The Region - News from June 4, 1986

The Los Angeles police and sheriff’s departments plan a computer system to pool the two agencies’ street gang intelligence files. The Police Commission authorized its administrators to join the sheriff in applying for a $234,432 computer grant from the California Office of Criminal Justice Planning. A sheriff’s spokesman said it is hopes that all law enforcement agencies in the area will be linked to the system in three to four years. Police Chief Daryl F. Gates wrote the commission, saying the program will allow investigators “instant access . . . to a data base that will assist them in identifying, prosecuting and removing from the community hard core gang members committed to violence.”