Stolas

I am not entirely opposed to APD ifrits being claimable there are just a few things.
Could never keep the cop skin so as to prevent confusion for new players. Claim price needs to be the same as a civ ifrit. It would devalue the civ ifrit because as an LT on cop I do not have the fear of it being seized by the APD or another group taking and claiming it. I only have to worry about a rebel group taking my ifrit and claiming it. Because of this I am more likely to pull out an ifrit to push a bank. The more times I pull one, the more likely I am to lose one. The ifrit was given to the APD as a counter for situations in which the APD is already struggling. This means we are generally going to pull them in situations which have a higher risk of losing them to rebels. We already have the risk of them being lockpicked and used against us, taken and chopped, or taken and blown up. Being able to claim them would add the risk of that ifrit being used against the APD in future situations including times when the LT+ who originally pulled it isn't even online. The APD has been struggling in recent times with being overloaded by the number of ifrits used against us. The APD ifrit is a counter, claiming could possibly compound this issue.  
Personally I think right now should be more of a hold off and see how it plays out. Right now we have a new toy, that new toy will wear off and they will not be pulled half as frequently.
 
An idea came up while I was talking with other higherups as a counter if civs where given the ability to claim APD ifrits. Allow civ ifrits to be repurposed for APD use (cops claiming civ ifrits). I think a variation of this (if possible with code and honestly I doubt it because it would be a lot to track on the database) would be cool.
An APD ifrit is taken by rebels and claimed. Later on an LT+ captures that ifrit and takes it back to an HQ. Because it started out as an APD ifrit the LT+ is able to repossess the ifrit and take ownership of it. LT+s would not be able to repossess ifrits purchased from rebels, crafted or comped by the Admin Team.

