D.A.’s Office Hires Former Police Chief as Liaison

Former Police Chief Joseph De Ladurantey has been hired by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to serve as a liaison between the office and police chiefs throughout the county.

In the full-time position, De Ladurantey will meet with police chiefs to improve the relationships between their departments and the district attorney’s office, said Sandi Gibbons, a district attorney’s spokeswoman.

De Ladurantey, a former captain in the Los Angeles Police Department’s Harbor Division, will receive a monthly salary of $3,910 and a county car, Gibbons said. He replaces James Bale, a former Whittier police chief who recently retired from the liaison post.

De Ladurantey retired from the Torrance job, where he oversaw the county’s fourth-largest police department, in May. Although he had been praised for community-based policing efforts, many city officials and rank-and-file officers reportedly had grown unhappy with his management style.