No Police Patrols after 1.2.3f1

[hannahsaurusrxx]

Police respond to crimes committed but aren't patrolling at all. Anyone else having this issue?

[Trixxite]

I'm getting this issue too. Helicopters are not patrolling and all my police cars are parked.

[girlaroundthecorner]

Originally posted by hannahsaurusrxx:

Police respond to crimes committed but aren't patrolling at all. Anyone else having this issue?

Yes; once I read your post I clicked on a few police stations and found no police cars patrolling. Crime is at an all time low though.

[dot1q1978]

I found this to be an issue even before. I even had issues where they wouldn't even respond to crimes sometimes and had to rebuild police stations to trigger it. Regardless, the issue still persists with patrolling. They still don't patrol whatsoever for me.

[twightman]

I also had this before the patch. It continues after the patch. Cars seem to respond to a specific crime. Also, my crime is next to nothing. Something like 10 criminals and 2 crimes per month in a city with 45000 population. A few weeks ago, I tried to fix it by deleting and replacing all the police buildings in my city. That did not fix the issue.

[br0]

population 500,000. zero police. zero crime. full of pollution and industry, yet its the most peaceful city in the world.

[Llama]

Crime needs to be increased ten fold and cars need to be patrolling. Having an entire system to the game not functioning is ridiculous.

[hannahsaurusrxx]

I hadn't played much since economy 2.0 so I may not have noticed the issue prior. I only have two-ish crimes a month but there is a 100% success rate.

[Trixxite]

I found a little temporary fix. Just download the "crime remover" mod, restart your game and load your city. This mod allows you to customize how much crime there is in your city. Go to the mod's settings and increase the crime rate a little bit. Then you'll be able to see all the helicopters and police cars swarm out of their police stations and start patrolling the city.

[Lens007888]

Originally posted by hannahsaurusrxx:

Police respond to crimes committed but aren't patrolling at all. Anyone else having this issue?

Yep Crime is broken just look at the charts, it's either 0 or 1, crap fixes just like the lodging where they removed the need to get 1000 lodging to unlock certain milestones, pretty pathetic to do these soft fixes if you ask me cause the overall problem lies with what they are soft fixing.

[cultural_lover]

Zero patrols..... 600,000 people and not a cop car in sight except for some accidents. Most accidents go ignored just as most sickness are ignored by the ambulance....need I speak on death as well?

[1235IO1]

Same here been like this for months

[sternenstaub70]

here the same... 720k inhabitants, 2 crimes/months, no patrolling cars - only some dispatched onces for accidents.

Maybe it has to do with the huge range police stations cover... I just checked with an empty map.
1 small police station (no matter if vanilla or region pack) covers about 8 map tiles in each direction. 1 big police station even 16 map tiles until coverage becomes completely red.
Maybe many road branches do shorten the range but that does not change that the covered areas seem to be way too big.

But even in those pure red areas I cannot even see any police cars patrolling. That's what I was at least hoping for.

There is definitely something extremely broken with police.
But at some point it must have worked because my city statistics in my 720k town says I have more than 5000 arrests; with 2 arrests/month at the moment the city should be about 2500 months old - and that's impossible, even if you play 24/7.

[AggonyVaenson]

Today i saw a patrol...seems it got fixed on the way?

[veetz01]

tried today, no patrols.

[WGB24]

Crime remover mod fixes the police patrol problem but allows custom crime settings