Common Sense

This section of the Handbook covers "Common Sense" rules and clarifications around game mechanics.

Please ensure that you read and understand these clarifications. Failure to follow these rules could result in removal from the police or a server wide ban from the staff team.

1. If you are not going to the prison or leaving the prison you do not have keys to unlock the doors
   This is to stop lone officers from being scooped up from anywhere across the city and being forced to release prisoners

2. If you are not directly coming from or going to a locked storage container you do not have keys to unlock it (Inspector +)     This is to stop Inspectors from being held up and forced to unlock storage lockers pending raid. exceptions can be made for high quality roleplay but you must go into a police station to get the key

3. Hospital CCTV images. that get sent into the discord channel are only to be used in conjunction with the dispatch in game "Hop on Squad" to images of persons with firearms etc in the channel is classed as metagaming and could result in a ban

4. Discord can be used to arrange things in advance. But using it to summon players to login to the server is classed as meta gaming Examples include: @here we are raiding Balla's come and help is classed as meta gaming. But @here we are raiding Balla's at (sometime in the future) come and help is permitted. 

5. In game recording. You must 1) Must "toggle on"  your body camera 2) Be able to reasonably see the person you are trying to record Hiding on roofs laying down and using 3rd person to record over walls is not permitted. Hiding in a bush and recording is acceptable

6. Use of Police Mechanic "Bob".  you can use Bob in the following circumstances;

   1. Impounding a vehicle / aircraft that will not logically fit onto a flatbed

   2. You have driven the vehicle to a police station / police impound

   3. The vehicle is underwater or otherwise not reachable to a mechanic

7. Tickets issued under the value of £5000 do not require evidence If points(driving, etc) are being issued you are still required to provide evidence

8. Combat Cuffing. To cuff a person they must be incapacitated on the floor either by tackling, taser, hit by a baton round, tripped or have placed their hands up Cuffing someone who is running at full speed or running up to someone who is shooting at you and cuffing them is classed as combat cuffing and can result in a ban. if you are unsure ask. 

9. Evidence used on player reports If you decide to report a person for an offence like RDM for example but survive the interaction in RP, you cannot use the footage used in the forum report until the report has been actioned. 

If the report is:

9. 2. 1. 1. 1. APPROVED - IE a warning / ban is issued - you cannot use the evidence in RP as you could comp request the incident and in RP it never occurred.

            2. DENIED - You may continue to use the evidence in RP without needing staff approval. Only after the report has been actioned.