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The Los Angeles Police Department handles more than 3.3 million calls for service during the year. About 1.9 million of these are 9-1-1 emergency calls.

Los Angeles Police Department

The Los Angeles Police Department, or LAPD, is one of the largest and certainly one of the most
famous police departments in the world.
Its fame is largely attributed to the local motion picture
and television industry which has frequently made it a subject of police and crime dramas. Where
the department has much to be proud of beside what has been portrayed on film and television
(for example, the LAPD introduced the first woman police officer in the nation - see below), it
unfortunately also grabbed international headlines in such infamous cases as the O.J. Simpson
murder investigation and the video-taped beating by officers of motorist Rodney King and, more
recently, serious police abuse and cover-ups at Hollenbeck Division.

 

LAPD Headquarters, Bureaus, and Stations

HEADQUARTERS
100 West First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

LAPD Field Bureaus & Stations
Administrative Services
Support Services

Total number of sworn officers: 9,808
Total number of civilian employees: 2,730
(Above figures as of December 31, 2011

Percentage of Sworn Officers by Sex & Race

Sex & Race

2012

2000

1983

Male

81%

82%

94%

Female

19%

18%

6%

Latino

38%

33%

14%

White*

35%

46%

75%

Black*

17%

14%

10%

Asian*

7%

7%

1%

Native American

0.4%

N/A

0.3%

Filipino

2%

N/A

N/A

Other

0.1%

N/A

N/A

* Non-Hispanic; N/A Data not available
Source: Los Angeles Police Department

Parker Center at 150 North Los Angeles Street, served as headquarters for the LAPD since
1954. It was named for Chief William Parker. The new headquarters building, just south of City
Hall with half a million square feet of space and a $437 million price tag, was dedicated on
October 24, 2009.

In 1910, the nation was introduced to its first policewoman, LAPD officer Alice Stebbin Wells.
Her duties included enforcing laws dealing with dancehalls, picture shows, penny arcades, and
watching for “unwholesome billboard displays."

The motto, "To Protect and to Serve" is credited to LAPD Officer Joseph S. Dorobeck who
submitted it in response to a 1955 contest for a motto for the police academy.  The conditions
were that "the motto should be one that in a few words would express some or all the ideals to
which the Los Angeles police service is dedicated. It is possible that the winning motto might
someday be adopted as the official motto of the Department." The academy adopted Officer
Dorobeck's entry as the official motto. Through the years, it became the slogan for every officer
coming through the academy. In 1963, the Los Angeles City Council directed that this motto be
placed alongside the city seal on LAPD patrol cars.

Two men who served as Chief of the LAPD in the last 20 years previously headed major East
Coast police departments. Chief Willie Williams (1992-1997) previously served as Police
Commissioner for the Philadelphia Police Department. Chief William Bratton (2002-2009)
previously served as Police Commissioner for the New York City and Boston Police
Departments and Chief of the New York Transit Police.

LAPD deploys more than 1,200 patrol cars ("black and whites") throughout Los Angeles.

 

 

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