Del Perro Police Station

The Del Perro Police Station is a police station in San Andreas.
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"This place just makes me wanna say, 'let's go police!'" — Louis Bloom
==General Information==
The Del Perro Police Station, often referred to as DPPD in reference to the newly formed Del Perro Police Department, is a small police station on the south-eastern coast of San Andreas.
The building recently reopened after extensive renovations, and has been fitted with essential police equipment. Prior to reopening, it had been in use since December of 2023, utilised mainly for processing smaller, more casual arrests.
DPPD has always functioned as a home base for Sergeant Louis Bloom, and proudly boasts a record of zero rights violations (so far).
==Location==
DPPD is located on the Del Perro Pier among theme park rides, carnival games, and vendors of food and merchandise. The police station has a great view of the horizon over the ocean.
==Amenities==
The Del Perro Police Station is a small, boxy, white and blue building with exterior stairs enabling roof access. Valet parking is available for PD vehicles. The facade has been decorated for pride month with several large signs featuring rainbow colours. DPPD is most recognizable by its signature structure: a thick, round pillar capped by a flagpole protruding above the full height of the building. Currently the flag on display is Daniel Quasar's 2018 progress pride flag. The pillar is encircled by a large blue ring featuring the station's name at the height of the roof and three smaller blue rings further up. This part of the structure is featured prominently on the DPPD badge.
Beyond double doors graced by a rendering of the aforementioned badge, visitors are greeted by light hardwood flooring and white painted walls punctuated by a sunset beach-themed mural on the right-hand side. Immediately inside, seating is available next to a water cooler and beverage vending machine, in addition to a filing cabinet for the storage and collection of citizens' belongings.
By a window, department lead Louis Bloom and right-hand woman Lana Gray-Quinn's desks form an L shape. They feature police equipment such as computers, a phone hacker, and vehicle tracker, in addition to personal items such as Bloom's framed GED, a stapler with googly eyes named Mr Stapler, a landline phone, Lana's hard hat from the construction period, and a snowglobe of Blue Box PD. Another desk is available nearby, which is occupied by DPPD Sergeant Edward Maddox. Several pot plants decorate the workspace.
At the back of the room, a large screen has been installed on the wall behind a lectern with a microphone. Lockers on the left-hand side can be used for changing clothes and storing officers' personal items, and on the right there are two fully enclosed cells constructed with floor-to-ceiling steel bars.
===Pre-Renovation===
Initially, the Del Perro Police Station offered minimal features. Due to the lack of access to the building's interior, all the amenities of the police station were fitted externally around it.
The wooden boxes that were later turned into fully-enclosed cells were bare for a while before one was fitted with chain-link fencing on three sides. The fencing was not very functional, as criminals were able to demonstrate escaping custody by climbing over the top of them. Still, Bloom and his colleagues persevered in making use of these makeshift holding cells, since the interior of the building was not, and still isn't, in use.
On top of the building was a 'crows nest' which was used by dispatchers, such as ex-dispatch now cadet Ramona Celeste who often performed her duties from there, and also for PD meetings.
Due to a lack of funds being allocated to DPPD in the budget, the station lacked almost all essential police utilities. It did not have anywhere to deposit evidence, run fingerprints, etc., however Sergeant Bloom insisted this was an intentional choice on his behalf as that was the way he liked it. In place of private storage, public lockers were available to officers for rent at an out-of-pocket expense.
===First Renovation===
On April 19th, 2024 the station was renovated by Lieutenant Nicole Nash with the assistance of Sergeant Louis Bloom. The area then featured a fully-enclosed yard with two cells, a second floor, a dispatch area, and a break room.
The cells in the yard were built on top of wooden boxes which, according to Sergeant Bloom, were used as platforms for public stoning in the 1800s, specifically from 1882 to 1997Clip: Bloom describes the history of public stonings in the state of San Andreas. They were each fitted with a dumpster-sourced dining chair on April 23rd, 2024 before one was revealed to be a security riskClip: criminal exposes a design flaw in the DPPD cells and removed within hours of its installation.
