The Annual Public Safety/Bike Safety Expo and Lakewood Youth Sports (LYS) Opening Day are combining to create an exciting and informative family outing. The event will be on Saturday, June 21 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Mayfair Park.
An estimated 3,000 participants are expected as LYS participants on summer baseball, softball, and t-ball teams attend an opening ceremony for the new LYS season. This will be followed by a full slate of carnival attractions.
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In conjunction with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, Lakewood is offering Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training. The free 20-hour program educates residents about disaster preparedness and basic disaster response skills for dealing with a serious crisis situation. It is taught by Los Angeles County Fire Department firefighters. Both lecture and hands-on exercises cover topics like fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. The program runs over three Saturdays: August 9, 16 and 23.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will hold a special event dedicated to recruiting women from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 28 at S.T.A.R.S. Center. Female sheriff's representatives will be on hand to give potential employees a first-hand understanding of numerous specialties within the Sheriff’s Department.
Click to see Sworn positions
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Lakewood Station is one of three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department stations that have been selected as the best of the best of more than 800 police stations worldwide, according to a recently released report by Altus Global Alliance.
In fall of 2007, the station was visited during “Police Station Visitors Week,” which was created to assess citizen satisfaction with services delivered by police departments, identify good practices used by police, and strengthen relations between police and their local communities.
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Four automatic radar-equipped signs show motorists how fast they’re traveling on some of Lakewood’s busiest streets. The pole-mounted signs give drivers nearly instantaneous feedback--including a flashing strobe if they exceed legal speeds by 15 miles per hour. Data gathered by the units will help the city deploy sheriff’s traffic units.
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At the end of a two-year project to expand and modernize the Lakewood Sheriff’s Station, Captain Dave Fender and his Team Lakewood deputies gave the community a tour of the scope of sheriff’s law enforcement in Lakewood. On Saturday, February 23 they held a celebratory open house at the station.
Sheriff’s K-9 units, county fire apparatus, and the department’s SWAT team and bomb squad were among the public safety units that were on display in station’s parking area off Civic Center Way. Visitors also toured the new updated facility. Click for to see a CityTV Community Digest segment on the event.
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The Lakewood Sheriff’s Community Safety Center, located in the Target Wing at the Lakewood Center Mall, now offers LiveScan fingerprint services. LiveScan is an electronic system for running background fingerprint checks through the Department of Justice and/or FBI databases often needed for employment purposes.
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Lakewood's "Survive for 7" disaster prep motto is at the heart of its preparedness message. In the case of a major disaster, residents should prepare to be on their own for seven days. Gathering basic necessities and common sense planning are important basics everyone should have in place before a major crisis.
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There’s a new deputy in town riding a new T3 Motion Series Mobility Unit to patrol Lakewood Center. The three-wheeled transporters have recently begun cruising inside and outside of Lakewood’s largest and busiest shopping destination.
The futuristic units are based at the Lakewood Community Safety Center. They are battery-powered, zero-emission vehicles that silently negotiate crowds and easily dodge through parking lot traffic to get on the scene fast.
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The Lakewood Sheriff's Community Safety Center, inside the Lakewood Center mall, is a popular "one stop" resource for information, special topic classes, service assistance, and access to crime prevention resources. Daily drop-ins include seniors on their early morning walks around the mall, and new residents with questions about city programs and services. Click here for a full program listing. Click here for a full program listing.
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The future of the Lakewood Sheriff’s Station was unveiled in February when communtiy residents toured the expanded and modernized public safety facility.
The future of Lakewood law enforcement is now, say Sheriff ’s Department officials. It’s bigger. It’s connected to 21st century crime fighting technologies. And it’s better prepared for disasters, too.
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, at the request of 4th District Supervisor Don Knabe, has approved a plan to replace the service garage at the Lakewood Sheriff’s Station with a new, 5,388-square-foot facility. The new garage will cost an estimated $3 million (funded with $1.5 million from Supervisor Knabe’s discretionary capital budget and $1.5 million from Sheriff Leroy Baca’s fixed assets budget).
The new garage represents the final piece in a $20.7-million, county-funded modernization program that began in February 2006. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2007 and without additional taxes or assessments.
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Do you want to become more involved in your community or protect yourself, family and property? If so, Neighborhood Watch is the program for you.
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The level of car theft is low in Lakewood, but the risk of theft persists, particularly if you’re among the Lakewood residents who leave a family car at the curb overnight because, well, the garage is full of other stuff. That may make you feel secure about your rakes and lawn mower, but how well protected is your car?
The City of Lakewood offers reassuring help. If you wish, we will mark your car with a distinctive Operation Lakewood Auto Watch (LAW) decal.
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City staff responded to a simulated “major earthquake” recently, in the first of what will become a series of drills and exercises designed to sharpen the city’s ability to respond in an actual disaster. The half-day post-quake simulation involved nearly 120 city staff members from every city department and division.
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