Crime & Safety

Local Law Enforcement to Participate in Torch Run

Both the Lomita Sheriff's Station and the Palos Verdes Estates Police Department will participate in this year's Torch Run.

Both the Palos Verdes Estates Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lomita Station will participate in this year's annual Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run's Los Angeles leg on Monday.

The Lomita Sheriff's Station will be the third group to carry the torch in Los Angeles County when it takes it from the Los Angeles Police Department's Harbor Division where 25th Street becomes Palos Verdes Drive South in Rancho Palos Verdes at about 9 a.m., according to a map posted online.

Deputies will hand the torch off to members of the Palos Verdes Estates Police Department on Palos Verdes Drive West at the Palos Verdes Estates city limits at about 10:15 a.m.

PVEPD personnel will give the torch to Torrance police officers on Palos Verdes Boulevard just north of Via Rosa at about 11 a.m.

"Traffic WILL be affected along the route," according to a news release from the PVEPD. "Please be patient with us; we will try to keep the impact to a minimum."

The Torch Run was created in 1981 by Wichita (KS) Police Department Chief Richard LaMunyon to get his officers involved in the local Special Olympics. Now, the Torch Run includes more than 125 runs in more than 45 countries, according to the Special Olympics.

In 2012, more than 125 law-enforcement agencies raised a combined nearly $1.2 million in the Southern California Torch Run.


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