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Police update: Aviation corridor citations, community policing events; commission votes to study animal microchipping
Summary
Police staff reported 236 citations on the aviation corridor and outlined community events; the commission voted unanimously to schedule a discussion and possible advisory memo on municipal-code amendments to require microchips for licensed dogs.
A Redondo Beach Police Department representative told the Public Safety Commission on Feb. 27 that officers wrote 236 citations in the recent enforcement period along the Aviation Corridor, with the top violations being speeding and red-light violations.
The police representative also summarized community-policing activities: the department's Citizens Police Academy (Class 51) is underway with 19 students; the department held "Cookies with Clinicians" to introduce county Department of Mental Health clinicians to the public; volunteers logged 303 hours this year for the department's VIP (volunteer) program; and department staff outlined upcoming community events including a public-safety open house and read-along school visits.
The representative confirmed an officer-involved shooting in Hawthorne was under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and told commissioners Redondo officers involved were OK.
In commission business, Commissioner Eskantrias moved and Commissioner Skiba seconded a request to place an item on a future agenda to discuss possible amendments to the Redondo Beach municipal code (5-series animal-licensing sections) that would require microchips for licensed dogs and to invite animal-control staff and other stakeholders to a public discussion and possible advisory memo to the City Council. The motion passed on a roll-call vote: Chair Carmichael, Commissioner Gall, Commissioner Eskantrias, Commissioner Skiba and Commissioner Wodnicki voted aye; Commissioner Kleinbaum was absent.
Commissioners also approved forming a small subcommittee to plan a formal recognition of the police volunteer (VIP) program and volunteer crossing-guard support; commissioners said they would bring a proposal to a future agenda.
Ending: The commission asked police staff to forward citation- and enforcement-period statistics in writing and asked staff to circulate schedules for community-policing events and volunteer-recognition plans.
