Luck o' the Sheriff!
Black jack, craps, roulette and poker will be part of the Palmdale Sheriff Boosters' sixth annual Casino Night with a St. Patrick's Day theme.
The event will raise money to purchase the Palmdale Sheriff's Station an automated license plate recognition system, which can read license plates on passing vehicles or parked cars and check them against databases listing wanted or stolen autos.
Offering casino-style gambling (for fun, not cash), a Texas hold 'em poker tournament, food and raffle prizes, the event will take place March 19 at the Chimbole Cultural Center, 38350 Sierra Highway in Palmdale, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Entry tickets are available for $30, which brings $5,000 in chips. Entry tickets are $50 for the Texas hold 'em tournament, which starts promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Sponsorships range from $250 for a blackjack table, $500 for crap and roulette tables, $1,000 for the Texas hold 'em tournament and $3,500 for the right to be designated the Leprechaun King or Queen. Organizers are also seeking donations of gift baskets and gift certificates.
For details, tickets or sponsorships, contact Deputy Jodi Wolfe at (661) 272-2520 or jewolfe@lasd.org.
The booster club holds other events, such as an annual golf tournament and quarterly "mixer" gatherings at which deputies are honored, and also pays for deputies to attend training conferences.
Proceeds from the annual casino night events are designated to projects for which there is no money in the department budget.
The license-plate recognition equipment, which is fitted to a patrol car, costs about $10,000, officials say.
The Automatic License Plate Recognition system, which went into service in Palmdale in 2008, can check 1,000 plates an hour, continuously scanning license plates while deputies drive along city streets.
Three small digital cameras are mounted on a patrol car's lights and sirens bar - one camera captures images of oncoming traffic, another takes photos of vehicles to the patrol car's right and the third camera scans parked cars.
Optical character recognition software analyzes the license plate images and converts the photos into letters and numbers, which are fed through a law enforcement database that is updated every hour at the sheriff's station with information from the U.S. Department of Justice. The information is transferred via wireless communication downloads from the sheriff's station to the patrol car database.
The database contains license plate numbers of stolen vehicles and vehicles wanted in connection with felony crimes, as well as stolen or lost plates.
Inside the patrol car, a large computer monitor is mounted on the dashboard. When the system finds a wanted vehicle, it sounds an alarm, displays photos of the vehicle and license plate on its monitor and provides details about why the vehicle is wanted.
Story courtesy of AV Press
The event will raise money to purchase the Palmdale Sheriff's Station an automated license plate recognition system, which can read license plates on passing vehicles or parked cars and check them against databases listing wanted or stolen autos.
Offering casino-style gambling (for fun, not cash), a Texas hold 'em poker tournament, food and raffle prizes, the event will take place March 19 at the Chimbole Cultural Center, 38350 Sierra Highway in Palmdale, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Entry tickets are available for $30, which brings $5,000 in chips. Entry tickets are $50 for the Texas hold 'em tournament, which starts promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Sponsorships range from $250 for a blackjack table, $500 for crap and roulette tables, $1,000 for the Texas hold 'em tournament and $3,500 for the right to be designated the Leprechaun King or Queen. Organizers are also seeking donations of gift baskets and gift certificates.
For details, tickets or sponsorships, contact Deputy Jodi Wolfe at (661) 272-2520 or jewolfe@lasd.org.
The booster club holds other events, such as an annual golf tournament and quarterly "mixer" gatherings at which deputies are honored, and also pays for deputies to attend training conferences.
Proceeds from the annual casino night events are designated to projects for which there is no money in the department budget.
The license-plate recognition equipment, which is fitted to a patrol car, costs about $10,000, officials say.
The Automatic License Plate Recognition system, which went into service in Palmdale in 2008, can check 1,000 plates an hour, continuously scanning license plates while deputies drive along city streets.
Three small digital cameras are mounted on a patrol car's lights and sirens bar - one camera captures images of oncoming traffic, another takes photos of vehicles to the patrol car's right and the third camera scans parked cars.
Optical character recognition software analyzes the license plate images and converts the photos into letters and numbers, which are fed through a law enforcement database that is updated every hour at the sheriff's station with information from the U.S. Department of Justice. The information is transferred via wireless communication downloads from the sheriff's station to the patrol car database.
The database contains license plate numbers of stolen vehicles and vehicles wanted in connection with felony crimes, as well as stolen or lost plates.
Inside the patrol car, a large computer monitor is mounted on the dashboard. When the system finds a wanted vehicle, it sounds an alarm, displays photos of the vehicle and license plate on its monitor and provides details about why the vehicle is wanted.
Story courtesy of AV Press
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