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Fresh and cleaned up from the mayor's push to make Liberty City safe again, Star Junction had turned from a seedy den of deviance to a tourist haven. But some claim the heart of the Worst Place in America has been torn out.

Wow...the 24th of August 2016 felt like ages ago. We've had new Presidents, parliaments, and even a total solar eclipse since then.
 
On the 24th of August 2016, I was on my school holiday from the end of Year 10 to my last year of school - Year 11. A year on, today is my results day. And I can tell you now that I have excelled in all the subjects I wanted to.
 
But today's special for another reason, too - I released my first proper mods for GTA IV, the first of which was the Humberside Police Vincent (left), then after a viewing of Finding Dory, I released the Metropolitan Police Stanier (right), the start of a staple of the early months of my modding career. If you want to download them, here they are down below.
 
My main thanks must go to the creator of the UK Policing Template Pack, @Razor792. Without your pack, I wouldn't have been inspired to make liveries, and I wouldn't be where I am today.
Another thanks goes to @HomerS, an unofficial friend who I keep bumping into now and then. You were the first to comment on my mod, and someone great to talk to online.
Another thanks goes to 'based' @ThatOneHick. You make great mods, and best of all, you make great templates. If it's true that you are soon retiring, I wish you well.
Finally, thanks to the LCPDFR community for keeping me coming back. I know GTA IV modding has reached end-of-life, but I feel like I'm keeping it going. And you know what the magic of modding is? Good or bad, you're putting your name out there. And I will leave you on that.
 
Here's to another year!

Wow...the 24th of August 2016 felt like ages ago. We've had new Presidents, parliaments, and even a total solar eclipse since then.
 
On the 24th of August 2016, I was on my school holiday from the end of Year 10 to my last year of school - Year 11. A year on, today is my results day. And I can tell you now that I have excelled in all the subjects I wanted to.
 
But today's special for another reason, too - I released my first proper mods for GTA IV, the first of which was the Humberside Police Vincent (left), then after a viewing of Finding Dory, I released the Metropolitan Police Stanier (right), the start of a staple of the early months of my modding career. If you want to download them, here they are down below.
 
My main thanks must go to the creator of the UK Policing Template Pack, @Razor792. Without your pack, I wouldn't have been inspired to make liveries, and I wouldn't be where I am today.
Another thanks goes to @HomerS, an unofficial friend who I keep bumping into now and then. You were the first to comment on my mod, and someone great to talk to online.
Another thanks goes to 'based' @ThatOneHick. You make great mods, and best of all, you make great templates. If it's true that you are soon retiring, I wish you well.
Finally, thanks to the LCPDFR community for keeping me coming back. I know GTA IV modding has reached end-of-life, but I feel like I'm keeping it going. And you know what the magic of modding is? Good or bad, you're putting your name out there. And I will leave you on that.
 
Here's to another year!

Wow...the 24th of August 2016 felt like ages ago. We've had new Presidents, parliaments, and even a total solar eclipse since then.
 
On the 24th of August 2016, I was on my school holiday from the end of Year 10 to my last year of school - Year 11. A year on, today is my results day. And I can tell you now that I have excelled in all the subjects I wanted to.
 
But today's special for another reason, too - I released my first proper mods for GTA IV, the first of which was the Humberside Police Vincent (left), then after a viewing of Finding Dory, I released the Metropolitan Police Stanier (right), the start of a staple of the early months of my modding career. If you want to download them, here they are down below.
 
My main thanks must go to the creator of the UK Policing Template Pack, @Razor792. Without your pack, I wouldn't have been inspired to make liveries, and I wouldn't be where I am today.
Another thanks goes to @HomerS, an unofficial friend who I keep bumping into now and then. You were the first to comment on my mod, and someone great to talk to online.
Another thanks goes to 'based' @ThatOneHick. You make great mods, and best of all, you make great templates. If it's true that you are soon retiring, I wish you well.
Finally, thanks to the LCPDFR community for keeping me coming back. I know GTA IV modding has reached end-of-life, but I feel like I'm keeping it going. And you know what the magic of modding is? Good or bad, you're putting your name out there. And I will leave you on that.
 
Here's to another year!

Bohan had, and allegedly still has the highest amount of crime in the city and state of Liberty. But between the 1970s to the late 1990s, it was at it's worst.
 
Burnt-out cars, for example, were a weekly staple of commutes. The LCPD sometimes didn't even bother with clearing them from the streets - they just sat there to rot, forcing drivers to manoeuvre around them until the LCPD finally brought the trucks down.
In reality, I'm glad that the vehicle was destroyed with no deformations. Now that is luck right there.

