OOC: I just wanted to get this thread going again, as it had probably some of the more interesting posts I’ve read.
This is a case study of sorts of how the same situation would be handled in different parts of the country.
IC:
Coocoobad Police Precinct #9
The fax arrived from HQ about 1945.
The important part was something like this.
— Begin quote from ____
A Jason TIDGELY, 28, has failed to return to his halfway house by 7’O Clock curfew. The description of Mr. Tidgely this morning was that he was wearing a red tank top and blue jeans. He is 189 Centimetres tall and weighs 88 kilograms. Mr. Tidgely was on day-parole for Aggravated Sexual Assault dating to 1995 in the Brackett area. Mr. Tidgely will likely try to return to Brackett, Starlight City, or the surrounding area, as he has numerous acquaintances. Citizens are to be advised not to approach him if spotted, but to call 999.
— End quote
“Hey Tik. Tik? TIK!” The officer receiving the fax called for his supervisor. After a brief explanation, Sergeant Tikhonov explained how the fax was useless.
“If he’s headed up north, he’s changed his clothes. Plus, the idiots didn’t give us hair or eye colour…or even skin colour. It’s useless, I won’t have the officers in the field grasping at straws like this.” Tikhonov’s Lieutenant called Headquarters, but by then, Tidgely had already boarded a bus, which would have been a mistake, only the police officers at the bus station didn’t have the description, because their supervisor had also decided it was useless.
The only thing HQ had done right was notify the SCPD that he was on the way and sure enough, when the last plane from Panjuhr rolled in, he was on it.
Aubrey Police Headquarters, Washington Avenue, East Aubrey
The automated e-mail from the halfway house arrived at 1915. The desk Sergeant looked it over. Basically, a parolee had violated conditions by not reporting to the parole officer at the halfway house and was now to be arrested. The email had been typed up as part of his release and included all vital information and was sent automatically, when the parole officer didn’t check off in the computer system that she had arrived for her meeting. Over the in car computers, the standard e-mail for a wanted person came out.
— Begin quote from ____
Name: RODGERS Shiela June
Gender: F
Age: 34
Wt: 45
Ht: 145
Status: Paroled, 3 FEB 07 reg. ARMED ROBBERY, Feb 04.
SUBJ FAILED TO MEET WITH PAROLE OFFICER AND IS SUBJECT OF NATIONAL WARRANT. ARREST ON SIGHT. SUBJ HAS RECORD OF VIOLENT CRIMES AND MAY BE ARMED.
— End quote
The alert went out across the city.
0205, Garden Island, Central Aubrey
The patrol unit assigned to the two small islands along the Arthur Currie Causeway responded quietly to the reports of a car driving erratically. Sure enough they found it and after running the licence plates and discovering it was stolen, they pulled it over for the arrest, as with two of them in the car, it was ok. The typical commands followed.
“LEADING WITH YOUR HANDS, EXIT THE VEHICLE”
“STOP”
“LIE ON YOUR STOMACH”
With that, the driver was cuffed and searched. She produced a Konhoa Driver’s licence that was a horrible forgery. Her actual one was found hidden in the vehicle. When her name was run, it was revealed that she was the parole violator the city had been warned about. With this new charge of giving a false name to a peace officer, she would be headed back to jail, as her parole was revoked.