Albo and his friends aim to replicate real-world policing procedures as closely as possible when they play, for example following the real-world “GOWISELY” codes to carry out stop-and-search procedures and the College of Policing’s pursuits policy for responsible car chases. In these situations, some gamers play as police while others role-play criminals and victims. “When playing in a multiplayer environment, you can scale up the realism as you're interacting with other real people,” he says. But Albo says that it is playing online, in multiplayer scenarios, that gamers have taken modded roleplay to the next level. He also runs a YouTube channel that specialises in recreating real-life policing scenarios in the game and has 27,000 subscribers.Īnyone can download LSPDFR mods and play on basic single player missions, which involve driving around the city, pulling over speeding drivers and deploying tools such as custom two-way radios, breathalysers and speed-guns. Albo estimates he has spent 4,000 hours making emergency service mods.
