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And of course, the inevitable. Someone hiring out a Dashound gets stuck on the Northwood Heights Bridge kerb when they tried to dodge the traffic mess. While an LCPD officer laughs away to himself, the driver looks like he's one false move away from a suspended license.

Yes, you heard that...or read that right, using the recently-released Random License Plate Mod, I am making British plate variations for most cars! It's still a WIP, but it's very close to completion, just need to sort out some specs I didn't realise I needed until the last minute.
 
It's really fascinating how many pre-51 reg cars there are in GTA IV. Plates will include the AA00 AAA, A000 AAA, AAA 000A and even two instances of the AAA 000 plate format!
 
Stay tuned for updates.

It's been sixteen years since 9/11, and what a long sixteen years it has been, too. To think that the Middle East is back in turmoil after all of the 'work' that was done is disheartening.
 
But on September the 11th, 2001, 343 firemen, including FDNY Chief of Department Peter J. Ganci Jr., were murdered in an unspeakable, shocking act of terror that not only was confined to New York, but Washington DC, and the small town of Shanksville, PA. The world has changed a lot since then.
 
At 1:46PM, I will observe a two minute's silence, if possible. I do this every year, as the tragedy struck close to my heart. While the video-watching is down, and the books have not been read this year, I won't forget, and WE WILL NEVER FORGET.

At around 11PM on a September night, the Greater Liberty Police received a series of 999 calls pertaining to an apparent 'chemical attack' in the Bahama Mamas club in Algonquin. Immediately, all three emergency agencies in the city were rushed to the scene. The perpetrator, who had an apparent grudge against the club owner, was found trying to escape to the airport, and was arrested by GLP Tactical Firearms Team officers the next morning.

Duty on the Golden Pier is mind-numbingly boring - sit around in your van, tell where lost people need to go, nab some shoplifters, and watch other people have fun. Oh, the joys of austerity-ridden policing.

Off the back of one of our more...peculiar screenshotters, here's a Munich Police and Bundespolizei Stanier (or as he once referred to it as, a Wartburg (?)). Thinking about putting this up soon, but I'm not sure when.
 
Oh, and this screenshots gallery isn't dead. I've just got to finish up 'Operation: Ashahara' first. It's best not to leave this gallery in the dark, though.

And so, normal services are resumed.
 
The early eighties weren't a great time for Liberty City. Still holding onto the title of 'Worst Place in America', a title it would not let go of until the 90s, it was fairly common to see cars dumped in the streets, or wherever seemed humanly possible. On the Westdyke Beach, for example, a Vigero and an Oceanic had been dumped for little over six months, and while it may not look like it, the tide has taken its toll on both of them, especially the Vigero, and they had all been gutted for parts.
 
A few days later, they were set alight.

Midnight falls on the A139. Rain pours down on the city, and people begin to slip and slide down on the notoriously-accident-prone Alderney City exit of the A139. And as accidents begin to occur, modified, high-power, and high-visibility Vincents from the GLP Motorway unit skids out of their parking spots along the 'Skyway' to respond to the accident sites as fast as possible to try and secure the scene and potentially save some lives.

A fond pastime of mine before I got into screenshotting was throwing molotovs everywhere, sending in riot vans, and smashing up cars, calling it a riot. Here, in London, a neighbourhood disturbance in the run-down Beechwood City area results in a violent conflict with the Met Police, involving some pensioner's Ingot being smashed up and burned to the ground.

1996 may had been the roughest winter in Liberty City for years, but at least it made for some beautiful pictures. The LCPD were accredited for their hard work, alongside the DoT, for helping Liberty City run as smoothly as possible, in the face of the hundreds of accidents that were occuring. But even they, sometimes, couldn't even manage to drive without spinning out.
 
(Here's the link, if you're interested, for the snow mod. Be warned though, it is a big download.)

Libel, Liberty City's key electricity maintenance team, have got a job to do almost every day, thanks to Liberty City's slightly-outdated power grid. It is rumoured, however, that their vans seem to always be watching certain people in the city. Some say they even travel in packs...
 
