LAPD BOLSTERED BY FUNDS; MAYOR ANNOUNCES $7.5 MILLION GRANT.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer For the second time this week, Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. announced Wednesday that the Justice Department has awarded the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. grant funds, $7.5 million this time, much of it to pay for the department's new computer-assisted crime-analysis system, FASTRAC. Two days after Riordan said the city would receive $133 million to hire 710 new police officers, the mayor said three additional grants totaling $7.5 million have been awarded by the federal government. ``These three grants from the Department of Justice will help 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. fight crime on many levels,'' Riordan said in a statement. ``New technology will help our Police Department increase efficiency, new equipment will protect us from terrorist threats and new intervention techniques will help us raise awareness and stop domestic violence before it takes place,'' Riordan added. U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said the grants would result in efficiencies that would be the equivalent of putting 225 new police officers on the street. ``The federal government is a committed partner in California's fight against crime,'' Boxer said. About $6.5 million will go toward the creation of an evidence-tracking system, provide laptop computers to field officers to streamline their ability to write reports and support the Los Angeles Police Department's statistical analysis program Focus, Accountability, Strategy, Teamwork, Response and Coordination. An additional $497,255 will pay for equipment to allow 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 . and Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. to buy
equipment to deal with nuclear, biological or chemical terrorism,
including decontamination decontamination /de·con·tam·i·na·tion/ (de?kon-tam-i-na´shun) the freeing of a person or object of some contaminating substance, e.g., war gas, radioactive material, etc. de·con·tam·i·na·tion n. and detection equipment. The rest of the money will go to programs to prevent domestic violence, including an effort to combat stalking by abusive partners. |
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