Get whitelisted first
Community whitelist before anything else. There's no point applying to the department if you can't get into the city yet.
Your rank, your badge number and your record stay the same across all three. What changes is where you get sent and how long you wait for backup. The areas overlap in places, so you'll often be working alongside one of the others.
The busiest badge of the three. City patrol means calls stacked back to back, the same faces turning up week after week, and backup usually a few streets away rather than a few miles. If you want volume and you want people, this is where it is.
Out in the county, backup can be a long way off and you'll handle more of it on your own. Fewer calls than the city and a lot more distance between them. Courthouse duty and prisoner transport come with the badge.
The interstate, the state routes and the mountain passes. Fewer calls than either of the other two and a lot more driving. Most of your shift will start with pulling a car over, and where it goes from there depends entirely on the driver.
No previous police roleplay needed. We train everyone from the start anyway, and it's usually easier teaching someone with no habits than someone with the wrong ones.
Community whitelist before anything else. There's no point applying to the department if you can't get into the city yet.
The department application panel lives in #apply-here, and it's where we'll come back to you with a decision.
Scenario questions and your availability. Same as the whitelist: we're more interested in how you write than how many hours you've got.
One scheduled session on radio discipline, traffic stops, use of force and report writing, all under 1995 rules. No instant database checks, no cameras.
Ride-alongs with a training officer until someone signs you off. After that you're sworn, and the badge is yours to pick every time you go on duty.
Divisions like traffic, K9 and investigations open up as the department grows. We'd rather have none than have empty ones, so they'll come when there are people to fill them.
One session, run in voice and in the city. We schedule it around the availability you put on your form. You can't fail it on the day. If something isn't making sense we'll go over it again, and nobody goes out on their own until they're ready.
We take a few people at a time rather than a big group, so there's room to stop and ask questions. Most of it is done on your feet in the city rather than talked through. You'll run stops, work the radio and handle a few scenes that are set up to go wrong.
Most people find the radio harder than the law. In 1995 you can't run a plate yourself or look someone up from the car. Dispatch does it for you and it takes as long as it takes, so a lot of the job is what you do while you're waiting.
General orders, radio procedure and traffic stops. We'll assume you've read those three. The rest you'll pick up as you go.
Ride-alongs with a training officer until someone signs you off. After that the badge is your choice, every shift.
It's all one document. Each line below opens it at the section you want, so you can read the bit you need without scrolling through the rest.
Get these eight down and you'll get through an academy session without anyone having to stop for you. The full set is underneath and you can search it. How to actually use the radio is in SOP-02.
Nothing matches that. Try a number, or a word like backup, warrant or transport.
Yes, every single time you go on duty. It isn't a transfer and there's no paperwork. Your rank, badge number and record are department-wide, so nothing resets when you pick the other one.
No. Officers keep civilian characters. The only rule is the obvious one: what you learn on duty stays on duty, and it never finds its way into a criminal character's hands.
Not remotely. Plenty of the department started with none. The academy exists precisely because we'd rather teach it properly than assume you picked it up somewhere else.
A lot of it. No mobile phones, no body cameras, no running a plate from your own car. Dispatch does your checks, warrants take real time, and a good chunk of the job happens on the radio or face to face. It's slower, and that's the point.
The application is usually back within a day or two. Academy and field training depend on when you and a trainer are both around, so give it a week or two overall.
Yes. Leave it a fortnight and have another go. We'll tell you what we thought of it either way, so read that first. Sending the same application back gets the same answer.
The written answers are what we go on. We're not counting your hours and it doesn't matter if you've never done police roleplay before. What we want to see is how you'd handle it when something goes wrong.
Get whitelisted and join the Discord before you apply. We can't take a department application from someone who can't get into the city yet, and Discord is where we'll come back to you with a decision.
Whitelist Join the DiscordGet whitelisted, join the Discord, and put an application in. We read every one properly.