| Los Angeles General Services Police | |
| Common name | LA General Services Police |
| Abbreviation | LAGSPD |
| Patch of the Los Angeles General Services Police. | |
| Badge of the Los Angeles General Services Police. | |
| Motto | Sworn to Serve - Committed to Protect |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1979 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City of Los Angeles in the state of California, USA |
| Legal jurisdiction | Los Angeles |
| General nature | |
| Specialist jurisdiction | Buildings and other fixed assets. |
| Operational structure | |
| Police Officers | 113 |
| Security Officers | 300 |
| Agency executive | Gary S. Newton, Chief of Police |
| Website | |
| Official Site | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Los Angeles General Services Police is a law enforcement agency providing security police and security guard services to the Los Angeles City Hall, the Los Angeles Central Library, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the city's parks, having similar duties of the late Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety.
Gary S. Newton is the current police chief.
The department was established as a security force in 1979. A peace officer component was created in the late 1980s and reorganized in 2003 when Los Angeles City Council members Wendy Gruel and Jack Weiss proposed to create the Office of Public Safety by merging the many city security services (Library Security, City Park Rangers and General Services Police) into one centralized division of the Department of General Services.
This department is not to be confused with the Los Angeles Police Department which is a separate agency.
As of 2007, GSPD currently employs 112 police officers and over 200 security officers. The department patrols over 400 parks, 72 libraries and 900 municipal buildings. It is the 10th largest law enforcement agency in L.A. County.
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