Police Precinct - Tips & Strategies

If you tire of completing the same tasks (investigating, for example) due to your character being the “specialist”, consider an “early retirement” of that character to try a new role.

This could involve one or more players trading character cards or swapping out entirely for a new character. If you pick up entirely new characters, have your group decide whether or not this should be balanced the same way with character skills. This could be a game-changing decision, so be sure to discuss how to handle it.

Ex: If you had a character with strong investigation skills, does another player have a character with similar skills to keep it balanced?

Suggestion: Any player(s) changing their character should stop at the Police Precinct to make the change. Switch out character card(s) and vehicles. If you had upgraded skills before, give your new character an equivalent number of upgraded skills. Surely an officer transferring to the precinct wouldn’t be a rookie, right?

Most Police Cards can only be played on a player’s own turn for their text, and are only usable for their icon to add dice/cards during other players’ turns — a notable exception is Air Support, which according to its own text may be played at any time to allow the current player to re-roll up to three dice. Make sure to remember this card’s timing when one of your fellow Police is attempting to resolve a difficult Emergency, or break up a nascent gang of Street Punks.