## Description

_Polizei_ is a simulation about the German police. Players take the role of a
team of two control cops: a man with pistol and baton and a woman with pepper
spray and signalling disk. Players can freely switch between the two; the
other one is controlled by the AI.

The game is divided into 12-hour-shifts (30 minuted play time) in which
players have to solve a random task, e.g. finding and punishing a certain
number of parking violators, and get set loose on the open city environment.
Sometimes there are also emergency calls with additional tasks which can be
tackled. The whole goal of the game is to have a high amount of points at the
end of the shift; points are rewarded for successfully solved tasks.

Said tasks have the same basic procedure: scanning cars or people with the
PDA. Then it shows if the suspect is a criminal or not – if yes they attack or
flee. Then the protagonists need to use their tools to defend themselves or
pursue the culprit. With their PDA they also can call ambulances to rescue
wounded persons, trucks to tow off parking offenders or defect cars from
traffic accidents or a police van to collect arrested people. They also can
call their own car if they lost it.

The shifts ends without success when the cops are wounded. Just like in
reality, they can’t run over civilians (because of an invisible wall around
them) or use force against innocents (except pepper spray).

Polizei