The yard, which had been fenced in, had two cells for processing criminals, security cameras, two benches for guests or criminals awaiting processing, a payphone, a desk for Bloom's personal assistant Diana Blackwood complete with a landline phone, a water cooler, an evidence filing cabinet, and lockers for officers' personal items and police equipment. Hung above the entry to the yard was the taxidermied head of a "moose"Clip: Nash points out DPPD's "Moose" which had been dressed up with a pink hat, glasses, makeup, and a cigarette.
Outside the yard was a parking spot for Sergeant Bloom, and an ATM. Stairs had been installed to enable easy access to the second floor and dispatch area.
The second floor consisted of a platform perched on the roof overlooking the yard, upon which sat Bloom's desk and a flagpole flying the San Andreas state flag. The dispatch area had been installed in the "crow's nest" - a small decked platform with safety railings on the peak of the roof. It was equipped with a desk featuring multiple monitors in addition to two chairs and a matching side table. Below the crow's nest was a small, fenced deck which had been transformed into a break room. It featured two couches and a matching coffee table, a table and chairs, a heat lamp, multiple ashtrays for "chain smoking", and a small pigeon statue which could be used for clocking in and out.
Parking was available at DPPD, subject to stipulations of signageClip: parking at DPPD. Behind the building was a worktable which Sergeant Bloom claimed he used for firearms manufacturing.
===Second Renovation & Reopening===
The Del Perro Police Station was ordered to be destroyed by the Governor of San Andreas, Jerry Callow, on May 11th, 2024, having claimed it looked "like shit." Upon advising Sergeant Bloom of the station's closure, Callow indicated that new installations should be expected. Quickly transformed into a construction site surrounded by increasingly tall walls of blue plywood and eventually roofed in, the nickname "blue box PD" spread throughout the police force.
File:DPPD under construction.png|borderless|DPPD construction site
File:BBPD.webp|borderless|Blue Box PD
File:Blue Box PD.png|Alternative angle
In the early hours of May 25th, tragedy struck. The construction site's enclosing structures failed and began to fall apart, trapping some workers inside. Heroically, Bloom rushed into action, holding up the walls and enabling them to escapeClip: Bloom saves DPPD construction workers. He rushed inside to get the last of the occupants as the structure collapsed further, followed by others looking for loved ones. The structure creaked all around them as fire spread, and Bloom used his body to shield remaining occupants as pieces of plywood fellClip: human shield Bloom. Everyone emerged and the rescue mission concluded safely, but minutes later one final worker emerged from the building, yelling and making fuss, before falling off the pier and stumbling into the ocean. Cleanup and construction resumed in the following days. 
DPPD was under construction for a period of almost 4 weeks before it reopened on June 4th, 2024 and almost immediately attracted vandalism by the Vespucci Queens, who defaced signage with their gang's tag and crude drawings of pigs. Having been furnished by Lana Gray-Quinn, the station was operational but unfinished when Louis and Lily Bloom received a tour of the facilities in the early hours of June 5th. Flooring and wall coatings had not yet been fitted, leaving exposed concrete floors and drywall visible. This would be rectified within a couple of days. Edward Maddox described the place as “a fucking shit hole.”
The extensive and difficulty-plagued renovations resulted in $150,000 of debt, which DPPD officers will have to settle with the state. Bloom plans to host a boat/jet ski race on the waters of the nearby Vespucci Canals to raise funds. Contestants would be charged an entry fee of $4,000 and compete to win the prize of a watercraft.
==Trivia==
* The restaurant directly across from DPPD, The Big Puffa, has "the best fish and chips in town" according to Sergeant Bloom, whose expertise stems from his British wife.
* The rollercoaster on the pier has been named "The Decapitator" in honour of Newton Weems' late mother.
==Gallery==
File:DPPD "moose" head close-up.png|A close-up of the taxidermied "moose" head outside of DPPD
File:DPPD reno high angle.png|DPPD's exterior after dark in April of 2024
File:DPPD exterior April 2024.png|DPPD's exterior in April of 2024
File:Nash renovating DPPD.png|Lieutenant Nicole Nash renovating DPPD
File:Bloom 95 DPPD.png|Louis Bloom processing a 95 in the cells of DPPD, pre-renovation
DelPerroPoliceStation.png|DPPD's original exterior in March of 2024
==References==