The Region : 29 Police Veterans Shifted

Twenty-three veteran officers and six sergeants will be transferred out of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Area station, the city’s biggest, to “re-energize” some who have stagnated after spending years in the same assignments. The transfers, which will take effect this month and are not disciplinary in nature, also are intended to “spread around” the expertise that many of the officers and sergeants developed while working out of the Central Area station, according to Cmdr. William Booth, a police spokesman. All of the officers will be replaced to maintain the station’s roster of more than 200 police officers. Police administrators ordered similar mass transfers in March at the nearby Rampart Area station. All three of Rampart’s watch commanders and 24 other senior personnel were sent elsewhere to introduce “fresh thinking” to the division, authorities said at the time.