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(Amended by Ord. No. 139,522, Eff.12/21/69.)
The Board shall appoint an officer of the Police Department to be the custodian of all badges and news media identification cards, and no official police officer’s badge, special police officer’s badge, civilian badge or news media identification card shall be issued to any person except by the custodian, who shall make a complete record of all badges and all news media identification cards so distributed, and shall distribute the same only as prescribed in this article.
The said custodian shall be responsible for the delivery of said badges and news media identification cards, and it shall be the custodian’s duty to recall any and all badges of persons who have severed their connections with the Police Department or who have retired on pension.
It shall be the custodian’s further duty to recall any and an news media identification cards of persons who have given up their positions as news-gathering representatives of newspapers, publications, news services, radio or television stations.
It shall be the custodian’s further duty to recall any and all special police officers’ badges from any person who have ceased to perform the duties of special police officers.
(Title Amended by Ord. No. 139,522, Eff. 12/21/69.)
A. No person shall have in their possession any official police officer’s badge, civilian badge or special police officer’s badge or news media identification card which has not been lawfully issued to the person according to the provisions of this article. No person shall possess any such card or badge after their right to use such card or badge has been terminated. (Amended by Ord. No. 139,522, Eff. 12/21/69.)
B. No person shall have in their possession any other badge, star, shield, miniature, ring, charm or insignia, regardless of the size, shape or design thereof, which has on it the words, “Los Angeles Police” or “Los Angeles Detective”, whether used separately, together or in combination with any other words indicating a connection with the Los Angeles Police Department, or which is identical in design with or which so resembles an official police officer’s badge, civilian badge, or special police officer’s badge that it may be readily mistaken for any of such badges. (Amended by Ord. No. 112,577, Eff. 2/12/59.)
C. No person who is not a regular police officer, or one entitled to wear a civilian badge, or a special police officer shall wear or display any badge, star or insignia, calculated to indicate that the person is a member of or connected with the Police Department of the City of Los Angeles. (Amended by Ord. No. 112,577, Eff. 2/12/59)
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, any person who has been, during their lifetime, a duly and regularly appointed, commissioned and sworn police officer of this city and who was honorably retired from such position prior to June 10, 1940, may retain and carry any badge lawfully issued to them or otherwise lawfully acquired by them during their service or incident to their retirement, provided the word “RETIRED” is plainly shown on such badge, by being engraved or embossed thereon or otherwise permanently affixed thereto.
(b) Retirement. (Amended by Ord. No. 181,594, Eff. 4/10/11.) Pursuant to California Penal Code Section 538d, Subsection (d), the Board of Police Commissioners is authorized to issue a badge to any regular sworn police officer who is honorably retired, which that retired officer may carry. The badge shall be especially adopted or approved for this specific purpose by the Board.
1. The badge shall contain the words “Honorably Retired”, clearly visible in capital letters, blue in color, on a ribbon to be permanently affixed to the badge directly above the scroll containing the rank of the officer. This badge shall be known as the “Retired Officer’s Badge”.
2. Upon the return of a retired officer to active duty or upon demand of the Board, any Retired Officer’s Badge previously issued to that person shall be returned to the Board.
3. The Board is authorized to revoke a badge issued pursuant to this Section in the event of misuse or abuse.
(c) Any honorary badge or other badge lawfully acquired indicating that the bearer occupied public office in the City, upon which appears the bearer’s name and which plainly shows the word “RETIRED” may be retained if lawfully acquired prior to June 10, 1940, by any person who prior to that date held any of the following offices in the government of this City:
1. Mayor,
2. Secretary to the Mayor,
3. Commissioner of any Board,
4. Secretary to any Board,
5. Secretary to the Chief of Police,
6. Councilmember,
7. Any other elective office,
8. Managing officer of any department.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorize the use of any badge herein mentioned for any unlawful purpose and any such badge so used may be confiscated by the Board.
(e) Any badge mentioned in this section shall be subject to confiscation by the Board if worn or displayed by any person other than the true owner, and shall be returned to the true owner only upon a showing that such use was without consent, express or implied.
(a) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to issue an honorary badge to any reserve officer, who has honorably separated after serving the Department for at least 20 years, or has been forced to separate because of a service-connected injury. The badge shall be especially adopted or approved for this specific purpose by the Board. The badge shall plainly show the words “RETIRED”, engraved or embossed on the badge. Any badge so adopted shall be known as the “Former Reserve Officer’s Badge”.
