Armed for Excellence: Police Tools & Equipment 🛠️

Everything below is either bought at your department's armoury or carried in your patrol vehicle's trunk.

🔫 The Armoury

Each station (SAPD/SAHP/BCSO) has its own armoury ped. Items are organised into categories:

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Equipment — roadcone, barrier, road sign, spike strip, wheel clamp, breathalyzer, drug test kit, fingerprint scanner, body camera, camera, GPS, megaphone, police shield, night/thermal vision, rappel kit, diving suit, vehicle tracker, vests, armor, radio.

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Restraints — handcuffs, handcuff key, cable ties, duct tape, head bag, tracking band.

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Forensics — evidence kit, swab kit, fingerprint kit, evidence reconstructor, cleaning kit, broom.

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Standard Issue weapons — nightstick, flashlight, taser, combat pistol, radar gun.

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Advanced weapons — pump shotgun, carbine rifle, flashbang, battering ram (locked to grade 2+).

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Ammunition — pistol, rifle, and shotgun ammo.

🤝 Handling Suspects

Target a nearby player to bring up context actions: search, soft-cuff / hard-cuff, drag, put in vehicle, escort, zip ties, mouth tape, head bag, and lockpicking cuffs. The same actions are also available from the Police Menu → Interactions submenu.

🫁 Breathalyzer & Drug Testing

Target a suspect with the breathalyzer or drug test kit equipped. The suspect must accept the test before the device activates for you — if they don't respond in time, the request times out on your end. Results are colour-coded on the device screen (green/idle, amber/warning, red/over limit).

🔎 Forensics

The fingerprint scanner and evidence kit are used to process a scene: lift fingerprints, collect blood/casing/fingerprint/drug-residue samples, then bring the evidence back to a crime lab for analysis.

🌙 Vision Gear

Night vision and thermal vision goggles toggle from your inventory — useful for searches in the dark or through cover.

🚧 Trunk Tools

Roadcone, barrier, road sign, spike strips, and wheel clamp are placed directly from your inventory to control traffic or immobilise a vehicle.

🎯 Tackle

Press E near a fleeing suspect on foot to tackle them (cooldown applies). Note this key is also used by other systems on the server — rebind it in Settings → Key Bindings if it ever fires the wrong thing.