Alright, I guess everyone on here is not only eagerly awaiting V, but also paying special attention on any depiction of its police forces in the trailers/screens/etc.

Some months ago, R* showed some black&white patrol cars with a different livery than the LSPD one from the first trailer. The new one only had "POLICE" written on the side of the car.
However, the LSPD livery has kept appearing on screens and videos, so there's been a bit of confusion on what's what.

After getting a bit bored and rewatching the trailers and screens, I think that the POLICE cars are the new NOoSE livery.
I've found this scren on the GTA V website:



If you look closely at the police officers, you can actually see that they are wearing some kind of tactical vests, also with POLICE written on them.
This leads me to believe that while IV just had normal cops in their NOoSE cars, this time there will be a special NOoSE model, in between the "normal" beat cop and the heacily armed SWAT cop.

Remember the last moments of the GTA Online trailer: After robbing the armored truck, an LSPD Vapid arrived at the bottom of the screen, while a POLICE Taurus-lookalike attempted to cut the fleeing robbers off at the top - just like LCPD and NOoSE teaming up in IV.

What's your opinion on the subject?

Edited August 28, 201312 yr by EnterName

Sounds logical. But why POLICE and not NOOSE?

NOOSE first appeared in GTA IV as far as I know, so maybe Rockstar is going back to the roots and using SWAT or Police instead of NOOSE.

NOOSE first appeared in GTA IV as far as I know, so maybe Rockstar is going back to the roots and using SWAT or Police instead of NOOSE.

No they don't, in the Gta Online Trailer you can see players attack a NOOSE Building.

Sounds logical. But why POLICE and not NOOSE?

 

No idea. Maybe it's just a placeholder and we'll see a NOoSE livery in tomorrow's trailer.

Or they might have thought it would fit better into Los Santos that way.

 

No idea. Maybe it's just a placeholder and we'll see a NOoSE livery in tomorrow's trailer.

Or they might have thought it would fit better into Los Santos that way.

 

Yes maybe.

Its probably a Anti Gang Taskforce or something similar.

I don't know. In the earlier trailers, the special livery blokes were in regular uniforms. Or maybe that was because it was still WIP?

Well, the official trailer is out, and the POLICE livery is still in it. So whatever agency/department it represents, looks like it will be in the final product. I guess we'll have to wait and see...