(b) Upon the return of a separated reserve officer to active duty or upon demand of the Chief of Police, any “Former Reserve Officer’s Badge” previously issued to that person shall be returned to the Chief of Police.
(Added by Ord. No. 175,997, Eff. 7/7/04.)
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, a Regular Police Officer or Reserve Police Officer may purchase and retain any badge lawfully issued to the officer upon promotion to a different rank, provided that upon purchase, the Board shall cause such badges to be encased, which will effectively preclude the improper use of such badges.
(b) No person shall remove from the encasement, any badge obtained under this section, or wear such a badge or display it, except while it is within the encasement. Any badge removed, worn or displayed in violation of this subsection shall be subject to confiscation by the Board.
(c) Upon demand of the Chief of Police, any badge obtained under this section shall be returned to the Chief of Police.
(Amended by Ord. No. 170,055, Eff. 11/13/94; Renumbered from Former Sec. 52.27.2 by Ord. No. 177,374, Eff. 4/9/06.)
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the Board of Police Commissioners may:
1. Cause the officer’s badge and number to be retired from active service and use.
2. Cause the badge, or a similar badge, to be presented to the deceased officer’s surviving spouse of surviving member(s) of the officer’s immediate family, as a memorial honoring the officer.
3. Cause the officer’s City-issued equipment, including an officer’s duty weapon, shooting medals, cap piece, handcuffs, call box key and buttons, to also be included at the City’s expense in the memorial which is presented to the deceased officer’s surviving spouse or surviving member(s) of the officer’s immediate family.
A. Prior to the presentation, the Board shall cause the badge and other City-issued equipment to be affixed permanently to a plaque or within a frame, which will effectively preclude improper use of the badge or other City-issued equipment, with a statement clearly visible showing the officer’s death in the line of duty.
B. No person shall remove from the plaque or frame any badge or other City-issued equipment presented under this section, or wear such a badge, or display it, except while it is attached to the plaque or within the frame, with the above described statement clearly visible. Any badge or other City-issued equipment removed, worn or displayed in violation of this subsection shall be subject to confiscation by the Board.
(Amended by Ord. No. 164,340, Eff. 2/20/89.)
No person, other than a sworn police officer, shall wear any shoulder emblem or any uniform of a pattern, or design, or in the semblance of the uniform, adopted, or hereafter adopted, by the Board for the use of the regular members of the police department, or wear upon any uniform any star, badge, or insignia of a pattern or design that may be mistaken for, or confused with, the official police officer’s badge.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph of this section, any retired Los Angeles Police officer authorized by the Chief of Police and actively employed to perform traffic control and crowd control pursuant to the provisions of Section 80.03.1 at the site of the filming of any motion picture or television production, may wear the uniform of the Los Angeles Police Department with the retirees retired officer’s badge affixed thereto.
The Board shall have the power and authority to adopt and prescribe, by resolution, the uniform to be worn by all special officers, bank guards, and funeral escorts, if any uniform is worn, while performing the duties of a special police officer. The uniform so prescribed for any such class of special officer may, but need not be the same as the uniform so prescribed for the other such class, or classes of special officers.
The Board is hereby authorized and directed to issue to each and every regular Police Officer of this City a numbered identification card which shall bear the printed name, serial number, signature, photograph and right index fingerprint of each such Regular Police Officer. Each such card shall bear the signature of the Chief of Police, or the Chief’s duly appointed deputy, in office at the time of issuance of such identification card. Each identification card shall state thereon that the holder thereof is a police officer of this City.
Neither the Board, the Chief of Police nor any other person shall issue a Police Identification Card as provided for in this Section to any person other than a Regular Police Officer. An honorably retired police officer shall return their identification card to the Department and a new card which has the preprinted word “RETIRED” across the face of the card will be issued to the officer, provided however that possession of such card shall be a privilege only, and the card shall be surrendered to the Chief of Police upon demand. In any event, the Department shall issue to honorably retired police officers identification certificates which carry endorsement and other requirements set forth in Penal Code Section 12027(a) and the Department shall implement any review by said Penal Code section. (Amended by Ord. No. 161,876, Eff. 1/23/87.)
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