LAPD Admin Channels

[mrbekhor]

There are units that the lapd has frequency for but are never used so what frequency do they operate on? Major Crime, Professional Standards Bureau, Detective H.q/RHD, Staff/command,Commercial Crimes. Those frequencies dont have any activity practically, so how do those units report code6 on. ANd these units I have never heard them speak before. I got these unit ids from the lapd manual. And the chief and other command staff have unit ids but they dont speak on frequencies. Sorry for making this so long. I would appreciate help. also The staff/command frequency what is it for?
*Detective Bureau
5D: Investigative Analysis Unit/Detective Bureau Administrative Staff
70D: Gang and Narcotics Division
8K: Juvenile Division
1K: Detective Support and Vice Division
4K: Robbery-Homicide Division
7Y: Narcotics Division
8Y: Narcotics Division
9Y: Narcotics Division
4I: Vice Division
5I: Vice Division
2K: Commercial Crimes Division
*Special Operations Bureau
R: Metropolitan Division
1D: Traffic Coordination Section
6D: Emergency Operations Division
4D: Personnel Assigned to Special Operations Bureau
*Consent Decree Bureau
15H: Risk Management Group
10I: Civil Rights Integrity Division
19I: Audit Division
*Counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau
3D: Emergency Services Division
3DK9: LAPD Bomb Detection Canine (K-9) Section
6K: Major Crimes Division
10Y: Personnel Assigned to Counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau
*Employee Relations Group
6H: Employee Relations Section
*Training Group
18H: Training Division
13H: Training Group
*Personnel Group
5H: Personnel Division
20H: Personnel Group
22H: Officer Representation Section
31H: Recruitment and Employment Division.
*Information and Communications Services Bureau
3H: Information Technology Division
10H: Communications Division
12H: Records and Identification Division
16H: Emergency Command Control Communications System Division
28H: Crime Analysis Section
25H: Personnel Assigned to Information and Communications Services Bureau
*Administrative and Technical Services Bureau
2H: Scientific Investigation Division
4H: Motor Transport Division
8H: Fiscal Operations Division
9H: Property Division
11H: Facilities Management Division
26H: Assistant C/O, Administrative and Technical Services Bureau
27H: Personnel Assigned to Administrative and Technical Services Bureau
31H: Recruitment and Employment Division
*Professional Standards Bureau
15I: Personnel Assigned to the Professional Standards Bureau
3I: Internal Affairs Group
7D: Force Investigation Division
*Office of Support Services
6I: Personnel assigned to Office of Support Services
7I: Planning and Research Division
21I Personnel Assigned to Executive Officer
18I: Work Environment Liaison Division
*Office of Operations
1H: Jail Division
29H: Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division
2O: Personnel Assigned to Office of Operations
*Public Information Office
9I: Media Relations Section
11I: Public Communications Section
12I: Personnel Assigned to Public Information Office

 

[SCPD]

Before I moved from L.A. in 1973 I used to hear Robbery/Homicide on the air fairly often but not frequently. They used to run plates and report in their Code 6 status. The LAPD had two tactical frequencies at the time, Tac 2 for black and white car to car and Tac 1 for the types of uses in the radio designator list you posted. I think most of those portions of the department are using cell phones more and possibly have MDT's in their vehicles. Investigators, especially those working out of Parker Center, don't use or need radios like patrol does. Their duties are quite different. I'm not quite sure of why frequencies have been assigned to them unless it is for emergency and disaster type events where the cell phone system may fail.

Most of the personnel on the list you posted are "suits, bean counters, and desk jockeys." Many are civilians. A cousin of mine was a civilian employee in the department and was assigned an LAPD sedan (unmarked) that was set up for detectives but without lights/siren and a radio. He had a department cell phone. He worked in property and had been assigned to the LAPD after spending most of his career in the Mayor's Office. He was sent to the PD to start getting on top of the storage of DNA evidence that overwhelmed the department some years ago. He was in the field quite often but never used a radio. He was a "suit."

The use of a radio by the Chief would be very rare and if the occasion arose it would be his driver (a sworn officer) using it. In spite of the image created by the TV show "The Closer," people high in the organization stopped going in the field and working individual cases many years before they rose to those higher positions. For example a Deputy Chief, which the actress Kyra Sedgwick portrays in The Closer, stopped going into the field 10 years or more before reaching such a position. Some in those positions were never field oriented when they started as patrol officers and may be good managers, but with very little street smarts.

With all that in mind, I hope you understand why most of the unit designators you posted will rarely, if ever, be heard.

 

[Radio_Lady]

Exactly

Despite his moving from L.A. in 1973, Exsmokey's information is still very accurate and current. The "suits" perform their activities pretty much on their own timetable except in emergencies, while the "bluesuits'" work is usually time-sensitive and requires a lot of real-time communication, whether by voice or MDC.

I think most of those portions of the department are using cell phones more and possibly have MDT's in their vehicles. Investigators, especially those working out of Parker Center, don't use or need radios like patrol does. Their duties are quite different. I'm not quite sure of why frequencies have been assigned to them unless it is for emergency and disaster type events where the cell phone system may fail.

On the occasions when they do need radio communications for their normal duties, it's usually preferable for them to have their own discrete (not necessarily discreet) frequencies available But not many MDCs in their vehicles that I know of.

Most of the personnel on the list you posted are "suits, bean counters, and desk jockeys."

With the exception of Metropolitan Division's "R" units who do plenty of talking on their frequencies

The use of a radio by the Chief would be very rare and if the occasion arose it would be his driver (a sworn officer) using it.

In 30 years, I only know of one instance when the chief's (Staff 1) driver radioed Communications Division over a patrol frequency; their own car had broken down on the freeway and they needed a "4-Henry" tow truck and an LAPD sergeant to transport the chief to some appointment. Once in a while, this was before cellphones or Nextel, staff officers would contact their offices through old Freq 21, 453.350, which was apparently monitored 24/7 in some office upstairs, either Ad Vice to whom it was assigned, or possibly Detective Headquarters Division in the very late hours.

 

[mrbekhor]

Thank you very much. That is a bummer that we can't monitor them. I heard a surveillance op on Major Crimes Freq the other day. Det Support/sis freq has activity once in a while. Because I believe SIS uses it. Is there a frequency that Bomb Squad use or do they respond through the MDC also? And if known what is a basic message told to the officers when they are called out. 6k110 was code6 yesterday almost all day at topanga division. So thats what got me to ask here what frequency they use. Also what is the best antenna to hear all lapd on a Pro-106 scanner. Because on uniden scanners people can hear all of lapd. and i live in reseda and that person lives in encino not to far than me.

 

[KG6GTH]

Admin Freqs

Without going into too much details, most Citywide Specialized Units will update there status to Communications in whatever division they are in. I work a citywide unit and am based in Central.. If I am in the valley, I will switch to a valley channel... As you can see in the RR Database there are specialized Tactical Channels that certain units utilize.....


Hope this helps....

Sean

 

[mrbekhor]

thank you it helps. What specialized unit are you may i ask?