30 COPS COMING TO NEW VALLEY STATION.Byline: James Nash Staff Writer LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. chief William Bratton said Monday that the 30 officers who would be hired under Mayor James Hahn's proposed budget would be assigned to the North Valley station being built in Mission Hills. At a hearing on the budget Monday, Bratton said he was resigned to only incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. growth of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . , but would stick to the ambitious goals of cutting violent crime and homicides by 20 percent, while responding to emergency calls 20 percent faster. ``It's hoped that the reduction in the size of our patrol area will increase our visibility in the North Valley, help reduce response times and help us do some more proactive policing,'' Bratton said later. ``We've got some good news for the Valley.'' City officials said the North Valley station on Sepulveda Boulevard is scheduled to open in February 2005, about two months behind schedule. Officials attributed recent delays to higher-priority work on the expanded West Valley station in Reseda, which is scheduled to be completed in December. The north San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. suffers from some of the slowest police response times in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. LAPD statistics for late December 2003 and early January - the latest available - officers took about 1.5 minutes longer to respond to emergency calls in the Foothill and Devonshire divisions than in Los Angeles as a whole. ``The Valley has some very large areas that the officers have to cover,'' Bratton said. ``Some of that might be mitigated next year with the opening of the new North Valley police station.'' Bratton said he intends to reduce the average citywide response time from 10 minutes to 8 minutes. Last year, the average response time was 11 minutes. LAPD officials did not release data on average response times for all calls in the Valley, saying their numbers applied to high-priority emergency calls. Bratton said he intends to accomplish some of his crime-fighting goals by transferring eight of the 15 officers now assigned to the Drug Abuse Resistance Education  The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed.Please see the relevant discussion on the . This article has been tagged since September 2007. program back to patrol. James Nash, (213) 978-0390 james.nash(at)dailynews.com |
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