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Rodrick Armalin named Lancaster’s first chief of police

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Rodrick Armalin [Image via city of Lancaster]
LANCASTER – The city of Lancaster has appointed its former Director of Public Safety, Rodrick Armalin, as its first chief of police for the newly formed Lancaster Police Department.

The appointment marks the city’s launch of a community-led hybrid policing model in partnership with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD). The hybrid policing model will help free up resources for the LASD to focus on major crimes as the city’s police department implements prevention programs to get ahead of the safety issues facing the community, city officials said in a news release.

“We are laying the foundation for a new era of collaboration, community engagement, and shared responsibility,” Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris said in the news release. “Our partnership with the LA County Sheriff Department remains strong and invaluable, and together, we are committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of our residents.”

After serving in the United States Air Force, Armalin joined the LASD and graduated top of his police academy class, receiving the Department’s Honor Recruit Award. He joined the City of Lancaster in June 2022 as a 34-year law enforcement veteran, after most recently serving as the Chief of Police for the city of Sierra Madre.

“Since I started working at the city of Lancaster, I’ve been committed to implementing more crime prevention programs that are already producing results,” Armalin said in the news release. “I look forward to stepping up our accomplishments with new programs, including drug education and human trafficking awareness campaigns targeting young adults.”

Armalin’s other commitments include hiring and training more officers and adopting a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) fleet, according to the news release.

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41 comments for "Rodrick Armalin named Lancaster’s first chief of police"

  2. Personally I think in order to be mayor of a city you should have to actually live there not some ritzy oceanside community where how high the crime rate is in Lancaster is the furthest thing from your mind. But let’s give Rexy Poo poo and his band of poo poo brown nosers a break. I mean look what a success he made of waste and how much that helped lower our trash bills and see less yeah throughout the city. Oh wait that’s was what I saw when I went to his neighborhood. Here people are dumping trash everywhere cuz they can’t afford the insane fees the dump charges these days but I suppose they need to in order to pay for Rexy Poo poos insane spending. Maybe we can have him declared mentally unsound.

    The is right about one thing. I know at least one homeless person who didn’t pay for a bicycle .. me! And as for my car I paid for that as well as insurance n registration. Ok also wouldn’t be homeless had one of Rexy Poo poos gestapo agents not automatically believed my employer who was also my landlord where I was managing a motel and illegally through me out and by the time I was able to get proof that I was the one telling the truth the gestapo said take it to civil court and although I was not allowed to get my property or of the place he key others do so once I was gone literally leaving me with nothing but the clothes one my back and becoming homeless and unemployed within 24 hours thanks to the crackhead who mental health America placed in the motel and rexys gestapo. Thanks Rex fine job you’re doing helping the homeless or the citizens off the community

    • Danela, you are one in a long list of human collateral damage left behind by the strange mind and actions of Mayor Raymond Rex Parris. As he once said, people won’t realize what he’s done until he gone and it will be too late to undo it. The damage trail is already clear in the ruined lives, rampant crime, deteriorating roads, blight, distain for the homeless, and grift.

  3. “Former President Donald Trump pressured acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare that the election was corrupt in an attempt to help Republican members of Congress try to overturn the election result, according to notes of a December 2020 call Trump held with Rosen and acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue.

    During the December 27, 2020, call, Trump pressured Rosen and Donoghue to falsely declare the election “illegal” and “corrupt” even after the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud.” -CNN

    ______________________________________

    Whenever a clown tries to point out something Biden has done, Trump has already done something 100 times worse. Nothing Biden has ever done comes close to what Trump has done and continues to do. No chit. Really.

    • Dude, no one believes the nonsense you and the other keyboard warriors put on this site. Quoting CNN is laughable, did you get that from Anderson Cooper? Also has nothing to do with this article, William. Biden and Democrats are the criminals.

      • Donald J. Trump says

        September 16, 2023 at 5:14 pm

        “Just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen,”

        You missed Trump’s actual quote Frank Rizzo showing us your ignorance again.

        I just Googled the approximate quote and CNN’s report was the first one in the the list. So? You’are always in over your little head.

        Go look it up somewhere and come back if you dispute that. But you won’t Rizzo. That would taie integrity and you got none.

        I guess you want to be like Beecee and Sonya. Good. If the shoe fits…

        • Dude all you can do is whack at a keyboard and make up lies like CNN. Your president Biden lies all the time so I guess his followers would be no different. You sound like some old stupid hippy that’s lived in Palmdale his whole life.

      • Whenever a clown tries to point out something CNN has said is ‘false’, Faux Nooz, Noozmax, etc have already said something 100 times more fake. Nothing CNN has ever done comes close to what Faux Nooz, Noozmax, has done and continues to do. No chit. Really.

        • They perpetrated the Russia collusion hoax for 4 straight years.

          That was an attack on democracy to undermine the president of the United States, a lie pushed by yours truly for 4+ years straight.

          Now get on your knees and now to your Chinese masters

          • Because CNN is a news outlet, it merely reports what others are doing, and provides ‘insight’ or’ opinion’ about what they observe. In case you haven’t noticed, that is what comes along with a ‘free press’.

