The arrest log

Posting every arrest to a webhook, the proxy requirement, and why the URL is server side.

Every arrest can be posted to a chat channel as a formatted message: who was arrested, by whom, for how long, on what charges.

Off until you paste a URL.

Where the config lives

Server/Config/Webhook.luau. Not Shared/Config.

Never move the URL into Shared

Everything under Shared/ is copied into ReplicatedStorage, which every client can read. A webhook URL placed there can be read by any player and used to post to, or delete from, your channel.

Living under Server/ means it never leaves the server. Edit it there.

Setting it up

Step
1	Create a webhook in your chat platform and copy its URL
2	Route it through a webhook proxy service
3	Paste the proxied URL into `Url`
4	Set `SendWebhook = true` on the team pairs you want logged
5	Enable Allow HTTP Requests in Game Settings, under Security

Roblox blocks most chat platforms directly

HttpService refuses requests to the common chat domains. Pasting a raw webhook URL produces nothing, silently, because the request is wrapped and its failure discarded.

You need a proxy service that accepts the request and forwards it. Paste the proxy's URL.

Per team pair

SendWebhook = false,

On each entry in Config/Teams.luau and on the free-for-all entry. Admin /jail uses its own flag in Config/Admin.luau, which ships as true.

That granularity is useful: log serious arrests and leave routine ones out, or log one department's arrests while another's are private.

The message

Color = 16711680,

A coloured bar down the side of the message, as a decimal number. 16711680 is red. Any hex to decimal converter gives you others.

The fields:

Field	Contents
Arrested Player	The suspect's username
Arresting Officer	The officer's username
Officer Team	Their team at the time
Jail Time	The sentence, formatted as `1m 30s`
Global Arrest	`Yes` or `No`
Infractions	The charges, or `None`
Reason	The typed reason

The first five sit inline, three to a row; the last two get their own rows.

A timestamp is attached automatically.

Translating it

Every label is in the Language table:

Language = {
    Title = "Player Arrested",
    ArrestedPlayer = "Arrested Player",
    ArrestingOfficer = "Arresting Officer",
    OfficerTeam = "Officer Team",
    JailTime = "Jail Time",
    GlobalArrest = "Global Arrest",
    Infractions = "Infractions",
    Reason = "Reason",
    Yes = "Yes",
    No = "No",
    Unknown = "Unknown",
},

Reword or translate the right-hand side. Unknown fills any field that is somehow missing.

The time format itself comes from Localization.TimeFormat, so the log and the jail HUD read the same way.

Failure is silent

The post runs on its own thread and its result is discarded. A bad URL, a blocked domain, a proxy outage or a rate limit all produce nothing in Output.

That is a deliberate choice: an arrest should never fail because a log message did not send. It does mean that when the log is empty, the way to find out why is to work through the checklist above rather than to look for an error.

Start by confirming HTTP requests are enabled and the URL is the proxied one.

Turning it off

Blank the Url. Nothing is sent, whatever the per-pair flags say.

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