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The West Patrol Division is almost 13 square miles and includes the Port of Long Beach, the area west of the 710 Freeway, and a large portion of Central Long Beach. The 136 sworn and three civilian employees serve almost 100,000 people. Officers respond to over 40,000 dispatches each year. The West Patrol Substation opened in late 1997. [25]
San Diego Police officers confer with FEMA Administrator David Paulison during the October 2007 California wildfires.. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 509 law enforcement agencies exist in the U.S. state of California, employing 79,431 sworn police officers—about 217 for each 100,000 residents.
A local neighborhood group, the West Long Beach Association, was founded in 1997 to improve the living conditions in the neighborhood. [2] While conditions have improved in the early 2000s, the neighborhood is still one of the poorest in Long Beach. As of July 2011, residents in West Long Beach had no access to banking services. [3]
The Port of Long Beach, administered as the Harbor Department of the City of Long Beach, is a container port in the United States, which adjoins Port of Los Angeles. [3] Acting as a major gateway for US–Asian trade, the port occupies 3,200 acres (13 km 2 ) of land with 25 miles (40 km) of waterfront in the city of Long Beach, California .
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer patrols in a truck along the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Imperial Beach, San Diego, on Jan. 25, 2025.
By July 1935, after a troubled stint as Chief of Police of Long Beach, West had been reappointed as Chief. [17] In August 1935, the LA Times reported "Compton Loses Move in Police Chief Fight", with the Superior Court siding against Mayor Smith and the city in declining to dismiss ousted Chief Potter's request for reinstatement.
The Grover Beach Police Department recently acquired four new electric bikes, police Cmdr. Bryan Millard said, which will triple the size of its bike patrol to six bicycles.
Apr. 21—Long Beach State has finished with the best record in the Big West in each of the past three regular seasons. The Beach finally have a conference championship trophy to show for it.