In a pursuit on October 8th 2016, an Uber was stolen by an angry LCC taxi driver. The LCPD, however, brought the pursuit to an end in minutes, driving the suspect into the car park, and watching as he slammed into the wall.
 
And yes! I have a new save game in the making set in 2016! Expect more modern-looking screenshots.

In a pursuit on October 8th 2016, an Uber was stolen by an angry LCC taxi driver. The LCPD, however, brought the pursuit to an end in minutes, driving the suspect into the car park, and watching as he slammed into the wall.
 
And yes! I have a new save game in the making set in 2016! Expect more modern-looking screenshots.

Before Express Car Service was bought out by a certain Eastern European with a gambling addiction, the small-time cab company operated a small fleet of by-call cabs. In 1998, however, legislation by the Liberty State Legislature ruled that non-TLC cabs could not be painted yellow, or carry roof signs. The sheer drop of customers because of this severely weakened the company, as was the sad tale of many fallen cab companies, and their value dropped to the extent where it was sold for $50 in 2004.

"Great for shootings", the guides claim. Home to around a million people, Bohan is where many LCPD officers fall victim to injury, or even death. It is nicknamed 'The Wasteland' by officers, owing to almost every block having some sort of demolished/destroyed building, a nickname that still carries on to this day.
 
One night in 1996, these two LCPD officers are idling around, waiting for a certain somebody they're after to arrive. Their guns are primed, and their wits are sharp.
 
(I think I'll do a proper LCPD Marbelle retexture in the future. Not guaranteed, though.)

The LCPD have had a habit of performing these since the attacks. Across the city, and the emergency services world, people wonder what the hell they're up to, and why that somehow fits into counter-terrorism in the archaic reign of the Lawton administration.

When watching Initial D, have you ever thought, "where the heck are the Tokyo Metropolitan Police?"
 
Well I have thought that, and I thought I'd recreate a realistic scenario, owing to Japan's crazy street racing laws.

With a huge Jewish diaspora, it was only natural that they set up a neighbourhood watch scheme - the Outlook Park Volunteer Police, or the Shomrim, following the blackouts of 1977 which shook the community to it's core. The LCPD, somewhat controversially, have supported and funded them ever since, with one example of their support being the OPVP Merit in the background, a former LCPD car repainted as a 'gift' to them.
 
As quoted from the real-life Wikipedia article: "Members, driving repainted police cars, respond to armed robberies, burglaries, and assaults in progress, as well as automobile accidents and general assistance to residents. While they are not authorized to make arrests, they will chase suspects and try to detain them by surrounding them and talking to them until police arrive."
 
Here, the LCPD were called in by the Shomrim to respond to an attempted robbery in the actual park area. The LCPD were just around the block, and took the suspect away a few minutes later

The Algonquin-Dukes Expressway was closed heading towards the airport in both lanes due to a serious crash spilling debris - and fuel - all over the road. At the centerpiece of this was a brand new Infernus. While the driver escaped with minor injuries and a jail sentence for reckless driving, the Infernus was totalled, becoming an LCPD museum piece for a year before being scrapped.

What have you got...to take away?
A bottle of whiskey...and a new set of lies,
Blinds on the window and a pain behind the eyes...
 

The Fleet Services Division of the LCPD is much renowned for servicing broken-down vehicles on a 'right here, right now' basis. Their fleet of vans, fitted out with seats to transport broken-down officers back to the station, are frequently known as 'Embarrassment Wagons', as officers frequently return to their stations humiliated, and the butt of jokes for the day. Their status is so known, that the name is etched on the back of FSD vans to remind officers that they are royally screwed.
 
Here, this van arrives at the scene of a Marbelle's engine malfunction. The officer involved was then humiliated for many days.

The Fleet Services Division of the LCPD is much renowned for servicing broken-down vehicles on a 'right here, right now' basis. Their fleet of vans, fitted out with seats to transport broken-down officers back to the station, are frequently known as 'Embarrassment Wagons', as officers frequently return to their stations humiliated, and the butt of jokes for the day. Their status is so known, that the name is etched on the back of FSD vans to remind officers that they are royally screwed.
 
Here, this van arrives at the scene of a Marbelle's engine malfunction. The officer involved was then humiliated for many days.

