South Bureau

The South Bureau oversees operations in the following Areas: Southwest, Harbor, 77th Street, and Southeast. South Bureau has a population of roughly 640,000 people, encompasses 57.6 square miles, and includes such well-known Los Angeles landmarks as USC, The Coliseum, Watts Towers, the Harbor Gateway, the Port of Los Angeles and the Exposition Park Museums.

It is the mission of Operations-South Bureau (OSB) to work in partnership with the community to reduce both the level and fear of crime, as we improve quality of service, community – police relationships and quality of life.

GOAL 1

SUPPRESS THE INCIDENCE OF CRIME IN THE BUREAU

Strategies

• Ensure deployment of patrol officers is consistent with daily crime occurrences.
• Ensure the proper implementation, administration, and deployment of Special Enforcement Units (SEU) in each Area.
• Use the Community Services Committee as a resource to solve problems through alternative means.
• Maintain liaison with local, private security agencies contracted with local businesses and schools.
• Hold commanding officers and watch commanders accountable for crime suppression by means of regular crime-control meetings and in annual performance evaluations.
• Ensure community-identified problems are prioritized and addressed and tracked.
• Improve coordination and cooperation between patrol and detective functions.

Measures of Effectiveness

• Reduce Part I crimes by 20 Percent, compared to the prior year.
• Reduce repressible crimes by 5 Percent compared to the previous year.
• Maintain a Clearance Rate of 25 Percent for Part I crimes.

GOAL 2

REDUCE SERIOUS INJURY/FATAL TRAFFIC COLLISIONS BY 10% AND REDUCE ALL TRAFFIC COLLISIONS BY 15%

Strategies

• Hold Area Commanding Officers primarily responsible for traffic problems in their Areas.
• Use mapping to focus traffic enforcement at key, problem locations.
• Set expectation for Basic Car officers to identify and address traffic problems in their Basic Car areas.
• Pedestrian/Crosswalk sting operations.
• Identify problem intersections on a weekly basis.
• Emphasize traffic enforcement training for Basic Car officers, e.g., radar enforcement training.
• Emphasize the use of “El Protector Azul” program in areas plagued by serious (A) and fatal (K) traffic collisions.
• Emphasize the importance of discussing traffic problems at meetings with Basic Car officers.
• Hold Quarterly Traffic Summits, one in each Area during the year.

Measures of Effectiveness

• 10% reduction in Serious Injury/Fatal traffic collisions.
• 15% reduction in all traffic collisions.

GOAL 3

IMPROVE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY WITHIN THE BUREAU

Strategies

• Establish integrated tracking systems to monitor due-date compliance for projects, routine reports, and audits.
• Establish integrated tracking systems to monitor risk management issues: pursuits, traffic collisions, complaints, and uses of force.
• Use the tracking systems to identify trends in the occurrence of high-risk incidents and employees’ involvement.
• Hold commanding officers accountable for the proper management of the complaint investigation caseload.
• Conduct frequent audits that simply and accurately measure daily operations, especially those operations that could compromise Department integrity.
• Implement all Board of Inquiry (BOI) recommendations that affect geographic bureaus.

Measures of Effectiveness

• 90% due-date compliance rate for projects and routine reports sent to the Bureau.
• 100% due-date compliance to Office of Chief of Police.
• Quarterly audits of employees with multiple high-risk incidents.
• 50% reduction in overall complaint investigation backlog.
• 90% of all complaints initiated are submitted for bureau review within 180 days of initiation.
• Implement BOI recommendations that affect geographic bureaus and Area commands (recommendations to be named later).

GOAL 4

CONTINUE TO INSTITUTIONALIZE COMMUNITY POLICING-GOVERNMENT WITHIN OSB COMMANDS

Strategies

• Maintain Basic Car stability within each Basic Car.
• Increase the participation of concerned geographic division personnel at community meetings.
• Conduct two Community Police Academy sessions per year.
• Reduce the number of absenteeism of officers at community meetings.
• Conduct a quarterly Basic Car meeting/training day for all officers assigned to a Basic Car.
• Ensure two semi-annual Basic Car meetings are conducted for each Basic Car.
• Increase the number of community meetings led by Basic Car officers, other than senior lead officers.

Increase officer involvement with the SARA process.

Measures of Effectiveness

• Average per month no more than one Police Officer III moved from a Basic Car.
• One representative from the concerned geographic division attends each community meeting.
• Two Basic Car Meetings are held in each Area for each Basic Car.
• Graduate 40 community members from the Community Police Academy.
• Less than 10% officer absenteeism at community meetings during the year.
• Average 75% percent of community meetings led by a patrol officer other than a senior lead officer.
• Each Basic Car officer initiates and completes one SARA project during the current year.

GOAL 5

IMPROVE OVERALL EFFICIENCY OF OPERATIONS SUPPORT DIVISIONS

Strategies

• Improve liaison between Operations-South Bureau commands and District and City Attorneys’ Offices.
• Improve turnaround times for City Attorney and District Attorney “drop off” cases.
• Develop strategies to reduce Detective Backlog.
• Ensure enforcement of gang-related crimes.
• Increase enforcement of sex registrants.
• Improve compliance rate with 290 PC sex registrants.

Measure of Effectiveness

• A 35% reduction in Detective Backlog
• A 10% reduction gang-related crime
• Maintain an average compliance rate of 80% for 290 PC Sex Registrants