Los Santos Police Department

## Organization Information

### Partners

Federal Investigation Bureau San Andreas State Troopers Department of Corrections

## Notable Members

### Fomer Members

Alex Columbus (Former Chief)Alyen Mourning (Founding Member)

The Los Santos Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in the City of Los Santos. Their cars are black and white with a blue strip along the side that is meant to represent the thin blue line movement. The current chief of the LSPD is Brian Smith.

## History

The first Chief of the LSPD was Alyen Mouring. He led the department from April 2020 until July 27, 2020 and was one of the more controversial law enforcement leaders in Diamond City. His tenure as Chief was mired by low policing numbers, racism and brutal policing tactics that often treated even minor criminals incredibly poorly.

Mouring resigned from his position in the LSPD amid an ongoing investigation by the Federal Investigation Bureau into police brutality and corruption. He left the state soon afterwards and has not been heard from since. This left the LSPD without any leadership.

Several officers attempted to step up but none were capable of the full level of administration required to get the department fully functional. During this period state police began leading the LSPD until a new Chief could be found. Several in-department candidates were considered. It was also during this time the Federal Troopers began deploying into the streets of Los Santos to fill the policing gap left by Chief Mouring.

Alex Columbus was hired at the end of August 2020 and began implementing various administrative changes including standard operating procedures, rosters and training programs. After a slow build the LSPD started recovering and policing efforts were increasing across the city. By mid-September Federal Troopers had pulled out of Los Santos and the FIB had returned to its normal policing activities.

It wasn't until mid-October 2020 that Columbus was finally promoted to Chief of the LSPD and he then promoted Nicholas Giant and Brian Smith within the department. Brian Smith now serves as Assistant Chief and Nicholas Giant is a Captain.

Shortly after Alex Columbus resigned and gave control of the LSPD to Brian Smith which he still heads up to this day and has make a great effort to turn around the department from its darker days. At the moment LSPD is the largest and most active Police Department in the city.

## Command Structure

The LSPD is unique in that they rank Captain above Major which is a departure from military and other department style ranking structures.

Unlike the FIB, badge numbers change with promotion in the LSPD.

## Task Forces

#### Gang Intelligence Unit

The GIU is the primary body responsible for the investigation of organized crime within Los Santos. It was spun up at the end of September 2020 and is currently still working on its first major crime bust. At this time the FIB has stated they have no working partnership with the GIU.

## Notable Investigations

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## Controversies

#### Corruption

Under the leadership of Chief Alyen Mouring the department was frequently accused of corrupt behaviour. Culminating in multiple false warrants being filed by the chief alleging crime that never took place. It is also known that Mouring had placed a $10 million bounty on Tony Bananas the owner of Bahama Mamas and a Los Santos socialite for unknown reasons.

#### Police Brutality

There have been multiple complaints of police brutality filed against the LSPD with both State Police and the FIB. One of the first IAD cases on the FIB was on the aforementioned Alyen Mouring and his treatment of prisoners.

Assistant Chief Brian Smith has also been accused of police brutality by multiple citizens but no complaints have resulted in any public charges or indictments by feds.

#### Use-of-Force

The LSPD has been accused of improper use-of-force on suspects many times. In total there has been 8 federal investigations into the use-of-force at various crimes. In 7 of those instances the FIB cleared LSPD officers and ruled force justified. In a case with Assistant Chief Brain Smith, Federal Agent Land Pauling ruled the used of force unjustified in retrospect but did not recommend charges be pressed due to the specific context of the crime scene. This stemmed from the near fatal shooting of Arthur Morgan, the President of the Lost MC. He had holstered a 9MM Glock-17 and put his hands up at a jewelry story robbery. As he walked out within seconds of holstering his gun with his hands up, Smith opened fire on him. Other officers followed his lead which led to the killing of Morgan, another criminal and a hostage.

In another incident, Captain Nicholas Giant and Officer Grey Satriani were in a pursuit of a suspect. The suspect wrecked his car and foot pursuit began before Satriani tasered the suspect. Shortly after the suspect hit the ground Giant used his M416 Assault Rifle to shoot the suspect in the head while he was on the ground. This was captured on video by Weazel News. This incident was not investigated by any authority and was not commented on by the LSPD.