            If you can’t handle the responsibility or the labor or the adult maturity it takes to be part of a nation that respects a free press, then you’ll have to change yourself first, then try to change the system. BTW, good luck with both of those since you seem to be both ignorant and lazy.

            Now, CNN is not a news maker…it is a reporter. The ‘theys’ in this case were citizens, officials, and responsible individuals who took their roles seriously enough to get to the bottom of the issue. That is what ANY normal responsible person or institution does when something has failed or malfunctioned or has been tampered with, especially something as important as the US system of democratic election of its leadership. What ‘they’ found was that – sure enough – there was Russian meddling via a vast effort in social media.

            What you would apparently like is for all that to go away, for investigation and for justice to be distorted to your favor.

            Now, tell me, who sounds more like a communist or enemy of USA? It is you.

  5. As usual, Rex Parris and his cronies don’t know what they are doing. Remember how they solved the homeless crisis by closing the shelter and opening up a homeless village where you have to be screened to use the services? Now, Rex appoints ,not selects from qualified applicants, a retired sheriff deputy (hey, I thought the sheriff department was the problem) to follow his edicts. Wait unto the lawsuits start. No worry, the plaintiff’s can get Rex to represent them.

  6. SOUNDS WILDLY EXPENSIVE –

    HOW MUCH TO FULLY EQUIPPED COP CARS COST ?

    WILL THE NEW LPD BE SHARING THE STATION ?

    SEEMS FAR BETTER TO SEEK MORE DEPUTIES IN THEIR CONTRACT WITH THE LASD –

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    AREN’T EVEN SMALL DEPARTMENTS HAVING PROBLEMS ATTRACTING NEW HIRES ?

    LIKE SOMEHOW THE NEW LPD OFFICERS WON’T SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF THE COP HATING LA DA GASCONE –

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    • ACE:

      You are someone with no answers, only questions. You don’t know how annoying that is to educated people. You believe there are people who are answering these questions in the way you expect, but there aren’t.

      You are all alone.

      Now please come back home, and I will take care of you.

      Mom

  7. I called the Sheriff Department on two separation occasions and they never came, with that in mind maybe we do need to get our own police force. We will see how this works out

  10. An armed force under the direction of the most corrupt city government in the state. What could possibly go wrong?

  11. What were the results of the first time this was attempted?

    “With the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department un­able to fulfill its contract with the city be­cause of a shortage of dep­uties, the City Council ap­point­ed Public Safety Di­rect­or Lee D’Errico police chief, and established a hy­brid law enforcement model and directed staff to hire a con­sult­ant firm to de­vel­op options for the city to work in partnership with the Lancaster Sheriff’s Sta­tion.” (AV Press, Dec 23, 2018)

    Just wondering…

    • Darius White, the bigger question is what were the results since Wrecks has been in power? He tried birdie sounds on the BLVD and told the Wall Street Journal they were lowering crime city wide. Nope. Then he spent $10 million taxpayer dollars on his cockamamie idea for the Eye in the Sky, a sentinel in the sky that would send criminals running away. Nope. He declared War on Section 8 and gangs and all it did was cost the taxpayer millions in a lawsuit, while gangs have made Lancaster their home. Even Snoop Dogg knows the score. There’s a video of him talking about how the worst gang bangers are going to Lancaster. He brought in D’Ericco which did nothing. At some point, you have to realize that Wrecks is clueless on crime and it would be best for Lancaster if he stayed in Laguna and let people who live in and care about Lancaster take a different and better approach.

  13. Defund.
    The hybrid is the first step toward independent community policing, free from the County politics that bring Villaineuva vs supervisor style mismanagement.

    • Just another way for the Mayor to help out his budies since they say all officers will be retire police officers. I’m sure the May is getting a kick back from the $ 10 million is costing just to get it started.

      • Lancaster’s mayor does nothing unless it benefits him personally. It cost money to keep up a beach mansion in Laguna.

    • It’s easy when they can siphon money from Palmdale. Wrecks will just tell his four puppets on the Palmdale council to send more money.

    • The whole valley should really be under one police force, with four stations (one on the east side of both cities and one on the west side of both cities).

      • It’s bad enough that wrecks has his tentacles in Palmdale’s business. A one valley PD would be a disaster. Lancaster has been a mess for years and had much higher crime. Bringing their methods to the entire AV would just drag everyone down into their pit. No thank you.

      • Sure, Smart Move. Wrecks controlling the police for the whole AV? With his track record of lying about fake sheriff shootings, the boondoggle Eye in the Sky, his blaming the homeless for crime, and his failure already with D’Ericco, what could possibly go wrong?

      • Nothing would be worse for the whole AV than to have Paris in charge of law enforcement. He will drag Palmdale and unincorporated county down to the level he has created in Lancaster. There’s a reason why Lancaster’s crime is so high compared to the rest of the AV.

  15. So. There was no requirement for the residents of Lancaster to vote on this increased expenditure to the city budget?!?!? As usual, the city council doing what they want and pissing away more money. Maybe they can/will patrol the bike lanes. They need it badly!!!?

    • The mess we see in Lancaster is the result of a dictatorship led by a very strange and bizarre thinking man who doesn’t live here and only cares about enriching himself at the AV’s expense. He is the Biff from Back to the Future.