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Community Police Advisory Board - 2010 Annual Summit
C-PAB members from across the city gather for once-a-year meeting
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Community Police Advisory Board - 2010 Annual Summit
C-PAB members from across the city gather for once-a-year meeting
by Bill Murray,
NAACC / LACP
September 26, 2010 |
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Community Police Advisory Board (C-PAB) members from across the city of Los Angeles got together on Saturday for their once-a-year opportunity to rub elbows with each other at the 2010 Annual C-PAB Summit. The theme was "Getting our City Prepared" for emergencies, including natural disasters and man-made or terrorist events.
I was there, along with several hundred of my sworn and community friends.
We were treated to an excellent day of presentations and events centered around the LAPD's new Rod Deaton Auditorium, part of the new Police Headquarters, and included light breakfasts and lunches on the City Hall south lawns. Tours of the Emergency Call Center (9-1-1 calls are taken) as well as the soon-to-open LAPD jail facility.
Two streets were blocked to traffic, making them pedestrian malls where the Department showed off Mobile Command Post vehicles, Bomb Squad and K-9 units, LAPS's future "super patrol car" and the three wheeled unit now on duty in beach areas (the officer stands up to drive it). We also got to see LA Fire Department personnel and fire fighting apparatus and were given a small taste of the kinds of things the LAPD's Explorers are up to (personally I liked their "tent building exhibit").
We've showed you all this before, ands have also had numerous articles devoted to the three basic presentation topic of the day:
Presentation from Dr Lucy Jones, Chief Scientist of the US Geological Survey
| primary info was about the frequency, likelihood and intensity of southern California earthquakes |
iWatchLA presentation given by Mary Grady, Public Information Director, Public Information Office, LAPD
| "If you see something, say something" campaign -- now being taken nations (LACP has offered to help with this) |
Presentation by James Featherstone, General Manager of the LA City Emergency Management Department
| basic advice was to spend a couple hours making sure our homes (and places of work) are ready for a disaster |
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We'll get into more specifics on each of these soon again, and I'll talk about them on tonight's "Community Matters" This Week radio talk show .. but I wanted to give you a quick report on what's become, for me, a favorite event here in Los Angeles.
Yours in service,
Bill Murray
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