The Church

The **Church** is an institution in This Is The Police that from the mid to late game on offers a variety of religious services in exchange for money. Their exact benefits are not explained in-game and aren't easy to derive from extracted game data.

The Church will also ask the police for help and reward you with minuscule amounts of money that do not seem to be worth the effort of sending officers out. In the process, the bishop tells you in no uncertain terms that the Church is selling and even manufacturing drugs and once you arrest the first member of the Church it can be investigated like any other gang.

## Unlocking the Church services

During normal game play the Church can be unlocked no earlier than day 92, when a gray call icon appears at the Cathedral, asking for five officers. Once the call has been answered, the Church is added to the Affairs menu and can additionally be accessed by clicking the cathedral.

## Church missions

The Church will occasionally ask for your help through calls that behave similar to side missions except they do not have any (apparent) side effects. The only obvious reward is the small amount of money you will receive.

## Services

The Church offers the following services to the Jack and the Freeburg Police Department

### Bless the police station

The Bishop of Freeburg will personally bless the police station and all of its employees.

### Forgiveness of sins

No one is born without sin, but not everybody wants to live that way.

### Policemen funeral

The Bishop of Freeburg will personally deliver the eulogy for fallen police department employees.

### Policemen funeral (by phone)

The Bishop of Freeburg will deliver by phone the eulogy for fallen police department employees.

### A prayer for Jack's family

The Bishop of Freeburg will personally pray for the happiness and health of Jack's family.

### Touch the relics

The Bishop of Freeburg will allow you to touch the relics kept in the cathedral.

### Sermon for employees

The Bishop of Freeburg will personally deliver a sermon to all officers and detectives at the station.

## Members

The drug operation behind the Church consists of three members. Once their leader is arrested and the gang is destroyed, you will lose access to the church's services and side missions.

### Aaron Huber

Father **Aaron Huber** is a priest at the St. John's Cathedral in Freeburg. He was born in Perchtoldsdorf, Austria and has been molested by his father at a young age and suffered from the mental trauma through his youth and adolescence. He was an outcast in school, with girls in particular avoiding him.

On day 100, 11-year-old Michael Song accuses Huber of molesting him, leading to an investigation and ultimately, his arrest. If you chose to arrest him, you will receive a reward of $15000. Otherwise, you will have to interrogate him, opening up the investigation into Joseph Costello.

### Joseph Costello

Father **Joseph Costello** is another priest at the Cathedral. Not much is known about him but his vegetarianism and dedication to the Church.

Costello is in charge of the transportation of drugs from the bishop's vineyard to the church and storing and hiding them there. If you decide not to go after the bishop, Costello's arrest will yield a reward of $35000.