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Metropolitan Division, commonly referred to as Metro Division or just Metro, is an elite division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) under its Special Operations Group. Metropolitan Division is responsible for managing the LAPD's specialized crime suppression, K-9 , mounted , and SWAT units, named " platoons ".
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area. The all-volunteer, Los Angeles-specific Los Angeles Rangers were formed in 1853 to assist the LASD. They were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group.
Following the organization of the State of California into counties, the Sheriff's Department of Los Angeles County was formed in April, 1850. [1] Elections for the office of sheriff were held annually until 1882, when the term was increased to two years; in 1894 the term was increased to four years.
List of Los Angeles County sheriffs; No. Portrait Officeholder Tenure start Tenure end 1 George T. Burrill: 1852 1855 2 James R. Barton: 1852 1855 3 David W. Alexander: 1856 1856 4 Charles Egbert Hale 1856 1856 5 James R. Barton † 1856 1856 6 Elijah Bettis * 1857 1857 7 William C. Getman † 1858 1858 8 James P. Thompson* 1858 1859 9 Tomas ...
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Under former Sheriff Alex Villanueva, detectives secretly investigated and urged the state attorney general to prosecute a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote on a leaked list of problem deputies.
The Los Angeles Police Department operated an emergency hospital for 102 years, near downtown central Los Angeles. It was called the Central Receiving Hospital, and was always in a police building that also housed other police functions, until 1957 when it was moved to a purpose-built police building. It existed from 1868 to 1970.
Hall, 43, shared via Instagram on Tuesday, August 6, that Gonzalo Galvez, a friend Hall made while working for 16 years as a police officer in Los Angeles, lost his battle with an “evil cancer.”