LAKE FOREST

The City Council voted Monday to purchase new cameras, bicycles, a vehicle and other equipment for the Police Department and to create a new community policing center on the east side of town. The council also approved the hiring of more personnel and the funding of a new emergency telephone system. The city will receive about $132,000 from a state police-funding bill to cover most of the costs. Chief of Police Services Mike James said the east-side policing center will be opened later this year in the Foothill Ranch commercial district. The department will also buy digital cameras to take crime-scene photos and new bicycles to expand the bike patrol unit.