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Los Santos Police Department Media Relations Division Approved for Public Release Authorized by: Chief of Police Victor Kwan Date of Release: 14 July 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Los Santos Police Department maintains a mixed fleet of Vapid Victor and Vapid Stanier patrol vehicles to support operational readiness across the City of Los Santos. While newer patrol platforms form the backbone of the Department’s active fleet, a limited number of Vapid Victor units remain in service in reserve and secondary roles, alongside Vapid Stanier vehicles, to ensure continuity of operations during peak demand, special deployments, and maintenance cycles. All units are subject to routine inspection and preventative maintenance by Fleet Services to meet Department safety and performance standards. The Department remains committed to ensuring reliable, mission-ready transportation for all field operations. Los Santos Police Department Media Relations Division Approved for Public Release Authorized by: Chief of Police Victor Kwan Date of Release: 04 July 2026

Los Santos Police Department Media Relations Division Approved for Public Release Authorized by: Chief of Police Victor Kwan Date of Release: 30 June 2026

1. THE FRONTIER CENTURY (1781 — 1900) To understand the modern Los Santos Police Department, you have to look directly at the dirt it grew out of. The department's identity is tied straight to a legacy of rapid, often violent municipal expansion dating back to the very founding of the pueblo. In those early decades, formal law enforcement simply did not exist. The settlement relied on a rudimentary volunteer night watch. A handful of appointed local constables walked unlit dirt paths with basic oil lanterns and wooden clubs, doing what they could to settle local land disputes, handle public intoxication, and keep basic order in an isolated territory. The mid-1800s permanently shattered this slow-paced frontier life. The San Andreas Gold Rush and the rapid westward push of the transcontinental railroads flooded the region with unprecedented capital, thousands of industrial laborers, and an immediate surge of violent crime. Los Santos transformed overnight into a chaotic maritime and rail corridor. Gambling dens, saloons, and transit hubs became hotbeds for transient syndicates, and the old volunteer night watch completely collapsed under the sheer volume of the population boom. Realizing the municipality was on the verge of total lawlessness, the city council stepped in. In 1869, they passed the Municipal Police Act. This historic piece of legislation officially funded, equipped, and organized the city's first permanent, paid, and professionally trained police force, setting the foundational blueprint for the modern department. 2. THE MOTOR AGE & SPECIALIZATION (1900 — 1980s) The turn of the twentieth century forced the department into an era of aggressive adaptation. Los Santos was spreading outward at a relentless pace, swallowing up surrounding agricultural tracts and developing dense urban neighborhoods. Official emblem of the LSPD Traffic Division (Present) The introduction of the mass-produced automobile completely changed the mechanics of crime and public safety; traditional foot beats were no longer fast enough to cover the city's expanding borders. To keep pace, the LSPD rolled out its first motorized patrol fleet and formed a dedicated Traffic Division specifically tasked with managing the brutal gridlock, street racing, and transit accidents of a fast-moving automotive culture. 3. THE CRUCIBLE: THE 1992 SIEGE OF MISSION ROW By the late 1980s, the eastern corridors of Los Santos had reached a dangerous breaking point. A devastating crack cocaine epidemic, combined with an unprecedented surge in violent street gangs, turned the central and eastern industrial districts into an active war zone. The frontline patrol officers stationed at Mission Row Station bore the absolute brunt of this crisis. They were perpetually understaffed, working grueling double shifts, and dealing with daily firearm exchanges, yet they held the line through sheer grit. Everything fractured in the spring of 1992. Severe, widespread civil unrest tore through the city's infrastructure. Within the opening hours of the riots, major transit corridors were blocked by burning structures, public utilities failed, and the primary central police radio networks went completely dead due to repeater sabotage. Suddenly, the physical brick-and-mortar infrastructure of Mission Row Station was entirely isolated from the rest of Los Santos. The personnel inside were completely cut off, out of communication, and fully aware that no tactical backup was coming anytime soon. Instead of abandoning the Mission Row Station and retreating, the remaining