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Calliolanus has grown from man to dragon. (callirhoe) wrote in rp_tutorials,
@ 2010-10-29 14:08:00

Entry tags:

coding: other, resources: layouts

Layout: Record of Arrest, police file

A layout of a police file or criminal record was requested here, and I thought it was a neat idea. This particular layout is specific to Marvel games, but could be tweaked for any kind of setting. Good for criminals and police officers and for the grittier sort of games.

DEPARTMENT OF POLICE, City, State Division - Record of Arrest
NAME Full name
ALIASES Other names, nicknames
CLASS Class	NUMBER Number
CRIME Crime	DATE OF ARREST mm/dd/yyyy
PLACE OF ARREST City, state	COUNTY County
ARRESTING OFFICER Name	PRECINCT Number

SEX Male/Female	AGE Age	BIRTHDATE mm/dd/yyyy	BIRTHPLACE City, state
HEIGHT Height	WEIGHT Weight	EYE COLOR Color	HAIR COLOR Color
BUILD Body type	SCARS AND MARKS Short description
NATIONALITY Country	CITIZEN Yes/No	KNOWN GANG AFFIL. Gang	DATE OF REGISTRATION mm/dd/yyyy
RESIDENCE Address, city		OCCUPATION Occupation, employer
MUTATION Short description, use next line if necessary

PREVIOUS CRIMINAL HISTORY
DATE	CITY	CHARGE AND DISPOSITION
mm/dd/yyyy	City	Short description of crime and sentence,
		using next lines if necessary, like this

CODE:

<center><lj-cut text="Record of Arrest"><table width="750" cellpadding="2" background="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g311/Callirhoe/bgwhite.jpg" style="border-style:outset; border-width:2px; border-color:#F5F5F5" cellspacing="3"><tr><td><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0"><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><center><center>DEPARTMENT OF POLICE, City, State
Division - Record of Arrest </td></center>
<td width="150" rowspan="7" style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><img src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g311/Callirhoe/criminalrecordphoto.png"></td></tr>

<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">NAME Full name</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">ALIASES Other names, nicknames</td></tr>

<tr><td width="350" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">CLASS Class</td>
<td width="250" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">NUMBER Number</td></tr>

<tr><td style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">CRIME Crime</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">DATE OF ARREST mm/dd/yyyy</td></tr>

<tr><td style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">PLACE OF ARREST City, state</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">COUNTY County</td></tr>

<tr><td style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">ARRESTING OFFICER Name</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">PRECINCT Number</td></tr></table></td></tr>

<tr><td><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0"><tr><td width="175" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">SEX Male/Female</td>
<td width="165" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">AGE Age</td>
<td width="170" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">BIRTHDATE mm/dd/yyyy</td>
<td width="240" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">BIRTHPLACE City, state</td></tr>

<tr><td style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">HEIGHT Height</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">WEIGHT Weight</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">EYE COLOR Color</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">HAIR COLOR Color</td></tr>

<tr><td style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">BUILD Body type</td>
<td colspan="3" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">SCARS AND MARKS Short description</td>

<tr><td style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">NATIONALITY Country</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">CITIZEN Yes/No</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">KNOWN GANG AFFIL. Gang</td>
<td style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">DATE OF REGISTRATION mm/dd/yyyy</td></tr>

<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">RESIDENCE Address, city</td>
<td colspan="2" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">OCCUPATION Occupation, employer</td></tr>

<tr><td colspan="4" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC">MUTATION Short description, use next line if necessary</td></tr>

<tr><td><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0"><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center>PREVIOUS CRIMINAL HISTORY</center></td></tr>

<tr><td width="150" style="border-style:none solid solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center>DATE</center></td>
<td width="200" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center>CITY</center></td>
<td width="400" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center>CHARGE AND DISPOSITION</center></td></tr>

<tr><td width="150" style="border-style:none solid solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center>mm/dd/yyyy</center></td>
<td width="200" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center>City</center></td>
<td width="400" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center>Short description of crime and sentence,</center></td></tr>

<tr><td width="150" style="border-style:none solid solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center> </center></td>
<td width="200" style="border-style:none none solid none; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center> </center></td>
<td width="400" style="border-style:none none solid solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#CCCCCC"><center>using next lines if necessary, like this</center></td></tr>

</table></td></tr></table></lj-cut></center>

EXAMPLES OF USE:
Record of arrest, supernatural PSL
Permanent record, high school game

NOTES:
1. It would be nice if you uploaded the background image (here) to your own webspace.
2. The character's "mugshot" should be 150 pixels wide and 215 pixels high.
3. The text is meant to be brief -- this isn't a deposition or detailed record of crimes, just a quick reference sheet for the cops. Also, writing too much will screw up the table cells, and then it doesn't look as nice. :( Therefore, using abbreviations and sentence fragments is good. Less is more. For information and legal terms in writing about crimes, check out your state's penal code, which is probably online somewhere -- for example, here's the New York State penal code.
4. Modify to your heart's content. If you're having any trouble or find any errors, please let me know.
5. A link to

rp_tutorials somewhere would be great, so others can find this if they want.
6. If you use it, feel free to comment with a link and I'll post it up here. I don't have an example up yet, since my character doesn't actually have a record as of yet, so it'd be nice to have an example or two to link to.
7. Oh, and credit where credit's due: I sort-of-but-not-really used this image as a point of reference.

