Life V Police

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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!
  • 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 bound 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, Grab, walk as near as you can to the green jail blip, select Grab again and then 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.

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.
  • 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.