150 North Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-485-2547
JAIL DIVISION MISSION STATEMENT
Jail Division serves as an integral support element. The Department provides and maintains the jail system because of vital support and assistance to both the community and to various law enforcement agencies. Jail Division’s primary mission is to discharge its legal duties and responsibilities promptly and efficiently while ensuring that individuals are provided professional and dignified treatment.
The Los Angeles Police Department is under no statutory obligation to provide or maintain its own jail system but does so because of the vital support and assistance it renders both to the community and to the various law enforcement agencies it services. Jail Division’s primary and ongoing mission is to discharge its legal duties and responsibilities promptly and efficiently, and in such a manner as to ensure that all individuals are accorded professional and dignified treatment. The Commanding Officer of Jail Division is Captain Clay Farrell.
Jail Division consists of ten jails located throughout the City of Los Angeles. The three larger scale jails are Metro Jail section, 77th Regional Jail section, and Valley Jail Section, and the other seven small scale area jails include, Southwest, Harbor, Hollywood, Wilshire, Devonshire, Foothill, and Pacific.
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