City Leaders' Alarms Ring Louder for LAPD A new policy of ignoring unverified calls doesn't apply to elected officials and a few others.
By Matea Gold, Times Staff Writer Despite a new Los Angeles Police Department policy that will end police responses to unverified burglar alarms, the city's elected officials still will receive priority responses when alarms go off at their homes and offices, even if there is no confirmation that someone is breaking in. The 15 City Council members, City Controller Laura Chick, City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo and Mayor James K. Hahn along with schools, city buildings and firearms dealers will be exempt from the new policy, which is expected to take effect at the end of March. The officials need more security to protect them from people who might target them because of the high-profile nature of their jobs, police officials said. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-alarm31jan31,0,5227885.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines --- Can't disagree with that latter paragraph.. I wonder if their relatives are similarly privledged..
