About the Game
Dive into a deep story of corruption, crime and intrigue. Take the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, and come face to face with the ugly underbelly of Freeburg, a city spiraling the drain. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?
Manage your staff, respond to emergencies, and investigate crimes in a city on the brink of chaos. The mafia underworld maneuvers behind the scenes, sinking their claws ever deeper into the city, even as the mayor is ready to exploit every situation to his political advantage.
Choose your approach to each situation as it unfolds. Sometimes you’ll be responding to a developing crisis at a crime scene, or negotiating with Freeburg’s crime bosses. Sometimes you’ll find yourself dodging questions in the press room, or even the occasional cross-examination in the witness box. Can you keep this pressure cooker from exploding, at least for long enough to stash away a nice retirement nest egg?
Manage your staff, respond to emergencies, and investigate crimes in a city on the brink of chaos. The mafia underworld maneuvers behind the scenes, sinking their claws ever deeper into the city, even as the mayor is ready to exploit every situation to his political advantage.
Choose your approach to each situation as it unfolds. Sometimes you’ll be responding to a developing crisis at a crime scene, or negotiating with Freeburg’s crime bosses. Sometimes you’ll find yourself dodging questions in the press room, or even the occasional cross-examination in the witness box. Can you keep this pressure cooker from exploding, at least for long enough to stash away a nice retirement nest egg?
- Your mission is clear: make $500,000 in 180 days, before Jack Boyd reaches retirement. How? That’s up to you!
- Decisions, decisions! This Is the Police is all about a dark story and how you react to it. Whatever you decide, your choices will influence the game – and the fate of Jack Boyd.
- The Good, the Bad, and... the Ugly? The Chief of Freeburg's Police Department deals with all kind of people. It is up to you to find the bad guys, and decide how to deal with them.
- Carry out your duties. As head of Freeburg PD, Jack deals with all sorts of challenges every day: responding to emergencies, managing his officers, defending the department against City Hall and a corrupt mayor, and much more.
- Solve Investigations and gather evidence against the criminal gangs of Freeburg.
- Deal with the competing powers of the city. Everyone offers you favors, and each one comes at a price.
- Rich and fully voiced story: Jack Boyd is portrayed by Jon St. John, the voice of Duke Nukem.
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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 12698983
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We know that there's a lot of Japanese gamers interested in This Is the Police, so we are happy to announce that they can enjoy the game in their native language starting, well, right now. Have fun!
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We know that there's a lot of Japanese gamers interested in This Is the Police, so we are happy to announce that they can enjoy the game in their native language starting, well, right now. Have fun!
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Finally, you can play This Is the Police in a brand-new sandbox mode: everyone who has finished the story can jump right into an endless madness. Infinite number of days, leaderboard, new randomly-generated investigations, dynamic difficulty, 200+ new crimes, and more! Survive as long as you can, and soon we're going to find out the best police chief on the planet (or the most corrupt one).
And yes, you can rename your cops from the initial set. But try to be reasonable. Fartman Jr. isn't a name.
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Finally, you can play This Is the Police in a brand-new sandbox mode: everyone who has finished the story can jump right into an endless madness. Infinite number of days, leaderboard, new randomly-generated investigations, dynamic difficulty, 200+ new crimes, and more! Survive as long as you can, and soon we're going to find out the best police chief on the planet (or the most corrupt one).
And yes, you can rename your cops from the initial set. But try to be reasonable. Fartman Jr. isn't a name.
We just fixed a serious bug that could cause problems for new players. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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- fixed a serious bug that could cause problems for new players
- More fixes to Spanish and Portuguese text
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Hello, guys! We continue to work on making Freeburg a better and more multicultural place. Today we are happy to update This Is the Police with Spanish and Chinese languages! Hooray!
And here comes more. We want to give you guys something special – exclusive criminal gang (3 new investigations) for each new language. People playing Spanish version will be able to hunt down a gang named ‘Ángeles Guardianes’ (these guys for sure don’t have wings!), and for Chinese-speaking players there is ‘骨肉帮’ gang.
