`MOUNTIES' AT MALL; DEPUTIES SADDLE UP FOR SEASON.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Deputies are using unconventional means to try to keep Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley shoppers a little safer this holiday season. Deputies will pedal bicycles in Lancaster and, along with volunteers, ride horses in Palmdale to augment extra squad car patrols around shopping centers shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into in both cities. ``For the most part, it's traffic and parking enforcement and providing high visibility in shopping centers to try to dissuade TO DISSUADE, crim. law. To induce a person not to do an act. 2. To dissuade a witness from giving evidence against a person indicted, is an indictable offence at common law. Hawk. B. 1, c. 2 1, s. 1 5. people from doing things they might do if a deputy wasn't around,'' Palmdale Deputy David Miklos said. In Palmdale, deputies and volunteers started the horseback patrols on the weekend at the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. . Officials say the mounted riders have good visibility, speed and maneuverability. In Lancaster, deputies on bicycles began riding at shopping centers, where they talk to business owners, managers and shoppers about how to make stores and themselves less attractive targets for criminals. ``We wanted to do more of a personal touch,'' Sgt. Darrel Brown Darrel Brown (born October 11, 1984) is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago. In the beginning of his career he performed well in World Youth and Junior Championships. The 100 m at the 2003 World Championships saw him finishing second behind surprise winner Kim Collins. said about the bike patrols by community-relations deputies from the Lancaster station. ``We're going to park the bikes, walk around, talk to people, shake some hands.'' The Lancaster and Palmdale stations are also putting deputies on overtime to patrol shopping center parking lots in squad cars. Deputies watch for purse snatchers and car burglars, and they ticket cars parked illegally in fire lanes or spaces reserved for the handicapped. Palmdale will send out three extra cars every evening and six on Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday through Christmas. There also will be a sergeant on extra duty to supervise them. Lancaster will have officers in five cars and a sergeant on extra duty every night and on weekends. Begun more than 10 years ago, the holiday-season shopping center patrols seem to be effective at deterring crime, Brown said. He said he can recall no robberies of shopping center patrons or businesses last holiday season in Lancaster. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) Sheriff's Deputies Chris Keeling keeling the marking of ewes by the ram when they are mated by the marking on the ewe of paint or chalk from the sternum of the ram. , left, and Jeff Adams Jeff Adams (born November 15, 1970 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a four-time Canadian Paralympian and a six-time world champion in wheelchair sports. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics he won five medals, a gold in the 800 m and 1500 m, a silver in the 400 m and a bronze patrol with bicycles at their sides at the factory-outlet shopping center in Lancaster. The beefed-up patrols seem to deter crime. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News (2--Color) Deputy Hill Goedhart, left, and reserve Deputy David Robertson
David Robertson (born 19 July 1958) is an American conductor. He is currently the music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. make their presence known at the Antelope Valley Mall. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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