The Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Olympic division, which oversees the city’s Koreatown neighborhood, has a new captain.
Captain Brian O’Connor, a 35-year law enforcement veteran, will begin his new assignment on Sunday, September 8, according to the LAPD.
Captain Aaron Ponce, who has led the Olympic Police Department for two years and eight months since his appointment in January 2022, will be transferring to one of the Valley’s police on September 6.
O’Connor began his career as a military police officer in the Army Reserve in 1989 and joined the North Attleborough Police Department in Massachusetts in 1992, before joining the LAPD in 1999.
O’Connor gained experience in a variety of roles. He was promoted to lieutenant in 2016 and served as head of the patrol of the Foothill division before being appointed Officer in Charge (OIC) of the evidence section of the Risk Management and Legal Affairs Division (RMLAD) in 2018 and assigned to the Employment Litigation Section of RMLAD in 2020.
In 2022, he was promoted to Assistant to the Director of the Office of Constitutional Policing and Policy. In February 2023, he was promoted to Captain and served as the Commanding Officer of the Van Nuys patrol department for a year and a half, and was recently assigned to the Olympic Police Department.
BY SUAH JANG, HOONSIK WOO [jang.suah@koreadaily.com]
