Apparently this needs to be said,


STOP STEALING POLICE CARS


Stealing a Police Vehicle is a Serious RP and should not be done regularly… Just today we have had 3 police vehicles stolen. None of them being very good roleplay. If you are going to steal a police vehicle then it needs to be High Quality RP… It is important to think about how Real life actions take place VS. how GTA V Mechanics work.


In real life, you simply press a button to lock and unlock the car, to further that many police cars have “Safe Idle Systems” that allows the Officer to leave the car running and still have the car locked and be able to get back in, kind of like keyless entry.


Now in GTA, you have to use a Menu to First select the vehicle, then you have to use a key bind every time you get in and out. Then if your game does something weird or you session split, well now your locked out of the car with no way of getting back in. It is also just hard to remember to open the trainer and select the vehicle.


Lastly, even if a police car is unlocked… it is more than likely that the keys are not sitting in it. Then if you do manage to hotwire it, which if you know anything about cars, requires a lot of work in modern cars. You have to take apart the steering column, cut open wiring harnesses, connect wires together until you finally find the right ones… and that is if you didn’t already fry the vehicle’s PCM in the process. There is likely going to be a device that will send a message to dispatch if the car is started without the key.