Thanks for your patience, have fun! And of course, stay tuned for more!
Update 1.0.49: Just a minor update with some fixes.
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Hello, guys! We continue to work on making Freeburg a better and more multicultural place. Today we are happy to update This Is the Police with Spanish and Chinese languages! Hooray!
And here comes more. We want to give you guys something special – exclusive criminal gang (3 new investigations) for each new language. People playing Spanish version will be able to hunt down a gang named ‘Ángeles Guardianes’ (these guys for sure don’t have wings!), and for Chinese-speaking players there is ‘骨肉帮’ gang.
Thanks for your patience, have fun! And of course, stay tuned for more!
Update 1.0.49: Just a minor update with some fixes.
- Fixed: all dates were showing as today's date
- Fixes to Spanish and Portuguese text
- Minor fixes to new Chinese gang investigation
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We are happy to announce our next little surprise for all the current and future owners of This Is the Police. Thematic Halloween update is live! Starting now all players can try to hunt down the pretty unlucky gang which tries to bring Halloween back to its pagan roots, passed down by the great Scottish ancestors. These guys don't want to see you trick-or-treating and really hate all costumes and stupid decorations. So what are you waiting for? Be the first to find out the purpose of the machine of the gods and save the Halloween!
But we have more! This Is the Police participates in Steam's Halloween Sale, which means discounts for everyone! If all these months you have been hesitating to press "Buy", waiting for some sign, then the right time has come!
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We are happy to announce our next little surprise for all the current and future owners of This Is the Police. Thematic Halloween update is live! Starting now all players can try to hunt down the pretty unlucky gang which tries to bring Halloween back to its pagan roots, passed down by the great Scottish ancestors. These guys don't want to see you trick-or-treating and really hate all costumes and stupid decorations. So what are you waiting for? Be the first to find out the purpose of the machine of the gods and save the Halloween!
But we have more! This Is the Police participates in Steam's Halloween Sale, which means discounts for everyone! If all these months you have been hesitating to press "Buy", waiting for some sign, then the right time has come!
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Obviously a lot of people prefer to play games in their native language, and we know that This Is the Police has a lot of fans (or wannabe-fans!) far beyond English-speaking, German-speaking and Russian-speaking countries. So we’re working on more languages, and today we’re happy to release Portuguese-Brazil and French versions! Chinese and Spanish are coming next, so stay tuned for more news!
But wait, there is more. Since the game was released in August, and only now, in October, we’re starting to add more languages (shame on us), we want to give you guys something special. So as a thank you for your incredible patience and amazing support we’ve prepared an exclusive criminal gang (which means +3 investigations) for each additional language. People playing Portuguese-Brazil version will be able to catch a gang named ‘Circo Mambembe’, and for our French-speaking players there is ’Uterus Magna’ gang (no, really, that’s how they call themselves, there is nothing we can do about it). But if you’re playing TITP in English, German or Russian, it doesn’t mean that you aren’t getting your own sweet piece of free new content: ‘Wheels of Empire’ gang is waiting for you!
Oh, and no, we didn’t forget about the sandbox mode: it’s coming very soon and, of course, going to be a free update for everyone.
Thanks again, have a nice play!
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Obviously a lot of people prefer to play games in their native language, and we know that This Is the Police has a lot of fans (or wannabe-fans!) far beyond English-speaking, German-speaking and Russian-speaking countries. So we’re working on more languages, and today we’re happy to release Portuguese-Brazil and French versions! Chinese and Spanish are coming next, so stay tuned for more news!
But wait, there is more. Since the game was released in August, and only now, in October, we’re starting to add more languages (shame on us), we want to give you guys something special. So as a thank you for your incredible patience and amazing support we’ve prepared an exclusive criminal gang (which means +3 investigations) for each additional language. People playing Portuguese-Brazil version will be able to catch a gang named ‘Circo Mambembe’, and for our French-speaking players there is ’Uterus Magna’ gang (no, really, that’s how they call themselves, there is nothing we can do about it). But if you’re playing TITP in English, German or Russian, it doesn’t mean that you aren’t getting your own sweet piece of free new content: ‘Wheels of Empire’ gang is waiting for you!
