COPS CATCH UP WITH THEIR KIDS AT CAMP.Byline: Susan Abram Staff Writer On his beat in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , Officer Lucien Daigle sees how homelessness and other issues can break a family apart. Being on the force can do the same. And so Daigle, along with 40 other 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 . officers, exchanged badges and belts for pup tents and baseball mitts
Friday to meet up at Chatsworth's Camp Caaconaa, a grassy grass·y adj. grass·i·er, grass·i·est 1. Covered with or abounding in grass. 2. Resembling or suggestive of grass, as in color or odor. Adj. 1. oasis nestled within the red canyons along the Santa Susana Pass Santa Susana Pass is a mountain pass connecting Simi Valley to the San Fernando Valley. The road used to be an Indian trail, and later a wagon road (a famous part was called Devil's Slide) before the road was paved. , where the motto is ``come as a child, or not at all.'' Organized and sponsored by the Church at Rocky Peak Rocky Peak is the name of the 3rd highest point in the Santa Susana Mountains, which overlook both Chatsworth and Simi Valley, in Southern California. The peak, which is 2,714 feet above sea level, sits on the Los Angeles County/Ventura County line. , the goal of the two-day overnight camp is to give police officers the chance to leave work behind and spend a few precious hours to just be a dad and reconnect with their children. Activities planned included swimming, paintball paintball Sports medicine A sport in which marble-sized gelatin capsules filled with a nontoxic dye are shot at speeds of 300 kph/200 mph Warning: and a concert. ``My son is one of six and because he's kind of quiet, he doesn't get the attention his brothers and sisters do,'' said Daigle, a 12-year veteran of the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. . He and his 7-year-old son, also named Lucien Daigle, stretched out inside their tent before dinnertime. ``I'm looking forward to hiking,'' Daigle said. ``We like to go metal- detecting. They say stagecoaches used to pass through those canyons up there, and maybe we'll find an old belt or coins.'' Ken Crawford, an LAPD chaplain who helped organize the event, envisions this camp as the first of several that will include members of the city and county Fire and Sheriff's departments and the California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. . ``As a department, we're always introducing new tactics that have to do with the job,'' Crawford said. ``This is one of the ways we can bring new tactics to help first responders first responder First response personnel Emergency medicine A person employed in the public sector–EMT, fire fighter, police, volunteer EMS–whose duties include provision of immediate medical care in the event of an emergency; FRs have basic emergency with their private lives. We're going to be doing more of these.'' Organizers with the Church at Rocky Peak said another goal is to open the camp up to various community outreach efforts. ``We'd like to work with other organizations, to open the camp up to the community,'' said Jeff James, co-director for Camp Caaconaa. ``This was just one way. There is a need for fathers to spend time with their kids.'' Fabian Lizarraga, an LAPD patrol commander with the Van Nuys division, couldn't agree more. He said he saw the posting for the camp and thought it would be the perfect way to spend some extra time with his 11-year-old son, Christopher. ``It's a nice way to create a bridge between my job and my oldest son, to catch up and spend some time with him,'' Lizarraga said as he played catch with his boy across a grassy field. ``It's nice just to put the job aside.'' Susan Abram, (818) 713-3664 susan.abram(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Fabian Lizarraga of the Los Angeles Police Department plays catch with his son, Christopher, 11, at the overnight camp in Chatsworth. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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