Los Angeles police are hitting the streets.
The LAPD on Monday announced a program to double the number of police foot patrols in the Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights and El Sereno areas.
The "Hollenbeck Community Partners Program" will add four corridors to the existing four areas that are patrolled on foot by officers from the LAPD's Hollenbeck Station.
The station commander said he wants his officers to know residents by name — and vice versa.
"I think a program like this does nothing but enhance the trust that the community has and the willingness the Los Angeles Police Department has to take the community policing model to the next level," LAPD Capt. Martin Baeza.
The Hollenbeck station was one of several stations pointed out by Chief Charlie Beck in February as needing more resources to help cut down on crime.
Officers will work with businesses and residents to improve the quality of life in the community, LAPD officials said at a late-morning news conference at Mariachi Plaza, at First Street and Boyle Avenue.
The eight foot-beat patrol corridors are:
- Cesar Chavez Boulevard between State Street and Evergreen Avenue;
- North Broadway between Avenue 21 and Lincoln Park Boulevard;
- Huntington Drive between Eastern Avenue and Pueblo Street;
- Whittier Boulevard between Indiana Avenue and Lorena Street;
- Soto Street between Olympic and Whittier boulevards;
- Olympic Boulevard between Soto and Camulos streets;
- Eastern Avenue between Huntington Drive and Klamath Street; and
- First Street Between Boyle Avenue and Soto Street.
