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A SAFE
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PUBLIC SAFETY EMERGENCY MEDICAL
Funding is provided to continue overtime SERVICES UNIT
security and patrol for the City’s LAFD’s newly formed Public Health Unit has
Comprehensive and Rapid Engagement introduced several new and innovative field
teams, A Bridge Home shelters, and city resources to better serve our community and
facilities including public libraries and the El changing EMS service demands. The Fast
Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. Response Vehicle (FRV) is a rapid, Advanced
Life Support resource capable of fire
Funding is also provided to strengthen LAPD’s suppression that provides timely, life-saving
work to provide critical infrastructure staffing intervention and on-scene triage.
and security on the City’s bus and rail lines and
to create canine bomb units, which will allow The Advance Provider Response Unit (APRU)
the department to provide comprehensive deploys vehicles specially equipped and
police services along LACMTA bus and rail staffed by an Advance Provider and a
lines. Firefighter/Paramedic to respond to non-
urgent, low-level call requests and to make
FIRE TRAINING & HIRING scheduled visits to high-frequency 911 callers.
Funding is provided for two Academy classes
to maintain staffing for every station and
apparatus in service.
FY 2020-21 PROPOSED BUDGET 8
