The Government and You

[Maxim]

Hello everyone,

 

I am Maxim, some of you may know/remember me as Frank Underhill and I'm currently in charge of the government faction here in LS-RP:V. With the move to GTA:V we decided to make major changes to the government faction, how it functions and its structure.

 

Here are some changes we decided to take, with a brief explanation as to why we went that route:

Los Santos City Government - We decided to revert back to a municipal system, the Mayor overseeing all government operations instead of the Secretary of State or the Lieutenant Governor. We went through multiple concepts and decided it would be best to re-introduce LSGOV, while not the best system - it is better than what we had before.

Involvement - The government will be more involved with legal factions and the community in general. We want to introduce new concepts that weren't around on SAMP, with some already in place such as the city budget (which involves all government factions), in-game licenses and more. We want to maintain an interactive government, with useful services (both in roleplay and script-wise) that players could use.

New services - We integrated new services into the faction, such as the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, firearm licenses and parking enforcement. We want to improve roleplay and move on from old concepts (such as impounding vehicles non-stop).

*Everything is still being discussed and might change by the time the server releases.

 

In order to support these new changes, we decided to open up recruitment and allow players to join the faction pre-launch. If you wish to take a look at our open vacancies go ahead and check our new forums: https://forum.lsgov.us/

We also have a brand new Discord server which can be found here: https://discord.gg/DVGfh3nsKP

 

If you have any ideas/questions related to LSGOV feel free to write them down here, or join our Discord and message us there.

[Ascendency]

When will Port Authority Police be established?

[Jerome]

5 hours ago, Maxim said:

firearm licenses

 

Are they moving the application system for firearm licenses to government? I hope not, and I hope the LSPD continues to handle firearm licenses for obvious reasons.

Edited October 15, 2021 by Jerome

[Maxim]

14 hours ago, Ascendency said:

When will Port Authority Police be established?

We haven't looked into it yet, but we're going to discuss the idea soon (this upcoming week). Not sure it might happen tho, it's early to tell.

 

14 hours ago, Jerome said:

 

Are they moving the application system for firearm licenses to government? I hope not, and I hope the LSPD continues to handle firearm licenses for obvious reasons.

Not sure what those obvious reasons are, but yes. Licenses will be handled by the government and the whole process is going to be done in-game.

[Jerome]

55 minutes ago, Maxim said:

We haven't looked into it yet, but we're going to discuss the idea soon (this upcoming week). Not sure it might happen tho, it's early to tell.

 

Not sure what those obvious reasons are, but yes. Licenses will be handled by the government and the whole process is going to be done in-game.

The obvious reasons being the problem we had with people in the governments licensing section driving around in premiers and armor pretending to be detectives on SAMP. Also, the police department should handle firearm licensing, realistically speaking. They’re the ones that do extensive background checks, revoke violators ig (violators usually caught by cops) and so forth.

[danielswe]

4 hours ago, Jerome said:

The obvious reasons being the problem we had with people in the governments licensing section driving around in premiers and armor pretending to be detectives on SAMP. Also, the police department should handle firearm licensing, realistically speaking. They’re the ones that do extensive background checks, revoke violators ig (violators usually caught by cops) and so forth.

 

The Los Santos Police Department will not handle firearms licenses anymore. I have full confidence that Maxim will handle it well and with a completely new and hopefully better system to handle it completely in the game.

 

 

[Venta]

8 hours ago, Jerome said:

The obvious reasons being the problem we had with people in the governments licensing section driving around in premiers and armor pretending to be detectives on SAMP. Also, the police department should handle firearm licensing, realistically speaking. They’re the ones that do extensive background checks, revoke violators ig (violators usually caught by cops) and so forth.

 

This is a new chapter, new people. Mistakes were made in the past and everything will be done to prevent them from repeating.

[Maxim]

7 hours ago, Jerome said:

The obvious reasons being the problem we had with people in the governments licensing section driving around in premiers and armor pretending to be detectives on SAMP. Also, the police department should handle firearm licensing, realistically speaking. They’re the ones that do extensive background checks, revoke violators ig (violators usually caught by cops) and so forth.

That won't be the case anymore, what you're bringing up happened a few years ago under different people. I've already brought up Licensing's fiasco in one of our faction-leadership meetings and made it clear that's not a route we're going for. Government licenses, and the department itself won't be a heavy burden to deal with as it was before. As for the other thing - it's true that law enforcement should do it, however we decided to take it in because it makes things easier script-wise.

[Monocle]

10 hours ago, Jerome said:

The obvious reasons being the problem we had with people in the governments licensing section driving around in premiers and armor pretending to be detectives on SAMP. Also, the police department should handle firearm licensing, realistically speaking. They’re the ones that do extensive background checks, revoke violators ig (violators usually caught by cops) and so forth.

What you are referring to happened around five years ago under different leadership, the faction was reformed and replaced by State Government which didn't have an active licensing department as far as I know and therefore your argument is invalid. Los Santos City Government faction will mainly consist of former members of State Government and of course new members joining through recruitment, this is the second time the faction is being reformed, everything is made from scratch and they are aiming for a fun and approachable government.

Edited October 16, 2021 by Monocle

[Jerome]

18 minutes ago, Monocle said:

What you are referring to happened around five years ago under different leadership, the faction was reformed and replaced by State Government which didn't have an active licensing department as far as I know and therefore your argument is invalid. Los Santos City Government faction will mainly consist of former members of State Government and of course new members joining through recruitment, this is the second time the faction is being reformed, everything is made from scratch and they are aiming for a fun and approachable government.

It happened sometime before the server closed actually, I was gonna arrest the guy myself. He ended up being arrested by another detective. Forget his name, think it started with a P though. Either way, if it's an issue that's been fixed and a plan to prevent such from happening again has been implemented, good.

[Narc]

Good luck with the Government factionus, Maximus the Great

[Spades]

Good luck with this! I’m sure you’ll get things going in the right direction!

[catsmoon]

Looks impressive at first glance. Looking forward to possibly RP in this faction one day when the server launches. 

[KnownAlmighty]

Good luck with this one, man. Hopefully you'll hold the faction tight! Make it shine. 

[Flemwad]

The name sounds familiar.  Good luck and I'm eager to see the success with our government.  I think removing firearms licensing from the police is a step in the right direction.