Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170201003940/@comment-24534644-20170207010858

Hmmmmmmm nope.

Just those two detectives in white shirts and sunglasses. If there were police officers present, then they were blacked out in the background. Because they still did that back in Vol 1.

However, the yellow tape DID in fact say "Vale Police Force". So unless this was one of those things from back when RT didn't really know what they were gonna do with RWBY lore-wise, then there's still some visual confirmations that they exist.