ADVISORY/Nonprofit Housing Group CPDC to Provide Special Crime Fighting Equipment to LAPD and FBI, Sept. 21.Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (Sept. 21) --(BUSINESS WIRE) As part of a continuing program to provide 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 . (LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. ) and the 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. office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. (FBI) with equipment critically needed for crime prevention and law enforcement purposes, the Community Partnership Development Corporation (CPDC CPDC Community Preservation and Development Corporation CPDC Caribbean Policy Development Centre CPDC Central Philadelphia Development Corporation CPDC Capital Planning, Design and Construction (California State University) ) will donate approximately 50 pieces of communications and crime deterrent equipment to the two law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). at a special ceremony to be held on Thursday, Sept. 21. The equipment was purchased through a federal grant of approximately $250,000 obtained by CPDC, a nonprofit community organization, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD Hud (h  d), a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. ).As part of its Anti-Drug and Crime Prevention Program, CPDC provides equipment to the law enforcement agencies that they vitally need but don't have the funding to secure. Law enforcement, working as a partnership with CPDC, provides additional manpower in key target areas. At the presentation ceremony, a wide variety of the equipment will be displayed, including: computers and networking equipment, digital cameras, color laser jet printers, night vision binoculars, breaching tools and patrol bicycles with NightRider flashing lights and sirens. LAPD and FBI officials will be on hand to comment on the need for and usage of this equipment.
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 21 at 11 a.m.
WHERE: Front Entrance -- Apartment Complex
2225 W. 11th Street -- Los Angeles 90006
WHO: Participating in the ceremony will be:
-- Frank Virgallito -- CPDC Grant Coordinator
-- Ollie McCaulley -- CPDC Government Relations Director
-- Frank J. De Santis Jr. -- CPDC Executive Director
-- Lieutenant Jim Cole -- LAPD Supervisor
-- Derrel Craig -- FBI Supervisory Special Agent
VISUALS: Diverse array of crime fighting and communications equipment
on display.
INFORMATION
CONTACT:
For additional information or advance arrangements, contact
Bob Fisher or Lynn Homsy of Fisher & Associates at
818/593-2202. Fisher will be present to assist your reporter
and/or photographer or film crew.
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