Oh, and no, we didn’t forget about the sandbox mode: it’s coming very soon and, of course, going to be a free update for everyone.
Thanks again, have a nice play!
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Good news! Jackass comics is now available for player who finished the game. We also added support for the ultra-wide screens. Here's the full list of changes:
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Good news! Jackass comics is now available for player who finished the game. We also added support for the ultra-wide screens. Here's the full list of changes:
- Jackass: An unlockable comic strip about the life of Jack Boyd before This Is the Police.
- Support for ultra-wide 21:9 screens
- Changes to promotion UI to make it more obvious that the badge can be interacted with
- Some balance changes to the game
- Deadlines for arrests won't count the skipped days anymore
- Fixed an issue with duplicate SWAT upgrades
- Minor fixes to UI and text
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We've got some more fixes and improvements to the game. The most important change is for when Jack is arrested we show some explanation on why. Here's the full list of changes:
We also posted a list of known solutions to some of the issues that come up frequently. If you have issues with the game you might want to check it out:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/443810/discussions/0/343785574512522479/
Edit:
We just found a bug in the Music Catalog and fixed it in the new patch 1.0.43.
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We've got some more fixes and improvements to the game. The most important change is for when Jack is arrested we show some explanation on why. Here's the full list of changes:
- When Jack gets arrested, show explanation on why
- Fixed a bug where you could get assignments from Mafia even after eliminated them
- Fixed a lighting issue on the map
- Show a little bit more of the map for 4:3 aspect ratios
- Minor changes and fixes to UI
- Minor corrections to text
We also posted a list of known solutions to some of the issues that come up frequently. If you have issues with the game you might want to check it out:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/443810/discussions/0/343785574512522479/
Edit:
We just found a bug in the Music Catalog and fixed it in the new patch 1.0.43.
We have a new update with a new feature: Consulting detective is a retired investigator who can help you. Not for free, of course. You can hire him in the deputy services window.
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The full list of changes:
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The full list of changes:
- Consulting detective
- Added option to use the system cursor instead of the custom one, to solve the problem some players have on Linux
- Added the launch option to force start the game in DirectX 9 mode that seems to solve crashes on some Windows machines
- Minor bug fixes and optimizations
Hello everyone!
We just pushed an update with a few minor fixes and improvements. Have a great weekend!
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Changelog:
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We just pushed an update with a few minor fixes and improvements. Have a great weekend!
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Changelog:
- Fixed minor glitch in snow's shadow on the Map
- Minor fixes to UI and text
Here's the latest batch of fixes and improvements.
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- Fixed a bug where blaming Jack in the hearing would skip a day
- In the "Next shift tab" hide cops that are gonna be absent tomorrow
- Visual cues for when a cop comes back from a mission
- Fixed a bug in music room that could freeze the game
- Minor fixes to UI and text
We've got some more fixes for you. Thank you for the bug reports.
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Changelog:
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Changelog:
- The option to retry if player fails the final assault
- Fixed a problem with finished/failed investigations
- Fixed a bug in main menu that could let player skip days
- Ignore SWAT upgrade request if SWAT is already maxed out
- Work around for people who are stuck in days when Jack is in coma
- minor rebalance for some missions
- Minor fixes to text
Current Release
Build 12698983
Uploaded Sep 09, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
Dual Core CPU
RAM
2 GB RAM
GPU
Geforce 7800, AMD HD 4600, Intel HD3000 or similiar
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Police.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
CRC32
C8DF4307
SHA-256
b7ee6191c0bd1fc2ef032708e48d1a36102ea2a9cac8adc8b0b3b8f120954f64
How: Right-click the downloaded file → 7-Zip / WinRAR → CRC SHA → compare with the values above.
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