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I don't mind it as a car but as a police vehicle, not a fan. As a Holden/Commodore, doesn't fit in. Best police vehicles were the VE's. They had a real predatory look to them.

That's disappointing. They should just let the 'Commodore' brand die out on the average-ish note it's on.

It's a 4 cylinder hatch. 🤔

You mean the one from the fire truck? Happy to package it up and release it at some point soon... I'd say tonight but I'm on the couch using my phone to mess around on here and will be in bed soon (getting old sucks). Working the rest of the week but hopefully have time over the weekend. Or before work one morning if I have time. I've actually never tried it and I'm not sure I'd be best placed to use Vocal Dispatch because I tend to use different phrases for the same thing, I suppose because I'm used to someone else being on the other end of the radio to interpret, so I might say 'need ambos out here' or 'going to need an ambulance', or 'get on to SJA for a...' (WA Ambulance service) and I don't think it'll recognise so many different things. What I was more meaning was essentially writing a loose script, then recording me playing the game, then getting people to provide voiceovers for the characters... editing it all together to essentially be a TV Show akin to a poor-mans Rush or Blue Heelers. So, would start in a station, have the main character chatting to his/her partner about the weather, get a callout (either forced secretly or randomly generated or maybe even set up through a trainer as a specific event), follow the character(s) response and talking as they drive there about the dud root he picked up last night. Arrive on scene to a domestic (for example), characters would negotiate with each other, chat, resolve the incident, move on. Voiceovers for everything there. Obviously the gameplay would need to be adapted a bit to accommodate for this and the gameplay itself would be a whole lot slower than if it was just following a 'patrol' video thing. Characters would have backstories and the likes, so - for example - there'd be an equivalent to Lawson Blake (probably the main character), an equivalent to Brendan Joshua (who the main character might partner up with and argue with for the whole shift sometimes), etc. etc. Again, sort of spitballing the idea but I think I'd enjoy putting that together more than just chattering away to an imaginary audience while playing the game.

I think he's meaning just text based, rather than voiced. I'm actually looking at doing a voiceover series alongside the response videos. I was going to do 'lets play'/'patrol' videos but they seem to be well covered by Darkmyre. I did one, got another one that just needs uploading but was thinking recently, rather than doing them, I could do almost a series; follow the same cop/cops around, have idle chatter while they're driving around, go to jobs, etc. etc. and try to make it like a GTA:V Blue Heelers or Rush etc. Have storylines and shit going on alongside the actual gameplay... which would be tailored slightly to accommodate it.

Sending so many hateful thoughts your way right now.

Definitely worth looking in to whether you can do the dual citizen thing then. Good luck with it, super handy to have (I have dual UK citizenship - Hello Europe!... well, until all that shit went down earlier in the year... x_x) On a side note, not sure if any of you follow my Youtube stuff but I got a new response video out this morning. Shameless self-plug! I'm considering what I'll do next but leaning towards the stolen car/baby episode... or perhaps a fire one, depending on what sort of releases we get before I start filming again. ;) This one will also be remade. Quite a bit of sloppy filming work and some dodgy editing as well but it's something for now!

I believe the only way to have dual citizenship is to be born with it (ie: born in America with Australian parents or vice versa, or one parent of each heritage, though I think they've phased that out). You can't generally apply for and have both. They do have locally engaged staff (LES) here, however they're admin/office staff. I've worked with the FBI Legal Attache in Canberra before and they're actually FBI Agents who are on deployment, much the same as the AFP have officers posted around the world. They serve more of a political/relationship/capacity building role than anything else, though they do engage with foreign agencies with some work (eg: people smuggling investigations, etc where the home country holds a stake in what's going on). You'll find that postings between developed countries (Australia, America, etc.) are far less focused on investigations and far more focused on politics. Lesser developed countries will involve more work and capacity building/supervision. I think where @PgUp was going with his comment was more of a 'you can apply, but unless you know someone, you probably won't get in'. I would think with the sheer number of people they have though, it's probably no harder to get in than a state/territory police force; just difficult to actually break in to a decent role within the organisation. There'd be a lot of vetting as well, background checks and the likes. As for the training stuff, I may have used a bad analogy. What I meant was; you're expected to get to a point by yourself. Once you've shown you can get there (entry requirements), they will help you get to the next point (completion of training). I believe it's competency based, like most things now. You get trained, get an assessment or scenario to show you're competent; if you aren't, your mistakes are explained to you, you're given revision time and time to prepare to have a second shot. If you're not able to demonstrate you're competent on the second shot, you fail. I'm not sure if you then 'out' (as was portrayed on the show) or if you then have to reattend simply to recomplete the failed components or what.

The NSW entry and recruit process is interesting. You complete the University Certificate of Workinh Essentials (replacement for education entry requirements) which is done externally with a trip or two to a CSU campus for exams. Takes about 12 weeks I believe. After that you actually apply. Assuming you get in you either go to Goulburn for six months or you do about 9 months external study with some residential components and then do a 2-3 month stint at Goulburn which will be all your physical and OST. My understanding is that they are very supportive and do help you through the courses. It's only if you simply aren't trying and aren't making progress that you don't pass. The course is designed in a way that you start at point A and they take you to point B. If you don't allow them to (through applying yourself) then you obviously won't succeed. Be mindful that Recruits was a reality show as much as a documentary style thing. It had entertainment factors. Totally agree on the FBI thing. It's much the same as the AFP. It's much less involved than even the local detectives. You sit at the desk and basically request inquiries conducted by other operational support and intelligence teams. Very little actual legwork. I imagine teams in the FBI do a greater range of duties where the AFP often farm work out to state counterparts. That said there are obviously other more 'on road teams' in all organisations. I reckon being in a small American police department would be awesome. Some town of 10,000 with 5 cops or something. Same here really, would love country service... just still more freedoms over there, not that that's necessarily a good thing. 😉

I believe all of the NSWPol training and the pre-entry course are able to be paid for through HECS or whatever it's called these days, so there's not up front payment. It starts being added on to your tax after you begin earning a certain amount. You may want to check out the CSU website for locations. Not all of the campuses run the NSWPol courses. To join join the FBI you need to be a US citizen which I believe is quite involved. You also need to relinquish your Australian citizenship which is a pretty big thing. Unless you're a dual citizen. I believe the armed services are the same over there.

