LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The president of the union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers today announced his opposition to paroling an inmate who solicited the killer of an LAPD detective.

'It is crucial to the security of the state of California and to the safety of the men and women who enforce its laws that killers forfeit their freedom for life when they murder a law enforcement officer,'' Los Angeles Police Protective League President Paul M. Weber wrote to the Board of Prison Terms in relation to the March 20 parole hearing for Voltaire Williams, convicted in the 1985 killing of Detective Thomas Williams.

Thomas Williams was killed on Oct. 31, 1985 in a spray of gunfire as he was picking up his son Ryan from day care, Weber said. Voltaire Williams was convicted of soliciting Aladron Hunter to kill Thomas Williams, to prevent him from testifying in a robbery and attempted murder trial, Weber said.