LAPD Opens 8 South-Central Community Contact Centers

Eight Los Angeles Police Department “community contact centers,” built to improve ties between the police and the public, have opened in South-Central Los Angeles within the department’s 77th Street Division.

Residents in eight patrol areas can use the centers to meet police, report criminal matters and obtain advice on where to turn in order to solve non-police-related matters.

The eight centers, staffed by officers who speak English and Spanish, will be open Tuesdays and Saturdays, from noon to 2 p.m. in the RTD building, 5425 S. Van Ness Ave.; Thursdays from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Nativity Church, 953 W. 57th St.; Mondays and Wednesdays, from 4 to 6 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 6019 S. Victoria Ave.; Tuesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. at St. Catherine Center, 934 W. 70th St.; Wednesdays from 3 to 5 p.m. at St. Thomas Baptist Church, 2400 Southwest Drive; Mondays, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Greater Bethany Church, 8422 S. Hoover St.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Estelle Van Meter Senior Citizen Center, 606 E. 76th St., and Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. to noon at St. Andrews Park, 8701 St. Andrews Place.