True Police Stories is a skill magazine in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background
This magazine was dedicated to articles on famous criminal investigations and busts of the time.
Characteristics
Reading this magazine raises the player character's critical chance by 5% (10% with the Comprehension perk) for 60 seconds (180 seconds with Retention).
Crafting
This item can be crafted by the player.
Creation requirements
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
wonderglue (1) blank magazine (2) |  | Repair: 25 Picking up a copy of True Police Stories after the Voracious Reader perk is chosen. |  | True Police Stories (1) |
¹ Craftable without a workbench via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E once the add-on Lonesome Road is installed.
Locations
Below is a list of all fixed locations of True Police Stories skill magazines in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-ons. For an overview of magazines per location, see the main overview page.
| Closest map marker | Location description |
|---|---|
| Allied Technologies offices | On the small corner table inside the entrance foyer. |
| Boulder City | Boulder City ruins, on the upper floor bookcase of the blown-out store building, across from the Great Khans. |
| California Sunset Drive-in | Located on the picnic table at the "scenic overlook". |
| Crimson Caravan Company | Crimson Caravan main office, on the floor inside the first restroom stall. |
| Followers safehouse | On the bed to the right, next to a hunting rifle. |
| Gomorrah | Gomorrah suites, on the small table by one of the round beds on the upper floor of Clanden's suite (South on the map). |
| Lucky 38 | On one of the small tables in the cocktail lounge (middle-tiered section). |
| Mole rat ranch | Ruined Building to the east with locked cache, inside the locked storage room. |
| Poseidon gas station | In the police car in the middle of some radiation barrels. May fall through if not taken first. |
Sierra Madre Casino  | Executive suites On top of a dresser in a closet within the left room at the end of the hallway to the left, by the dresser has a hard locked safe. |
Sunstone Tower roof  | Indoor stairway passage between Ashton missile silo and the Divide, second level in the hallway, on a bookshelf under a small scorched book. |
| Sunstone Tower roof | Office room one level below the roof, in a Hard Locked filing cabinet in the corner, together with a '''Lad's Life'''. |
| The Basincreek Building | On the small corner table inside the entrance foyer. |
| The Tops | Presidential suite, on the small bedside table in the bedroom. |
| Vault 34 | Reactor level, inside the ruins of the security room. On the rubble near the doctor's bag |
| Villa Police Station | Next to the cosmic knife in the kitchen. |
Behind the scenes
The cover image is a copy of the DVD jacket for the 1945 film Dick Tracy, Detective.
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