If you can speak to a captain and get permission for me to host a one on one or small group training on the weekend I would be more than happy to host it but as @Bilbo Bagginssaid we are not allowed to host normal trainings on weekends.
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So by this logic just because it costs more money and takes more time means that it is okay not to make sense when we could easily have an item and policy change for it that would be more efficient? I think that old habits die hard and everyone is scare to mess with people's houses however just like when the people got banned for kidnapping new players in their house I think this is a necessary change.
So I don't care about people saying it is fine the way it is that isn't the point. This looks like an awesome prison and would be super cool to have in asylum. I don't care about the federal event balancing there should honestly be a boon to cops because it is suppose to have armed guards there the entire time (RP)
So all in all I think a lot of work went into designing this and I think it looks very cool and would enhance emersion. This is about betterment of the server not balanced fed events.
The following is a manifesto for change from an officer who has not touched grass in months.
I am aware that Senior Admins have opinions on some of these (like the sanctity of player housing) so I'd love to see what's posted in response to this. There have been no previous drafts and I have not slept, so bear with me.
0. Transparency
With Sandwich's retirement we currently have Chief of Police Innate, Captain Jr4Life24, and Captain HunterB.
As a Sergeant I have had the ability to bump into some of you in our locked staff channels and hear whispers about what's being discussed or upcoming, but the majority of the APD do not have this luxury and it's been expressed to me that they have no idea what the captains are up to.
I feel that part of the role of APD staff (or mod/support staff even) is the presence.
If you have a question, you can see Sergeants hanging out in the Support channels.
If you need an interview or house raided, you have your Lieutenants in the Senior Police Chambers.
As for the Captains, personally I've mostly only really seen JrNoLife24/7.
Like right now, sleeping in the Captain's Office. Bless his heart:
Even I only really bump into our now only player/non-staff Captain JR, will we be getting another player captain?
Could we see you guys sitting around more often in the open office / non-hidden channels, even if AFK?
What's being discussed and what's the timeline like for your discussions?
An example is my last suggestion about a charge that some old officers didn't even notice was removed from the guidebook, which was initially brought up in TeamSpeak near the end of May and now posted a month ago on the forums, and having heard nothing about since.
This isn't a call-out, but instead just curiosity about what the top end of the APD is up to.
1. Modernize house raiding policy
This document is the Bible for raiding houses, and must be followed precisely at the risk of losing your Lieutenant+ police rank that you've spent months or possibly years working towards earning, and it still mentions crates, barrels, and preventing random civilians from accessing the house for what used to be to protect the inventory. With the risk being so high I've heard at least one Lieutenant mention that they will never bother raiding houses because it isn't worth it, and at that point why even have the policy to do so if people are scared to do so? At least 2 LTs and a current Captain have both suffered loss of rank, temporarily or permanently, over ambiguity or misinterpretation.
This must be re-written for current Asylum, with the amount of Athira/Kavala house camping and kidnapping of both APD officers and random civilians forced into 10 minute timeouts (why do this to random civilians?)
Is the same level of severity required towards preventing unrelated civilians from entering if the locks are toggled?
Are all officers below the rank of LT still barred from entry during a house lock toggle, with failure to comply being considered unlawful home entry?
CST/CPL/SGT raiding policy only applies to suspects actively firing from a locked house, what about kidnapped officers or civilians?
Can policy be updated to permit flashbang-ing the house for hostage rescue, or even permitting SGTs to unlock doors?
2. Federal Reserve Gang Fort pursuit policy
In the event that a vehicle flees the Federal Reserve to Gang Fort, officers are permitted two lives only as it is an illegal area.
Would an exception for this specific circumstance be possible?
3. Restrict Federal Event piloting
How many times have Federal Events been won because someone was "accidentally" was shot out while they happened to be hovering over the rebels' orca parked on the roof of bank. Accidents happen, and hot drops are named that for a reason, you could argue that it's excusable when it wasn't the intended outcome and you also have a dozen dead cops, but I've seen solo pilots hovering over the roof and baiting the rip. While you could argue it's VDM and up to the admins, I'd like a helicopter manual policy for maintaining altitude over or distance from Federal Events if you're operating as a solo pilot.
4. Revive the Marid dead content
Ignoring the complaints about the characteristics of the vehicle, this is a Captain-only vehicle hamstrung by policy wording.
Every officer is aware of how chaotic these large situations can be, and when you have a 10 minute timer on a Bank Robbery to respond, respawn, assemble and roll out in a slower tank, it's just unrealistic to expect any sort of usage.
Even when you are aware you are going to be driving into a 16 vs. 6 Bank or Federal Reserve and the proliferation of RPG usage, I do not understand why Captains aren't permitted to make a judgement call to use the vehicle at their discretion for Federal or Admin Events when they are some of the most trusted and senior members of the community, and also sometimes server staff.
They are trusted with looking at the government identification of minors, but not when to use a 12 man suicide box.
5. Probable cause for civilians witnessed lockpicking police restraints
Lockpicking or boltcut-ing police restraints outside a police HQ does not grant you probable cause to seize the boltcutters or lockpicks, even if witnessed.
An exception was made for PC to be gained for attempted auto theft/grand theft, and I request one for this situation.
6. Questions and Clarifications for the APD Wiki Guidebook:
The majority of these aren't questions I have, but rather questions I've been asked by newer officers who don't have the months or years of experience that the rest of us staff members have. You may argue that some of these are common sense or that as soon as a specific line is drawn people would toe it, and I agree but there's an unneeded amount of ambiguity in the writing.
General Clarifications
How are officers supposed to deal with contraband in tents or tents involved in Federal Reserve robberies?
Special charges for rebels who use downing/tracer ammo?
Under Processing/Ticketing:
Add reason to not read charges if they want to go to jail, don't rely on the word "immediately"
Ticket Price, explain what happens when 50% increase + 50% reduction for non-evasion/non-aggressive
Under Ticket Guide
Possession of an Illegal Firearms charge lists MXs with lethal ammo, despite the MX itself now being illegal
Under Processing/Bounty Hunters
"Fully revoke?" = does this mean for the restart, poor choice of words
Why is this a list with one reason listed? Should be shortened and made more concise.
Explains that you should only "fully" seize a license for a restart if they're kidnapping officers or civilians, last list adds abusing a SPAR.
SPAR section should maybe include a note that seeing a drum mag loaded is illegal lethal ammo, some civilians have pretended to be bounty hunters.
This entire section needs to be re-written and made more concise.
Under Internal Affairs
This is the biggest "this should be common sense", but the policy for processing "known associates" (full ticket or jail) should be listed in the processing section, as well as including the policy update explaining what that means. I've been asked how it works for cadets and their tether if one of the two is associated, and whether they can issue half tickets.
Thanks for reading my 5 AM ramblings , and if there's any other officers who have questions, concerns or need additional clarification feel free to contribute.
Regards, Sergeant Kernikov APD Staff
Others make tons of things to talk how to improve Asylum... I don't see them getting a post made saying #(Insert Name of user who is motivated to fix Asylum Here)4CM
You don't see them getting posts made because they're not typically higher ups.
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