Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety (OPS), less formally known as the Los Angeles County Police, was a police agency for the County of Los Angeles. It was formed in 1998 by consolidating three Los Angeles County security/law enforcement agencies: the Department of Parks and Recreation Park Police and the Department of Health Services and Internal Services Department's Safety Police. OPS was the fourth-largest law enforcement agency in Los Angeles County, which employed 579 sworn peace officers and 140 civilian personnel, and utilized over 800 contract security guards. The agency had an annual budget of $100 million in 2009. OPS was initially a division of the Los Angeles County Department of Human Resources but was placed under the umbrella of the newly-created Public Safety branch of the Chief Executive Office in 2007.