COUNCIL OKS DOWNTOWN SITE FOR LAPD DISPATCH CENTER.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer The City Council voted Friday to build an LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. dispatch center just south of Parker Center Parker Center is the headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department, and is located in Downtown LA. It is named for former LAPD chief William H. Parker. Originally with the prosaic name, the Police Administration Building, ground for the center was broken on December 30, 1952 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 , despite objections that the decision will increase costs and delays for the project. The council had voted a week ago not to build the 911 dispatch center at the police training facility in Westchester, as originally proposed, but left open which of two sites downtown would be used. On Friday, the council voted 10-1 to select a site on the south end of Parker Center, the Police Department's headquarters, instead of the north end. Councilman Nate Holden Nathaniel "Nate" R. Holden (1929-) served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1987 to 2002. He previously served a term on the California State Senate and was Assistant Chief Deputy to then Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. voted against the location, renewing his concern that building downtown would cost $3.3 million to $5 million more annually than the project would at Westchester. ``You will waste a lot of money moving from one site to the other, but most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially you will waste a lot of time,'' Holden said. Interim LAPD Chief Bayan Lewis told the council that building the dispatch center next to Parker Center, where a fire dispatch facility is also proposed, will allow better coordination of emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' in the event of a disaster. Lewis pledged to Councilwoman Rita Walters to make the building aesthetically pleasing, promising, ``It will not look like a bunker.'' Los Angeles voters in 1992 approved $235 million in bonds for overhauling emergency communications systems when they approved Proposition M, which was billed as ``Communications 2000.'' But the city has not broken ground on any of the centers, including one proposed for Canoga Park. |
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