MOVE TO REVIVE POLICE PROGRAM GETS BOOST.Byline: Alexa Haussler Staff Writer City Attorney James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California issued a legal opinion Friday that the Police Commission has the authority to order 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. to revive the popular Senior Lead Officer program. Hahn personally endorsed reinstating the program that was dismantled by Parks who believes the SLOs should augment normal patrols and that all officers should be effective community relations 1. The relationship between military and civilian communities. 2. Those public affairs programs that address issues of interest to the general public, business, academia, veterans, Service organizations, military-related associations, and other non-news media entities. officers. ``They've been such an invaluable team member on our community enforcement efforts working on quality of life issues,'' said Hahn, who is running for mayor. ``It really hasn't been the same since they had to return to duties in the field.'' Parks was out of town Friday and could not be reached for comment. The council's Public Safety Committee asked for Hahn's opinion whether the City Council can direct the Police Commission to instruct Parks to reinstate the program, after it became clear earlier this month that the chief would not budge on his position. In 1997, Parks altered the neighborhood liaison program launched as part of Christopher Commission In Los Angeles, the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, informally known as the Christopher Commission, was formed in July 1991, in the wake of the Rodney King beating, by then-mayor of Los Angeles Tom Bradley. reforms after the Rodney King Rodney Glen King (born April 9, 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an African-American taxicab driver who was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sargent Stacey Koon) after being chased for speeding. scandal. He said that all of the Department's officers should be trained in and carrying out community-based policing. Police Commission President Gerald Chaleff said the Rampart Independent Review Panel already has a working group looking at the SLO SLO Slovenia (ISO Country Identifier) SLO San Luis Obispo (California) SLO Service Level Objectives (information technology services) program. ``We will rate the recommendations and the results of their study,'' he said. City Councilman Joel Wachs, also a mayoral candidate, who has been pushing for the program, said he was delighted with Hahn's ruling and that he personally will ask the Police Commission to take up the issue. ``I think this is really imperative,'' Wachs said. ``If ever there was a time when we had to restore public confidence in the department and build police-community partnerships, it's now.'' |
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