- Server Rules and Guidelines -
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RESPECT your fellow players and admins. RESPECT goes a long way.
Ignorance of the rules is no excuse to be unbanned/not be banned.
Never fight a server violation with a server violation as this will result in both parties being banned accordingly.
The Administrators of the Asylum servers are all VOLUNTEERS who FREELY donate their time to help keep the servers running, fun, and free of those who would break the rules listed below or endanger the community to the best of their ability.
Your fellow players are what make Asylum what it is. We will not tolerate harassment, disrespect, or personal attacks against any member of our community. Any violation of these will be dealt with harshly.
If you would like to report a Player, submit a Player Report Ticket.
If you wish to report an Admin, submit an Admin Report Ticket.
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General Rules:
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Random Deathmatch (RDM)
RDM is killing/downing another player without any type of HOSTILE role-play being initiated and reasonable amount of time for the target to react.
Intentions must be clearly stated to the intended target, and they MUST be given reasonable time to react. Text messages through phone to the player is a allowed method of starting RP. Initiation last 5 minutes from the time instructions are given.
When initiating in person and you have a gun raised and pointed at the player you intend to initiate on, the gun takes place of the threat. Therefore, saying a threat in a statement for initiation need not be done. Example: Hands up or die/be downed. (Hands up = action) (die/be downed = threat)
Explosives:
Suicide Vests no longer require initiation to detonate in crowded areas or to save a captured gang member. If seen wearing a suicide vest you may be shot on sight by any player without initiation. Speed bombs and Remote explosives also require no initiation to cause harm to players. RPGs and Hand Grenades still require initiation. Initiation, red names, and gang/group initiation is only allowed up to 2.5km. Any interactions of gangs/groups outside of this distance will require initiation even if you are in the same gang/group as the person initiating/being initiated on.
Revenge killing is NOT a form of role-playing reasoning.
RDM rules do NOT apply within ILLEGAL areas.
Cartels, Rebel - 300 Meters. (Arm's Island in its entirety is a redzone. The redzone does not extend past the islands borders.) You must make sure you have your in-game effects volume turned up! This is the sound level for your direct communication. VON is used for Vehicle, Group, and Side chats.
No type of initiation may be done through direct chat, side chat, 911/311, or vehicle via typing. All initiation MUST be done with your VOICE or via TEXT MESSAGE to a specific player.
Sirens may be used by APD Officers to initiate but the officer MUST ensure players are within audible distance of the siren. This is done at the risk and discretion of the APD Officer as they are initiating on everyone within audible distance. The rules around RDM have changed slightly: Please refer to the changes Here!
If a player complies and does what you ask, that does not give you the right to still kill them. You need to have a legit RP reason why they must still die and not having any money when you rob them is not enough. This includes people who are in restraints and have complied.
If a player knowingly enters an active fire fight they do so at their own risk. On the same token stealing another players vehicle is also done at one's own risk.
Property Protection
Attempting to destroy/steal a player's property/vehicle opens you/your group up to one way initiation with the opposing group. Attempting to destroy a player owned home only grants the homeowner one way initiation with you and your group - This does not apply to group/gang members houses or houses you have keys to. The gang spawn building is excluded and all gang members are able to protect this property.  
Asylum aggression system
R E D = Dead 
A player would appear red to you if they have done damage to you or a group mate recently. Players will also turn red for shooting and hitting vehicles you are in. If your gang is at war with another gang members of the rival gang will appear red. If you are in a group with non gang mates the player you are at war with will not appear red to them and you must shoot first before they are allowed to engage. Players may also appear red if they have set their title to appear red in color and are doing so at their own risk.
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Vehicle Deathmatch (VDM)
VDM is using your vehicle as an OFFENSIVE weapon.
Dropping a sling loaded vehicle from a helicopter to intentionally kill a player or cause destruction by "bombing" them is also considered VDM, and is not allowed.
Armored Vehicles may be used in an offensive manner against ONLY other armored vehicles. (Strider/Hunter/Ifrit) due to the difficulty in stopping those types of vehicles.
You may hit a player with your vehicle only if they are firing at you, and blocking your direct/only path of travel. You may not maneuver to intentionally hit a player.
Closing a gate on a vehicle causing it to explode that results in the death of other players is considered VDM.
Using a plane/helicopter to destroy property will be considered VDM regardless is there is a player inside or not.
Knowingly killing/downing spangled players caused by yourself or a group/gang member is VDM.
 
