Revamping Bank Account Monitoring and Cash Handling

[Will Rozier]

This suggestion focuses on the current bank and cash situation on the server. As it stands, players can easily store large amounts of cash in their bank accounts with minimal oversight or consequences. While I understand that there may already be some level of police involvement in investigating suspicious transactions, I believe there is significant potential to deepen this aspect of roleplay, enhancing the overall experience for police, criminals, and business owners.

Some potential ideas I have thought of are:

Enhanced Police Powers: Grant the police force greater authority to investigate and monitor players bank accounts. This could include:

Implementing a system where police can flag accounts with unusual activity for further investigation. For instance, an officer could flag an account if they recently catch someone selling drugs.

Allowing police to freeze bank accounts temporarily if they suspect illegal activities, pending an investigation. For example, if an officer notices a large payment into a known potential gun dealer's account from another player.

Increased Roleplay Opportunities:

Criminals will need to be cautious about depositing large sums of dirty money into their accounts.

Police officers could conduct in-depth financial investigations, leading to potential raids or sting operations based on the information they obtain.

Money Laundering: Introduce ways for criminals to launder money through businesses or other means to avoid police investigations. Some ways this could be done include:

Setting up front businesses where criminals can slowly clean their money, such as a car wash haha.

I believe this could create roleplay opportunities between criminals and business owners where they could work together in order to launder money.


If there is already a system in place where police do this, then my suggestion would be to potentially focus more on it and act on it (if the community agrees). I believe focusing more on these aspects could create good roleplay opportunities for both sides.

This is something I have only just thought about and decided to suggest while it's fresh in my mind, so there is probably a lot missing regarding the pros and cons. However, I hope the community can help point these out. I understand that many of my ideas are probably unrealistic and would be hard to implement, but hopefully, this foundation can help others think of ideas that are more realistic which could work.

 

[Pest]

I like this suggestion, another thing I would add onto this is only being able to Deposit your cash at actual banks as I mean...that makes sense lol, wouldn't really make any sense to be putting millions of pounds into a cash machine

 

[Gord]

Some thoughts of mine as this would be unbalanced in the police's favor.

Implementing a system where police can flag accounts with unusual activity for further investigation. For instance, an officer could flag an account if they recently catch someone selling drugs.

Just a straight up no to a regular officer being able to flag another player's bank account, the potential for abuse is astronomically too high on this and really, I don't see how if I saw someone selling drugs and arrested them for it how their bank account balance would be useful to me, I already got them on possession or distribution. There is probably a way to refine this idea to be useful to CID in some aspect with court requests and what not, but I'd say it probably exists already, but I don't honestly know.

Allowing police to freeze bank accounts temporarily if they suspect illegal activities, pending an investigation. For example, if an officer notices a large payment into a known potential gun dealer's account from another player.

I could only see this useful in the sense of police stopping OCG's wars against each other but honestly that gang warfare stuff is part of the OCG's RP, and I don't think being able to freeze their bank accounts is really fair to them. We have other means and methods to financially impact the people this method would be useful against.

I like the money laundering idea, the idea of "Dirty Cash" like wads of cash from robbing tills having to be laundered somehow seems like it could be incredibly fun for all parties involved. Might encourage people to be employed at businesses more for the purpose of laundering money.

 

[Kate Anderson]

CID is the smallest department with the biggest workload that no one is willing to do, unfortunately. It all comes down to a few players that are actually motivated enough to do that. Other than that, don't you worry, we have a lot of tools