Cambridge Police Station

The Cambridge Police Station is a location in the Commonwealth in 2287.
==Background==
Before the Great War, the station was shared between Cambridge law enforcement and Boston Police Department Captain Widmark's team working on the Eddie Winter case.Operation Winter's End Post-War, the station is being used as the forward base of operations for the Brotherhood of Steel Recon Squad Gladius.
When the player character first approaches the area, they will receive on the Pip-Boy radio military radio broadcast AF95, in which Scribe Haylen requests assistance from anyone nearby. The quest Fire Support then begins, and the station's location will be marked on the map.
Upon arriving at the station, the player character will find it under heavy attack from a large horde of feral ghouls, and can assist the Brotherhood soldiers in ending the siege. Once the attack is over, the player character can talk to Paladin Danse. If they agree to help him, the quest Call to Arms is started, and the station will become accessible. Upon entering, one will discover that the station is mostly in ruins. After Shadow of Steel is started, the station receives reinforcements from the Prydwen and will be refitted into an official outpost. It is the largest Brotherhood outpost in the Commonwealth, apart from the Boston Airport where the Prydwen is stationed.
==Layout==
===Exterior===
Heading south from College Square, the station will be on the right, with a makeshift barricade on the perimeter. Going through the closest gap in the barricade then turning right before the steps up to the station entrance, one will see an ammo box. A nearby gate to the west leads out of the defended area to an alley on the north side of the building.
To the east is a stairway to the outer barricade gantry. On the gantry, the body of Knight Keane and a feral ghoul can be found, along with two ammo boxes and a first aid box. Exiting the barricade to the south and turning right leads to the motor pool (garage) on the south side of the building, which can only be opened from inside the station.
===First floor===
Upon entering through the main entrance, a short stairway leads up to the station's reception area. Immediately in front is the station's reception desk. On the east side of the room is the Gladius personnel terminal. Three sleeping bags, one for each surviving member of the Gladius squad, can be used by the Sole Survivor.
Along the northern wall of the reception area is a doorway to the left and a hole in the wall to the right. The doorway leads to the stairs up to the roof exit, and the hole in the wall opens into a small room with a couch against the opposite wall. After the Brotherhood of Steel's reinforcements arrive, this room will be converted into a barracks, with two beds as well as a chemistry station where the couch was originally placed.
The southern door out of the reception area leads to the office area. To the east past a set of file cabinets are two small rooms: a restroom to the left, and the police chief's office to the right. The chief's office contains a desk with the Advanced-locked recon data terminal (after the Brotherhood reinforcements arrive) and an Expert-locked safe near a bank of file cabinets.
Through the western door of the office area is a corridor, with the lockup containing three cells and a storage closet at the northern end; a lockup terminal appears here after the Brotherhood reinforcements arrive. The other two rooms to the west along the corridor are the interrogation room and the evidence room, the latter containing the Novice-locked evidence terminal. Beyond the door at the south end of the corridor is the stairwell down to the motor pool exit.
===Motor pool===
Inside the motor pool, a power armor station is against the western wall. On the southern wall is a set of shelves and cabinets, with a weapons workbench appearing after the Brotherhood reinforcements arrive. The button to open the motor pool door is to the left of the door itself. A cooking station will appear just outside the motor pool after the Brotherhood reinforcements arrive.
===Roof===
Upon leaving the building via the roof exit, there is a fence directly ahead. Moving slightly to the right and following the fence will lead to a short set of steps down to the helipad, which will be occupied by a vertibird after the Brotherhood's main forces arrive in the Commonwealth.
Returning to the exit door and facing east, one can see the satellite post with a Brotherhood flag attached and a small collapsed outbuilding to its north. Passing between the exit door and the collapsed outbuilding, one can see another nearby rooftop to the north with a fire escape installed on the opposite end. Jumping to this rooftop will allow access to the fire escape and a return to ground level.
==Notable loot==
* Scribe Haylen's personal log - Holotape. Prior to Shadow of Steel, it is located on a small round table to the right through the hole in the northern wall of the reception area. After Shadow of Steel starts, the holotape is moved to a shelf in the office with the safe in the eastern corner.
* Operation Winter's End - Holotape. In the evidence room, on the metal shelves closest to the file cabinets.
* Cambridge Police Station key - Taken from Paladin Danse's corpse if the player character kills him before entering the station after the initial fight with the ghouls.
* BOS hood - Worn by Paladin Danse.
