Police Suggestion Police tutorial mission(s) for new officers.

[Bnjemann]

Suggestion Title: Police tutorial mission(s) for new officers.
Suggestion Description: Adding a Police tutorial for first time joiners of the PD that they can opt into taking. This tutorial would teleport them to different areas in order to complete tasks on using certain equipment.

The tutorial would be conducted in the underground parking garage section, and the gun range.

It would go as such:
Starting the session: Officers will select “I would like to complete my training” at the desk NPC. Upon doing so, they would need to confirm they wish to partake in training. This could be done as one session altogether, or 3 separate sessions.

Part 1: Car controls.
Upon the first part starting, they are teleported to the underground parking garage, inside a crown Victoria. The first step would be telling them to press R to turn the engine on, and how to turn on headlights. They would then be told to toggle their lights and sirens on and off.

They then would be told to press F3 to check out the police computer, how to open an incident, and how to close an incident.

Part 2: Equipment:
They will be told how to use:
- Handcuffs, by cuffing and releasing an NPC.
- Nightstick, by hitting an NPC.
- Battering ram, by hitting a door that spawns into the session.
- Ticket book, by ticketing a car. Also, afterwards doing the same on a wrecked car to impound it.
- Spike strips, by placing and picking them up again.
- Radio, by using incident radio, standard radio, text radio, and panic button.
- How to use bandages on other players (thanks @lencz )
Part 3: Guns.
They are teleported to the gun range (ideally close range, but any available lane if those are taken) and get given a glock 17 with a flashlight attachment. They then have to complete tasks in order to progress, such as:
- Basic controls, such as aiming, shooting, and reloading.
- Tutorial on how to use the flashlight on the gun.
- Shooting the target several times.
- Shooting the target several times whilst crouching, to show them that it decreases recoil.

None of this would be compulsory. It is just for new players to learn. This could be initiated by the phone quest system too, only giving players the ability to be in such a session by selecting a phone mission.

Why should this be added?:
- New players get a cool quest system they can opt into taking to learn how to play Officer with the basic equipment.
- Clears up confusion before they are forced to use such equipment in the field with 0 experience on it.
- This tutorial is not hindered or limited by limitations presented by training teams, and no such training courses are currently manually offered to new officers at this very moment in time.

What negatives could this have?:
- Could cause issues by availability of facilities in use, which is why I’ve opted out of this being conducted in the training area specifically.
- Not specifically an urgent operational requirement to say the least.

What problem would this suggestion solve?: Officers having an idea on the controls of, and how to use each piece of equipment given to them as a regular officer, should they opt into the automatic training.

 

[Valentine]

The introduction to firearms should be a part of the regular missions where players go to a shooting range to practice under the mission's guidance

I guess it's either going to be an inconvenient queue system or the developers will have to come up with a way to allow multiple police officers to do the introductory mission simultaneously

 

[Goonsberg]

Really great suggestion.

I do feel it should be compulsory as there are probably lots that new officers ‘think’ they know when in actual fact they don’t which would really help.

Maybe the driving, guns etc compulsory then optional ones that go even more in depth for things like all the radio/unit controls.

Once they’ve done one mission, I can only imagine that they will continue on to learn more.

On @Valentine’s point, I must say I agree. Would hopefully lower the amount of sweaters that have to a) learn a gun the hard way by dying before getting it off the safety. B) use bazzar as a testing facility

 

[SomeUser]

Honestly i feel in one respect we should do a firearm cert instead of a taser one somedays, i feel like pistol cops are getting progressively stupider for a few reasons like they just want to troll ect. but i think this would be good

 

[requis]

Would be a great idea imo, would make pd less overwhelming for newer players

 

[lencz]

Perhaps add a part in which they have to bandage a cuffed bleeding suspect and how to recognize that they are bleeding. As new cops are clueless and you usually have to ask them to.

 

[SadBoy]

Great idea! I mentioned something similar during my patrol trainer app, saying that when you first get on duty there are a lot of aspects that you need to figure out for yourself and it can be intimidating for new officers. This would solve that whilst also not putting massive strain on Patrol if they were to attempt to onboard new officers themselves.

 

[Bnjemann]

Honestly i feel in one respect we should do a firearm cert instead of a taser one somedays, i feel like pistol cops are getting progressively stupider for a few reasons like they just want to troll ect. but i think this would be good

Separate suggestion entirely. Firearm certification wouldn’t be necessary, it’s obvious that misusing a gun is going to have predictable consequences. Taser doesn’t have that effect as it’s “non lethal”.

Perhaps add a part in which they have to bandage a cuffed bleeding suspect and how to recognize that they are bleeding. As new cops are clueless and you usually have to ask them to.

Added to suggestion.

 

[SomeUser]

Separate suggestion entirely. Firearm certification wouldn’t be necessary, it’s obvious that misusing a gun is going to have predictable consequences. Taser doesn’t have that effect as it’s “non lethal”.

Added to suggestion.

Did not mean like that mate i ment just some days i feel like officers should have there pistols taken as there stupid sometimes ngl