LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore Tuesday reported a “sharp and dramatic drop” in new COVID-19 cases within the department, with only seven department personnel testing positive for the virus in the last week. “As a reminder, just some four weeks ago, those numbers were in the five-and-six-hundred range of new COVID cases,” Moore told the Los Angeles Police Commission. He added that 68 Los Angeles Police Department employees are at home recovering from the virus and the average recovery time is about 10 days. Moore told the commission on Jan. 11 that the department was experiencing significant impacts from the virus but there were contingency plans to ensure that essential patrol, investigations and 911 services continued. Around that time, more than 1,000 personnel were off-duty due to the virus. On Jan. 6, Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke alongside the chiefs from the fire and police department …