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Operations Bureau consist of the following:

 Countywide COPS Team

 Crisis Negotiations Unit

 Mental Evaluation Team

 Parking Enforcement Detail

 

 

 Crisis Negotiations Unit:

This unit is responsible for establishing and maintaining communications with hostage takers, barricaded suspects and other persons who pose an immediate violent threat to themselves or the community. Negotiators are available 24-hours a day and will respond to all hostage and barricaded suspect incidents when a Special Weapons Team is requested. A team may also be requested for any other situation requiring crisis communications, as determined by the incident commander. The CNT also provides Intra/inter-Departmental training throughout the county and coordinates the deployment of the Mental Health Alert Team.

 Mental Evaluation Team:

The Mental Evaluation Team is under the Operations Bureau Command. There are five teams which consist of a Deputy and a Department of Mental Health Clinician. Their function is to respond to Deputies who need assistance in handling mentally disordered citizens. The team(s) respond and will assess the citizen and if necessary, will write a 72 hour hold, arrange placement and transport the citizen to a facility. The teams also respond to assist with crisis intervention for families and citizens who have witnessed or been involved in catastrophic incidents, i.e. survivors of plane/train crashes, or have family or friends who have been victims of violent crimes or suicide. The teams also respond to assist with barricade situations involving persons threatening suicide.

The teams do not respond to calls from the public.

 Parking Enforcement Detail:

In January 1994, the Sheriff developed a centralized parking enforcement program staffed by civilian personnel which met the requirements of AB 408. Parking Enforcement Detail provides centralized administration of parking violation enforcement and parking citation processing in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. They also provide the administrative review of contested citations and schedule administrative hearings by civilian hearing officers, and supervise an enhanced level of Sheriff civilian Parking Enforcement Officers.

Parking Enforcement Detail is located at Sheriff's Headquarters Building. Parking Enforcement comprises eight Headquarters Staff members and their field personnel consists of nine Supervising Parking Control officers and 48 Parking Control officers. Their field personnel are deployed throughout 17 patrol stations. It is through this avenue they provide the many services the community requests.