Police Administration Building

The Police Administration Building

The Police Administration Building (PAB) is the headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). It is located immediately south of the Los Angeles City Hall and its address is 100 West 1st Street, Los Angeles.

The PAB is a 500,000 square feet facility and has ten floors, along with a roof with a helipad. The building also has underground parking. The Ronald F. Deaton Civic Auditorium is located outside the building where the LAPD along with other city departments can hold events. The auditorium is named after Ronald Fincher Deaton, who served the city for 42 years. Ron began his career in the Department of Water & Power (DWP) in 1965 and spent the majority of his time at the Chief Legislative Analyst's office. He served as Chief Legislative Analyst for more than a decade before returning to DWP as its General Manager in 2004, eventually retiring in December 2007.

General information

Pope: Boy, the media just can't get enough of the new building.

Johnson: I hate it.

Pope: Ah, cops aren't happy unless they're miserable.

In the real world, the building opened in October 2009. In the Major Crimes Universe, the move from the old headquarters, Parker Center, to the PAB happened five days before “The Big Bang” of The Closer, Season 6. There were many growing pains with the new building, most notably with the new technology which often malfunctioned and with the poor floorplanning, at least according to Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, who noted that the building had to have been designed by someone who knew nothing of police work. Assistant Chief Will Pope tried to calm his troops by noting that the new building is state of the art and on the cutting edge of every law enforcement technology in the world, and that Parker Center didn't even have caller ID.

Commander Russell Taylor was also less than pleased with the new building as he was the only person of his rank who had not been assigned an office. It was later revealed that the office that should have been Taylor's was designated for the Commanding Officer of MCD because the building was designed way before Major Crimes had been established. This resulted in Taylor being forced to work out of the "super-cubicle" in the Major Crimes Division's squad room.

Notable events

Rear of the PAB, with LA City Hall in the background.

In “The Deep End”, Charles Frey is shot and killed near the rear entrance to PAB.

In the Major Crimes, Season 5 finale, “Shockwave, Part 2”​​, the PAB was the target of a bombing, severely damaging its ninth floor, which houses the Major Crimes Division (MCD) and the Office of the Assistant Chief of Operations. The bomb detonated in the offices of the Major Crimes Division, but fortunately most of the damage was contained within, with other rooms suffering only dust and debris damage. There were no casualties in the attack. In “Sanctuary City, Part 1”​​, the building was shown to be completely fixed.

Explosion at the PAB, as seen from the LA City Hall.

Floors

In general, only the 9th floor of the building is seen, though even this is seen only partially.

In “Jane Doe 38” we see that the PAB also has a chapel where the LAPD's Chaplain Corps can hold ceremonies (e.g. a memorial service). Unfortunately, the space was only seen briefly and we don't even know which floor the room is on.

10th Floor

The 10th floor houses the Office of the Chief of Police, among others.

9th Floor

The 9th floor

The 9th floor houses the office for the Assistant Chief of Operations and the Major Crimes Division (MCD), among others. Reportedly, the Major Crimes Division squad room cost $10 million dollars to outfit when it was built.

It should be noted that the areas which are seen would not actually fit anywhere within the real PAB in the fashion they are portrayed. Some examples:

• The Assistant Chief's office has windows to the outside even though there should be building interior there.
• The middle hallway which goes all the way through the seen space is too short. The MCD's Interview Room 1 and Break Room are at the middle of the building, looking towards the City Hall (there is also a weird corner in the glass wall which is not present in the real building). While the hallway continues towards the City Hall, as it should, it is way too short.
• The Major Crimes Division's conference room is supposedly at the end of the building even though the hallway continues to what should then be the outside of the building. The MCD Conference Room should also be several hundred feet further from the center of the building or, if the Conference Room is nearly in the middle of the building, there should not be windows to the outside looking towards the City Hall.
• The Major Crimes Division's squad room, which also has workspaces for Office of Operations' personnel, has a corner on the outside wall even though the building does not.

