APD Handbook Update 6/16/2019

[Pledge 2293]

Chapter I - Professional Standards

1. Conduct
   
   1.Officers are allowed to conduct themselves casually with civilians, so long as they do not go out of their way to excessively insult a civilian or go outside the boundaries set forth by the server rules.
   
   2.Officers are expected to obey ALL directions of higher ranking officers.
   
   3.Officers that do not intervene when other officers are breaking rules may be subject to discipline.
    
2. Role Playing 
   
   1. Officers are expected to role play in every scenario they encounter.
   
   2. Officers are expected to maintain their character in every scenario they encounter.
   
   3.Rule quoting while on duty as a cop or off duty may be met with disciplinary actions. If a situation arises where you feel that you were wronged, you may try informing the person in a constructive manner. If a report is submitted, it will be evaluated on a case by case basis.
    
3. Metagaming - See Server Rules 
   
   1. Officers are not to use information gathered while playing as a civilian to carry out their duties as an officer or vice versa.
   
   2. Officers are to wait at least 15 minutes in between switching factions to prevent metagaming if you are on the same server.
    
4. Individual Officer Redeployment 
   
   1. APD members may respawn to any HQ if there are (5) five or less officers on the server
   
            1. EXCEPTION: If you die at or around an active Federal Event and you accidentally re-spawn at the wrong HQ, you may re-spawn back to the HQ nearest the active Federal Event.                                                                                                                                                                                    
            1. EXCEPTION: Deputies that are unaccompanied by a PO or higher may respawn to join a higher up if they are not leaving or joining an active situation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
5. Server Redeployment 
   
   1. Server redeployments should be conducted by Corporals and higher when it appears that officer placement is unbalanced.
   
           1. Corporals must be on the server at the time of the redeploy
          
   2. Full APD redeployments are conducted by Sergeants and higher to redistribute an unbalanced APD force between all of the servers.
   
           1. EXCEPTION: FTOs may conduct redeployments across servers

 

Chapter VI - Processing Suspects

1. Processing Suspects
   
   1. Suspects are to be notified as to why they are being restrained
   
   2. Suspects must be processed within 15 minutes after being restrained.
   
   
            1. Exceeding the 15 minute limit is grounds for cruel and unusual punishment and all charges are pardoned.
   
            2. The 15 minutes DO NOT start until the situation has been fully neutralized.
   
            3. If processing 5 or more suspects, then APD is allowed to go over the normal 15 minute rule within reason.
   
            4. If processing more suspects than the amount of officers currently available, then APD is allowed to go over the normal 15 minute rule within reason.
   
            5. If the civilian chooses to RP the situation, such as just randomly talking or asking questions, the 15 minute rule starts at the end of the RP session.
          
            6. The processing must begin within 5 minutes of capture and clearing of the situation (excluding transport and other exceptions to the 15 minute rule)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
   3. Suspects may be taken to a safer area (e.g. a police HQ) to be processed. If a suspect is killed while in police custody, their charges will be pardoned ONLY if the death was a direct result of the actions of the police officer. (IE: An officer crashing a vehicle that results in death, etc.)
   
   4. Suspects may request a superior officer, provided they have a valid reason to do so.
   
            1. The handling officer must make an attempt to request their immediate superior officer.
   
           2.  If the superior officer is too far or busy, they can decline to respond, and the suspect is processed by the handling officer.
   
           3. The 15 minute rule does not take effect until the superior officer has entered the area if they are going to handle the request.
2. Processing A Criminal
   
   1. When processing suspects always follow the L.I.S.T. acronym.

                1. L – Licenses. Check licenses.

                2. I – Inventory. Search the player and their backpack if you have probable cause.

                3. S – Seize weapons if you have probable cause.

                4. T – Ticket the suspect.
 

      2. A suspect may waive their rights and allow an officer to process them despite any active situations. Once a suspect has waived their rights, they are waived for the rest of the time that they are in police custody.

               1. Suspect must be in a panic room.

               2. Suspect must give verbal or written consent to an officer. 

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 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.

         7. Lethal force is authorized against any party the ghosthawk is guns-hot against.

         8. Patrol Officers may be authorized to use lethal force by a senior APD member during "Any Means Necessary." or during a Federal event at a seniors discretion.

1. 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.

