The Mobile Police Station is a land-based vehicle in the 112 Operator Facilities DLC. Practically useless for actual police work, the Mobile Police Station's name literally explains its primary function. It can deploy anywhere it can get to, creating a temporary "Custody" that works the same as any regular police station, allowing other police units to drop arrested criminals off there. This Custory remains where it is until the end of the duty, at which point it reverts into a Mobile Police Station.
Description[]
"Designed to relieve police units. After setting up, you can transport the captured suspects to it. It is seeded until the end of duty."
Overview[]
The Mobile Police Station is a unique land-based police vehicle added by the Facilities DLC. It is unlocked for use only a handful of duties after the start of a career, scenario, or freeplay game, usually together with the Field Hospital and Hydrobank.
Although the Mobile Police Station does carry a single police officer, and can be sent to resolve criminal incidents (very slowly), this is not the vehicle's actual purpose. Instead, the purpose of the Mobile Police Station is in its name: to create a new, temporary police station anywhere on the map, in order to assist other units in dumping arrested criminals they've collected from incidents nearby.
Once the Mobile Police Station is driven into the desired position, a button in the vehicle's info tab (lower left corner of the screen) can be clicked to DEPLOY the vehicle at that position. The Mobile Police Station instantly disappears, replaced by a small box that counts up to 100% over the course of a few seconds. Once it reaches 100%, it is replaced by a Custody that functions the same as any permanent police station. Any number of police vehicles can visit this location to drop off any number of arrested criminals there. This temporary police station remains at its location until the end of the duty, and is then transformed back into a regular Mobile Police Station vehicle. There is no way to "undeploy" the temporary Custody manually.
Mobile Police Stations can be used to quickly deploy a police station near a major criminal incident that happened to occur away from any existing police station. This allows units to drop off the entire load of arrested criminals from that incident quickly and return to the incident site to pick up more.
A much more common use, however, is deploying the station immediately next to a riot or demonstration. Such incidents tend to spawn other criminal incidents in their close vicinity, so having a police station right there significantly shortens the amount of time that police units have to travel to drop off arrested persons and get back to guarding the riot/demonstration itself. This, in turn, reduces the number of incidents popping up in the area.
Naturally, the Mobile Police Station is a substitute for placing a stationary Custody facility. Though it is far more expensive - costing €95,000 compared to just €55,000 for a Custody point - it can be moved to a new place on each duty, whereas a stationary Custody cannot. Depending on the map's layout, this could either be an important ability or completely useless.
In terms of driving properties, the Mobile Police Station moves at a mediocre speed of 90, which is even slower than a Water Cannon. It loses almost none of its speed when going offroad, though.
Note: Although the Mobile Police Station can theoretically carry an infinite number of criminals, and has plenty of room in its on-site image, it actually cannot carry any of them while in vehicle form.
Attributes[]
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| Attribute | Value | Notes | ||||
| Cost | €95,000 | One of the more expensive fire-fighting vehicles. | ||||
| Terrain Type | Land | |||||
| Crew size | 1 | |||||
| Max. Speed (Assuming a driver with 100% driving skill) | ||||||
| Road | 90 | |||||
| Offroad | 81 | |||||
| Speed Penalty in Traffic | Full penalty | |||||
| Acceleration | 2 | Slow to accelerate to its top speed. Struggles on corners and frequent stops, e.g. while searching manually. | ||||
| Additional Abilities | Can DEPLOY, transforming into a stationary Custody point until the end of duty. | |||||
Availability[]
Included only in the 112 Operator DLC Facilities.