Car code Adam 12 used by the LAPD

[kc8syo]

Is the car code Adam 12 actually used by the LAPD?


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[scottyhetzel]

Is the car code Adam 12 actually used by the LAPD?


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If you are referring to its identifer.. No. 1(central area)adam(two man) 12 the basic car beat or area. If you click on the LAPD freq listed here. Than click wiki on te top right there should be a break down of beats to assigned areas. Of course you will have to go to central station area.

 

[Kingscup]

I am not sure if they still do this but LAPD did at one time on special occasions.

LAPD's Central Area to Activate 1-Adam-12 Patrol car - official website of THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT

 

[Radio_Lady]

Is the car code Adam 12 actually used by the LAPD?


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If you are referring to its identifer.. No. 1(central area)adam(two man) 12 the basic car beat or area. If you click on the LAPD freq listed here. Than click wiki on te top right there should be a break down of beats to assigned areas. Of course you will have to go to central station area.

Here's the most recent map showing the Basic Car Areas ("beats") in Central Area,
http://www.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/central.pdf

Additional patrol units deployed in the beats will usually be "X" cars, numbered such as 1X2, 1X43, etc. There will generally be other units out and about too, which aren't normally dispatchable, like Z units, footbeats, and Cycle units (bicycle patrol). I believe Kingscup is correct that 1A12 was used intermittently for a while, but I think that project faded away within a year or two. Otherwise there's never been a real 1A12 to my knowledge.

 

[SCPD]

Here's the most recent map showing the Basic Car Areas ("beats") in Central Area,
http://www.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/central.pdf

Additional patrol units deployed in the beats will usually be "X" cars, numbrred such as 1X2, 1X43, etc. There will generally be other units out and about too, which aren't normally dispatchable.

If I remember correctly each basic car covers many reporting districts (RD) and one of those is selected as the number of the basic car. For example, 1 Adam 29's area may have reporting districts 120 through 129. 1 Adam 1 may have 101 through 119. If that is true, is there a RD of 112?

 

[Radio_Lady]

If I remember correctly each basic car covers many reporting districts (RD) and one of those is selected as the number of the basic car. For example, 1 Adam 29's area may have reporting districts 120 through 129. 1 Adam 1 may have 101 through 119. If that is true, is there a RD of 112?

You're exactly right about the Basic Car numbering based on RDs. Central's boundaries have changed somewhat in the past 5-10 years, but honestly I don't know if there is an RD of 112 or not. It would be in the northwest part of the division somewhere near Chinatown. For a very long time that entire north end of Central belonged to 1A11.

 

[KMA367]

You're exactly right about the Basic Car numbering based on RDs. Central's boundaries have changed somewhat in the past 5-10 years, but honestly I don't know if there is an RD of 112 or not. It would be in the northwest part of the division somewhere near Chinatown. For a very long time that entire north end of Central belonged to 1A11.

Don't forget the other significant part of unit numbering (prior to "flex-time" 12-hour shifts about 1999), that all regular watch patrol units - day, PM, and morning watch - were assigned ODD numbers, and all "mid-watch" (overlap) units had EVEN numbers. The only and inexplicable exceptions were a couple basic cars in West LA and Venice/Pacific: 8A14, 8A68, and 14A28, and maybe one more.

Other than those 3 or 4 outliers, no basic cars had even numbers, so any "--12" unit in Central or elsewhere would perforce have to have been a mid-watch "--X12" car.