Detective career broken?

Sonia016, Well maybe I will have one of my day walking vamps try it again. You are saying it is not a bug, but that we have to keep trying with the APB. Can we reissue the APB several times during the work day or one each day?

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?

"Bronwin2;15571924" wrote:
Sonia016, Well maybe I will have one of my day walking vamps try it again. You are saying it is not a bug, but that we have to keep trying with the APB. Can we reissue the APB several times during the work day or one each day?

I remembered after issued 4 APB in a day my sim shift is ending soon and I couldn't catch the suspect so I continued the 2nd day, I had my sim went in first in morning to analyze more evidence then add clues to the board then deduce them, yet the game told me I have enough clues, I issue APB again another few more times on 2nd day, the last I managed to caught, the suspect description and clues match exactly I was given on the 1st day.

I'm not saying it's not a bug in your game..but it could well be.. I don't what.., perhaps clearing some cache files it might help which I always did.

http://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/delete-cache-files/

"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

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 ):

"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/

"Sonia016;15575700" wrote:
I'm not saying it's not a bug in your game..but it could well be.. I don't what.., perhaps clearing some cache files it might help which I always did.

http://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/delete-cache-files/

Yes, it IS a bug. I could say that perhaps it was too easy to find the suspect before, but now it is too difficult.

The detective career is just like how law enforcement is in real life... It's not easy but it's not hard my first suspect I found quick but the second suspect I had to go out twice but i found that suspect too since then I done there more suspects it wasn't easy but it wasn't hard... A hint that I found is after you issue a ABP when you ask about the suspect watch and remember where the Sims points to because they will try to point where the suspect is unless the suspect it's walking to another of the map