The Police Department is great and an amazing place for people to pursue a career in, where roleplay thrives and is at its best when you're a police officer.
The above is just some bullshit, but the PD is great. Can it be greater? Sure it can.
I feel like the PD has come to a standstill. There's not much change happening in the PD other than people going from Officer to Senior officer and your occasional Corporal promotion. The reason why I enjoyed the PD so much in 2016/17 was that it was changing a lot and was updated every month. We had new divisions coming up and more people in command and it was all going great until the Sections were added.
I personally dislike the way the sections work and how you have a supervisor that you should patrol with if you can etc. I liked the initial idea of sections, but it stopped people from getting above Corporal unless they went through an application progress, which yes, can filter out the people who want to be a sergeant, but it then also limits the amount of sergeants you can have. Currently, there are 11 Sergeants in the PD. I'm not sure how many are active, but thats just the number. There are 37 Corporals and 50 Senior officers, you expect a total of 87 people to be receiving observation reports by 11 sergeants? It's absurd. Sections had a good initial idea, but the execution was terrible. I will look further into this and speak with some people with power about Sections to see if they are open to any change, but till then it is how it is.
TFU currently, is OP but I feel like thats the way Police should be. Yeah, sure pistol raids are now no longer a thing unless you are Nade or Martino but police should always have the upper hand. It's not very hard to get into TFU, sure there are some flaws in the applications process (imo) but the command team are doing a lot to correct this (I hope). It was fun sitting in PD as SWAT and waiting until something goes down and then responding, knowing you need to shoot people. But if that's what you want, you can still do it? There's nothing stopping you from going into Heavy Armour and just waiting for a situation to pop up. I'm not against bringing back the old swat, but this version is just a bit more tactical.
The idea of not letting moderator+ into high Police Ranks is honestly the most idiotic thing I've heard. People apply for staff to help out the server, and you just wanna shoot them in the foot for it? You're pretty much saying that staff members shouldn't be able to roleplay like every other player. Yeah, the PD requires a lot of dedication but if they're doing a good job in the PD then let them stay.
The above is just a simple idea and me trying to balance a little more, do I feel that it should be implemented? honestly I don't know cause anyone currently who is in the staff team are somehow managing decent activity and maintaining the roles within the staff team so why change something that appears to work.
I want the PD to keep developing, but it's come to a standstill and it needs to get a move on!!!!