FAQ (Publish Questions You Want Below!) Everyone has had questions about the police department, so I'm here to make an FAQ from information from the developers, and also plain simple answers. (Not all information is guaranteed to be correct and any developer/staff member can leave a comment stating anything different to what I have said.) 1. Can I be [This Rank]? Answer: I have already discussed this with Motown and it is clear that on your own private servers that yes, you are able to choose who is which rank, however on the official servers. Motown has said that it is unlikely in the first place that there will be a police chief (On steam). And he has also told me that even if there is It will be a staff member or a developer. Other Points: Points above confirmed, however, it is not clear to me yet whether there will be a ranking system at all, or whether it will depend on time played on the server etc. 2. Is there going to be an age limit for the police department? Answer: It is very unlikely that there will be an age limit as they do not want to restrict players to what they can do in-game, also players do not want to be hyped up for police department and then not be able to become a police officer. Other Points: Confirmed 3. What are the amounts for the citations going to be? Answer: It is likely that the ticket/citation prices will be preset as this will stop the few 1 or 2 trolls who want to try and ticket someone $99999 for not stopping at a stop sign. But there will probably be different prices for each type of ticket, for example, a different price from Reckless Driving to Speeding. Other Points: Confirmed 4. Will there be trials/courtrooms? Answer: From what I've heard, yes. There will be courtrooms and trials, so there is a possibility that there will indeed be bail. However that is not confirmed, although I think this would be a good idea since not that many people with have money at the start so it won't be like every single person gets bailed. Other Points: Read below Warning: Motown has now confirmed with me that there will be NO bail. The below is a quote from Motown about the jailing system: "When you are sent to prison, you can request a trial if your prison sentence is over 15 minutes. If your trail is accepted, you can plead your case or have your selected lawyer plead your case for you, in front of a row or player jurors. After your time is up to plead your case, they vote guilty or not guilty. There is no player judge. If voted Not guilty, you get set free, and if voted guilty, you get sent back to the prison yard" 5. Will there be sub-divisions (SWAT, Aviation, K9 etc)? Answer: Well we already know that SWAT will be a thing due to the module being shown here. However, we have not been told about K9, Aviation etc yet. I believe that they will not be a thing until the servers are up and running with a strong police system first. As we do not want 10 K9 officers and 2 officers on duty, with 9 dogs running around. And helicopters will probably not be needed at the start. As well as this the developers need to focus on the original police system and the SWAT module before they do anything else. Other Points: There might be different skins for different parts of the map, but this is also unlikely as the whole map will probably just be one police force. Read Below Warning: Motown has now confirmed that they will be looking into K9 someday, but aircraft will not be a thing, even for the police. This is a quote from Motown below: "We'd like to do a K9 unit someday, but for now when or if we ever add animals that can follow the player outside in the open world rather than just apartments/houses. There also will not be any aircraft in Identity, even for police." Motown has also said below the following: "There will be SWAT and detective divisions for the police force, with a limited number of consecutive spots. If Too many SWAT or detectives, or not enough regular cops are online, then the slots are limited" 6. What will the maximum sentence time be? Answer: The maximum sentence time has "For now" been confirmed to be 45 minutes. Although due to them stating it's only, for now, this may change in the future. Other points: Confirmed by a developer, also obviously not every single sentence will be 45 minutes long. It depends on the time. 7. Can an off-duty officer help out another on-duty officer? Answer: A moderator states that there is no way to help unless other officers are in uniform. (On both public and private servers) Other points: A developer also stated that they want there to be a very clear difference between civilians and officers. By Scotty THIS WILL BE UPDATED BELOW!!!!

NativeYoung thanks for your answers, from what I can see they are all correct

For major situations yes, however I thought you were talking about traffic stops and things lol

will we be able to get ouf friends out of the jailtransport process? I will have to confirm with Motown this is actually how it is, but yes i'm assuming you will be able to, I will get an answer from Motown when possible

Hey man sorry If this is not how you meant to come across but that sounded a bit rude. Try to just be nicer about it next time

No, they are not. Police deal with everything normal, then SWAT are used for major crimes like the person you quoted said. SWAT are in no way near the same as the police, and police are always first to respond.

Maximum sentence is currently 45 minutes, I will ask about what you can do during jail and will add that to my Police FAQ.

I agree with this

The reason they limit it is because we don't want 20 SWAT on duty and 3 police officers, it's completely unrealistic. We want a good ratio of police to SWAT. Same with detectives. As we would have 20 SWAT sitting at PD and 3 police officers with almost no backup available unless it's a serious enough situation for SWAT.

It is very likely that this will be available, I will confirm with Motown though to get you a certain answer.

They have not released pictures yet of the police vehicles or anything like that but they will aventually

As Duck said they were indeed delayed however the Town module could come out any day now or could come out in the future

No helicopters will be in the game, or planes for that matter

I'm guessing you and maybe your friend would be the only one in that riot "for no reason" lol

whys that?

Check my FAQ in my signature for information about K9 that motown has confirmed.

Makes sense, thanks for the info

Why are people voting for him? "30%" Taxes to the police, and I'm assuming he's not giving all taxes to police. That's quite high taxes....

Good to see people with real life experience interested in the game and interested in helping out! I hope you enjoy the game when it comes out

I agree with ORBIT here because otherwise everyone would want a special tag for their career, and there is a lot...

Welcome to the community!

Agreed

Nice one to keep the community having fun and active on the forums, I'm sure lot's of people will find this challenging. Good luck everyone!

Sketch artists? That sounds like a bit too much but definitely DNA and that kind of thing will hopefully be a thing

Maybe only on your own server, the official servers will definitely not be using this and also if this isnt for that then what Is It for?