ATM OKd for LAPD Devonshire Station
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 on Monday approved the installation of two 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.
Already, 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 of the machines at police facilities throughout the city.
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