Chapter III - Use of Force
Your First Weapon
1. Your first weapon is always your voice. Always attempt to defuse a situation without firing a shot.
2. If the situation calls for it, you may restrain a suspect or civilian if your verbal attempts to resolve the situation have failed.
Non-Lethal Force
1. The use of taser rounds are permitted when a suspect attempts to flee on foot or in a vehicle, or presents any weapon.
Lethal Force
1. Lethal force is authorized only when non-lethal force has failed or is inadequate to resolve the situation.
1. Exception - Lethal force is always authorized in Warzone, Cartels and any Rebel Outpost.
2. If you have loaded lethals during a situation against a single group and another group joins that situation, lethals are still authorized against all opposing forces.
2. Failure of a non-lethal solution is defined by 2 failed attempts waves with a non-lethal option by an individual officer.
1. Lethal force may not be used until an individual Officer has died twice.
3. Lethal force may also be authorized when the officers are outnumbered by a ratio of 3:1.
4. If an officer is taken hostage or tased during an active engagement lethal force is authorized against the group that tased or kidnapped the officer regardless of wave.
5. If a server reset occurs during an active situation and lethal force was authorized prior to restart, officers may return to the situation with lethals loaded on rebels still at and/or fleeing the situation.
1. If lethals were loaded solely due to server restart happening in 5 minutes then lethals must be unloaded after the restart
6. Lethal force is authorized if it is 5 minutes or less until server restart and the highest rank feels that there is not sufficient time to resolve a situation.
Vehicle Shooting
1. The officers may only fire back when they have a positive location of the unit(s) that have fired
2. If the officers are starting the engagement APD must send a text to a member of the criminal unit from an officer before firing letting them know they will be fired upon by the APD if they do not surrender.
1. Exception - All APD ground vehicles in active pursuit.
2. Once it has been determined that the suspect is clearly evading, they are cleared to open fire upon the fleeing assailant.
PSA: This means that lethals are now loaded after 2 COMPLETE WAVES and are no longer authorized as soon as an officer dies for a second time. These waves should not be a single officer sent to intentionally skip early waves, and should constitute an actual effort to resolve the situation.