If the player was hit intentionally, and the shooter is in the same gang/group both are held responsible. If the player was hit intentionally, and the shooter is NOT in the same gang/group only the driver is held responsible . If the hit was accidental, and the shooter is in the same gang/group the shooter is held responsible. If the hit was accidental, and the shooter is NOT in the same gang/group then no one is held responsible.   
Intentional contact between vehicles that directly causes loss of life, or the disablement or destruction of the vehicle is considered VDM. Also, repeated attempts at intentional contact that fail to cause immediate injury or loss will also be considered VDM since it's clear of the intent behind the actions.
Car Accidents
If you get in a car accident with another car (civ or cop) you would still need to initiate RP before you can shoot the people in the other car.
Spike Strips
If your vehicle gets spike stripped all occupants of the vehicle, to include their group/gang, are initiated with the group/gang that placed the spike strips. The group/gang that placed the spike strips is NOT initiated with the group/gang that was spike stripped. 
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Combat Logging (CL)
Do not exit the game, return to lobby, or respawn (suicide button) to avoid a role-play situation.
Another player breaking rules does not give you the right to combat log.
This rule also applies to storing vehicles. This includes, but is not limited to, being engaged in a firefight, being chased, or having your vehicle stolen after you pull it from the garage.
You MAY log out if you have been restrained for more than 10 minutes
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Exploiting
Knowingly using a bug or glitch to your advantage or another's detriment is not allowed. 
This includes but is not limited to: 
Being downed/restrained and still having the ability to move. Hiding in places that conceal your player in a manner that is not intended such as, in rocks, sandbags, vehicles, static objects (crashed helicopters and vehicles placed) etc. The use of an increased DPI in order to avoid a fight or death, or any other situation where the unnatural movement speeds would impede an interaction or immersion. Exiting or driving any vehicle or helicopter, locked or unlocked, while downed or in restraints. Entering a player's house/shed by any means other than thru an unlocked/open door. (Including shed skylights). The unflip option cannot be used to elevate any vehicle to any position in which it is not able to be driven to. Dropping Y inventory to prevent other players from climbing ladders, entering doors, or to block roadways is not allowed. Quick Spooling. (See Helicopters in Misc Rules for further explanation) Attaching a macro/scroll wheel and/or any program/component assisting the firing rate of a weapon. Metagaming. Shooting the back of Qilins to cause them to explode. Sticking your barrel through a wall to kill a player. Vaulting Animation to cause your body to stick through a wall to kill another player. Intentionally soft logging after being revived/reviving another player to bypass the revive cooldown is considered an exploit. Bypassing the animation of drawing your weapon (Quick Draw). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Racism
Racism is against the rules, in and out of character.
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Trolling & Harassment 
Excessive trolling and harassment can be a bannable offence! Don’t be a dick!
Admins do events to create fun for the community. If you deliberately attempt to ruin or get in the way expect action to be taken at the admins discretion. This falls under the "Don't be a dick" clause.
Bringing anything that is personal to a player into ANY public space of Asylum, without their explicit permission is not allowed.
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Gang/Group Member Ban (GMB)
**Intentional Harboring of a cheater in your group or gang will not be tolerated and you will be banned when caught if the evidence finds you guilty**
You MUST be mindful of who you allow to play with you and your gang/group.
The Gang/Group Member Ban (GMB) length will be as follows for each member if member is to be found guilty:
Initial Ban: 30 days
Second Ban: 60 days
Final Ban: 180 days (Every ban beyond this will be subject to review and increased as necessary)
These bans are applicable to the entire gang/group but stack individually for each member.
Information DIRECTLY leading to the ban of a cheater will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000,000 and up to $5,000,000 (Pending SA approval and discretion)
***All SA/CM's approval (100%) will be required to make an exception/unbanning from this rule***
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Misc Rules:
Groups
Guessing a groups password to join and betray them is not against server rules. Your group should be more secure.
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Real Estate
Asylum offers a public forum here to conduct, out of game, real estate transactions for in-game money.
Scamming other players via the forum or in-game for real estate transactions is not allowed.
A player may only own 5 houses per server. Attempting to bypass this will result in removal of houses with no comp provided. Continuing to bypass will result in disciplinary action being taken.
Players who are logging in with the sole purpose of keeping houses without actually playing, risk their homes being removed with a warning. Accounts will be reviewed by Senior Admins to determine if the player is playing the bare minimum to maintain properties. ( After 2 months of low activity you will be contacted. Failure to respond will result in removal after 3rd month of low activity )
 
