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
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.
Chat Commands
Police Radio
- There is a Police Radio for all On-Duty-Cops to see.
- Type
/pr [Message]
into the chat [T] to text in the Police Radio.
- Type
Location Ping
- There is a Location Ping command to Ping your current location on the map for other On-Duty-Cops.
- Type
/20
into the chat [T] to send off a location ping.
- Type
- You can use this ping for example to ping;
- a Wanted Players location
- where you are right now
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.