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San Fernando Police release 2024 Safety Insight: response times improve; larceny and auto theft rise, ALPR credited with recoveries
Summary
The San Fernando Police Department presented its 2024 Safety Insight report showing a drop in overall response time after staffing changes and technology use, increases in larceny and vehicle theft, and law‑enforcement results from an automated license‑plate reader program and new outreach partnerships.
The San Fernando Police Department presented its 2024 Safety Insight Report to the City Council, highlighting a reduced overall response time, changing crime patterns and several new programs and grants.
Chief Valdez told the council that the department’s overall response time fell from about eight minutes in 2023 to roughly three minutes in 2024 after standardizing call types, additional interdepartmental training and hiring three new dispatchers. He cautioned that the department has not yet completed a long-term statistical comparison under the new call‑priority cataloging system.
Crime patterns: the department reported declines in burglaries compared with 2019 but increases in larceny (shoplifting and other property thefts)…
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