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Committee hears LAPD patrol plan update; asks mayor to fund basic‑car study
Summary
The Public Safety Committee was presented with LAPD’s revised patrol plan and a feasibility discussion of revising the city’s basic‑car (ACAR) map. Committee members voted to note and file the report and requested that the Mayor and CAO include funding for an RFP to study a new basic car plan in the FY 2026–27 budget.
Amada Tingarides, director of the LAPD Office of Operations, briefed the Public Safety Committee on Jan. 28 on two related items requested in the mayor’s proposed budget: a review of the basic car (ACAR) plan and a revision of the patrol plan for 2025–26.
Tingarides said LAPD currently counts 168 basic ACARs across the city, generally six to 11 per patrol division, and that revising the basic‑car map would require a specialized study and an RFP because it would entail mapping, redistricting and significant cost. She described the patrol plan as a separate, mathematically driven management tool; after a recent internal revision LAPD said it is applying a 7‑minute response target and 30% of time for community outreach/proactive work for 9‑1‑1 code‑3 calls and related priorities.
Staff explained the patrol‑plan calculation uses workload algorithms covering 25 categories and that changes in how the city captures calls — including more than 200,000 online reports citywide and new community response programs (UMCR) — reduce patrol radio calls and will affect future patrol plan allocations. LAPD cited an example: Mission Division was previously down 26 officers in that study, the department said it added eight to nine officers and the remaining deficit is approximately 11.
Ed Rose of the City Administrative Officer’s office noted the city previously engaged Matrix in 2018 to study basic‑car allocation; that work was returned in 2021 based on older data and officials said a refreshed study is warranted now that department staffing has declined from roughly 10,040 officers in earlier data to about 8,700.
After discussion, the committee voted 4–0 to note and file the LAPD report and asked the Mayor and CAO to include funding for a basic‑car plan RFP in the mayor’s FY 2026–27 proposed budget. Councilmember Price was absent.
