Sad to see this has turned into a bit of a bashing thread.
The reason we made a contract with AEGIS was because they are a long standing gang in the community with a lot of respect. They showed us a full handbook and activity sheet and plans they had beforehand. Their aim was solely to offer their services to the public, no payment needed from cops and it was agreed they would not interfere with our jobs. We offered them to have actual guns instead of pistols, this was the reason we needed a contract, keeping it to pistols gave us no need for a contract whatsoever. We felt they needed guns for self defense, since we all know this island is nothing like the UK, where every rebel can easily make millions (yes, it really is easy) and have unlimited access to big guns.
So why did we not offer it to more gangs? Because it was a new concept, untried, we wanted to start it small, see if it would work at all and we wanted reliable people for it. We could've potentially expanded from there.
So why did we pick an "inactive" gang? Because with the contract, they had the potential to recruit again and once again we wanted to start small.
Now onto something that lies close to my heart: "The Police is shit"
No they're not, they try their hardest amidst constant gunfights, complaints and even their superiors watching them closely. Because yes, if an officer fucks up and it's brought to the higher ups, we do take action. Yet, I don't see a lot of PCC's and yet am happy to see a lot of recommends on the forum.
When I joined the Police over a year ago, Athira had 28 officers, when I became CI, Athira had 34 officers and when I left it had 62. So in 1 year a constabulary has grown double what it was. Academy works their asses off to try and keep the standard up, they reformed some of their training only this weekend. But with such vast numbers and an ever changing server, we cannot help, but lose some quality along the way. We need to cater to 3 servers, meaning applications have opened up to younger recruits, people no longer need to play on the server for at least 2 weeks and we've had recruitment drives.
We try hard, but you will always find a bad cop somewhere along the way, just like in real life and just like we meet shit rebels as well. Luckily there are also awesome rebels, just like there's awesome cops.
Just to show, the police is quite large, please bear in mind, these are active members, meaning they have logged in at least once the past week, this excludes part-timers or absent officers: