CRIME UNIT ON TAP FOR HOLIDAYS 'BOMBER' SQUAD TO PATROL PALMDALE.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - A two-deputy, 40-hour-a-week patrol team will hit Palmdale streets in time for the holiday shopping season. Called a ``bomber'' car, the unit starting Dec. 1 will be used to focus on particular high-crime areas or to look for particular crimes, without being diverted di·vert v. di·vert·ed, di·vert·ing, di·verts v.tr. 1. To turn aside from a course or direction: Traffic was diverted around the scene of the accident. 2. to routine calls. ``They are very effective,'' said Lt. Bobby Denham, acting commander of the Palmdale sheriff's station. ``They can look for crimes in progress. The deputies are experienced and they don't have to handle calls.'' Approved by the Palmdale City Council on Monday night, the unit is expected to cost the city $153,000 for the remainder of this fiscal year, which runs to June 30. Last fall, the city added a similar patrol. In the first year of operation, those deputies were credited with making 363 arrests, including those of three murder suspects and 12 people suspected of assaults with a deadly weapon deadly weapon n. any weapon which can kill. This includes not only weapons which are intended to do harm like a gun or knife, but also blunt instruments like clubs, baseball bats, monkey wrenches, an automobile or any object which actually causes death. . ``They can get out there and attack anything,'' Mayor Jim Ledford said of the patrol. ``I think it's every deputy's dream to work a bomber bomber Military aircraft designed to drop bombs on surface targets. Aerial bombardment can be traced to the Italo-Turkish War (1911), in which an Italian pilot dropped grenades on two Turkish targets. car.'' For the first nine months of this year, serious crime is down 6 percent in Palmdale compared with the same period in 2004. The biggest drop is in auto thefts, down 10 percent, and burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. , down 8 percent, though murders are up from nine to 13 through Sept. 30, sheriff's records show. While bolstering the sheriff's contract with the city, Palmdale officials are concerned that a departmentwide manpower shortage manpower shortage A dearth of persons with a particular skill which, in a free market economy driven by 'supply-and-demand', may result in ↑ salaries and difficulty in obtaining their services. Cf Physician 'glut.'. has left the Palmdale station with 28 vacancies. The positions, for now, are being filled by deputies working overtime. ``We're not complaining about the service, but we want them to get these officers on line,'' Ledford said. ``We want these officers trained and out in the field.'' Denham said the department is looking to hire 1,000 deputies and get them trained quickly. New deputies typically work jail duties, so their arrival will create movement within the department that will allow more experienced deputies to come to Palmdale. In a related development, Denham said the $24 million sheriff's station under construction at Avenue Q and Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling will be completed to an extent by late November that the building can be turned over to the department. The move into the new 48,000-square-foot station will run through the winter and will be completed in March. In September, the City Council approved converting four community service officer positions from the sheriff's contract into city jobs. The community service officers handle tasks such as taking reports on minor, nonemergency crimes; taking fingerprints Impressions or reproductions of the distinctive pattern of lines and grooves on the skin of human fingertips. Fingerprints are reproduced by pressing a person's fingertips into ink and then onto a piece of paper. ; answering phones; issuing parking citations; and directing traffic at crash sites or special events. For the past four years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time city has contracted with the Sheriff's Department for the four officers, but for each of the past two years the county has not been able to fill two of the slots. City officials believe they will be able to attract candidates to fill those slots because they will be higher-paying jobs than they were with the county. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Workers complete the sign Wednesday at the $24 million sheriff's station under construction at Avenue Q and Sierra Highway. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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