Values not updating

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#1

I’m trying to make it so where if you say “RUN NAME username” it shows some info and a couple of values however those values aren’t updating.

basically if I change the value of say the arrests or citations it stays the same as it was before

LOCAL SCRIPT

Player.Chatted:Connect(function(ChatMessage)
	if ChatMessage then
		if CurrentChannel == "Dispatch" then
			if ChatMessage == "RUN NAME "..game.Players:FindFirstChild(string.split(ChatMessage, " ")[3]).Name then
				local PlayerRunne = game.Players:FindFirstChild(string.split(ChatMessage, " ")[3])
				local ArrestsValue = game.Players:FindFirstChild(string.split(ChatMessage, " ")[3]).Arrests
				local CitationsVal = game.Players:FindFirstChild(string.split(ChatMessage, " ")[3]).Citations
				local WarrantsValue = game.Players:FindFirstChild(string.split(ChatMessage, " ")[3]).Warrants
				RadioRemoteEvents.RunPlayer:FireServer(PlayerRunne, ArrestsValue, CitationsVal, WarrantsValue)
			end
		end
	end
end)

SERVER SCRIPT

radioFolder.RunPlayer.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player, PlayerRunne, ArrestsValue, CitationsVal, WarrantsValue)
	wait()
	FrameTo_output.LineOne.Text = "DISPATCH: "..PlayerRunne.Name.." has "..ArrestsValue.Value.." arrests, here he has "..CitationsVal.Value.." citations total, a warrant comes back as, "..tostring(WarrantsValue.Value).." , this is all the information we have! "
end)
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#2

This should be in a SeverScript not LocalScript. Try-

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
     player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
         local division = string.split(message, ' ')
         pcall(function()
             if division[1] == 'RUN' and division[2] == 'NAME'  and division[3] then
              -- Code here
            end
         end)
     end)
end)

--- Local scripts cannot recognize/execute server code, they will throw the default value assigned as a player chatting is server wide and appears to the whole server, not just the client.

You don’t need to use any remote events, just directly put the whole code into the server script.

One more thing, sometimes values do not change when I fire them through a remote event, such as-

local a = 'HelloWorld'
remoteEvent:FireClient(player, a) -- THe client shows a message called "unable to convert Instance to string".
remoteEvent:FireClient(player, 'HelloWorld') -- Works properly.
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