 

 

 

 

Alright so a bit of housekeeping things here:

 

1. The FTO change DOES NOT mean that they officially outrank Corporals. You are still equals, but they have the ability to force POs to switch servers.
2. No more lethals at fed events, I keep my promises.
3. Due to some abuse, the Anti-Air being hacked no longer means an active Federal Event.
4. The Senior APD has officially raised the application requirements for deputy from 28 hours on the server to 50.
5. Additionally, any deputy that fails TWO consecutive PO tests will be removed for one week, and will have to re-apply and retest to be considered for PO again.

[Sho 186]

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[GregoV1 981]

 

 

 

7 minutes ago, Pledge said:

The Senior APD has officially raised the application requirements for deputy from 28 hours on the server to 50.

Less dumb deputies!!

[Danger 729]

Nice updates, good job! -1 for taking away PO lethals at feds though.

[hawk 1527]

OmG pO LeThAls WiLl nEvEr bE ReMoVed!!!!!!!!

[zoomzooooooom 2383]

since im an fto now does that mean i like all ur posts about apd and say "nice stuff pledge!" ???

[hawk 1527]

3 minutes ago, zoomzooooooom said:

since im an fto now does that mean i like all ur posts about apd and say "nice stuff pledge!" ???

Stop being gay thx

[zoomzooooooom 2383]

1 minute ago, hawk said:

Stop being gay thx

Nice stuff Hawk!

[Mr GOAT 2081]

1 hour ago, Pledge said:

Due to some abuse, the Anti-Air being hacked no longer means an active Federal Event.

This kinda doesn’t make sense

[Panda :) 1920]

25 minutes ago, an overweight giant retard said:

This kinda doesn’t make sense

What you mean?

The way it was being abused people were doing feds late at night when there was the minimum cops and to keep them from logging they would constantly hack the aa since there is no cool down on it they could do it over and over and at the time when the aa was hacked it was considered active fed and you aren’t allowed to log during a active fed so they could keep the cops on long as they want.

[PoptartRex 3294]

8 minutes ago, Snort 2 said:

What you mean?

The way it was being abused people were doing feds late at night when there was the minimum cops and to keep them from logging they would constantly hack the aa since there is no cool down on it they could do it over and over and at the time when the aa was hacked it was considered active fed and you aren’t allowed to log during a active fed so they could keep the cops on long as they want.

It doesn’t make sense because this wasn’t how the logging off policy was handled with goat and I’s tenure.

The 5 or more script only applies to the physical events, so anti-air keeping cops on wasn’t a thing.

[Hazardous 534]

pog

[Zahzi 3039]

4 hours ago, Pledge said:

Due to some abuse, the Anti-Air being hacked no longer means an active Federal Event.

So a fed/bw with AA hacked but not yet boltcut/planted means no redzone and no waves? Or does this just refer to the ability for cops to log out?

[DominantHare 2]

Will someone who just achieved 28 hours be grandfathered in or will they still have to abide by the 50 hour rule?

[Pledge 2293]

14 minutes ago, Zahzi said:

So a fed/bw with AA hacked but not yet boltcut/planted means no redzone and no waves? Or does this just refer to the ability for cops to log out?

Presently this means no waves no redzone, but I think some new changes will refine this

[ScreaM 1763]

 

[Dangus 629]

You're still Chief, damn @Pledge I thought someone would have couped you by now.

[Panda :) 1920]

4 hours ago, TheCmdrRex said:

It doesn’t make sense because this wasn’t how the logging off policy was handled with goat and I’s tenure.

The 5 or more script only applies to the physical events, so anti-air keeping cops on wasn’t a thing.

It was because you cannot log off to avoid a federal event. Fom what I am a gathering by what you are saying that if during yours and goats reign if a fed started I could just log for what ever reason?

[PoptartRex 3294]

30 minutes ago, Snort 2 said:

It was because you cannot log off to avoid a federal event. Fom what I am a gathering by what you are saying that if during yours and goats reign if a fed started I could just log for what ever reason?

We didn’t enforce staying the entire time an AA was hacked. It’s all about the actual Fed not the AA.

[Danger 729]

How many times does a mong continue to hack aa, leave, hack aa, leave etc...its aids. Great rule update

[hawk 1527]

3 hours ago, DominantHare said:

Will someone who just achieved 28 hours be grandfathered in or will they still have to abide by the 50 hour rule?

Grandfathered in if their application has already been accepted before the update

[Panda :) 1920]

1 hour ago, TheCmdrRex said:

We didn’t enforce staying the entire time an AA was hacked. It’s all about the actual Fed not the AA.

You that’s what this handbook up date is saying. A few updates ago we made it to if the AA was hacked it was just like the bomb was planted and you were expected to stay on until the fed was cleared, but now it’s back to normal.