Public Safety Support Services

The Public Safety Support bureau is comprised of the following functions:

Communications Services Division

• Plans, designs, installs, operates and maintains voice and data radio systems
• Facilities systems engineering
• Communications field and shop services
• Council Audio System
• Council Phone
• Pager systems and intrusion alarm systems
• Provides 24x7 monitoring of police and fire radio and dispatch systems
• Available oncall for other supported systems

Omotayo Ige
Director of Communications
(213) 978-1515 (Ph)
(213) 485-8719 (Fax)
Email: omotayo.ige@lacity.org

Police Applications Division

• Provides technical support to the Police Departments
• Application design and development
• Post-implementation support
• Problem analysis
• Technical consulting
• Networks
• Project management
• Contractor monitoring
• Provides GIS support

Joyce Edson
Information Systems Manager II
(213) 978-2812 (Ph)
(213) 485-1597 (Fax)
Email: joyce.edson@lacity.org

Fire Applications Division

• Provides technical support to the Fire Departments
• Application design and development
• Post-implementation support
• Problem Analysis
• Technical consulting
• Networks
• Project management
• Contractor monitoring
• Facilitates inter and intra-departmental coordination for IT service delivery and problem resolution

Greg Steinmehl
Information Systems Manager II
(213) 922-7793 (Ph)
(213) 978-0010 (Fax)
Email: greg.steinmehl@lacity.org

TEAMS II Support Division

• Provides information technology solutions to LAPD's Consent Decree/TEAMS II Program
• Set standards
• Enforce consistency among TEAMS II project teams
• Coordinate infrastructure support
• Enhance legacy systems that provide data to TEAMS II
• Design, develop and maintain TEAMS II and other systems
• Design, develop and maintain databases and data replications services

Kathy Takahata
Information Systems Manager I
(213) 847-8904 (Ph)
(213) 847-9991 (Fax)
Email: kathy.takahata@lapd.lacity.org