Using GTA 5 as a venue of publicity isn't exactly new — it being used by an official law enforcement agency as a means of online publicity is novel. You know your local police force is pretty fly when they're replicating a high-speed chase inside Rockstar's hit open-world crime game.
The Polícia Segurança Pública, which is the national law enforcement agency of Portugal recently shared a video on their official Facebook page wherein a player in GTA 5 engages in some good old police work.
Oh, and this isn't just some agency's misguided attempt at capitalizing on something that's popular without actually knowing anything about it. This isn't a poorly edited video thrown together by the only officer in the station who once briefly held a controller in their hands.
What we're looking at here is an expertly put together video from a modded version of GTA 5 running not only a Portuguese Police Cruiser skin mod, but LSPDFR, which happens to be the biggest and most detailed mod developed for the game.
LSPDFR is something of a total conversion mod which turns the massive, vibrant world of GTA 5 into a police simulator. Players take on the role of a law enforcement officer, tasked with patrolling the city and responding to various emergencies.
The video, courtesy of Workgrafix-Brand Agency, seeks to depict a high-speed car chase within GTA 5 as realistically as the game allows. They call in air support, pay attention to innocent traffic, call in a tow-truck for the stolen vehicle and call in an ambulance for the injured fugitive after he has been apprehended.
Of course, since the PSP aren't eldritch wizards, they can't summon police barriers out of thin air — but give the video some credit. LSPDFR is pretty much as close video games have ever gotten to realistic police simulation, so you'll excuse it for allowing players to spawn barriers in this manner.
