BOMB SQUAD'S NEW CENTER OPENS IN GRANADA HILLS.Byline: Rachel Uranga Staff Writer GRANADA HILLS -- The LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. formally opened the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Valley's Bomb Squad facility on Thursday, promising quicker response times to explosives calls and a state-of-the art building for those on the front line. The $7 million, 9,200-square- foot facility, paid for by a voter-backed tax, shares 4 1/2 acres with the agency's training facility. Up until now, the 30-person bomb squad was housed in a cramped office in the Northeast Division. Now, it and members of the hazardous materials team will be deployed from the facility that sits near three major freeways -- the 5, 405 and 118. "The beauty of this for the Valley, with them deployed here, the response times will be much quicker," said Deputy Chief Michael Downing Michael Downing is a Republican member of the New Hampshire Senate, representing the 22nd District since 2006. Previously he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1996 until 2002. , head of 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. Police Department's counter-terrorism unit. About 25 percent of the 600 bomb calls the LAPD handles a year are in the Valley. The Valley Bomb Squad facility is paid for by March 2002's Proposition Q, a bond measure that raised $600 million for new police facilities. "The people in the Valley are safer, the people in the city are safer," City Councilman Greig Smith Greig Smith is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 12th District, which includes Granada Hills, Northridge and other parts of the Western San Fernando Valley. Smith is also a reserve officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. said. "It's a year of new beginnings," said LAPD Chief William Bratton, who compared the time at the LAPD now to that of the 1950s, when the department first deployed the unit. He pointed to the wave of new stations set to open this year, including the Valley's newest station in Canoga Park, as well as stations in Rampart, Harbor and Hollenbeck. A downtown headquarters and emergency operation stations are also being built. "The enlightenment 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 . brought
in the 1950s and 1960s and became the model of policing in this country,
once again we regain," Bratton said.
rachel.uranga(at)dailynews.com 818-713-3741 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: LAPD officer Don Thompson Donald Thompson, Donald Thomson, Don Thompson or Don Thomson are names shared by the following individuals:
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