“(The criminals) know that when their buddies get picked up there’s no cops around,” said Palaziol, the San Pedro resident.
Officers Ferara and Woodard said on an average 10-hour shift they make two arrests – two trips to South L.A.
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“Then you have to stop on the freeway and potentially stop other drivers just to deal with the suspect.” “There are situations where while we’re driving there, the arrestee has a mental breakdown or is trying to bust out a window,” Ferara said. If a suspect was uncooperative, it could take even longer. That practice took two to four hours depending on the time of day – keeping officers out of the field. Since 2010, when officers have made an arrest they would take the suspect to the Harbor Station while they finished paperwork, then head north on the 110 Freeway to South Los Angeles to book the suspect before making their way back to the Harbor area to continue patrolling. The cells are 11 feet by 7 feet to 16-by-15. The jail’s 38 cells can house 45 male and 20 female inmates, the sergeant said. It sits near the port, next to the 110 Freeway and just north of the Channel Street exit, and has 265 employees that include the command staff, detectives and officers. Gibson Blvd., serves San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City and Harbor Gateway. The station house and its jail, at 2175 John S. It’s nice to see it up and running again.” “I used to go through every now and then to make sure everything was still working. Once officers abandon the temporary site for their permanent quarters, a committee of area residents will look into turning the complex of trailers into a social service or business center.“It’s usually so quiet in here,” Plows said. Other stations slated for new facilities under the bond are the Newton and North Hollywood divisions. The cost of preparing and assembling the units is expected to run $1.2 million, all of which will be paid out of the city’s $176-million 1989 police facilities bond measure fund. Suspects will be booked and incarcerated at either the Southeast or Southwest stations. The temporary station will have 10,000 square feet more space than the current facility’s 19,000 square feet. Meanwhile, at the site of the temporary facility on a city-owned storage lot, workers this week busily hammered together the trailers into a cluster of long, rectangular buildings.Ĭonstruction of the facility, which will include wheelchair-accessible ramps and wooden walkways between buildings, is expected to be finished by late February, said Tom Bylard, city senior carpenter. The station is so rickety that a sign outside the front door warns that the building’s unreinforced masonry construction may crumble in a major earthquake. And in the station’s interview rooms, fallen or ripped tiles form a yellowed-glue and chipped-paint patchwork across walls and ceilings. Holding areas for prisoners appear just as dingy and neglected as the officers’ bunk room. In some of the facility’s busiest corners, duct tape keeps water-stained ceiling tiles from falling. Officers at 77th Street hope she is right: They’ve been coping with a rapidly deteriorating police station for several years. “We didn’t have a real need for them, and it was something that the division could use, so it was kind of a win-win (situation) for everyone,” said port spokeswoman Barbara Yamamoto. Port officials have estimated that they saved the Police Department $400,000 by donating the units. Larry Goebel, asked the Harbor Department for the trailers, and port officials agreed to hand them over last February.
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