Metro - File #: 2025-0445

• File #: 2025-0445
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 5/13/2025
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 9/18/2025
• Title: CONSIDER: A. RECEIVING AND FILING the quarterly update on the Transit Community Public Safety Department (TCPSD) Implementation Plan; and B. AUTHORIZING the resolution affirming Metro's commitment to meet the minimum recruitment and training standards set by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), as required for membership in the POST Program.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Certification, City of Los Angeles, Contracts, De-escalation, Emergency Operations Center, Homeless Outreach, Housing, Law enforcement, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, Los Angeles Unified School District, Metro Center Street Project, Motion / Motion Response, Olympic games, Plan, Police, Procurement, Public Safety Advisory Committee, Radio, Safety, Safety and security, Security, Strategic planning, Testing, Transit safety, Visibility

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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: TRANSIT COMMUNITY PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT QUARTERLY UPDATE

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. RECEIVING AND FILING the quarterly update on the Transit Community Public Safety Department (TCPSD) Implementation Plan; and

B. AUTHORIZING the resolution affirming Metro's commitment to meet the minimum recruitment and training standards set by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), as required for membership in the POST Program.

Issue
ISSUE

In alignment with Metro's mission and comprehensive safety and security framework, staff continue to implement the plan to stand up Metro's Transit Community Public Safety Department (TCPSD). This report serves as a status report to the Board on implementation progress of the new department. Staff is also recommending approval of a resolution (Attachment A) committing Metro to follow POST's minimum recruitment and hiring standards. Approval of the resolution is a necessary step for Metro to then join POST as a member agency. While Metro is committing to adhere to all POST minimum hiring and training requirements, it also plans to enhance those standards with additional training aligned with its care-based, integrated public safety approach.

Background
BACKGROUND

At its June 2024 meeting, the Board adopted the TCPSD Implementation Plan and approved the department's phased establishment over five years. The Board directed staff to report quarterly on the implementation progress.

Following the Board's approval of the Implementation Plan, Metro's CEO assembled an interdepartmental task force to support the program rollout. The task force was composed of members of Metro's key departments, including Homeless Outreach Management and Engagement, Customer Experience, System Security and Law Enforcement, Chief People Office, and the O...