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First, before you put in the effort to gain access to this building, you should try to ascertain if there appears to be any kind of radio equipment inside. While most radio equipment is just mobile equipment, lying in a room somewhere with no visible sign of its presence, a fixed installation will have an antenna. So, you will start by looking for an antenna.
There clearly isn’t one in the front of the building. You walk north to the asphalt strip leading into an alley. You can see the road continues along the side of the building, stopping at the gate of a chain link fence laced with barbed wire at its top. You see no sign of any antenna on this side of the building; there are also no windows. Crossing in front of the main door, you walk to the other side of the building and peer down the narrow gap between the police building and the building to its south – which appears to be residential. Peering through the half-meter gap, you see two first-story windows without bars set into this wall and, running beside one of the windows and up to the roof, is the thin line of a simple radio antenna.
Terrific, you have confirmed the presence of radio equipment inside the building – whether it will be the correct kind is yet to be confirmed, but this still a better sign than anything else so far. Now that you know it’s worth expending the effort, you set about finding a way into the building. The windows on this side are without bars, but the gap between the buildings is pretty narrow which would make the approach both difficult and uncomfortable. You aren’t under enemy fire right now, Gennedy, you can take your time and examine all possible points of entry before making a decision at your leisure.
To complete your survey of the building, you cross back again to the north side of the police precinct and walk down the asphalt road past the barrier pole and up to the fence gate. From what you can see, the chain link fence encases an empty asphalt-paved lot abutting the back of the police building. The gate has wheels attached to the bottom and is meant to slide open. You give the gate an exploratory yank and it slides open a hair. There is no track set into the ground for the wheels and going against the open ground is rough, but with enough force you manage to haul open the gate and gain access to the back lot. The concrete wall of the building is slightly stained, especially towards shin-level, and there is only one window in this wall, at the far end of the lot; like those in front, this one has bars. Slightly more than midway to the window, the wall falls away and there is a path towards not one, but two backdoors to the police station. Exiting out onto the path and straight into the paved lot is a metal door, with another on the left-hand side of the path.