File #: 2020-0639   
Type: Oral Report / Presentation Status: Filed
File created: 9/21/2020 In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
On agenda: 10/15/2020 Final action: 10/15/2020
Title: RECEIVE AND FILE Transit Safety and Security Report
Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
Indexes: 103rd Street/Watts Towers Station, 7th Street/Metro Center Station, APU/Citrus College Station, Arcadia, Arcadia Station, Arroyo Verdugo subregion, Artesia, Assembly Bill 468, Avalon, Azusa, Blue Line Initial Segment, Call For Projects, Carson, Children, City of Los Angeles, Cleaning, Compton, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Culver City, Duarte, Duarte/City of Hope Station, El Monte, El Segundo, Emergency Operations Center, Expo Park/USC Station, Expo/Bundy Station, Expo/La Brea Station, Expo/Sepulveda Station, Expo/Vermont Station, Expo/Western Station, Florence, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Gender, Gold Line Foothill Extension 2A, Gold Line Initial Segment, Hollywood, Hollywood/Highland Station, Hollywood/Vine Station, Hollywood/Western Station, Homeless Outreach, Homeless persons, Housing, Indiana Station, Irwindale, It's Off Limits, Jefferson/USC Station, Key Performance Indicator, La Cienega/Jefferson Station, Lakewood, Law enforcement, Law enforcement personnel, Light rail transit, Link Union Station, Little Tokyo/Arts District Station, Long Beach, Long Beach Police Department, Los Angeles City Council District 04, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, Los Angeles Union Station, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail L Line, Monrovia, North Hollywood, Norwalk, Operation LA Metro Homeless Outreach, Oral Report / Presentation, Outreach, Partnerships, Pasadena, Police, Police reports, Property crimes, Purchasing, Redondo Beach, Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project, Ridership, Safety, Safety and security, Safety campaigns, San Fernando, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, San Gabriel, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Security, Sierra Madre, Sierra Madre Villa Station, South Bay Cities subregion, South Bay Service Sector, South Pasadena, Students, Terminal 220, Theft, Topanga, Transit Homeless Action Plan, Transit safety, Uniform Crime Reporting, Van Nuys, Vandalism, Vehicle theft, Vermont/Beverly Station, Vermont/Santa Monica Station, Vermont/Sunset Station, Vernon, Video, Violent crimes, Watts, Weapons, Westlake/Macarthur Park Station, Westside Cities subregion, Westside/Central Service Sector, Westwood/Racho Park Station, Willowbrook, Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station, Wilshire/Vermont Station
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - System-Wide Law Enforcement Overview August 2020, 2. Attachment B - MTA Supporting Data August 2020, 3. Attachment C - Transit Police Summary August 2020, 4. Attachment D - Homeless Update August 2020, 5. Attachment E - Monthly, Bi-Annual, Annual Comparison August 2020, 6. Presentation
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OPERATIONS, SAFETY AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 15, 2020

Subject
SUBJECT: MONTHLY UPDATE ON TRANSIT SAFETY AND SECURITY PERFORMANCE

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

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RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE Transit Safety and Security Report

Issue
ISSUE
This report reflects August 2020 performance data as reported under the transit policing deployment strategy which is a combination of in-house fare compliance officers, private security for fixed assets and a multi-agency law enforcement deployment strategy by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), and Long Beach Police Department (LBPD). In addition, the report highlights initiatives from the System Security and Law Enforcement department and its efforts to create a safer environment for Metro employees and a safer experience for Metro customers.

BACKGROUND
The System Security and Law Enforcement (SSLE) department entered into a multi-agency policing partnership in 2017 to increase the number of police on the Metro system to provide a greater, more visible "felt presence" of police to help deter criminal activity on Metro buses and trains.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
SSLE's Compliance group continues, and remains, fully committed to ensure that Metro is receiving the transit law enforcement services it is paying for and although, subsequent testing of the Mobile Phone Validator (MPV) dashboard has shown uneven to subpar results, SSLE staff is working on multiple pilot projects to validate which officers logged into the MPV application and to view real-time video footage of their locations.
* Starting September 15, 2020 use an alternative feature from the Mobile Device Manager (MDM) system and compare the data with the submitted law enforcement weekly schedules. The intent of this pilot is to validate which officers logged into the MPV application, at what time, and at wh...

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