RESIDENTS ASSAIL LEAD-OFFICER RESHUFFLE.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Daily News Staff Writer Dozens of San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. residents braved rush-hour traffic Thursday afternoon to meet with LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officials downtown and make their plea to maintain one-on-one contact with senior lead officers in their communities. ``If senior leads are completely taken away from their offices and individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. voice-mail contact, the LAPD and community bond will suffer a breakdown,'' said Page Miller, a member of a North Hollywood Neighborhood Watch group. Under Chief Bernard C. Parks' reorganization plan A scheme authorized by federal law and promulgated by the president whereby he or she alters the structure of federal agencies to promote government efficiency and economy through a transfer, consolidation, coordination, authorization, or abolition of functions. for 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 . , 168 senior lead officers throughout the city
will move from their community liaison roles back into police cars to
respond to routine radio calls and to train other officers.
Senior lead officers maintain personal contact with neighborhood groups in their areas to monitor community concerns about crime. Under Parks' plan, residents would have contact with any number of officers at their local police stations. Parks said having the station as a whole informed about community concerns would help solve problems on a long-term basis. Many of the more than 100 residents attending the forum with three LAPD captains and the vice president of the Police Commission at 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 argued that senior lead officers take a proactive role in fighting crime in their communities. But LAPD officials maintained that under Parks' plan even more officers will be aware of local problems. ``We're trying to get the whole department to do what the senior lead officers do,'' said Mike Bostic, deputy chief of the Valley Bureau of the LAPD. ``The senior leads aren't going away. . . . It could be anybody who calls (residents) back and solves their problems.'' One problem with the current setup, Bostic said, is that the police handle calls that city staffers should cover, such as garbage pickup, tree trimming and broken street lights. These issues will now be handled by city staffers so that ``we could get in the business of doing police work,'' Bostic said. But Don Bunte, a member of the Community Police Advisory Board for the LAPD's Foothill Division, said he relies on his senior lead officer's more personable PERSONABLE. Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word is obsolete. contact to solve issues such as graffiti. ``Problem solving problem solving Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error. involves commitment and cooperation, and a very important component of that cooperation is feedback,'' Bunte said. The senior lead officer, he said, keeps other officers in the neighborhood informed. Several residents demanded that LAPD officials test and review the plan first, and if it proves ineffective, return senior lead officers to their original duties. Police Commission Vice President T. Warren Jackson said Thursday's panel will aim to incorporate the residents concerns into the policy-making pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: . Bostic said the reorganization plan should take effect within the next few months. Whatever is decided, North Hills resident Harry Coleman said, it should be integrated softly. ``He should make sure that he gets the quality and the quantity of the sergeants that are necessary to implement the program,'' Coleman said of Parks. ``He should give the community time to accept it.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Harry Coleman of North Hills voices his concern Thursday over Chief Bernard C. Parks' reorganization program. Michael Owen Baker/Daily News |
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