K9 → Deploy brings out your dog. It can sniff people and vehicles (it alerts on drugs and marked bills) and apprehend a fleeing suspect. Take cars at the station garage, helicopters at the helipad and boats at the dock. Some vehicles need a minimum rank.