-- MEDIA ADVISORY – STREET DEDICATION AND CEREMONY IN MEMORY OF OFFICER TOMMY E. SCOTT

WHAT:             Officials from Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles Airport Police and Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association to honor the memory of Officer Tommy Edward Scott with a street dedication ceremony

WHO:               Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl

                        Los Angeles City Councilmember Janice Hahn

                        Assemblymember Curren Price

                        George Centeno, chief of LAWA airport police division

                        Walter Zifkin, Los Angeles airport commissioner

                        Marshall McClain, president of the LA Airport Police Officer Association

Friends and family members of Officer Tommy Scott           

WHEN:             12:00 noon, Saturday May 2, 2009

WHERE:          Intersection of Lincoln Boulevard and Northside Parkway

                        Westchester, CA90045

Southbound lanes of Lincoln Boulevard between La Tijera and Sepulveda   Boulevards will be closed to the public between 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Access to the event from Southbound Lincoln Boulevard only.  Please advise traffic control officers that you are attending the ceremony. Parking available on Northside Parkway. 

BACKGROUND:  Officer Tommy Scott was killed, April 29, 2005 after confronting a suspicious man near Los AngelesInternationalAirport.  Scott was the first officer to loose his life in the line of duty since the founding of the Los Angeles Airport Police in 1946. 

Scott was a 35-year old four year veteran of the Airport Police at the time of his death.  The exact location where Officer Scott was killed is marked with a permanent memorial and plaque bearing his name and is centered between the two signs that will be unveiled.