(the phone number has since been removed, I could not get a template)

Every winter, the LCPD ESU team hand out their Ranchers to almost every division in Liberty City, sending out most of their stock to traffic and highway patrol divisions. They prove very useful to tackle the treacherous road conditions, beating the Staniers and Premiers of the standard LCPD fleet. Here, at midnight, an LCPD officer sits around, awaiting activity, by the East Borough Bridge, having been granted the keys to one of the Ranchers. Half an hour later, he gets called to technically the first accident of the day on the bridge.

Even driving a little too fast can cause a serious accident in the snow. Here, two LCPD officers narrowly escaped death when their Premier RMP slipped onto some ice, flipped, and fell over on the Broker-Dukes Expressway. While the car was totalled, the two officers were glad to have escaped with their lives, and got out of CHMC a few weeks later.
 
Following this accident, a road safety awareness campaign was set up in Liberty City. While it may not look like it, it is still going strong today.

Another Christmas, another few nights of kicking out the rowdy drunks. It's a job every officer hates to do, especially in a precinct where it is almost impossible to reverse in the snow, and with no funding for the LCPD choir, the bells certainly won't be ringing out in Liberty City.

Okay, its a bit of a divergence from the current theme, but everything has to stop. The Merit Classic by GCT is out! Prepare to see this in fleet form very soon!
 
Here, at the LCPD Workshops in Algonquin, multiple 1983 Declasse Merit Classics were seen parked up in the lot, ready for their police conversion. Following an evaluation upstate, the Commissioner guaranteed that this would be a huge hit with police forces across the United States.
 

Technically, it's Festivus. I've had a whole lot of problems about this year, and now, you're going to hear about it!
 
This year, I've had many ups, and many downs. From the start of the year, despite the upcoming GCSE exams, life had felt pretty fine - I had quite possibly the best day of my life, I went to prom and lived it up, and I've got (almost) the results I've wanted. But since I've started college, and with recent events such as the Manchester bombings, Grenfell, and with personal problems such as trying not to get my disability allowances stripped unfairly, I've been feeling pretty down and out lately, and it really showed on Friday. Maybe the winter blues have finally caught up with me.
 
But with the end of the year coming soon, maybe next year will be a fresh, more uphill start. Sure, I'll miss school, and sure, it hurts to see what's going on around the world sometimes, but maybe, 2018 won't be so bad. And in terms of GTA modding and all, I'm planning on getting a few more mods out before the winter season is done. I would just like to share to this community, even though it sometimes seems that I don't stick around in it very often, that I feel pretty good about being here, especially now that I have learned to screenshot and publish my little fantasies in the gallery. It sort of feels like I'm putting myself out there on the internet for once, and in a good way. It's the sort of thing that makes me come back to GTA modding, even though I can't play GTA V because I broke it.
 
And with that, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

Okay, it's not really a project. It's nearly finished, I've just got to get permissions issues out of the way, if possible. Also, yes, the door handles aren't cut away. I really don't want to do those - they're a right old pain.
 
And here, we have a New Liberty State Police Premier in the fog. I'm planning on putting this out, eventually, and maybe also putting out an Aldenrey State Police Premier, too. If only Abraxas was still around to make these types of liveries...

Another project about to be released! Just need to put in three more liveries, and I'm done. With thanks to Kalleboston for the crest help.
 
An Alderney State Police officer waits for a breakdown team to arrive on the Plumber's Skyway, where one unlucky driver broke down in the middle of the road, finding himself both unable to move and ticking off the temper of the state troopers along the Skyway. Traffic backed up along that road for quite some distance due to the breakdown, delaying the truck even more.

MC Mental boomed into the night from a blue Sentinel XS as an 18-year-old 'boy racer' who had obviously played too much Need For Speed tries to evade the Greater Liberty Police, almost slamming straight into an Arriva bus. The Aerial Unit then had to be called out from Francis International, as well as two units from the Motorway Division, eventually managing to box in the driver along Union Drive and jail him for dangerous driving.

Two LCPD units conduct a felony stop on a wanted gunman in South Broker

Vapid Police Cruiser/Interceptor - "Keeping cities across the United States since 2008!"

Behind your eyes...
I can escape...from the grave...

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.

"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.)