Detective career broken?

It's happening to me too! I can't find the suspect no matter what place and time I issue the APB, and I also have 7 clues... I haven't played with my detective sim for a while now.

I think it might be broken right now, because on my suspect list was a male, young adult, brown hair with jacket and cowboy jeans, and when I finally foynd the suspect it was a woman with brown hair, but nothing else matching. It is very sad, because when my detective keeps making false arrests, he's getting less payed for every false arrest, and the only option for him is to ask for a raise over the phone.

Hello
Other simmers are having issues, where the eventual suspect doesn't fit the clues and description that were given. Try seeing if other sims that don't fit the clues may be the suspect.
You may like to post feedback on this thread on the AHQ EA site that refers to the issue
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Incorrect-suspect-traits-Suspect-doesn-t-show-up/m-p/4486122#M11815

The detective career is a bit of a hot mess right now - so bugged it's pretty much not worth playing. Weird suspect descriptions popping up in the notebook not matching any actual suspects; no clues at crime scenes; chatting to townies not fulfilling said goal when out on patrol; the list goes on... Real shame - I really enjoyed this career when it was working :'(

Well I arrested someone who did not fit the description. It wasn't a false arrest, but the suspect simply disappeared. If course the game wanted me to do the interrogation and other processing, which, of course I couldn't do. So I quit the job. It was harder that normal because I had my fledgling vampire take the job. And it was tough working around the sun. That was supposed to be the challenge. What I didn't count on was the actual job being broken. I was actually able to hide out of the sun and call people over to interrogate them.

I am trying a game with a vampire doctor and I have discovered that the nurses get in the way. I have learned to "call them over" to get them out of the way otherwise I will get a "route fail" and the action I want to take place will cancel.

I reported it on the thread @rosemow suggested. I'm having similar issues to everyone here. It gave me a suspect description of:

Female
Red hair
Wearing a jacket
Wearing jeans
A loner
A teen

At one location I came upon a girl who matched exactly except her hair was brown. I arrested her and lost performance. The next 3 Sim days I was sent to different locations with the exact same clues and nobody showed up who even came close to matching. I finally gave up and switched careers because I was only bringing in $52.00/day and was about to get fired. I even tried skipping the APB and just completing goals at the station, but that didn't work because all of those focus on using the suspect you arrested on patrol, and the game won't let you use the sims already in the cells for the interrogation and that stuff.

I haven't run into the APB bug yet, but I live in fear. I had a different bug with the career where my sim couldn't find any evidence at a crime scene. There was literally nothing there. I had him search the ground for clues and I looked for burn marks/burnt objects and graffiti, but no dice. He ended up doing a "terrible job" according to the game. It was a rough first day for Eric Lewis.

"Aine;15575134" wrote:
I'm having this issue right now. Yes, you can issue as many APBs as you want, you just have to go back to the police station to do it. It's kind of frustrating when you go to so many places and there's no suspect that matches there. I've even had sims tell me they saw someone like that there, but I never find them.
@Sonia016 How many tries does it usually take? My sim is only an Officer - I don't think it's supposed to be this hard? Is there a way to reset and get a new case? @rosemow
Also I wonder if it has anything to do with not issuing the APB the same work day you started the case?
Has anyone had the issue of the police chief not appearing?

Hello
This link may help you to get a new case. You may be able to adapt what is written and use the cheats from step 12 onwards to get a new case,
http://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2016/01/arrested-suspect-cant-be-found-at-police-station/

I'm gonna try what @Sonia016 suggested and keep issuing APBs and if that doesn't work I'll try the link @rosemow gave me. Thanks guys, what would a fellow simmer do without you. :D

"lavender_0123;15668840" wrote:
I'm having a different issue; one of my suspects was actually a ghost, and everytime I arrested her (3 times), she doesn't show up at the police station when I get back so I am unable to interrogate her. It says "interrogate the suspect" on the task bar everytime my sim goes back to work, even after he gets promoted, and when I issue an APB, the task bar will always tell me to go back to the police station, and when I do, "interrogate the suspect" comes back. Sometimes she isn't even at the place when I issue an APB. I've been stuck on this for a while, and I just want to start a new case so I can stop going in this circle trying to arrest a ghost -_- help ):

Hello @lavender_0123
This link blog post may help
http://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2016/01/arrested-suspect-cant-be-found-at-police-station/