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Break will be thrilled when he sees yet another "plzzz!"beta support topic :down:

Sorry for the double post again. @Bailey23: would this be the boot camp you followed? I did a bit of research to your sheriff's office http://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us/Articles/Articles/Sheriff%E2%80%99s-Orientation-Training-Proves-Challenge-Fo.aspx

Again everyone, thank you so much for your sincere replies @Bailey23: Can't thank you enough for all the information you're giving me. I really appreciate it. It's very informative to be hearing form an actual US LEO when all we hear from the US system, is from US and our own professors and not actual officers. I've been dreaming of going to the US since I was born, not only for the country itself but the police landscape is so diverse that it is a dream for most criminologists who want to join law enforcement. Of course it has flaws as well, but so does every system. The only thing that seems too much for me is the shooting at police officers, even during traffic stops. Here in Belgium, that rarely happens luckily. As for the pepperspray training, it is voluntary here as well and I think that's the best choice, considering what you said about law suits. The taser is only used by SWAT here so this is not included here I am glad you want to share so much about it so I can ask questions that can help my understand the system so I can use it in debates. The USA police system isn't perfect but as far as selection and traing goes, I believe they are an example. Still one question, if I may What is your opinion regarding the so diverse police landscape in the US? I mean, we only have federal and local police and even they argue about jurisdiction sometimes. Forgive me for all the questions I have been asking and may be about to ask , but all this information is usefull since I still need a master degree thesis topic and although it is still a year away, it couldn't hurt to see if the US police education is a good topic. Besides, I myself am very interested as well @Unreal: so having a university degree will only help you in selection and not give you higher pay? This is the case in Belgium. I know that when I graduate and go to the academy, it will only help me when I compete against other candidates for a position but I'll still only be paid the same as someone without my degree. @Mage25: So police training only takes 6 months in Australia?

Sorry for the double post but my last question didn't come through in my post and I can't edit no more. So this was my last question: 4)I saw a couple of pepperspray training videos for police applicants. Does every police recruit have to go through pepperspray training in the US? If so, do you think that is necessary in police training? Again, thanks a milion for your sincere reply.

@Bailey23: First of all, thank you very much for the detailed reply! It seems that US police education is way more organised than ours. The minimum age here is 18 years of age, which is far too young. 21 years of age seems far more appropriate, considering mental and physical maturity. Second, the US system's minimum degree, in my opinion, ensures that officers have got the needed intelligence to deal with various situations. If I may ask, does this minimum degree count for all ranks of law enforcement officers in the US? For instance, if one was to become a traffic officer, would one also need the same degree? The CJBAT sounds a very good application instrument to filter out unfit candidates. Unfortunately, the criminal justice system of Belgium is taught when the applicants already are in the police academy and not before. That is why a lot of officers don't know the justice system enough when they get out of training after a year. As for the physical tests, I already stated my opinion that this is vital for an officer's job so that's also something we could learn from the US model, although an extensive boot camp training might be too much for Belgian police officers, since we don't have that many assaults and attempted murders of police officers as in the US. I could go on and on but I won't spam the forums with miles of text If you want, could you answer these US related questions please, since you are clearly the right person to be asking ? 1)Do these criteria count for regular US police departments as well instead of Sheriff's offices? Maybe your police training was far more severe 2)What is the jurisdiction difference when there is both a police department and a sheriff's office in one area? 3)What was your academic background before applying and what is your opinion regarding the US police education?

Thanks for the replies so far @Lil-rich: Well, we do have fysical and theoretical tests but the fysical tests are just way to weak. When a couple of police chiefs did a debate at our faculty, they too mentioned that we do need higher criterias and that one year of training is just way too short to include fysical training, police techniques, law, firearms training,... Also, I'd like to say that not all Belgian officers are incompetent. However, if we do not change the police education here, we'll be having a serious problem.

First of all, by saying only one car is available, do you mean that only one police car is driving around or that it is the original police car still driving around? Second, is your car mod ELS enabled?

Being a criminology student, I'd like to know from different people around the world if you are satisfied of your country's police officers. I would appreciate it if you post how long the training takes, what the selection criteria are (for example highschool diploma) and your opinion. My opinion is that police training and selection is of great importance if it comes to having competent and decent police officers. Being a belgian, I must say that Belgium sets a bad example. Our LEO's only have one year of training and the selection criteria are just too weak. This means we have a lot of police officers who are poorly trained, who are above the community and not part of it, who don't know our laws enough and who aren't interested in explaining and preventing crime. This leads to situations where my brother was fined for riding on the back of a friend's bicycle by a very asocial officer who didn't say a word. That is why I chose criminology before becoming police officer in the first place. Please try to keep things civilized and answer sincere as my thesis is approaching and I am thinking of evaluating the Belgian police education and comparing it with others. Many thanks for your replies.

Secondly, did you try the attack key(F7)?

Don't mention it as you indeed already knew the problem more or less @Mods: topic can be closed now.

Did you try to press the regroup key(F6)?

Make sure you read this first: http://www.lcpdfr.com/cops/forum/index.php/forum-20/announcement-5-need-support-read-this-first/ Try to download the Visual C++2010 from the link posted in that thread.

To my knowledge, crime stats and account linking are only for 0.95 beta at the moment. As for the error report, did you read the stickies?

Very nice video! The new features look very promising. Can't wait for the release!

@Iconography: Brilliant reply as always, +1 :thumbsup:

Ok. First, did you replace the right cars, for example police and police2.wtd? If you replaced a non police car with a police car, then obviously the lights won't work. Second, did you check if they are ELS car mods? If so, the lights won't work without ELS. Try to check these things first and then tell me if there still are any problems.

Do you use an xbox or another game controller?

Glad you responded like an adult and admitted your mistake. Honesty is a hard thing to come by these days.

Interference did a very nice job transforming the lawyer office to a police station: http://www.lcpdfr.com/cops/forum/index.php/topic/1826-rel-lawyer-office-to-police-office-transformation/ There's a readme in the download that explains what you have to change.

Indeed they are ;-). People never seize to amaze me...

You really think experienced coders like Sam, Jay and LMS would feel the need to steal? And would you please explain to me why you would leave one community for another and not just be part of both?