skeleton crew of patrol officers, desk clerks, and shift supervisors chose to stand their ground. They barricaded the heavy lobby doors and windows with metal filing cabinets and lobby chairs, rationed their remaining tap water, and slept in shifts on the concrete floor of the locker room. Outside, patrol officers dragged disabled LSPD cruisers into the middle of the main road upfront to block the surrounding intersections, while taking heavy intermittent gunfire from neighboring rooftops for four straight days. On the third night of the stand, a frontline city police officer grabbed a can of industrial paint and sprayed a handwritten phrase across one of the concrete barriers: "PROTECT THE CASTLE" Official emblem of the LSPD Mission Row Patrol Division (Present) That grueling incident permanently transformed the internal culture of Mission Row Station and the Patrol Division. From that day forward, Mission Row was no longer viewed as just an old municipal building, but it became an unyielding symbol of street-level resilience, fierce territorial pride, and an unbreakable bond of brotherhood. 4. THE MODERN SPLIT & THE KWAN ADMINISTRATION (2000s — PRESENT) By the early 2000s, city politicians and the Board of Commissioners pushed heavily to modernize the department. Separating the political, administrative, and corporate machinery of law enforcement from the raw, daily friction of street policing. This led to a massive architectural and organizational restructuring, culminating in the construction of Central Headquarters (CHQ), designated as Division 1, located on Vespucci Boulevard. Under the current administration of Chief of Police Victor Kwan, this dual-identity has become the defining operational philosophy of the department. Chief Kwan has continuously navigated the complex line between political accountability at the corporate level and maintaining raw operational support for the frontline officers holding the streets. Portrait of Chief of Police Victor Kwan Portrait of Assistant Chief Michelle Holt 5. THE DIVISIONAL ARCHITECTURE Division 1: CHQ (Vespucci Blvd) Administrative & High-Clearance Ops, Executive Command (Office of Chief Kwan), Training & Recruitment, Internal Affairs, Major Crimes Section, & [SPECIAL DIRECTIVE: ████] Division 2: MRS (Mission Row) Frontline Street Operations, Uniformed Patrol, Traffic Division, Gang & Narcotics Division (GND/GIT), Area Detectives The 114 Compound (La Mesa) Special Operations & Tactical, SWAT, K9 Platoon, Bomb Squad, Underwater Unit In order to preserve absolute operational security, the high-clearance investigative arms of the Detective Bureau, the citywide Major Crimes Section and the compartmentalized operations of ████ (classified under City Charter Administrative Exception) were also permanently consolidated at CHQ. This massive administrative shift left the historic brick and concrete of Mission Row Station (Division 2) to do what it has always done best: handle frontline street policing. It remains the raw, beating heart of the department, housing standard Patrol, Traffic, the specialized Gang Impact Team (GIT), and the local city-based Area Detectives. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Division outgrew its old offices entirely, moving into its own highly secure tactical compound in La Mesa while keeping their historic "114" designation. 6. The LSPD Today The suits, logistics managers, and high-profile investigators run the corporate engine from the offices of CHQ on Vespucci under Chief Kwan's command. Yet the actual heartbeat of the department is still found on the asphalt, deploying tirelessly and every single day from the brutalist walls of Mission Row Station. For the patrol officers working the midnight watch, running a Division 2 callsign isn't just a simple identifier on a dispatch monitor. It means you belong to The Castle. It means you carry the legacy of the street cops who refused to let the line break. Los Santos Police Department Media Relations Division Approved for Public Release Authorized by: Chief of Police Victor Kwan Date of Release: 02 June 2026

LOS SANTOS POLICE DEPARTMENT LETTER OF INTENT & PLACEMENT APPLICATION (( The Los Santos Police Department is accepting applications from serious roleplayers seeking to portray grounded law enforcement characters within Roleplay Project: V. Accepted applicants may be placed according to departmental needs, activity, and leadership discretion. Applicants are required to read the faction overview on the Roleplay Project forums before submitting an application. This application is used to assess realism, writing ability, maturity, consistency, and overall suitability for the faction. Applications that are low-effort, unrealistic, humorous in tone, or inconsistent with department standards may be denied without further review. Applicants may be