Chief Ronene Anda is the Division Chief for the Transit Policing Division of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Chief Anda began her 30 year career with the Sheriff’s Department in 1984, working several assignments as a patrol deputy, until her promotion to Sergeant in 1997. She was then assigned to work as a field sergeant, watch sergeant, and as a division aide for the Sheriff’s Field Operations Region III.Chief Anda then worked as a station watch commander and operations lieutenant upon her promotion in 2001. In 2007 she was given the responsibility of overseeing the Lomita Sheriff’s Station as the station Captain. With that assignment she was tasked with overseeing the policing responsibilities for not only the cities of Lomita, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, and Rolling Hills Estates, but also the unin-corporated LA County areas of La Rambla, Academy Hill, Palos Verdes Peninsula, and Westfield. In 2012, Chief Anda was promoted to Commander and assigned to the Homeland Security Division. There she was responsible for managing the personnel at the County Services Bureau, Parks Bureau, and Community Colleges Bureau, and was also tasked with creating and implementing new programs within these units to provide for a more efficient specialized policing strategy. Chief Anda was assigned in 2013 to take over the Transit Services Bureau. The Transit Services Bureau provides the policing services to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), and Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink). Chief Anda’s skill for management was needed again when the Sheriff started the Internal Monitoring, Performance and Accountability Command (IMPAAC).
When the results of an internal audit were revealed to the Metro Board of Directors, it was recommended that the transit policing being done by the sheriff’s department have the backing of a Division Chief. Chief Anda was promoted in 2014, to begin the task of reorganization and re-focusing the resources of the nation’s third largest transit policing agency.