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Side Chat
No voice on side chat.
No promoting other servers/services in side chat.
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Helicopters
Helicopters
Impeding the flight path of a helicopter with your own helicopter is not allowed.
             IE: You hover over a helicopter as it is taking off, it rises up and hits you, you are responsible for the VDM. 
Warning shots are allowed against helicopters that are attempting to land or hover near your position.
If the helicopter does not leave the area after multiple warning shots, you may attempt to disable the helicopter.
Players may use the advanced flight model. However, using/enabling the advanced flight model to take off will be considered exploiting regardless of the situation. Commonly referred to as "Quick Spooling" and is a bannable server violation under exploiting.
Using advanced flight model is done so at your own risk and compensation will not be granted for any arma related bugs while using advanced flight model.
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APD Matters
Refer to the APD Guidebook and the Internal Affairs Division for APD-related matters.
APD (including Captains) are NOT allowed to drive Tempests, Hemtts, or Box trucks involved in federal reserve robberies for any reason.
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Bounty Hunters
It is not intended for you, your gang, or known associates to profit from your bounty as a bounty hunter. This is considered bounty sharing.
Profiting from your own bounty will result in money being removed and possible action being taken.
Please note that if you break multiple rules, you may be punished for all infractions on our servers.
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Stream sniping
Do not use another players stream to find out where they are or what they are doing without the specific streamers permission.
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Governor system
The governor system is intended to be a server wide feature that allows anyone to run for and hold the position. The rule is that you, or any member of your gang CANNOT hold office more than once in a 30 day period. Any attempt to circumvent this 30 day requirement such as leaving the gang, etc. will be considered exploiting. It's imperative that we work to ensure that this server feature is not cornered by one or two groups of people. Administrators reserve the right to review and reprimand as necessary. 
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Buying and Selling of money
Buying/selling of money is a violation of rules which will be enforced with REMOVAL from the server for both parties.
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Gang tags
Wearing a gang tag for a gang in which you are not in will result in admin action. This is being implemented to reduce the confusion during initiation, gang wars, etc. It should go without mentioning that this has the potential to negatively impact a gangs reputation if unauthorized users are representing a gang's tags.
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Rule violation compensation
If you are playing the game and someone happens to break a rule against you. And you in turn ask for reasonable compensation (equal to the  game value of the items lost) or a reasonable amount to compensate for a situation where a monetary value was not lost. You are not able to continue the report process. By accepting compensation you forfeit the ability to report. If you decide to continue though the process, you are liable to be banned for a discretionary amount of time by the reviewing staff member.  To add, every attempt should be made to resolve a violation at the lowest level before submitting a formal report. Accidents happen and people should be given the opportunity to correct their mistake. 
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AFK
AFKing on the server for any amount of extended time in which a staff member determines to be egregious will result in administrative action being taken on you. Your first violation will be met with a warning and a sliding scale of time off the server will be in effect thereafter. Just don't do it. 
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Multiple accounts
The use of multiple accounts to knowingly benefit your other account while both are logging into the server is strictly prohibited.
Examples but not limited to - Using one account to initiate while your other is set up in an advantageous position.
Having multiple account simultaneously running drugs I.E one collecting/one processing/one defending.
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Restraints
Restraints DO NOT extend initiation 
This means that if your group/gang member has been restrained, and it has been over 5 minutes since last initiation, you will need to re-initiate before killing the players holding them.
Administrators have the right to place bans for things that are not necessarily written that we feel to be toxic or threatening to the community.
Any questions, please contact the Admin Team.

Introduction
This guide will provide the Asylum Police Department (APD) with basic policies on proper police procedure. Please direct any questions to Sergeants and above.

Basic Police Conduct
Always keep weapon lowered when there is no threat. (Hit L-CTRL twice) Always be respectful to civilians and other officers. Always follow server rules and police procedures. Always stay in character.

Probable Cause
Probable cause is the reason for an officer to take action. (The standard by which an constable or agent of the law has the grounds to obtain a warrant for, or as an exception to the warrant requirements for, making an arrest or conducting a personal or property search, etc. when criminal charges are being considered.)

What is Probable Cause?
Probable cause is:
Seeing a person or vehicle in an Illegal Area. Seeing a suspect that is on the wanted list with a bounty of $2,500 or more. Grand Theft and Attempted Auto Theft charges A civilian carrying an illegal firearm or driving an illegal vehicle. Suspect evading arrest. Witnessing a civilian self-incriminate (admission to possessing contraband, committing a crime, etc.). Seeing an RV emitting smoke. Seeing a person purposely off-road and attempt to drive around manned APD checkpoints (doing a 180° turn to avoid a checkpoint is not probable cause). Someone currently in the process of committing Grand Theft or has committed Grand Theft but has no charges. Any individual found inside the Federal Reserve. Off-roading (you are only granted probable cause if they do not give a role play reason as to why they are off-roading). A civilian who enters a police headquarters of their own free will. Anyone driving or with keys to the Bank Delivery Mission Camo Hunter Probable cause is not:
You see a truck on a highway, it is NOT probable cause. You see a vehicle NEAR an illegal area, it is NOT probable cause. You are told someone is doing something illegal by a civilian, this is NOT probable cause. Seeing an RV NOT emitting Smoke Knowing that a civilian has committed crimes in the past.  
Witness Types
Direct Witness
If you personally witness a crime, then you are allowed by law to restrain the individual(s) and charge them accordingly, be it with a verbal warning, ticket, or jail time.

