Which NPCs are considered "Government Employees"?

So, a question has come up recently to me, mostly from cops.

Some are saying that NPCs such as the storage employee are considered a "Government Employee" and therefore can't lie as per the Law/Server rules, but others say they aren't and aren't willing to stake a crime sentence based on them.

And I realised, I'd just accepted verbatim that pretty much every NPC is considered completely impervious to lying, but for example, why would the McUwes NPC actually give a shit about telling the truth to the cops, or even get involved at all. Why would the Storage NPC rat on people who give them business, realistically, they're handing out timed explosives, drugs and all other kinds of illegal shit so it makes not a lot of sense they'd be considered a law abiding citizen...

What's your take on this? It'd be great to hear from Server Leadership on this matter!

Back in the day you threatened NPCs to cancel out any chance of that NPC "snitching" when asked and this was seen as valid, as far as I'm concerned thats still the case.

Any NPC who isn't a government employee's witness statement however has to be treated as a civilians witness statement and nothing more or less than that. It's not a definitive end-all to a situation.

Government employees npc's are the same as stated in the rules, it's the cop, medic, firefighter npcs and similar.

City employees are courier npcs and similar.

Government employee statements are seen as solid evidence and can fully charge you sometimes.

You could in the past threaten an NPC to get them not to snitch later. I prefered to get the other person and me to /roll to see how the NPC was influenced by my (or their) threat. it would be cool if this was a mechanic and influence gene played part in a menu or sum.
I don't think you should be able to threaten government npcs the same way, apart from getting them to not "immediately" call for backup, in a roleplay sense.