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Los Santos Police Department
Los Santos, San Andreas
Los Santos: The Vice Unit of the Major Crimes Division, which investigates crimes involving scams and fraud reported to the LSPD, will not recognize contracts as legally binding if they are not authenticated by the Contract Authenticity Office. On September 22, 2021, the Judicial Branch of the San Andreas Government announced a program where individuals could get their contract authenticated as legally binding through the newly created Contract Authenticity Office. The press release from the Justice Branch about this program stated that contracts authenticated through this program would be legally binding, and thus enforceable by law. While individuals can make contracts without getting them authenticated, which is still recommendable over doing nothing, the LSPD cannot enforce them in their own right, and will deny crime reports it deems to have insufficient evidence.
Since the launch of the program, the LSPD Detective Bureau has received numerous crime reports about individuals being scammed while buying or selling property privately. In cases where an actual contract was provided to Detectives, no contract was authenticated as legally binding, nor live up to the minimum requirements stipulated in the previous release by the LSPD on this issue. The Vice Unit has continued to investigate fraud cases in spite of the lack of an authenticated contract, relying instead on other evidence to establish proof of the suspects' illegal motives, and enforcing a reversal or completion of the agreed upon terms as part of the conclusion of the case once charges had been filed.
However, such investigations are time consuming and do not guarantee a result. If the victims had simply gotten an authenticated contract, the cost of which is marginal in comparison to the losses reported in most of these cases, these cases would be much more likely to end successfully and have been over in a fraction of the time, freeing up Detectives to work on other duties. As such, the Vice unit encourages individuals to get authenticated contracts when making private transactions, and reserves the right to reject crime reports that do not have authenticated contracts.
Read the press release from the Justice Branch about Contract Authentication here.
View the Contract Authenticity Application Guidelines here.
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Los Santos, San Andreas
News Release
NA002-23bc
April 22, 2023
LSPD Not Enforcing Unauthenticated Contracts
Los Santos: The Vice Unit of the Major Crimes Division, which investigates crimes involving scams and fraud reported to the LSPD, will not recognize contracts as legally binding if they are not authenticated by the Contract Authenticity Office. On September 22, 2021, the Judicial Branch of the San Andreas Government announced a program where individuals could get their contract authenticated as legally binding through the newly created Contract Authenticity Office. The press release from the Justice Branch about this program stated that contracts authenticated through this program would be legally binding, and thus enforceable by law. While individuals can make contracts without getting them authenticated, which is still recommendable over doing nothing, the LSPD cannot enforce them in their own right, and will deny crime reports it deems to have insufficient evidence.
Since the launch of the program, the LSPD Detective Bureau has received numerous crime reports about individuals being scammed while buying or selling property privately. In cases where an actual contract was provided to Detectives, no contract was authenticated as legally binding, nor live up to the minimum requirements stipulated in the previous release by the LSPD on this issue. The Vice Unit has continued to investigate fraud cases in spite of the lack of an authenticated contract, relying instead on other evidence to establish proof of the suspects' illegal motives, and enforcing a reversal or completion of the agreed upon terms as part of the conclusion of the case once charges had been filed.
However, such investigations are time consuming and do not guarantee a result. If the victims had simply gotten an authenticated contract, the cost of which is marginal in comparison to the losses reported in most of these cases, these cases would be much more likely to end successfully and have been over in a fraction of the time, freeing up Detectives to work on other duties. As such, the Vice unit encourages individuals to get authenticated contracts when making private transactions, and reserves the right to reject crime reports that do not have authenticated contracts.
Read the press release from the Justice Branch about Contract Authentication here.
View the Contract Authenticity Application Guidelines here.
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Emergency Hotline: 911 • Public Inquiries • Email: [email protected]
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69 Sinner Street • Los Santos • San Andreas • 90013
Emergency Hotline: 911 • Public Inquiries • Email: [email protected]
"to protect and to serve"
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