Police Precinct & Impound

Police headquarters is not the only law enforcement station in town. Most large cities like Cape Suzette are subdivided into districts known as precincts, kept under the jurisdiction of a specific unit of the police force. The local stations of these units are also known as precincts themselves, extending the presence of law enforcement throughout Cape Suzette's greater metropolitan area.

Police precincts are usually brick station houses two stories tall with barred windows, standing on street corners in a city district or neighborhood. Precincts are manned by a squad of officers under the command of a sergeant who reports to the police commissioner.

From the stations, police officers cover their patrol zone (their "beat") by car or on foot. Many cops are on call to respond, for example, to a fellow officer's request for backup in a high-speed pursuit through that area. Police detachments may also investigate suspicious reports or follow clues to a criminal's hideout.

Because the incidence of air traffic violations is at least as great as that of ground traffic, most precincts have a few police fighter planes to chase down joyriders. Impounded vehicles, cars and planes alike, stay in a yard behind the police station — if left unredeemed, they are eventually sold at a police auction.