* Guns and Bullets issue #8 - Appears only after Shadow of Steel starts. The magazine will be inside the Expert-locked safe in the chief's office. If the player character had looted this safe before the Brotherhood reinforcements arrived, the safe will be locked and filled again after their arrival as though it had never been looted. One can also hack the Advanced-locked recon data terminal on the desk in the same room to unlock the safe.
* Mini nuke - Appears only after Shadow of Steel starts. The mini nuke will be on the roof, on top of a silver crate on the west side of the helipad.
* Cambridge Police Station safe key - Can be found at the main counter after completing The Molecular Level.
==Related quests==
==Notes==
* The interior of the police station is modified several times over the course of the main story. It is refurbished and reinforced by Brotherhood soldiers after Shadow of Steel starts. Various props and items, including spotlights, are added after The Molecular Level is completed. Rubble and damages will appear during and after Precipice of War.
* The safe in the eastern office can be unlocked using the Cambridge Police Station safe key; this applies to both versions of the safe, both the one before Shadow of Steel and the one holding the Guns and Bullets magazine afterwards. However, the key itself cannot be obtained until some time after Shadow of Steel.
* It is possible to access the interior of the police station prior to completing the "Assist the Soldiers" segment of Fire Support by ordering a companion to "Inspect" the garage door button while viewing it through the broken window on the southern wall of the garage.
* Danse explains that the police station was chosen as an outpost because Scribe Haylen detected "disturbing energy readings" in the area, which are short-lived and on a frequency indicating a high level of technology. Given the station's proximity to the C.I.T. ruins, the signals in question are likely the teleportation of synths in and out of the Institute's underground facility.
* When at this location, companions make comments.
Location comments	Location comments
Character 	Comment
Cait 	""
Codsworth 	""
Curie 	"Look at their technology. Can we talk to them?"
Danse 	""
Deacon 	"A Brotherhood of Steel base is up ahead. At the police station."
John Hancock 	""
Nick Valentine 	""
Piper Wright 	""
Preston Garvey 	""
Robert MacCready 	""
X6-88 	""
==Appearances==
The Cambridge Police Station only appears in Fallout 4.
==Gallery==
FO4 Cambridge Police station exterior 1.png|Exterior
FO4 Cambridge Police station exterior 3.png|Exterior
FO4 Cambridge Police station exterior 2.png|Exterior
CambridgeStation-Reception-Fallout4.jpg|Reception desk
FO4 Cambridge Police station reception 3.png|Reception desk
FO4 Cambridge Police station reception 1.png|Reception area
FO4 Cambridge Police station reception 2.png|Reception area
FO4 Cambridge Police station breakroom 1.png|Northern room before reinforcements
FO4 Cambridge Police station breakroom 2.png|Northern room after reinforcements
CambridgeStation-Desks-Fallout4.jpg|Office area after reinforcements
CambridgeStation-Cells-Fallout4.jpg|Lockup
CambridgeStation-Interrogation-Fallout4.jpg|Interrogation room
FO4 Cambridge Police station evidence room 1.png|Evidence room
FO4 Cambridge Police station evidence room 2.png|Evidence room
FO4 Cambridge Police station motor pool stairs.png|Motor pool stairs
FO4_Scribe_Haylen's_personal_log.png|Scribe Haylen's personal log holotape
FO4_Operation_Winter's_End.png|Operation Winter's End holotape
Guns and bullets bears location.jpg|Safe containing Guns and Bullets issue #8
FO4 Cambridge Police station motor pool1.png|Motor pool before reinforcements
CambridgeStation-Garage-Fallout4.jpg|Motor pool after reinforcements
FO4 Cambridge Police station motor pool2.png|Motor pool door and button
FO4 Cambridge Police station rooftop 1.png|Roof
FO4 Cambridge Police station rooftop 3.png|Roof
FO4 Cambridge Police station rooftop 2.png|Roof
FO4 Cambridge Police station rooftop 4.png|Roof
Power armor station Cambridge PS.jpg|Power armor station
VT lunchbox Cambridge police station.jpg|Vault-Tec lunchbox
SignCambridgePD02 d.png|Sign texture file
==References==
Category:Cambridge
Category:Brotherhood of Steel locations‎ (Fallout 4)
Category:Recon Squad Gladius
Category:Police stations
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fr:Commissariat de Cambridge
pl:Posterunek Cambridge
pt:Delegacia de Cambridge
ru:Кембриджский полицейский участок
uk:Кембриджський поліцейський відділок
zh:劍橋警察局