Pacific Area AwareNet

AwareNet

AwareNet is a community sponsored and managed interactive electronic mail information forwarding system (e-mail). Designed to be a three-way link between you, your neighbors and the LAPD. The members of the Pacific Area community created this program as a project of The Community Police Advisory Board. Community coordinators will be the sole managers of this system. AwareNet is not a Los Angeles Police Department Program. However, the LAPD has agreed to participate in the program by providing information to the “communication loop coordinators.” The information provided by LAPD is not confidential but may be a valuable and timely source of crime prevention information. Any information found on Awarenet can also be found on the LAPD website, www.lapdonline.org However, while lapdonline is a valuable information source, it is not interactive. As a free subscriber to AwareNet, you will be part of an interactive e-mail system where timely information will be e-mailed to you so you will have an opportunity to communicate with your loop coordinator.

AwareNet is not an emergency communication system. If a user has an emergency that requires the police to respond they should immediately dial 911 for assistance. For any other requests for police services, that are non-emergency, the caller should dial 1-877-ASK-LAPD.

Benefits

AwareNet allows you to access neighborhood crime information, to build relationships within your community, and to report non-emergency activities to the LAPD anonymously through a designated civilian loop coordinator.

How It Works

Pacific community AwareNet members will receive timely local crime information through their loop coordinator. For example; information on incidents of ongoing fraudulent criminal activity which targets elderly citizens through door-to-door sales or other types of “scam artist” schemes can be provided to the community to help prevent additional criminal activity and victimization.

AwareNet members can also alert their loop coordinator via e-mail of any non-emergency suspicious activities. The loop coordinator will assemble and forward all appropriate information to the Pacific Area Community Police Station of the LAPD. The LAPD will verify the information, use it to monitor neighborhood criminal activity and authorize its distribution, if appropriate, to all AwareNet members.

Membership

To join click AwareNet, we need your name, your email address and the reporting district in which you live, or the nearest cross streets.

See the map in the "Five Points of Contact" page to determine the reporting district in which you live.

Other Involvement Opportunities

Please contact us if you want to participate in any of the following Pacific Area community outreach and crime prevention programs:

* Graffiti Watch
* Block Captains
* Neighborhood Watch
* Community Police Advisory Board

Other Community Web sites

Official Web site of the Los Angeles Police Department
Official Web site of the City of Los Angeles
Official Web site of the County of Los Angeles
Access Health and Human Services in Los Angeles
Five Points Contact
Community Phone Numbers