Los Angeles Police Department Pacific Area partners with Safe Moves to promote Back to School Traffic Safety NA14143dm

What:       
Press Conference to promote driver awareness of children returning to school

When:      
Thursday, August 21, 2014
10:20 a.m.   

Where:     
Kentwood Elementary School
8401 Emerson Avenue
Los Angeles, 90045

Who:        
LAPD Lieutenant T. J. Kim, Pacific Area Detectives                                                                  
Pat Hines, Founder of Safe Moves
LAPD Pacific Area Senior Lead Officers
LAPD West Traffic Motor Officers
LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer
LAUSD Earl Perkins, Assistant Superintendent School     Operations
LAUSD Brad Smith, Office of Environmental Health and Safety
Daniel Tamm, West Area Representative for Mayor Eric Garcetti
LAUSD Police Officer Posadas

Why:        
Pacific Area Lieutenant T.J. Kim and Pat Hines, founder of Safe Moves, will host a press conference at Kentwood Elementary School located at 8401 Emerson Avenue in Los Angeles.  

The goal of the event is to promote traffic safety and educate the children, and the driving public, about traffic hazards and behaviors of both the drivers and the children.   

Traffic safety is a two-way street that requires awareness for both children and drivers.  This event addresses both of these audiences with the objective to keep children safe on their way to and from school.
“Safe Moves City”, a miniature city, will be set up to replicate city streets and sidewalk to demonstrate the different traffic hazards facing children.

Contact:  
LAPD Pacific Area Community Relations Officer Trish Serafin, (310) 202-2890 or Pat Hines, Founder of Safe Moves, (818) 786-4614.