Los Angeles Police Department
Division number Division name Areas served Address
1 Central Area Downtown , Chinatown , Fashion District , Financial District , Skid Row 251 E 6th St
2 Rampart Area Echo Park , Pico-Union , Westlake 1401 W 6th St
4 Hollenbeck Area Boyle Heights , Lincoln Heights , El Sereno 2111 E 1st St
11 Northeast Area Elysian Park , Echo Park , Silver Lake , Los Feliz , E. Hollywood , Highland Park , Eagle Rock , Atwater Village , Glassell Park 3353 N San Fernando Rd
13 Newton Area South Central , portions of Downtown and the Fashion District 3400 S Central Ave
Organization -- Office of Operations
The Central Bureau is responsible for downtown Los Angeles and Eastern Los Angeles , [ 29 ] and is the most densely populated of the four patrol bureaus . [ 29 ] It currently consists of five patrol divisions . [ 30 ] [ 5 ] The Rampart Division police station
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the police department of Los Angeles, California. With 9,974 officers and 3,036 civilian staff, it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department. The department operates in an area of 498 square miles (1,290 km2) and a population of 4,030,904 people. The LAPD has been fictionalized in numerous films, novels, and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racism, police brutality, and police corruption.