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Seal Beach St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
ByAdminSCMA member Glen Rothstein (LA-145, KK6OTP) provided the following information and photos: The City of Seal Beach readies for today’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations by setting up multiple crowd control barriers and an Urban Area Mobile Incident Command Post (UAMICP). Orange County has several UAMICP’s that are shared by the County. Today, they’re operating on Black…
Police Employ Predator Drone Spy Planes on Home Front
ByAdminUnmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates. Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him…
SCMA Member Photos of Van Nuys Barricaded Suspect
ByAdminAn SCMA member who shall remain anonymous sent in the following photos of the perimeter formed around a Van Nuys neighborhood. Officers received reports of a man with a gun. When they arrived they were greeted with a possible 5150 (Mentally Ill) subject armed with a handgun. His family members were not home at the…
Austin Texas Police, Fire, EMS Going Encrypted
ByAdminGoodbye, Scanner. Austin Police, Fire, EMS will Stop Making Messages Available to Public Public safety agencies in Austin — police, fire and EMS — will soon go radio silent to the public after they switch to an encrypted radio system. This means that the current publicly available scanner information, which residents can use to listen…
Baldwin Park Inches Closer to Disbanding Police Department, Contracting with Sheriff
ByAdminBy Maritza Velazquez, https://www.sgvtribune.com The city of Baldwin Park inched closer Wednesday to disbanding its police department and contracting with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, after a fiery debate and a narrow vote by the City Council. A preliminary study released Wednesday revealed that a contract with the Sheriff’s Department could result in an…
Mayor Villaraigosa Wants to Bring General Services Cops Into LAPD
ByAdminMayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to propose merging two of the city’s law enforcement agencies in a cost-cutting move that would also let him fulfill a campaign promise to expand the LAPD to 10,000 officers. As part of his budget being released Friday, Villaraigosa is proposing to shift the Department of General Services’ Office of…

