LOS ANGELES : City Council Panel OKs Plan for ATMs at Police Stations
Prompted by a rash of robberies at automated teller machines, Los Angeles officials intend to install ATMs at police station lobbies in the coming months to provide a safe refuge for banking transactions.
A City Council committee Monday approved the installation of machines at the Devonshire and Wilshire stations. That pilot project, conducted with the Los Angeles Police Credit Union, will be voted on by the full council next month.
The credit union has installed four machines--at the Downtown police headquarters, the Police Academy, the Van Nuys headquarters and the South Traffic Division in the Crenshaw-Baldwin Hills Shopping Center. Eventually, officials intend to install as many as 30 machines at police facilities throughout the city.
A separate proposal to ban loitering near ATMs was rejected by the Public Safety Committee on Monday after officials said it raised constitutional questions and would be difficult to enforce.
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