Police Content Fixes and Improvements

Quote from Whitchit

Crime Groups like “Rural Crime” and “Organised Crime” and “Violent Crime” etc.

We may implement something similar to the National Crime Agency however it will not be named this, as that is already a registered name of a specific organisation.

If we implemented BTP specifically it wouldn’t be anytime in the foreseeable future. Planning updates doesn’t take much time. Pushing the devs to deliver them can take months (understatement).

I’ve not had an issue with Armed Cell Vans not counting for firearms missions. If this is the case, make sure that the requirements for the mission are personnel and not vehicles. Please screenshot any instances where it is not working as it should be, and submit it to the support chat in-game for the devs to fix.

I’ve not said anything about the armed units.
I just said about having non armed cell vans.
Thank u for commenting on the other things. Hopefully look forward to seeing them in the future.
do u know why it takes devs so long delivery new updates. It seems to be longer and longer between each update compared to when I first started playing they were regular.

How about getting Pol Air to patrol, like in rea life, the Helos do not just take off for events they actually patrol

Quote from Whitchit

I was replying to someone else as well as you, hence the Armed Cell Van comment.

The Devs manage multiple servers such as UK, USA, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, France, Japan etc. there are lots more than just the three on this forum. The Devs also manage several other mobile games. We are, unfortunately, just one small part of their portfolio.

This will not be happening on the UK server. Our NPAS (National Police Air Service) does not “patrol”. They respond to specific taskings & incidents only. It costs too much to fuel & fly them without a specific purpose. It happens a lot in the US, and this is where I would be glad to see some patrol function for them. This thread is not for the US.

Thanks Whitchit

I just want to underline how broken the ARR for 'police car' is. It's great that most missions accept traffic cars, dog units, PSUs, etc as substitutes for IRVs. I wouldn't want that changed. But by not having an IRV option in the ARR it means we have to manually check after dispatch to see if vehicles incapable of transpor have been sent every time if there's a prisoner requirement on the mission. The current 'police car' option should be renamed 'Any police car', and stay and work as it does now (at least partially to avoid breaking everyone's ARRs, but also because it does serve a purpose), but an 'IRV' option should be added which dispatches an IRV specifically. The US version has this option.

The 'Armed Response Vehicle' should be renamed to 'Any Armed Response Vehicle', to make it clear that it dispatches both ARVs, Armed Traffic Cars, etc. At the moment we have 'Armed Response Vehicle' and 'Armed Response Vehicle (ARV)' which isn't very intuitive.

I agree about exploring the requirement for a certain number of personnel. Leitstellenspiel uses this method quite well with plenty of missions that have low vehicle requirements but high personnel requirements (field fires, for example). Doing it this way is not only more realistic but also encourages the use of vehicles which currently see almost no use: personnel carriers across all three services.

More police missions should require drones. I'd like to see new missions added, and variants of existing missions be added with drone requirements where the player has police drone vehicles. Drone vehicles should also be capable of acting as a police car, perhaps with no transport capability.

The Statement Gathering mission should probably be converted to a timed mission, for consistency about how appointment-type non-emergency missions are handled.

Metal Burglary, which is generated from the Goods Station POI, should have a (low) chance of having a casualty to treat, discovered at the end of the mission. Copper thefts from railways are extremely dangerous irl.

All four Trespasser on Railway Line missions should have a similar low chance for a casualty at the end.

There should be a variant of Animal Attack which requires one firearms officer to attend.

Panic Button Activation should not require a DSU. The nature of these incidents is more that every nearby officer attends (as is evident from the 10 car requirement) rather than needing a dog unit specifically. Given the frequency of this mission appearing as an expansion, the dog requirement is simply an annoyance rather than a meaningful thing.

The probability of a DSU being required for Fight on Train should be decreased from 100% to ~10%.

Internal Theft at Auto Parts Store should be renamed as it hasn't been localised from the US game. I suggest Internal Theft at Garage or Internal Theft at Car Parts Shop.

Group Of Vagrants Slash Car Tires In Supermarket Parking Lot needs similar localisation: car park.

I would like to see some standardisation of mission naming conventions, though I know we're unlikely to get that. What I mean here is the game at one point used generic names like 'criminal damage' but has now shifted towards more descriptive language like 'group of vagrants slash tires in supermarket parking lot'. I personally prefer the older generic style, but if we are going to have the descriptive ones than the old missions should be given a spit and polish too; having a mixture of the two styles makes the latter feel out of place.

Consideration should be given to making Police Medics count as having Public Order Level 2 at least, or exempting Police Medic from the dual-training restrictions. At the moment the game is unable to simulate the reality of a public order PSU due to Sergeants, Inspectors, and Medics all clashing with Public Order Level 1/2 training. I understand that this is a game and there do need to be contrivances for balance, but since Police Medics are pretty much exclusively required on public order missions, they should not be subtracting public order-trained personnel from PSUs.

In recent weeks I had to disable Mission Expansion, and it boiled down to one reason: Panic Button Activations are waaay too common. The probability of spreading into a panic button should be significantly less or the rewards for that mission should be significantly higher. This particular spread is punishing and disruptive in a way that other missions which spread are not. With fire missions, an expansion results in better rewards for the additional resources and is generally welcome. For police missions expansion all too often simply punishes the player as the result of a dice roll.

I also feel DSUs are required for too many missions. Please have a look through and either remove some or (preferably) dial down the probability of them being required. This would be far more realistic - most police forces do not have many dog units available and if resolving calls in real life required them as often as missionchief does our policing system would collapse.

I won't go into suggesting new content packs (having said that, a proper roads policing one would be good, plus an investigation one including CID, forensics, etc), but in terms of low hanging fruit for new units, I would like to see a police welfare unit.

There should be some more use for the Joint Response Unit. Perhaps if players have a JRU there could be variants of missions requiring one which pay a bit more?

Police content in general needs to have its payouts bumping a bit. It is almost universally less rewarding for the investment than fire content.