Police stations: empty lobby still, no generated officers as extras

Fire stations already banned generated crew in the bay. Same rule in the lobby. Overlay non-emergency hours. No fake arrest.

A station clip that books a tour is the public lobby you operate. Officers on payroll are private people. Generated officers are extras you did not cast. A generated takedown is a person you did not consent.

The empty lobby is the plate

The honest still is a photograph of this house: the reception desk, the glass, the floor a neighbour would recognise, no one at the counter. Text-to-video will invent a prettier precinct from a different ZIP code and seat a shift you do not have a grant for. That is a different property, and it is a likeness problem wearing a uniform.

AI image to video starts from the file you upload. Frame one is the lobby still. Prompt only the camera: a slow push across the empty waiting area, a hold on the door, light raking the floor, no one entering frame. Re-describing “busy precinct at shift change” is how bodies appear. Empty is the brief.

If the still includes a real member, crop them or reshoot. Background is not a likeness carve-out. Minors on an open-house photo are a hard stop. Do not “age them up” from a Facebook album to populate a lobby. A desk already in the plate can stay. A generated officer next to it is a replica.

Fire stations: the empty bay still, no generated firefighters as extras already named this rule for apparatus. A police lobby is the same civic plate with different furniture. Do not rewrite that page as a recruitment film. Do not populate the counter because “stations have people.”

Officers are not extras

A deepfake of a private person is not a style. TikTok's AI-generated content help forbids likeness of adult private figures used without permission, and of anyone under 18. A labelled, obviously synthetic clip of an unnamed officer, a “generic cop,” or a staff headshot used as a talking-twin seed is already over that line. Calling it a public-safety aesthetic does not move a platform. It does not move a city attorney.

Private means not a public figure. The chief on a podium is a different clearance than a person at the desk. Last year's open-house release does not authorise new generated performances. Most station teams do not need a replica clause. They need to stop generating people.

Allowed, tightly: the empty lobby; a signed staff still used as a still, not a talking-twin seed; illustration that is not a real private person. Not allowed: a squad photo as “style reference,” a photoreal invented officer walking “what you should do if you are stopped.” Keep bodies off the generate.

City accounts: the building still is public; residents are not extras is the civic version: I2V the elevation you own, leave invented citizens off the steps. A police station is a civic building with a lobby. Do not import a crowd because a civic reel “needs life.”

This is general information, not legal advice.

Hailuo 2.3 Fast on that still

Once the still is the still, Hailuo 2.3 Fast is MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 image-to-video: a single image in, a short cinematic clip out. Image required. Durations only 6s and 10s. Listed 28 credits, discounted. Catalog audio is unset. max_output_resolution is unset. Do not advertise 1080p or a native mix because a sibling Hailuo row has them. Score later.

Write only travel. “Locked empty lobby, slow push, no new desk, no one entering.” Stop. “Heroic officers at golden hour, an arrest in the vestibule” is a census Hailuo will not staff. Six seconds is the floor. Ten seconds is the ceiling. If the middle restages the floor, reroll the motion, not the still.

Do not first-last a lobby still to a postcard of a different precinct. Two houses is a morph. A last frame that seats a crew is a replica you requested. Do not send “busy police station” to text-to-video and crop a frame. Make the still. Animate that file. Quoted hours in the motion prompt will not typeset a readable badge.

Overlay hours. Do not generate an arrest

Non-emergency hours are a string the agency already uses: “Non-emergency line, weekdays 8–5.” “After hours, call 911 for emergencies only.” Write that string. Do not ask a model to letter it into the glass.

Add a text overlay burns one authored line, whole clip, top / center / bottom. It does not transcribe. Hours, a URL, a “records by appointment” line — one persistent badge. If you needed hours at 0s and a number at 4s, that is timed overlays. Crop to the ratio you will ship before you overlay. Picture lock, then type. Hours change. The empty lobby should not.

A fake arrest is not scale. It is a private person, a protocol, and often a mouth telling a stranger what to do. Do not prompt a takedown, a cuffed extra, a “routine stop,” or a constructed detective walking “you should.” Empty is honest. Occupied is a likeness problem. Arrested is both.

The test: would a neighbour say the clip is this lobby, empty? If not, you generated extras. Keep the still. Overlay the hours you already posted. Change the row, not the roster.

FAQ

Can we generate a generic officer for scale?

No. Scale is a cone, a door, or the bench already in the photograph. A photoreal officer is a person. An invented one is an extra you did not cast, and often a lookalike of someone on the shift. Plate the empty lobby.

If we label the video AI-generated, can we populate the counter?

Labelling tells viewers the media is synthetic. It does not create a grant from the people depicted, and it does not move TikTok's private-figure line. City and station accounts should not be in the replica business.

Can Hailuo 2.3 Fast typeset non-emergency hours on the glass?

Do not. Catalog audio is unset and the row is not a typesetter. Overlay the hours after picture lock. Prompted type in a video generate is a miss you cannot edit.

Why not restage a fake arrest so the lobby has a scene?

Because an arrest is a person and a protocol. Photograph the empty lobby. Animate that file on Hailuo 2.3 Fast at 6s or 10s, 28 credits. Overlay the hours. A real named trainer on a different shoot if you need a voice. Do not invent a takedown so the room has drama.