Eye Witness
If a civilian provides intel of a crime, it is often very difficult to determine the legitimacy of such claim. Therefore, gather as much evidence as possible, and move forward. (IE: 911 Call comes in about a Red SUV traveling well over speed limits on the highway near the airport. If you see such a vehicle with said description, it is enough to pull them over and question the subject (this does not give you probable cause to search).

Relayed Witness
A relayed witness is simply another officer giving you his first hand information on a crime and/or suspect. Proceed with Direct Witness Procedure at this point.
 

Grey Area
Unfortunately, this comes with the game, and must be treated with legit role-play.
For example, you see a vehicle on a road to/from an illegal area, it is not means for probable cause. HOWEVER, you may pull them over, and question them. You may ask to search them or the vehicle, if they give their consent, you may search their vehicle. If they refuse, you are not allowed to search. If you do NOT have probable cause, you need the civilians consent before you can search. If you are ever unsure as to whether or not you have probable cause, ask a senior officer. If one is unavailable and you cannot get a definitive answer, assume you don’t have probable cause to search. It’s better for one criminal to get away, than for officers to overstep their bounds and violate the rights of the citizens of Altis.

Wanted List/Confronting Criminals
One of your primary duties as a police officer will involve handling civilians on the Wanted List. There are several important points to remember when approaching a civilian who is wanted.

As a Police Officer your primary weapon is your VOICE, you always speak first and use your weapon second. ALWAYS announce yourself as a police officer when confronting a suspect. (ie “Altis Police, can I speak with you?” If possible, try to identify you suspect by name, as to get their attention. Always speak with a suspect before restraining, never run up behind a suspect and restrain them without first making contact with them.
If a suspect flees, you are allowed to use non-lethal force to stop them. If a suspect requests to speak with a superior officer, you must respect their request and get in contact with a senior officer (SGT or above). If one is not available you may proceed with your duties.

Searching
You are allowed to search a civilian if one of the following criteria is met: you have probable cause or you are given consent by the civilian in question.
If you do not have probable cause, you may ask an individual if you can search their person and/or vehicle. If the individual gives you consent, you are free to search them and their vehicle. Obviously if they have something illegal on them, they may not consent. Even though you may suspect they have illegal substances, without their consent you cannot search them.
If you have probable cause, you may search and individual and/or their vehicle without their consent. Just always be sure to follow proper police procedure and always ensure that you have probable cause before searching. If you are ever unsure, ASK a superior!

Ticketing
The Asylum Police Department has a ticket first, jail second policy. Meaning, you should always attempt to give the suspect a ticket for their crimes. Civilians have the right to skip the ticket process and go immediately to jail. Below are a few procedures you should follow when giving tickets.

You will find that many civilians may decline the first ticket you give and request to be sent to jail, only to change their mind at a later point. While it is acceptable to give them another chance to pay the ticket; do not give a civilian more than three chances to pay a ticket. If they refuse the third attempt to pay the ticket, take them to jail. At this point they are only stalling and wasting your time. Always issue a single ticket for all charges and check wanted list. (IE. You see a civilian shoot and kill another player. After restraining them you issue them a $5,000 ticket for manslaughter.
They pay the ticket, as you are about to unrestrain them you realize they are on the wanted list for multiple other charges. You CANNOT keep them detained and re-ticket them. It is YOUR responsibility to check the charges BEFORE issuing the ticket.)

