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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area. The all-volunteer, Los Angeles-specific Los Angeles Rangers were formed in 1853 to assist the LASD. They were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group.
The 75 recruits were running in formation, on a training exercise, a little before 6:30 a.m. PST near the Los Angeles County Sheriff's academy just outside of Whittier, officials said.
With 8,028 sworn personnel and 4,377 civilian employees (as of December 1, 1996), the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is the largest Sheriff's Department in the world. 1998 - On December 7 Leroy D. Baca was sworn in as Los Angeles County's 30th Sheriff.
The Los Angeles Airport Police is the airport police division of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the city department that owns and operates two airports in Los Angeles: Los Angeles International Airport and Van Nuys Airport. It has more than 1,100 officers, security, and staff. Though it works very closely with the Los Angeles Police ...
A Los Angeles County sheriff's recruit who was struck by an SUV during a training run last year has died, authorities said. Alejandro Martinez fought for his life for the past eight months, the ...
Near Los Angeles Wednesday, a morning training run turned into a tragedy when a wrong-way driver plowed into a group of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recruits, injuring 25 people ...
The 150 Year History of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Sheriffs of Los Angeles County; Sven Crongeyer, 2006, Six Gun Sound : The Early History of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Linden Publishing, ISBN 978-1-933502-00-7
A vehicle that struck 22 Los Angeles County sheriff's recruits on a training run around dawn Wednesday, critically injuring at least five of them, was traveling on the wrong side of the road just ...