Traffic Officer

Traffic Officer is a specialist police job. It keeps normal police powers and focuses on speed enforcement and spike strips.

How to start

Traffic Officer unlocks at Police Level 2, the same milestone as 50 arrests.

After unlocking it, you still need to go to the job marker unless you have 100,000 Arrest Points, which unlocks /go Traffic Officer.

The Traffic Officer marker is inside LSPD.

What Traffic Officers do

Traffic Officers share normal police arrest powers, but focus on:

speed enforcement with the camera
using /stinger spike strips

Aim at a vehicle with your camera. If it is going over 110 km/h, you can detect the speed and fine the driver.

The fine is $1 for every 20 minutes of the driver's play time ($3 per hour), with a $1,000 minimum up to about 333 hours and a $20,000 maximum from about 6,667 hours. Traffic Officers keep 90%, rounded down; VIP does not increase their share.

Stinger notes

Use /stinger to place spike strips.
Stingers last about 1 minute. A stinger is removed if destroyed, if its owner dies, quits, leaves Police Service, moves more than 200 meters away, or places another stinger.
/stinger has a 7 second cooldown.
The stinger appears after the deploying cop finishes the animation.
A stinger deployed from a cop vehicle takes 2.5 seconds before it starts stinging tires.

Unlock and Start

Requirement	Result
`50` arrests	Unlocks Traffic Officer
`100,000` Arrest Points	Allows `/go Traffic Officer`

After unlocking it, you still need to take the job at its marker unless you use the quick switch.

Main Work

Traffic Officers:

keep normal arrest powers
catch speeders with the camera
issue speeding fines
place spike strips with /stinger

To catch speeders, aim at a vehicle with your camera. If it is going over 110 km/h, you can detect the speed and fine the driver.

Fines and Stingers

Topic	Value
Maximum speeding fine	`$20,000`
Traffic Officer share	`90%` of the fine
Stinger command	`/stinger`
Stinger expiry	About `1` minute, or earlier under the owner and destruction rules
Stinger cooldown	`7` seconds

Wanted players can damage stingers. Normal weapons do 10% damage to stingers. Shotguns and sniper rifles do 50%.

Police cannot place stingers within 50 meters of an active Armed Robbery.

Achievements

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

The abandoned vehicle recovery mission in the Traffic Officer job is currently disabled. The older mission used pink tractor icons, a tow truck, and a reward of 500 Iron for each abandoned vehicle delivered.

Location

The Traffic Officer job marker is inside LSPD.

Activity limits

Traffic Officers cannot play the civilian Mechanic scrapper mission. The Police Plane Takedown side mission is disabled.

Equipment, fines, and skins

Taking the Traffic Officer job gives a nightstick and camera. Military and rebel players cannot be fined for speeding. The top speeding fine issuer appears in Today's Tops.

Police Service members standing near one of the mapped Los Santos No Entry signs are automatically paid when a player ignores it.

Traffic Officer skin IDs are 4, 119, 284, 0, 3, 39, 71, 265, 266, 267, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 288, 1007, 1008, 1010, 1011, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1019, 1042, 1046, 1055, 1057, 1063, 1097, 1115, 1120, 1121, and 1122.