asked to amend mistakes, clarify answers, or provide additional details where needed. If an answer does not apply, or if the applicant has no relevant response due to character limitations, please write “N/A”. Choose the answer options with an [X] on the desired answer. Applications must be submitted via a private message to @Vinadetti or @SNDRSN on the Roleplay Project forums Subject Format: NAME - DATE - LSPD Application Do not reply or submit applications in this thread. )) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (( IN-CHARACTER SECTION )) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECTION 1 — PERSONAL INFORMATION 1.1 First Name: 1.2 Middle Name: 1.3 Last Name: 1.4 Date of Birth: (( 1.5 Current Placement Requested: (choose one) )) [ ] Police Officer II [ ] Police Officer III [ ] Police Officer III+1 (( 1.6 Desired Division: (choose one) )) [ ] Mission Row Patrol Division [ ] Traffic Division [ ] Air Support Division 1.7 Highest Educational Qualification: [ ] High School Diploma [ ] GED [ ] Some College [ ] Associate’s Degree [ ] Bachelor’s Degree [ ] Master’s Degree [ ] Other 1.8 Citizenship / Residency: [ ] United States Citizen [ ] Permanent Resident [ ] Other 1.9 Phone Number: 1.10 Residential District: [ ] Los Santos [ ] Paleto Bay [ ] Sandy Shores [ ] Grapeseed [ ] Other 1.11 State: 1.12 Height: 1.13 Weight: 1.14 Ethnicity: [ ] White / Caucasian [ ] Black / African American [ ] Hispanic / Latino [ ] Asian [ ] Pacific Islander [ ] Middle Eastern / North African [ ] Native American / Alaska Native [ ] Other 1.15 Driver License Status: [ ] Valid [ ] Suspended [ ] Revoked 1.16 Firearms License Status: [ ] Valid [ ] Suspended [ ] Revoked 1.17 Languages Spoken Fluently: 1.18 Previous Employment / Service History: 1.19 Medical Conditions That May Affect Duty Performance: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ APPLICANT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT By submitting this application, I confirm that all information provided is truthful to the best of my knowledge. Signature: (( Firstname Lastname )) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (( Provide your character’s background. Minimum 150 words. 2.1 Character Background: )) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (( OUT-OF-CHARACTER SECTION )) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.1 Discord Username and ID: 3.2 Age: 3.3 Timezone: 3.4 How long have you been involved in serious roleplay: 3.5 Have you ever played law enforcement roleplay before? If yes, briefly describe it and include where/which community: 3.6 Why are you interested in joining the LSPD on Roleplay Project: V: 3.7 What does realistic law enforcement roleplay mean to you: 3.8 How active do you realistically expect to be each week: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (( I understand that acceptance into the Los Santos Police Department is based on: Roleplay Quality Character Development & Realism Maturity Activity I understand that metagaming, play-to-win behavior, toxicity, unrealistic portrayal, OOC hostility, or repeated low-quality roleplay may result in denial, discipline, or removal from the faction. I understand that leadership may review character quality and portrayal standards at any time. Characters that are immersion-breaking, unrealistic, or inconsistent with department standards may be removed following leadership review. I understand that submitting this application also means the character has provided fingerprints and undergone a medical history check as part of the application process. RPP Forum Name: ))

LETTER OF INTENT & PLACEMENT APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

(( What this faction is: The Los Santos Police Department is a procedure focused law enforcement faction built for serious text roleplay. It exists to portray believable policing where actions carry weight, responses are measured, and characters develop over time. All server rules apply fully to LSPD members. This is not an arcade style system and not a simple cops versus criminals setup. The objective is grounded, story driven interaction that feels authentic within the world and supports long term character development. ‎‎ ‎ What is expected of members: Members are expected to portray complete characters, not just uniforms. Your character should have a background, personality, habits, and personal priorities that make sense. Officers must follow the chain of command, use proper radio conduct, and complete required in character reports such as arrest, incident, or force reports within their shift. Documentation is intentionally streamlined so it remains part of roleplay rather than feeling like a second real-life job. ‎ Real life outside the server always comes first. At the same time, your character’s personal life also comes before their badge and the