Life V Police

Police is still in the working, more features are added over time!

Important

• You need to be OUT of passive mode to be a Police Officer or a wanted Criminal.
  • To do that, press M - Disable Passive Mode

Getting Started | Player vs Player

Go on duty as "Police Officer"

• Navigate to M - Jobs - Police Officer and press ENTER to join the Police Job.

Purchase a Vehicle

• You can use any vehicle for Police Officer, preferably a police car though.
• Open the PDA by pressing the HOME key
• Navigate to the Store and purchase a vehicle.

Spawn your Vehicle

• Navigate to the Garage in the PDA, you'll see your vehicle and you can Request it.

Patrolling for Wanted Players

• As a Police Officer, you will punish other REAL players on the server for various violations, such as;
  • Killing other Players
  • Wreckless driving
  • Drifting
  • Drug Smuggling/Selling
  • more to be added...
• You will be patrolling the city for wanted players.
  • They are marked with a red player blip and a star.
  • Other Officers are marked with a blue player blip with a star.

Punishing Players

• Once you found a wanted player, chase them down and try to get them out of their vehicle!
  • Pro Tip: Use a weapon to shoot the fleeing vehicles tires.
• If you managed to get them out of the vehicle, head to the Police Menu (default: Left Alt + E) - Nearby Players and arrest them through this menu.
  • Line of Sight is required!
• Everytime you arrest a player, you get paid some money.

Getting Started | Player vs Environment

Head on Duty, buy and spawn a Vehicle

• Follow #Go on Duty as "Police Officer", #Purchase a Vehicle and #Spawn your Vehicle

Set necessary Keybinds

• You need to set two keybinds in order to do AI Traffic Stops. Navigate to GTA Settings - Keybinds - FiveM and search for the following keybindings:
  • POLICE: ALPR Keybind
  • POLICE: Traffic Stop Keybind
• Now set those two options to any key you want. Preferably keys that are not used by anything else yet.

Enable Plate Reader (ALPR)

• Press the key you bount for POLICE: ALPR Keybind, which will enable the Automatic License Plate Reader.
• Now the car you are driving will always scan the license of the vehicle infront of you and tell you various information about the car/driver.

Initiate Traffic Stop

• You need to have a reason to stop the vehicle infront of you.
  • The License Plate Reader will tell you if the driver is wanted or if something is wrong with the vehicle.
  • For Example: If the Plate Reader tells you that the driver is CLEAN but the license is EXPIRED, you can proceed to stop the vehicle.
• To do that, you press the key you set for POLICE: Traffic Stop Keybind and then enable your emergency lights to initiate.
  • The car you stopped, either stops, or starts running from you.

Evaluate the Stopped / Do the Traffic Stop

• Your main Traffic Stop menu will be F5 - Police, which has various options you can use.
  • Ask for ID, Warn, Ticket, Detain, Handcuff, Detain in Vehicle, Frisk, Tow Vehicle, Search Vehicle, Grab, Arrest, Release
• To complete a Traffic Stop, you need to find out what the stopped person has done wrong;
  • Such as, they are wanted when you Ask for ID, or they have a bag of cocaine if you Search Vehicle, etc.
• So basically you just complete various options from the Police Menu and find any illegal activity.

• If you don't find any illegal activity, you release the person by selecting Release.
• If there is illegal acitivity, you detain and arrest the suspect:
  • To detain you need to select Detain, and to get them into your vehicle, you select Detain in Vehicle.
  • Now to arrest them, drive to a PD Jail ... , get them out of the car with Detain and select Arrest.

Wanted Player Information

• They are marked with a red blip ... on the map.
• Jailed Players will be sent to the Jail ... in Sandy Shores.
• Wanted Players can NOT do the following:
  • Teleport (/p unstuck)
  • Spawn Vehicles
  • Join Police
  • Enable Passive Mode

Requirements

• There is NO requirements for the Police Job.

Frequently asked Questions

• Q: What if I, as an Officer, just kill an unwanted player?

A: You will get wanted yourself.

• Q: What if I, as an Officer, kill a wanted player?

A: The Wanted Player will lose their wanted level.

• Q: What if I, as an Officer, am speeding?

A: If your emergency lights are turned off, you will get ticketed. If they are turned on, you will be ignored by speed cameras.