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LAPD's off-road patrols chase crime wherever it leads

From the popular bike path atop Hansen Dam, the view of the basin stretching toward the foothills is pristine, with dense trees shrouding streams and trails largely left to nature.

But horseback riders who frequent the basin's trails hidden by the canopy are often confronted by its ugly underbelly: graffiti, litter, homeless encampments, used condoms hanging from branches - the aftermath of prostitution going on in the bushes.

They hear of even worse. Just last month, a pregnant woman in her 20s was dragged off the bike path and raped. The suspect remains at large, having fled into the sprawling park.

It's crimes such as these that a small group of police officers - looking more like motocross riders in their black and white jerseys, helmets and boots - are trying to quash from atop their Kawasaki dirt bikes.

Going where no patrol cruiser can go, the Off Road Enforcement Unit, little known even within the LAPD despite its nearly 50-year history, traverses the rugged and rural terrain of the San Fernando Valley, including some 165 miles of fire roads and trails.

The unit has seven officers and two sergeants, who mount the dirt bikes a few times a month, spending most of their time otherwise as traditional motorcycle traffic officers.

"They're very useful, more so than horses," said Sgt. Art Gomez of Valley Traffic Division, which the unit is based out of. "They can get up where horses can't."

And they can get places where most people wouldn't think to go, or even knew existed.

Such as inside the Foothill (210) Freeway.

On patrol around the Hansen Dam area on Wednesday, officers rode down into the wash under the freeway overpass in Lake View Terrace, past gang graffiti adorning the abutments, then climbed on foot up its sloped banks, bending under the hulking concrete mass as they made their way toward manholes opening up underneath the freeway itself.

Officer Steve Carbajal, who helps oversee the unit, drew his gun and flashlight and popped his head up into the hollow structure, making sure no one was home.

No one was. But clothes hangers, mirrors, mattresses, empty cans, a book on maps, a charred makeshift torch and all types of junk stretching beyond the flashlight's reach - indicated that those living inside the mile-long tunnel of darkness were probably not long gone.

"It's a real eye-opener," said Carbajal, adding that the unit had contacted Caltrans to weld up the manholes.

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