The Fleet Services Division of the LCPD is much renowned for servicing broken-down vehicles on a 'right here, right now' basis. Their fleet of vans, fitted out with seats to transport broken-down officers back to the station, are frequently known as 'Embarrassment Wagons', as officers frequently return to their stations humiliated, and the butt of jokes for the day. Their status is so known, that the name is etched on the back of FSD vans to remind officers that they are royally screwed.
 
Here, this van arrives at the scene of a Marbelle's engine malfunction. The officer involved was then humiliated for many days.

Similar to New York and London taxi services, Metropolitan Taxis was set up in 1963 to go around and ferry citizens across Liberty City. Even though it was stuck in the middle of the diplomatic crisis which involved the 'borrowing' of the city and it's assets, the cab company powered on, buying fleet from America using friendly-faced businessmen to keep away from the British diplomatic crisis, and ferrying around passengers across the city with foul-mouthed Grecian attitudes.
 
These are actually really satisfying to look at, IMO. The whole red and white thing - if there were templates for the vanilla taxis, I'd make these all over again.

Established days after 'borrowing' the Greater Liberty Royal Ambulance Service was recognised as royal by the Queen, upon the heroic deeds done in the treatment of civilian casualties following the opposition to the 'borrowing'. St John's Ambulance operate within the boundaries of the area, but declined to be photographed.
 
This is actually KevinDV's old model, he let me use this as a non-ELS vehicle upon special request. Then, he randomly disappeared. So he still has the files, even after the well-publicised hissy fit, but I wouldn't reccomend spamming his PMs to get the files. Hell, I don't even know if he condones me uploading this. Sorry if you don't.

Sorry this is belated. I had no access to my computer, or even a minute's silence, as I was on my way home.
 
On the morning of 7th of July 2005, London was bombed where it hurt most - it's transport system. 52 people were killed, and many more were injured. It has been twelve years since that date, and I decided it would be best to commemorate that as best as I could.
 
Never forget 7/7. 52 died in 4 attacks. We won't give in!

Last year, upon the dawn of my modding career here (back when my first mod was a crappy ambulance mod around about this time, I deleted it), I made my own personal retextures for what you may know as the Greater Liberty Police, in which Britain 'borrowed' one corner of America. The GLP, not as you know it now, were based upon the Royal Hong Kong Police, and used a varied fleet of vehicles back in 1988.
 
Of most importance is the 1978 Ford Fairmont, lifted from the Ukrainian GTA IV modding scene. Before I knew it, the Ford Fairmont became my favourite regular car. The Ukrainians really outdid themselves with the Fairmont - so much so, that it really appealed to me. It was boxy, it was charming, and oh my, the front end just looked so satisfying. However, when I played in-game with the Fairmont installed into POLICE1, TAXI1 and PREMIER, I screwed up the handling lines, meaning it flipped all over the place. I loved it. I kept that in.
 
Having passed a year since I got into texture modding, with school inadvertently teaching me how to use .GIMP, I wanted to celebrate what got me here today by getting the 'band' back together. I was proud of this then, and I am proud of this now. Maybe I'll release it, who knows.

Last year, upon the dawn of my modding career here (back when my first mod was a crappy ambulance mod around about this time, I deleted it), I made my own personal retextures for what you may know as the Greater Liberty Police, in which Britain 'borrowed' one corner of America. The GLP, not as you know it now, were based upon the Royal Hong Kong Police, and used a varied fleet of vehicles back in 1988.
 
Of most importance is the 1978 Ford Fairmont, lifted from the Ukrainian GTA IV modding scene. Before I knew it, the Ford Fairmont became my favourite regular car. The Ukrainians really outdid themselves with the Fairmont - so much so, that it really appealed to me. It was boxy, it was charming, and oh my, the front end just looked so satisfying. However, when I played in-game with the Fairmont installed into POLICE1, TAXI1 and PREMIER, I screwed up the handling lines, meaning it flipped all over the place. I loved it. I kept that in.
 
Having passed a year since I got into texture modding, with school inadvertently teaching me how to use .GIMP, I wanted to celebrate what got me here today by getting the 'band' back together. I was proud of this then, and I am proud of this now. Maybe I'll release it, who knows.

Happy Canada Day, and happy 150th anniversary of Canada to all those Canadian LCPDFRers out there! I could be one of those in the near future...I hope.
 
With thanks to PieRGud, TheCanadianDream, (other popular Canadians here), the RCMP, of course, and last but not least, JaiTheGamer58. Have a great rest of the day, everyone. Wish I could take part myself.