Street Racing Unit/Previous iteration

Description
The Street Racing Unit is an Investigative Unit focused on taking down High-Profile Street Racers and Boosters. The unit was established on October 15th, 2021.

The Street Racing Unit was founded by Brittany Angel and Olivia Copper to investigate high-profile Street Racers and Boosters. Their goal is to catch criminals engaging in vehicle-related crimes such as Street Racing and Grand Theft Auto.

The SRU is an expansion and refocus of the pursuit division, combining the original pursuit team with an additional investigation unit. All Officers in the team must show proficiency in driving interceptor units via completion the Interceptor Time Trials under a target time and/or a pursuit challenge. As such all previous members of the pursuit team are automatically in the SRU however the unit reserves the right to remove certifications if they fail to meet standards on the field.

Interceptors
The SRU’s current fleet consists of 5 Widebody Chargers, and 2 of each Interceptor: Challenger (Demon), Corvette (C7) and Mustang (Shelby GT350). Standard certed drivers are only permitted to drive the Widebody Chargers, while supervisors, leads and certed Troopers can drive any of the fleet vehicle. The unit is allowed 4 WB chargers and two of the other interceptors out at any time. With the rest reserved for trials or extremely exceptional circumstances.

The unit has three liveries for the interceptors indicating their different drivers

Use of the white liveries is reserved for the division pursuit leads Brittany Angel and Jackie Snow and additional hand selected exceptional drivers. The livery is reserved for the best pursuers as it is intended to instill fear into those that it pursues. The current permitted drivers are:



Entry requirements
With the focus of the department shifting more towards Chargers, Angel restructured the entry requirements to consist of 2 Charger trials.

A skill check time trial around the city to ensure prospects can handle the car and push it to its limits. To pass this trial participants must beat a passing time, currently set at (tbc).

(A new Charger trial was created to replace PD Breeze due to the increased local presence on the old one after the opening of Shrugway)

The second trial, uses the track Hot Pursuit, a track that loops around the entire island passing the various PDs, the goal of this track differs from the others, as it aims to mimic pursuits. During the trial candidates face off against an SRU supervisor/lead and pursue them using accurate comms until they are able to pit and pass them, then the role swaps in a game of cat and mouse. The candidate passes if they demonstrate competence in pursuing and by being first to the finish line.

Previous Entry requirements
Since the focus shifted to Chargers the following trials were deemed unrepresentative and abandoned. There were 3 initial time trials, one for each interceptor.


 * A track around Sandy shores and Grapeseed for the Challenger created by Kael Soze
 * A Track around the docks and oil fields for the Corvette(Track was remade by Brittany Angel with the formation of the SRU after the original track created by Kael Soze was blocked by the opening of the tuner shop)
 * A track through the hills with a short of-road section for the Mustang created by Kael Soze

Due to the many revisions to the interceptors since their introduction, the initial Police Interceptor Certification Time Trials requirements have been changed with officers who had previously gained the certification keeping the cert without the need to meet the new times.

* pass time incresed from 4:25 due to car changes, ** record set before change

In addition to the time trial there is an optional pursuit test where candidates must attempt to pursue Angel as she judges their skill, it is expected that drivers are able to maintain the chase for several minutes while maintaining accurate comms.

Candidates have the option of passing all 3 trials or 2 trials and the pursuit. Standards however are flexible if the candidate has something additional to offer, for example being an investigator although they must still show basic proficiency with interceptors

A 4th track “Hot Pursuit” was created for the Charger and remains in use, a track that loops around the entire island passing the various PDs, the goal of this track differs from the others, as it aims to mimic pursuits. During the trial candidates face of against an SRU supervisor/lead and pursue them using accurate comms until they are able to pit and pass them, then the role swaps in a game of cat and mouse. The candidate passes if they demonstrate competence in pursuing and by being first to the finish line.

PD Breeze was a skill check time trial to ensure prospects can handle the car and push it to its limits. To pass this trial participants must beat a passing time, currently set at 3:08. Removed due to the increased local presence on the old one after the opening of Shrugway

Propaganda
To inform the city of the newly reformed unit and establish their name amongst racers and boosters a series of billboards were put up in view the cities mechanic shops.