Notes from the February 26, 2008 Police Commission Meeting

•    Commissioner Skobin attended the fundraiser at Miceli’s Studio City location to benefit fallen Officer Randal Simmons’ family.  The event was well attended by Department personnel and the community as well as our colleagues from CHP and LAFD.  There will be a similar event this Saturday, March 1, 2008, at the CPK Westfield Topanga location at 6606 Topanga Canyon Blvd. in Canoga Park. 

•    The Police Commission is opposed to any City initiative that would cut police hiring or cut budgets so drastically that new equipment, including Astro radios, can’t be purchased.

•    There are currently 371 recruits in the Academy.

•    Mayor Villaraigosa has requested that the original Rampart station be renamed in honor of Officer Randal Simmons.  This issue is currently in Councilmember Garcetti’s office for a motion and will be a Police Commission agenda item in the near future.  When the Rampart replacement station opens for operations this year, Metropolitan Division and SWAT will move from Central station to the original Rampart station. 

•    The Police Commission acknowledged 5-year employee Julie Walters who is leaving to join Civil Rights Integrity Division.

•    The verbal presentation and update from the Community Police Advisory Board (C-PAB) regarding community initiated problem solving, crime strategies, and other programs and goals within the Hollywood Area, as delivered by Captain Clayton Farrell and C-PAB member Gary Mizner, was accepted.

•    The Department’s report, dated February 19, 2008, relative to the request for authority to destroy obsolete records for Duplicate/Official Records for the 77th Street Area, Devonshire Area, Foothill Area, Northeast Area, North Hollywood Area, Operations-Valley Bureau, Rampart Area, and West Valley Area, was approved and transmitted to the City Clerk, Records Management Officer.

•    The Department’s reports, dated December 12, 2007, and February 15, 2008, in response to City Council motion (CF #07-2083), relative to the Graffiti Tracker program and the Department’s graffiti abatement initiatives, were approved and transmitted to the City Council.

•    The Department’s report, dated February 8, 2008, relative to the Discipline Report for the Fourth Quarter, 2007, in accordance with the Annual Audit Plan, was received and the Office of the Inspector General was directed to submit an analysis of this report along with any appropriate recommendations to the Board.

•    The Department’s report, dated February 12, 2008, relative to the monthly Adjudication of Categorical Use of Force Incidents - Completion of Training Status Report, was received and filed.