LAPD DETECTIVE TESTIFIES STALKER COP GOT TOO CLOSE.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer An LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. detective testified Tuesday that she was concerned and confused about why a police sergeant against whom she had a restraining order restraining order: see injunction. for stalking Criminal activity consisting of the repeated following and harassing of another person. Stalking is a distinctive form of criminal activity composed of a series of actions that taken individually might constitute legal behavior. her was invited to meet with Police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. in the building where she worked. Detective Linda Compton's emotional testimony came on the opening day of a criminal trial in which police Sgt. Howard Irvin is charged with violating a restraining order that prohibited him from going within 100 yards of Compton's workplace at police headquarters. Compton told a jury that after she ended a five-year relationship with Irvin in June 1996, he continued to contact her against her wishes and threatened her with physical harm. Compton said she was surprised and concerned when she learned that Irvin had gone to 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 on Aug. 6, 1997, to meet with Parks. Explaining why she waited a day to file a criminal complaint, Compton testified, ``In my mind I was trying to figure out why my department would have Howard come to the building where I work, knowing that there is a restraining order.'' Compton was away on vacation when Irvin met with the chief on the sixth floor before going up to the eighth floor, where Compton's office is located. Still, the detective said she was very concerned about Irvin's presence in the building, adding, ``Every violation of the restraining order was a threat to me.'' An attorney representing Irvin told the jury that the meeting with Parks gave his client a legitimate reason to be at Parker Center. ``Sgt. Irvin had a meeting with the chief of police to determine his future with the LAPD while Linda Compton was on vacation,'' Monrow Mabon said in an opening statement. He said Irvin had a constitutional right to meet with Parks about his future as a police officer after pleading Asking a court to grant relief. The formal presentation of claims and defenses by parties to a lawsuit. The specific papers by which the allegations of parties to a lawsuit are presented in proper form; specifically the complaint of a plaintiff and the answer of a defendant plus any guilty in June 1997 to two felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. counts of stalking Compton. Parks has denied knowing about the restraining order when he agreed to meet with Irvin. Compton complained last year to the Police Commission's inspector general that Parks later intervened to block the service of an arrest warrant on Irvin for violating the restraining order. Representatives of Parks have said the chief thought it unfair to arrest Irvin for attending a meeting agreed to by the chief in order to give internal affairs Internal affairs may refer to:
Inspector General Katherine Mader has reviewed the department's handling of the Irvin case and submitted it to the Police Commission. Mabon said in an interview that he may call Parks to testify about the meeting. He praised the chief for acting to prevent Irvin's immediate arrest over the meeting. ``Right now, the only person who has done the right thing in this whole investigation is the chief of police,'' Mabon said. |
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