For the first year of the city's existence, the city contracted with the Orange County Sheriff's Department to continue law enforcement service to the formerly unincorporated county area, following the Lakewood/ Los Angeles Sheriff's Model from 1954.
Initially, the new city entered into a one-year agreement with the Orange County Sheriff's Department to provide law enforcement services to the surrounding area that was not yet incorporated as a city, adopting a model first implemented in Lakewood and Los Angeles in 1954.