The reason the pic is so small is because I cropped out the mess on the floor. The black box on the right is a Yamaha 7.1 amp and I have a sub under the desk (great foot rest) and a filing cabinet (I actually do a surprising amount of work at home, especially court stuff - no time at work) and the PC sits next to that but easy reach for putting discs in (...which I don't think I've done in years) and whatnot. The desk actually curves around the wall to the left and covers the window with a bookcase and a couple of built in drawers that I keep the printers and stuff in. Speakers wall mounted in front and behind the PC in addition to the one under the monitors. Definitely go with two monitors same size next to each other. Ends up... weird otherwise, with different sizes or not next to each other - I rarely use the TV maybe for a movie while I'm browsing the internet or something. There's also a couch against the opposite wall so I might throw a movie or TV on and just sit there and watch, otherwise... just for really intense word processing stuff (if I'm doing stuff for court, for example, I'll use the TV for legislation, one monitor for a main text sort of thing and other monitor for whatever I'm typing up). Otherwise it's just there for spare screen space. The original plan was to throw the home security system up there (CCTV) but it's not fully set up yet. If you got a mount like the one I have you could put the PS4 or even PC under the monitors. Keeps things clear too!

I got the one on the back of my desk for about $50 from Jaycar. I also use a wall mount for the TV (hooked in to the computer) which was about $20-30 from Bunnings. Pic of my set up below.

I think mine have eup and on-eup. Can't remember but I've been trying to get some new ones made up. Hopefully in the next few weeks. Also got some YouTube stuff recorded and just need to finish editing and actually upload it!

Yeah. I heard they went from like 10-15 pursuits per month to 300+ fail to stop incidents per month, hence the revision. ACT is dealing with similar issues at the moment.

It's now a limited pursuit policy to my knowledge.

I had (haven't played in a few weeks - work 😑) - problem with the sportswagon. Very occasionally I get large LED textures hanging off each side. Restart fixes it and it's inconsistent and prior to the current patch.

Same. I'll run the old version pretty much until I find something I want that's incompatible with the old one. By that point everything is ready to go. Usually just needs one or two files anyway.

The pods in those were literally cages bolted to the tray. They had a tendency to come loose and rattle around a bit. Worked with a woman who swears black and blue that she was going up a freeway on ramp with a lock up and the cage came free and slipped off the back. Happened about 15 years ago, so before my time and before people ran around taking photos of everything. I secretly really love the look old school ones with the beacons or big rotator light bars. Totally agree, too, perfect for the country areas

In this day and age there's no chance on getting away with that - especially in the ACT. Even if it's not a member of the public, AFP members take their mandatory reporting stuff very seriously. On a side note, looking for videos of how terrible Canberra drivers are, found one with the new NSW RFS trucks. Those new mini-exacalibur bars are sexy as. Loved them since WAPol got them. ...and of course some quality policework from up your end of the country. =P When we get QLD vehicles, I expect the boot to be an extra. They both also failed to indicate... (yes, I'm having a lazy morning on the computer)

Yeah, much better looking than the VW vans and I imagine a lot easier to get uncooperative people in to given the lower profile, rather than having to lift people in to the Hilux pod you're working closer to ground level.

Was only half meant as a joke actually - the fact I didn't even see a GD's car out was a bit concerning to say the least, especially floating around the CBD. Maybe they just snuck by and I didn't notice 'em but it just seemed really sparse. Even the HWP car coming to the rollover was last - got there after the firies and ambos. Speaking of - I also discovered that Victorian's can't give way to emergency vehicles for the life of them. Driving along Point Nepean Rd down in Mornington, one of the little MICA Paramedic Territories was coming along behind me bells and whistles. Almost no one pulled over so he had to ride the centre line. Better yet, I pull over, the guy behind me swings out in to oncoming traffic, cutting the paramedic off to overtake me... then fails to yield for a good 50m until the road splits in to two lanes for an intersection. Seemed to be the same deal when the HWP car was coming along the other side of the Monash fwy before he turned around - people just sort of slow down but don't actually move. In the ACT at least people move, even if it's in a retarded and erratic fashion. Edit: Prime example from Victoria, obviously not filmed by me.

It was in the wall to wall ride last month along with their giant Dodge Ram thing and a few other promo vehicles. Around 45 seconds in:

On the topic of interstate stuff, drove down to Melbourne this last week. @Macgregor, you guys suffering a bit of a shortage on cops? I drove about 2200km over the week, 1400 of those in vic. Saw a total of one cop car and it was coming for me (came across a car rollover on the Monash fwy, typical me - always coming across work while on holidays). Other than that, nada. In the 800km or so of nsw, highway cars the whole way down - at least 5 of them. Nothing on the way back. Interesting to see they've started hiding again, even got a bit creative with where they were - up hills off to the side of the road, bushes in the middle, behind signs...

I have RDE and just a few days ago added a second DLC for extra ambulance/fire units and have no issues. o_O I'm not sure why RDE seems to mess with some peoples stuff and not others.

Not impossible. Police often get their vehicles serviced at Holden/Ford dealers, a lot of regional fire stations have retained firefighters and a lot of retained firefighters are also with their local RFS.