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	graciebird 2010-10-29 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	i'm not in any type of game currently where i'd use this but i just had to say, this is AWESOME. awesome job! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-10-30 02:41 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	oliviahamilton 2010-10-29 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	This is really dope! I have a character at my comm that's a bad girl that I'm just waiting for her to get arrested (and ironically, I play Lindsay Lohan as the bad girl, so at least the mugshot pic will be easy to find) because of the shiz she's doing. Thanks for this! I will definitely use it come time when she gets arrested! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-10-30 02:41 am UTC (link)
	Haha, that's awesome. Good luck with it, and thanks! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wearingwhite 2010-10-29 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	Very nice. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-10-30 02:42 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hammertech 2010-10-30 01:24 am UTC (link)
	This is fucking AMAZING, jsyk. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-10-30 02:45 am UTC (link)
	Aw, thanks! It was the product of a 3 a.m. inspiration flash, so... yeah, it was either going to be awesome or terrible. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	theowl 2010-10-30 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Absolutely amazing. It makes me wish I was in a game where I could use it. Pretty HTML always does that, though... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-10-30 02:54 am UTC (link)
	Thanks! Yeah, I don't have a use for half the stuff I see here and want to use. And hey, good luck with NaNo! :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	theowl 2010-11-06 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	Story of my life! And thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	theowl 2010-11-06 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	The irony of this is I have mutants in my NaNo, but it's most definitely not modern enough for anything like this. My next year's might be, though. Who knows? I love mutants. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sansastark 2010-10-30 03:13 am UTC (link)
	This is AWESOME. I might have to figure out some way to sneak this into a game... :D Thanks for sharing! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-11-01 04:55 am UTC (link)
	Thanks! I hope somebody, somewhere will find it useful. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	willneverbreak 2010-11-01 04:41 am UTC (link)
	...I LOVE YOU. Now if I could find a code for like an NYPD personnel file that'd be perfect. XD (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-11-01 05:19 am UTC (link)
	Hm. I bet you could modify this pretty easily for that purpose, if you like this general style. Or like... do you have any example pictures handy, or just an idea of what kind of information should be on there? I'm pretty clueless about official documents unless I have an example to go from, but I could see what I can do. :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	willneverbreak 2010-11-01 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	...I've spent two hours on google trying to find a picture or example document and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find one! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xcelsior 2010-11-03 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	I like this. A lot. I was thinking of doing something like this at NYX, making some dedicated game pages regarding registration - do you think I can use this? And do you have a larger version of JP's record? (My eyes are bad...) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-12-15 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	HEY YOU, guess what, I just saw that I had missed this comment like a month and a half ago. I'm sorry. D: Your question: yes, yes, use it if you like! And the stuff for JP is totally made-up and should not be taken as gospel, because he hasn't actually been arrested and doesn't have a record. YET. But I do have the actual post of it on his journal. :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xcelsior 2010-12-16 02:56 pm UTC (link)
	Sweet! Thanks! Ha! I think what I'm going to do at NYX is make a post like "The Sentinel Files" and have a sample (like Rogue for instance) and then have an text area where people can C&P (like the application) and submit to that page and then I can make up the the records and yay! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lostwithouthim 2010-11-26 03:35 am UTC (link)
	I have a filled out record here, with credit to you in my profile. It's only his first arrest, so I changed the wording a bit, and took out the mutant section since it's for a supernatural PSL. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-12-15 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	Sorry for the super-late comment, but: that looks very cool! :) I'll link to it as an example in the post, if you don't mind. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jeverly 2010-12-15 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	Used here with modifications as a bio for a high school game. It's a really great template. Thanks for making it! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	callirhoe 2010-12-15 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, that's so cool! I'm glad it's getting some use in unanticipated ways. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	voiceinthearc 2011-07-10 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	Used it here as a rapsheet for a criminal in the UK for a Primeval game! :D (Reply to this)

	kopi 2011-08-16 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	I edited it to be a SHIELD case file over here. (Reply to this)

	bboken 2012-02-18 01:54 am UTC (link)
	going to use this for parkerhome (Reply to this)

	susannalies 2012-08-09 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	This really is awesome! I know it's pretty standard table code, but I never would have thought to make this, and having it all built nice and pretty is fabulous! Posted it for this character here with credit :) (Reply to this)

	Photo (Anonymous) 2012-09-06 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	How do you insert a photo into that space? Code? (Reply to this)

	sarcastic_lass 2013-09-03 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	I used this code back when I was playing a Star Trek character as his "Starfleet personnel file" (customized by livelovehump) - it worked great! :) (Reply to this)

	Used this (Anonymous) 2015-02-09 02:58 am UTC (link)
	I used this in a rp group that I have where my demoness has a criminal background! if you wanna check her out its alishea-glockner.tumblr.com (Reply to this)

	guiltbyassoc 2016-12-27 11:34 am UTC (link)
	Have loved this code for awhile. We're going to be using it as a game sheet at an HP game. Sample Here. We altered it to what we needed so it looks a smidge different. Thanks for the great backbone! (Reply to this)

	maniacpixie 2023-08-21 01:31 pm UTC (link)
	hi i'm brand new to this site how do i use the code and edit it? (Reply to this) (Thread)

callirhoe
2023-08-21 06:31 pm UTC (link)

If you want to use it on insanejournal or any similar site, you can use it in an entry by copying and pasting the code from the text box and editing in your own information. Anything inside the < > brackets is HTML code and if you don't know HTML you probably shouldn't mess with it too much. Anything outside is text and can be edited.

A good way to edit if you're not sure what you're doing is to use a code tester like this one from tessisamess. Paste the code in on the left and make your edits, and the result will show up immediately on the right so you can see right away if you make any errors or break the code.

Hope that helps! :)

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