On top of your regular day-to-day duties within SCO, the TRO is the next step up within our division, the main difference being that you are now allowed to carry a Sniper Rifle. This perk is something taken very seriously and if used improperly, will be removed from you with immediate effect as well as the relevant punishments being handed out.

On top of your current arsenal of weapons, as stated before, you now have access to our Remington-700. Yourself, as a TRO, are now part of our marksman team and you can now authorise things such as a critical shot.

When using a sniper you must follow the rules set by SCO Command, Gold Command and Management for its use. Below you will find a list of requirements for when you may or may not use your sniper.

• You can use your sniper if there is an active sniper present (i.e. Mosins & SVDs) but you must take a realistic approach to the situation. For Example, using cover, and standing still behind a car to take the shot, not running around doing quick scopes, like call of duty.

• Another time you may use your sniper is during critical shot situations at store robberies or hostage situations and heists which may require it.

• The required distance for the sniper to be used in any other circumstances with initiation is not set in stone, but you must be at a reasonable distance and/or a reasonable sniper location (i.e. on top of a building). A reasonable distance is about 50m or over, but can also be a little under depending on the situation.

• You can also do a crit shot if there is one hostage tacker with a firearm and another hostage tacker with a mele weapon. For this you will need the same Ratio (1:1) Rifle trained officer: hostage taker with a firearm. But with the hostage taker with the mele one officer will have a tazer out and when the person in radios say's crit shot authorised the person will the tazer will then taze the suspect with the mele at the same time as the person with the firearm gets disarmed. This can only be done when the hostage taker has a person in TH.

You may have heard the reference of a Critical Shot previously, essentially, this is a procedure practised by our TRO+ officers. To sum it up, if any of our officers meet a situation in which there is no viable outcome that doesn’t involve a shootout, this is where a critical shot comes in. It allows us to gain control of a situation before the suspects have the chance to harm any civilians or any other officers for that matter. This works hand-in-hand with ground units as once communicated, both sets of units can move in simultaneously and apprehend/take control of anyone else within the area.

Critical Shot Criteria

• Ensure the target is situated in an open, non-obstructed area (there is leniency - to a degree, but this is mainly at the discretion of the TRO and that of their capabilities)

• When authorising the critical shot you must ensure the target is stood still with no risk of injury to the hostage whatsoever.

• To authorise the shot, you must communicate in both radios/teamspeak and in game with “Critical shot authorised”. An officer will have to say it to the criminal, and an officer will need to say it on the radio. 

• You must have a valid reason, for example, the hostage taker is refusing to negotiate or constantly making unreasonable demands.

• If the hostage taker is compliant and is cooperating, there is no need for a critical shot to be exectued. You may still take precautions and set up your shot as usual.

• The required distance to use a sniper against weaponry other than Sniper Rifles is 50m. You can make sure you at a suitable range by using the Sniper Distance located in the F2 menu.

• A Sniper weapon should only be used inside if it is the "Casino bunker" at the bend down to the bottom only (should be around 100-110m), but you're allowed to Snipe into bunkers from outside as long as it is above 50m.

• A critical shot should never be authorised within an enclosed space such as a building.

• Any form of misuse will result in the appropriate punishments being handed out.

• Become subject to punishments via staff which in turn result in removal from TRO.

• If you are outnumbered, you can not perform a critical shot by yourself if there is more than one hostage taker.

• If the hostage taker has a melee weapon, you can not perform a critical shot. This would need to be called off normally.