The 9th floor evacuation plan

Near the elevators there is also an evacuation plan for Floor 9. This plan, though, does not match the building as it's established in the Major Crimes Universe (note the above mentioned bullet points), but rather the real life building. In addition, the plan seems to be for the 10th floor, rather than 9th, as it's missing a significant portion of the building in the bottom right corner of the plan; this can be explained by the fact that on the 10th floor that space has an rooftop terrace and garden which is not included in the plan.

Occupants

Near the 9th floor elevators there is a rarely seen floor directory. Some of the people/units seen are:

• NAME	SUITE
  Andrews, G. Loewar, S. Mesa, P. Robinson, S. Spencer, A.	900
  DETECTIVE SUPPORT Peters, W. Rodmani, B. Smithy, E.	901
  Morris, G. Read, ——	N/A
  INVESTIGATIVE ANALYSIS ——, — ——, — ——, — (three rows of names not seen clearly)	914

• NAME	SUITE
  Daniel, L. Bacon, J. Codp, I.	908
  ASSISTANT CHIEF Mason, L.	911
  Mueller, E. Resnick, M. Richards, D. Kale, S. Coaton, V.	917
  Halet, C.	924
  CRITICAL RESPONSE Perro, R. Oliver, K. Shore, L. Shlu, G.	939

NOTE: The information on the first table is mostly from “Curve Ball” while the info on the second table is from “Hindsight, Part 1” (with the Assistant Chief's name changed for Leo Mason for Major Crimes, Season 6).

Room numbers, as seen in various episodes:

Room	Number	Location/note
Break Room	906
MCD Interview Room 1	909
Assistant Chief of Operations	911
Assistant Chief of Operations, Conference Room	912
Unknown	918	Located in the main hallway, next to main entrance to MCD
Janitor, or Visitor Conference Center	920	Located in the main hallway when going toward Assistant Chief's office from the elevators. Door to this room has had multiple different labels making it impossible to know what the space is really used for.
Visitor Conference Center, or Janitor, or Storage	921	Located in the main hallway when going toward Assistant Chief's office from the elevators. It's shown that this space can be accessed from the back hallway of Major Crimes' media room (or "Electronics" as it's usually called) and that there is a water dispenser/cooler at the entrance of the room. Door to this room has had multiple different labels making it impossible to know what the space is really used for.
Halet, C. (based on floor directory)	924	Door opposite to Assistant Chief's office On the floor directory this room was previously designated for Colton, V.(“Curve Ball”)
"Hard interview rooms"	925	Door in the hallway leading to MCD. Space seen was a long hallway with entrances to two "hard interview rooms", along with a observation room in the middle. The shown rooms do not fit within the confides of the space. (“The Big Bang”)
Door is labeled Viewing.	926	Located in the MCD squad room, next to the sliding glass wall and Provenza's printer. Based on the "Viewing" label, this could be an entrance to the observation room for the hard interview rooms which could be accessed through 925, though as mentioned, those rooms don't fit in that space. On the floor directory this room was marked Cooper, K.(“Curve Ball”) but the row has since been deleted from the directory.(“Hindsight, Part 1”)
Unknown	929	End of the small hallway leading toward City Hall from the MCD squad room.
Major Crimes	930
Unknown	931	Door opposite to MCD Conference room.
MCD Conference Room	932
MCD Commanding Officer	935
MCD Media Room ("Electronics")	936
MCD Interview Room 2	937
Originally labeled Critical Response Division, later as Storage.	939	Door opposite to the MCD rear entrance (near RACR room). On the floor directory this room is marked Critical Response, matching the original door label.
MCD RACR room (back door)	942	Though the door still exists, the label with the room number hasn't been seen since the RACR room was built for Major Crimes, Season 5. This number was seen from the "super-cubicle" leading to a small room where the considerably larger RACR room is now located.
Stairs #1	—	Next to the back entrance to MCD and "Storage". The stairs have been used occasionally as a "covert" way out of the building.

Other floors

Not much is known about the other floors. The Fraud Division reportedly has offices right below the Major Crimes Division on the 8th floor as their remotes have been known to control electronics in the Major Crimes squad room, and vice versa, though this has since been fixed.(“Off the Hook”)

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