Arresting
After refusal to pay a ticket, you may take a suspect to jail. This is done at the nearest Police HQ. When you arrive at the Police HQ, inform them why they are being sent to jail. Keep in mind, if they request a supervisor at this point, you still must comply and request a senior officer. However, the senior officer does not need to comply if they are busy or too far away. At this point you may send them to jail and collect the bounty.

Ah yes. 
This is coming from the guy who can't act in the least bit reasonable on the server. This is the guy who has 10 pounds of freedom on the internet. And out of everything he could possibly do. The fun times he could make and have, he decided to spam some racist shit on the server. To top it all off he comes to the forums in an attempt to create a divide or at least some piss poor drama.
In a wicked turn of events not a single person jumped on your wagon. Not a single person seemed to agree with you. 
You keep doing you. But you won't be doing it here. Since everyone around here is jackasses in your book, and it's a shit server. I have ensured that you will never be faced with the opportunity to join it again. It seems like such a temptation and a drag for you to join the server. Only to hate that very thing. 
It's sad that you couldn't find the joy or happiness that hundreds others have found here each and everyday. It's a shame that you don't reap the hard work of the devs and staff around here. 
I would remove your account from the forums all together, but I figure I will just let you look on at the things you are missing. We'll take your tongue though and you won't be able to post your edgy messages.  It's my understanding that you aren't able to speak in these ways in life thus why you come here to do so. 
I heard Facebook is looking for moderators, apply there.

I saw youtubers post videos about being on asylum and interviewing people about it.  Made me curious about it from the dying community I was in cause the previous owner was a drunk and never did updates to the server.
I loved there was 5 servers and they were full every day all the time and it was a spam to get in, people were also less toxic cause the toxicity was spread through out the servers lol
I stay around cause I don't feel like I'm done playing arma, and there's really no other community that catches my interest.  I don't find players from else where that seem to draw my attention that.  Plus I like the people around here. Ya'll are good people despite at times being dumb, others be toxic, but most ya'll cool and love to hang out with.

1.  I was eager to switch from Seal Team Sloth to Asylum because Paratus was advertised housing, and also they didn't shove scopes behind a paywall like many life servers did at the time.
2.  What made me love Asylum was that it was a large world, and crazy shit could happen.  All over the map different things were happening and I thought that was really cool.  Though, that has kind of been lost due to cartels and federal events being the main focus of PVP.
3.  There's really nothing else like it, and Asylum is always a great game to play while waiting for something else to come out.  I played Modern Warfare, and came back because Cold War is fucking horrible.  I'll probably be off again when Halo Infinite is out...and if it's actually good.

What initially got my attention a long time ago was seeing they had 5 full servers but I stayed because I loved how much freedom the players have always had in the way they can play. So many life servers out there have all these ridiculous rules that you have to follow and it really trims down your options on what you can do and when you can do it. I haven't actually been in game that much recently but what has always kept me here was mostly the friends I have and the way staff handles things, even before I was staff I felt like one of our key attractions is having grounded admins, something that was at least at one point a hard thing to find in a community.

Hello my Fellow Players, I Like to see the Community chat together as a fun little thing I do so...
How did you find Asylum?
What do you Love about Asylum?
and why do you still play?

Hello my Fellow Players, I Like to see the Community chat together as a fun little thing I do so...
How did you find Asylum?
What do you Love about Asylum?
and why do you still play?

Hello my Fellow Players, I Like to see the Community chat together as a fun little thing I do so...
How did you find Asylum?
What do you Love about Asylum?
and why do you still play?

Hello my Fellow Players, I Like to see the Community chat together as a fun little thing I do so...
How did you find Asylum?
What do you Love about Asylum?
and why do you still play?

@Mitch (IFRIT)How many do you have Hidden?
@Gen. Henry Arnold Do you need help?

Mitch has me handcuffed in the basement and won’t let me see the sky

Making rp fun is a two way street, you made it enjoyable for all of us. xoxo @Micheal schmeichel

get rid of it, limit group size. 

