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Traffic Officer

Traffic Officer is a specialist police job in CIT. It is part of the police side and keeps normal police powers, but it focuses on speed enforcement and spike-strip use.

Overview

Traffic Officers:

  • are part of the police side
  • keep the same powers as a regular police officer
  • focus on catching speeders with the camera
  • use /stinger spike strips
  • can still arrest wanted criminals like normal cops

How to Unlock Traffic Officer

Traffic Officer unlocks at:

  • 50 arrests

After it is unlocked:

  • you still need to go to the job marker to take the job

At:

  • 100,000 Arrest Points

you can use:

  • /go Traffic Officer

as a quick switch.

What Traffic Officers Do

Traffic Officer is the police-side job for:

  • speed enforcement
  • issuing speeding fines
  • placing spike strips
  • standard police arrests and wanted-player enforcement

Traffic Officers still keep:

  • normal arrest powers

Catching Speeders

To catch speeders:

  • aim at a vehicle with your camera
  • if it is going over 110 km/h, you can detect the speed
  • you can then fine the driver

Speeding Fines

The maximum speeding fine is:

  • $20,000

Traffic Officers keep:

  • 90% of the fine

Stingers

Use:

  • /stinger

to place spike strips.

Stinger details:

  • they last about 1 minute
  • they have a 7 second cooldown

Restrictions:

  • police cannot place stingers within 50 meters of an active Armed Robbery

Wanted players can destroy stingers.

Damage to stingers:

  • normal weapons do 10% damage
  • shotguns do 50% damage
  • sniper rifles do 50% damage

Traffic Officer Vehicles

The main Traffic Officer recovery vehicle is:

  • HPV1000

Cops can recover:

  • HPV1000 from any location without VIP for Traffic Officer
  • HPV1000 near a Police Station without VIP

Traffic Officers can also use:

Recovery Without VIP

Traffic Officer has non-VIP recovery support through:

  • HPV1000

Without VIP:

  • recovered law vehicles go to the nearest vehicle spawner

With VIP:

  • recovered law vehicles can be brought directly to your location

Progression and Related Police Rank

In the police progression order:

  • Police Officer has no requirement
  • Traffic Officer unlocks at 50 arrests
  • Police Detective unlocks at 150 arrests
  • Bomb Disposal unlocks at 300 arrests

Police levels later unlock:

  • more law vehicles
  • /sirens
  • better arrest pay

Achievements

Traffic Officer-related achievements include:

Achievement Requirement Reward
Traffic Warden Issue 10 speeding fines $25,000
Ticket Machine Issue 50 speeding fines $100,000

Today's Tops

Traffic Officer work is reflected in the law-side Today's Tops category:

  • Top Speeding Fine Issuer

Abandoned Vehicle Recovery Mission

The abandoned vehicle recovery mission in the Traffic Officer job is currently:

  • disabled

The older mission used:

  • pink tractor icons
  • a tow truck
  • a reward of 500 Iron for each abandoned vehicle delivered

Commands

Command Use
/go Traffic Officer Quick switch to Traffic Officer after unlock and with the required Arrest Points
/stinger Place spike strips

Notes

  • Traffic Officer is still a police job, not a separate side
  • it keeps normal police arrest powers
  • its specialist role is traffic enforcement and stinger use
  • the documented speed threshold for catching speeders is over 110 km/h

See also