faction. Officers should have hobbies, relationships, downtime, and interests beyond police work. Do not build a character whose entire identity is the faction as this is not the faction for that. ‎ The goal is for the faction to be shaped by the depth and variety of its members, not the other way around. Leadership operates as a team and remains approachable, and members are encouraged to contribute ideas, suggestions, and roleplay initiatives that strengthen the department. ‎‎‎ ‎ What is not allowed: Regular checks will be conducted on the quality and consistency of character portrayal within the faction. Characters that are unrealistic, robotic, or do not make sense within the setting will not be accepted. A single warning will be issued, and failure to improve will result in removal from the faction. Appeals may be considered at leadership discretion. Out-of-character hostility toward other law enforcement factions (faction-bashing) is not tolerated. Interactions between factions must remain professional and respectful outside of roleplay. Play to win behavior, metagaming, spawn camping, or out of character hostility towards faction members and server members as a whole are not tolerated. Favoritism has no place here. Promotions and discipline are handled fairly through strict in-character progression and actions. Rank does not grant anyone permission to control, belittle, or command others out of character. Creating a toxic environment is prohibited. This includes constantly targeting others, trying to outdo them, correcting them excessively, putting them down, or using in-character behavior as a mask for out-of-character intent. If the goal behind an action is to embarrass, dominate, or undermine another player rather than create roleplay, it is not acceptable and will be met with action. ‎ Falsifying reports, planting or altering evidence, running unauthorized operations, or abusing mechanics to force outcomes is forbidden. Officers are not meant to act like emotionless machines. Judgment, restraint, and believable reactions are expected. ‎‎‎‎ The vision and the origin: This faction draws inspiration from real metropolitan policing standards, particularly practices associated with the Los Angeles Police Department and broader West Coast law enforcement culture. Structural and behavioral elements are used when they improve realism, but they are always adapted to fit gameplay and the environment of this server. The aim is believable and fair roleplay, not imitation for its own sake. ‎ ‎ Faction growth: As the server grows, the department will expand with it. This includes increased staffing, additional stations, expanded divisions, and a broader command structure introduced through planned updates. Growth will be paced carefully so organization, quality, and roleplay standards remain strong as the faction develops. )) (( IMPORTANT NOTE: (( Character kills involving faction members follow the same rules and consequences as any other character on the server. The faction does not render your character as immune. ‎ Metagaming to gain advantage or obtain information for any reason results in immediate removal from the faction and a permanent ban from it on the first occurrence. There is no warning stage for this. This also applies to any form of enabling or complicity. Players who assist, facilitate, conceal, or otherwise support metagaming will receive the same punishment. This includes being aware of metagaming and failing to report it or take action to stop it when reasonably able to do so. )) Leadership Chief of Police — V. Kwan (( @Vinadetti )) Assistant Chief — M. Holt (( @SNDRSN )) Departmental Divisions: Patrol Division Traffic Division Detective Division Gang & Narcotics Division Metro Division Air Support Division Training & Recruitment Division Internal Affairs Division Departmental Rank Structure: Police Officer I Police Officer II Police Officer III Police Officer III+1 Detective I Detective II Detective III Sergeant I Sergeant II Lieutenant I Lieutenant II Captain I Captain II Captain III Commander Deputy Chief Assistant Chief Chief of Police (( Recruitment Official recruitment drives will open in an announced date, you may submit a letter of placement in order to join Questions & Contact: @Vinadetti / @SNDRSN FACTION DISCORD INVITE LINK: https://discord.gg/tRbhvcKTqM )) (( Current Development The LSPD is still under development. Divisions, facilities, and internal structure may be adjusted as the faction grows. Additional buildings and department spaces will be added over time. )) ((Official announcements, recruitment notices, and department updates will be posted here.)) ((This faction is designed for serious roleplay and may be adjusted to fit server limitations and gameplay needs.)) ((THIS TOPIC/THREAD IS UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT.))