Ontario airport police officer arrested for spousal abuse
A police officer assigned to LA/Ontario International Airport was arrested on suspicion of felony spousal abuse Tuesday in Rancho Cucamonga.
Francisco Santiago, 46, was arrested at about 5 p.m. in the 7100 block of Westhaven Place, which lies northeast of Rochester Avenue and Base Line Road.
Santiago remained jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail this afternoon at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
He is set to be arraigned Thursday morning in West Valley Superior Court, according to online records from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
The circumstances of Santiago's arrest remained unclear this afternoon. A spokeswoman for the Rancho Cucamonga sheriff's station did not return calls seeking comment today.
Sgt. Jim Holcomb, a public information officer for the Los Angeles Airport Police Department, said he can't reveal whether Santiago, an airport safety officer, is on leave or faces any other punishment because of his arrest.
Holcomb declined to say how long Santiago has been employed by the department. The position of airport safety officer is not an entry-level job, Holcomb said.
The Los Angeles Airport Police Department patrols LAX, LA/Ontario and other airports operated by Los Angeles World Airports.
Its officers are responsible for firefighting in addition to traditional police duties, Holcomb said.
I know some people feel victimised by security measures at airports, and the thought of being profiled is not nice either but after witnessing some of the terror scenes from one of the Ramada Jarvis Glasgow Airport hotels in Scotland I feel a little safer knowing that security measures at all airports across the globe have been beefed up since. After all if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about.
I know this is an oldy, BUT the LA/ONT "safety officers" are the BIGGEST ripoff of public safety in So.Calif. they are neither "fish nor fowl"- they DON'T do police work( much less security) and they CAN'T do firefighting UNLESS its an airplane crash( ontario PD/FD don't respect them, and don't trust them!)
One thing they can do well is screw up( as this wife beater shows) and collect alot of $$$, via their "firefighter work schedule" and the excessives amounts of $$$ they bilk the city of L.A. out of!!! avg Safety officer makes $62k- $93K/yr starting compared to the Ontario PD and San Bernardino Sheriffs making $53K to $74k/yr- this doesn't include the overtime( sleep on the job) compensation they get which pushes their alreeady BLOATED salaries into the mid $100Ks! "maybe" the city of Onatrio needs to take over Ontario airport and keep the revenue in the city instead of greedy L.A. Maybe they also need to let Ontario PD and FD take over and clean those questionable "safety officers" out of our city....
In the other Ontari in Candaa cops there never if rarely get arrested for this time of abuse and if they do they still get paid. They start out at 75k and most make well over 100k and do far less work than our cops do.
Even some bad LA cops make the ones in ONtario Canada look bad. We are lucky to live in a society that can fire and convict bad cops. Read this.
As it stands now, if officers get suspended, they still get paid.
Smith said that apart from losing public trust and costing taxpayers, the wheels of justice can get bogged down by the accused dragging out the process.
"Right now, there is no incentive for people to deal with their issues expeditiously because they're still getting paid," he said. "It's a burden."
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