APD Handbook Update 2/18/2019

[Pledge 2292]

Chapter III - Use of Force

1. 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.
    
2. 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.
    
3. 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.
    
4. 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.

[PoptartRex 3294]

Why do you lock these don't you want people to ask questions?

 

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[BananaHammock 164]

What happens if other officers join in a situation while you're on your second solo wave?

Do they still have to go for 2 waves? Or does the waves that have already been done count?

Edited February 19, 2019 by BananaHammock
Fixed grammar ^_^

[Mighty 1404]

So if one cops heads to the fed solo because the other officers are across the map, does that not count for a wave towards lethals?

[Pledge 2292]

It would most definitely count towards lethal waves. The PSA is aimed at people having 6 cops at Air HQ and sending a single cop twice to run in and die so they can skip non lethal waves.

2 minutes ago, BananaHammock said:

What happens if other officers join in a situation while you're on your second solo wave?

Do they still have to go for 2 waves? Or does the waves that have already been done count?

The waves already done cover for them, so they could load lethals on the start of wave 3

[Floyd Mayweather 82]

Question I know I asked this before but never got a general answer, what would be the most efficient way to earn an age exception? I don't mean to sound like an annoying person but I just never really get a general answer, I asked once before how to they said earning it so my question now is how does one earn it? Sorry that this isn't on topic towards the post.

[BananaHammock 164]

Just now, 7evenn said:

Question I know I asked this before but never got a general answer, what would be the most efficient way to earn an age exception? I don't mean to sound like an annoying person but I just never really get a general answer, I asked once before how to they said earning it so my question now is how does one earn it? Sorry that this isn't on topic towards the post.

Not the location to do so.

Submit an APD application at https://olympus-entertainment.com/support/ and explain why you think you're mature enough for an age exception.

[Floyd Mayweather 82]

25 minutes ago, BananaHammock said:

Not the location to do so.

Submit an APD application at https://olympus-entertainment.com/support/ and explain why you think you're mature enough for an age exception.

Airght thank you & sorry.

[toxicc 111]

36 minutes ago, 7evenn said:

Question I know I asked this before but never got a general answer, what would be the most efficient way to earn an age exception? I don't mean to sound like an annoying person but I just never really get a general answer, I asked once before how to they said earning it so my question now is how does one earn it? Sorry that this isn't on topic towards the post.

A good start would be not scamming people.

[Messy_0 398]

in non-redzones, how do you define a single wave? if one cop stays alive during an situation (i.e. Gas Station), and then another cops keeps dying and coming back, which is a wave?

[Mighty 1404]

6 minutes ago, Messy said:

in non-redzones, how do you define a single wave? if one cop stays alive during an situation (i.e. Gas Station), and then another cops keeps dying and coming back, which is a wave?

The way he described it, is that the new rule mainly pertains towards the corporals that just sit at the HQ while all the non-lethals push. In a situation like you described, I believe that it would be the usual "when an officer dies twice lethals are loaded."

[Messy_0 398]

Just now, Mighty said:

The way he described it, is that the new rule mainly pertains towards the corporals that just sit at the HQ while all the non-lethals push. In a situation like you described, I believe that it would be the usual "when an officer dies twice lethals are loaded."

Ok. Thanks for clarifying

[MAV 1683]

what about none red zones where there technically aren't 'waves'

[Rossco 1159]

36 minutes ago, MAV said:

what about none red zones where there technically aren't 'waves'

 

1 hour ago, Mighty said:

The way he described it, is that the new rule mainly pertains towards the corporals that just sit at the HQ while all the non-lethals push. In a situation like you described, I believe that it would be the usual "when an officer dies twice lethals are loaded."

^^^This is what I would assume as well

[Noodles:D 765]

Still tho for the non illegal areas I'd like clarification, for a pharma for example where there isn't wave rule would it still be when an officer dies twice? Is this rule pretty much for illegal areas only?

[Christoph 159]

35 minutes ago, Noodles:D said:

Still tho for the non illegal areas I'd like clarification, for a pharma for example where there isn't wave rule would it still be when an officer dies twice? Is this rule pretty much for illegal areas only?

i would say it's when you as a corporal die at the pharma twice or in technical terms die the 2 'waves' then head back the 3rd 'wave' and you are lethals as you have died twice/died 2 'waves'.

however it would be good to clarify for non-legal areas 

[Pablo_Escobar 61]

Say you have something without waves, a jail under 5 people. How would you go about loading lethals? Would we revert to dying twice?

[Pledge 2292]

Official: if there are no waves it happens when a single officer has died twice.

[BananaHammock 164]

3 hours ago, Pledge said:

Official: if there are no waves it happens when a single officer has died twice.

?

[Isaac Newton 1983]

Man good thing I saw this, I love cheesin' me some lethals xD

Deep down I knew it was kinda broken haha. Agree with this change.

[gaz 522]

idk I feel like stipulating that if you are epi’d during a wave that is still the first attempt, would make more sense than just saying waves. Seems like it just convolutes waves unnessicarily. I also just don’t even think its a real problem.

[Mr GOAT 2081]

16 hours ago, TheCmdrRex said:

Why do you lock these don't you want people to ask questions?

 

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Funny, you never asked that to @Dante.

 

[PoptartRex 3294]

21 minutes ago, an overweight giant retard said:

Funny, you never asked that to @Dante.

 

I was too inactive then so I never even realized he locked them too 

 

@Dante wow shame on you

[-dante- 5174]

3 minutes ago, TheCmdrRex said:

I was too inactive then so I never even realized he locked them too 

 

@Dante wow shame on you

I clearly enjoyed the thousand DMs 

[ItsGG 1477]

2 hours ago, Dante said:

I clearly enjoyed the thousand DMs 

You didn't like civs roasting every rule change?