Sec. 204.

The Board of Police Commissioners shall have power, at its option, from time to time, to divide the work, organization and employees of the department into two bureaus.  In such case, the general manager or chief administrative officer of each bureau, one of whom shall be known as the Chief of Police, shall be appointed and may be removed pursuant to the provisions of Section 199 herein.  Each such bureau general manager or chief administrative officer shall be directly responsible to said board and shall have, in relation to the Board of Police Commissioners and to the bureau of which he or she is general manager, the same powers and duties set forth by this Charter for the general manager or chief administrative officer of the department, in said manager’s relation to said board and to said department as a whole.  In case such division into bureaus is established, the Chief of Police shall be the general manager of one of such bureaus.  It shall be the duty of each such bureau to enforce all the laws which is the duty of the department to enforce, but to one such bureau may be assigned the special duty of the enforcement of the traffic laws and regulations applicable to the streets and other public ways of travel of the City of Los Angeles.  In case of such division the Chief of Police shall not be the general manager of the bureau last above named.  Such bureaus may be abolished at any time by said board and the entire work of the department be again consolidated, under one chief administrative officer.  (Sec. Amended, 1995.)