Ok. Inter-department, not inter-discipline structure. Nobody wants to give up their turf, but I suspect you’ll see more consolidation. It’s better for the public because it consolidates training standards, improves responses and it’s (gasp) cheaper. Department become more efficient, chances for promotion or moving around increase, all good stuff. Best way might be to form an agency with NO city loyalty so it can work without interference. Hard to do that, politicians (chiefs too) really hate to give up what they feel is their power.
It sounds like the Harbor Patrol could go work either side. FD does swift water rescue, similar to Harbor Patrol water rescues; Harbor Patrol are also on the LE side. Interesting situation.
Rick
From: kevin asato
| It was more of a unified command structure for the areas police forces and fire agencies independent of each other. The only group within that is Harbor Patrol as they have both rescue and enforcement duties. Because they perform mostly rescue work, they have been logically assigned under the Redondo Fire Department. The turf battle is over which city would serve as the lead overall agency of the combined departments. 73, kevin kc6pob |
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