Since 1998, the Gardena Police Department has joined forces with the Gardena Municipal Bus Lines under a joint Memorandum of Understanding for the purpose of providing police services to GMBL buses while on their regularly scheduled routes. The Police Department provides two full-time police officers for the specific purpose of protecting City buses, City Transportation personnel and the citizens that use bus lines transportation.

Other duties include, boarding and riding buses while on their routes, investigating traffic collisions involving City buses, assisting with disruptive passengers, taking crime reports related to City buses, taking police action against those committing crimes on buses and the monitoring of all bus stops on the City routes.

Transit officers keep a daily log of their activities and meet with the GMBL supervisor on a daily basis. Officers also create a very positive working relationship with the bus drivers and are considered, “their personal” police officers when in the field. This working relationship not only enhances the cooperation between the two agencies and the personnel within, but it also gives the citizens that ride the City Buses a sense of comfort knowing that officers are assigned to the buses on a daily basis.