FORCE PEOPLE TO SPREAD THE FUCK OUT. 

the issue isn't 20 cops online. the issue is of those 20 cops, 18 of them are in one big group trying to circlejerk each other for promotions.

Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
 
 
 

Purpose
To establish a standard that all officers should abide by while on duty.

Standard Guidelines
As an Officer with APD you will be expected to follow the Department's Standard Operating Procedures while on duty. All Officers are expected to be courteous and professional at all times while on duty. While on duty you are expected to role-play and follow all server rules at all times. Breaking server rules or role-play may result in disciplinary action up and including possible termination from the Asylum Police Department.

Use of Force
The use of restraints (hand-cuffs) is justified when:
A civilian(s) is a threat to themselves, other officers or civilians. A suspect(s) is on the wanted list and needs to be ticketed/searched. You witness a suspect commit a crime. Civilian(s) are interfering with police investigations(Give verbal warning first). The use of less-than-lethal force (rubber bullet) is justified when:
An individual is evading police on foot. An individual is evading police in a vehicle and ignoring verbal commands. An individual is open carrying an illegal firearm. The use of deadly force is justified when:
Ordered by the highest ranking officer at the scene that is Sergeant or higher. If only Corporals or Constables are on scene, then they must seek permission to go lethal from the highest ranking SGT+ who is on the server. If no SGT+ is on the server, then the Constables and Corporals on scene must take a unanimous vote to go lethal To kill the gunner of a .50 cal offroad, armed Jeep, and armed Quilin. To kill gunners that are on the benches of a Hummingbird Helicopter or in the back of an Offroad/Prowler/Quilin if the gunners are actively firing on officers. To kill a suspect that is in an unreachable location. Locked houses are not deemed as unreachable. Role-playing
As a member of the APD, you are expected to set an example to others on the server. You should role-play all situations to the best of your ability. Small details during a role-play can produce great results and make the game/server interesting. For example, if you pull someone over for speeding you could possibly notify them that their tail light is out or that their tires look like they need air. The sky's the limit when it comes to role-play.

Character
You are to remain in character at all times when you are playing as an officer of the APD. This requires discipline at times, and if you cannot comply with department policies, or there is just that one person constantly getting on your nerves, it may be time to take a break.
When acting as an APD Officer, you must adhere to characteristics that are becoming of an Officer. This list could be changed at any time, as it can easily be quite extensive.
You MUST role-play EVERYTHING. Be respectful towards civilians and other officers no matter what rank. Do not use profanity to harass civilians. Do not have sexual intercourse role-play while on the job. Do not lie, cheat or steal.  
Crowd Control/Interference with police investigation
Often times when you are questioning suspect on suspected or known crime, you will have other civilians attempt to annoy, distract, or in other words, remove you from your duties. It is acceptable to restrain nearby civilians who are impeding you from performing your duties. The best solution would be to conduct your interview/investigation in a less populated area, sometimes this is not possible, if that is the case you can use the procedure below for crowd control.
Procedure
Notify the individual(s) that they are interfering with police work, and may be restrained if they do not immediately leave the area. After a verbal warning and adequate time you may restrain anyone impeding your police work. If multiple suspects are restrained and you are alone, it will likely be necessary to call in backup, as civs will often attempt to escort each other away from the cops. Continue with your questioning of the original suspect and warn/ticket/jail accordingly. Speak with additional detained suspects about their interference with police operations. It is your choice to warn or ticket them for interfering with police business. Additional Notes
Always keep in mind that as a member of the APD, you represent the Asylum Server. When playing as a civilian or a police officer, you should always strive to set a good example to all players. As a white listed player you are held to a higher standard than others and are expected to know and obey the server rules, if you are found violating the rules of the server you can expect to receive more harsh punishment.
Any questions should be directed to any APD staff.
Regards,
Asylum Police Department Staff