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... and has been one for the last five yirs.

One of the ideas is to PM Sam and ask when LSPDFR is going to be updated.

Bodymore, Murdaland

Military traffic police unit pulling over a cannon somewhere in Russia, nothing interesting here.

Ough... Corrections... Out here it's as far from the police work as it is possible. They say those who serve in corrections often end up acting like inmates. Guess the US must be really different since a young man wants to join correction voluntary and is looking at it as a nice career path.

Oups sorry I actually missed your reply! Thanks for the link provided, that is interesting reading indeed. As far as VB goes.. Apparently that's more like our Internal Troops, a paramilitary formation subordinate to the Ministry of interior but considered a part of the armed forces.

Under local criminal code here knowingly and willingly falsely reporting an act of terrorism is a 3-year jail ticket. But that doesn't stop people tho.

By the way, did you hear anything about any kind of riot police formations in East Germany, an analogue of the USSR's OMON, which had been forming around this time? I know many Warsaw Pact countries did or still do have one, but Germany?,,

German Polizei Special unit, 1972 German Polizei GSG 9 Unit, 1979 Ohio cops checking out the design :D

Man, fuck that. That sounds like you live in Russia, seriously, with the only distinction being those POV cars, out here that doesn't exist. Other than that... Lowest pay, no personnel, huge unpaid overwork, rusty trucks 15 y.o., paying for courses out of your pocket, and facing real danger -- AND people work there because they CARE, and they truly are saviors. Looks like wherever you go, things are pretty much the same. It's just in Russia the EMS system is free and is government-subsidized, in the States it's commercialized, but in the end there's no difference.

Huh? The new update? Which one? I played LSPDFR with RDE on Sunday, it worked.

That's a mod for LSPDFR AFAIK. Looks like you haven't played for a while :D Just delete those items in the .ini file.

Warnings may only be issued by a court of law here :D Thanks to the lawless 90's today there are so many constraints to keep people in line... There's a good saying 'Don't fix what isn't broken'. Every time I see vehicle damage or that injury system (yep, he takes several shots but dies from one punch, seems legit), I think about that saying.

Putin. In Russia you always know the future.

Hookers do not get into a car with a cop nearby. Since you're a cop they won't get into your car at all. They don't trust you. Blame police brutality.

In the States, maybe. Here a stop with no written record as a result is illegal, formally speaking. Generally I wouldn't care too, but something like that, like "you lights are too close to blue", sounds like BS to me. If they're blue please act accordingly, how could you let me go away then? Oh like I said before I like the way things are in LSPDFR. A siren, a lights flash, and even a verbal. I enjoy that, and Albo's mods help with pull over locations I actually like the traffic AI more back in Liberty. I don't know why, but GTA IV chases were better, even with 3-4 AI units. No one really tried to wreck the suspect (I would understand a PIT, but GTA V cops just hit them from behind, that's all!), they somehow did a better job maneuvering around. In GTA V the AI is better, but worse at the same time. I'm not sure LSPDFR can fix that...

My imagination would never produce anything like that, since in Russia that would result in a complaint by the citizen to the supervisors and a subsequent administrative penalty for this officer... Ah, so a stop is also required. Now I see why the way it happens in LSPDFR isn't completely realistic...

That's interesting as hell. I thought I know a great deal about the US, but now I realise I didn't know anything. Nice expression, I'll make sure to remember that one. I didn't say anything about statewide dispatch center. To my knowledge in most European countries and in Russia as well FD and EMS are two separate governmental structures, working together through unified dispatch system. I can't speak for Europe but in Russia (which is a federation), there's a dispatch center for a region (lets say a county). Operator receives the call and simply forwards it to the local subdivision of the respective service, and they in turn decide what unit to send where. All is easier when a whole country is organised into the army-like system (not that I approve this) To my knowledge, first American EMS companies were founded by funeral home owners, with hearses as ambulances (well if a patient didn't make it you can always take that red light off and change the route, can't you?). I even did a post on that in Mind Boggling classic cars thread :) Indiana, funeral parlor. As you can see, those "ambulances" lacked any specific medical equipment. This has something to boast about. I like the idea of so many private companies but one has to remember that business is supposed to be about profits while civil service is about serving people. So no wonder if some business people are trying to increase their profits, making customers the injured party. In Russia fire fighters are considered military personnel, have an army-like rank system and training. We have an actually very complicated system with the Federal ministry of emergencies, local firefighting troops, and some other services but generally it works out well enough.

Always was surprised by it. Driving a huge engine has to affect the time of a response, comparing to EMS vehicles. (I wonder whether it's "the time" and "a response", damn those articles in the morning. How come you all are not confused ._.) Wait a sec. Are you saying all EMS are private companies, except those who are a part of FDs? I thought at least NYC had a government EMS...

Well, I spend 4 years training to be an infantry lieutenant on an APC which probably remembers Khrushev lol. So yeah, lots of old Cold War shit.

The things you see in the parade don't make it into active duty units. At least that's how it works in Russia. For example, BMP-3 has been manufactured since 1980s, but still only "kremlin's toy soldiers" operate them.

To my knowledge it's not even deployed yet.

Our paratroopers lost a BMD-2, and even a BMP in similar circumstances. Shit happens. Especially in military :D

I've been pulled over once in 3 years, so check your speedometer more often :D That's perhaps one of the weirdest foreign laws for me. I see lights -- I move over to give way. How do I reasonably know that's after me if no command is given? But of course that's the law of the land and there's no point in arguing.

FD certainly do have the forced entry right even here but rarely exercise it. Only if there's a 'clear and present emergency' like fire, person in need of care, etc. Of course it's not because they could get shot, that's not common here, but mostly due to possible legal implications. On a side note, firefighters have a ve-e-e-ry low risk of being assaulted here comparing to medics. Maybe it's because they're two meters tall guys with axes trained to break concrete walls :D Medics don't have that right nor they have an ability, though. Well, here it won't happen even in theory. In Russia it's 5-7 years or more of ass-busting study to become a medic. We don't have "paramedics" or "EMS" here, the ambulance crew has a doctor and a nurse, all must be medical university grads. Police spends from 1 to 4 years (depends on many things) in the academy, and though it's tough too it's much much much easier than studying medicine. And also there is conscripted police, dumb young men who know only how to handle a baton and follow orders. I wouldn't trust a guy like this to remove a spike from my finger... Of course everything could be reformed and changed and whatnot, but honestly I believe in everyone doing his job. Or at least leaving medical field to medics. Nothing's wrong in making police officers certified EMS (I heard that is common in the States), though.