Police Headquarters

"Bentley: Sly, come in! Sly, do you read me?! Sly Cooper: Yeah. I read you. Loud and... very loud."

- At the start of the job

"Police Headquarters" is the prologue episode of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, set in Paris, France at 4:20 am. It was also the first job in the Sly Cooper series. The goal was for Sly Cooper to break into Carmelita Fox's office and steal a case file on him and the Fiendish Five, which would help him and his gang track down each villain and reclaim each component of the Thievius Raccoonus.

Synopsis
Sly began the mission once he got into position on top of Police Headquarters. His friend Bentley, who exhibited anxious feelings about the job, pointed him to an air vent as a point of entry. While making his way there, Sly noticed some blue lights lining the lower ledge of the roof's water tower. Bentley's research revealed them to be stealth auras, sparkles that would allow Sly to perform sneaky moves, such as sneaking around ledges in this instance. Sly used these auras to guide himself around the tower, and made it to the air vent.

Once he broke his way in and bypassed the security, Sly found Carmelita's office located behind a locked red door. After entering through a window, he approached Carmelita's vault and cracked its code, taking the file and leaving behind a calling card. As soon as he set foot on the fire escape, he was spotted by Carmelita, who appeared on a rooftop nearby. After a brief banter between the two, Sly rushed to the van, with Carmelita firing at him continuously, destroying the fire escape and many police cars in the parking lot. Once Sly jumped in through the van's back doors, he and his friends drove off, leaving the fox furious.