Police patrols and security cameras have been added at the Oceanside Harbor after recent violence that included a stabbing and two people being injured with baseball bats. Other measures being considered include a curfew for the harbor beach fire rings, more cameras and lights in parking areas, and the possible installation of a kiosk to check people entering the harbor at night, City Manager Jonathan Borrego said. Most public safety responsibilities at the harbor were switched from the city’s Police Department to the Fire Department’s lifeguards as part of a reorganization 20 months ago. Calls for service and crime reports have decreased since then, despite the recent high profile incidents, Borrego said Monday at a meeting of the city’s Harbor and Beaches Advisory Committee. Two people with head injuries were taken to a hospital Aug. 17 after an attack by a group of young men with baseball bats. Two other people were injured, one of them stabbed, in an incident at 2:15 a.m. Sept. 14.  A police captain said Monday that five suspected gang members were in custody in connection with the assaults. “There is a pretty constant police presence down there right now,” Borrego said. “We are funding that with overtime.” The harbor parking lots, traffic circle and campground are where most problems occur, he said. Those areas now are patrolled by police officers from noon to midnight. Also, a police trailer with cameras and a live video feed have been placed in the traffic circle, and other cameras have been added elsewhere. Since the switch to the Fire Department, the harbor has employed private security guards with the Gatekeepers Security Services, Inc., a company that also has guards working in downtown Oceanside. Another possibility is the installation of a kiosk or similar structure to check people at the harbor entrances, Borrego said. If so, it probably would be staffed only during the evenings and nights when visits are fewer and the need for security is greatest. “There really shouldn’t be people coming in there at 1 or 2 in the morning,” Borrego said. Another idea is an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for the fire rings on the harbor beach, he said. Some people have suggested the fire rings be removed, at least for the winter. “There really is not a reason to have someone there around the fire rings at 1 or 2 in the morning,” he said. “That’s when bad things happen.” Committee member Mark Mallaby said he was “not a fan” of removing the rings seasonally because of the additional costs and work involved. He supported the increased police presence. “The personality of the beach changes as the sun goes down, and it gets worse as the sun remains down,” Mallaby said. Committee member Les George said the police patrols are a “knee-jerk reaction” to the recent incidents. “We were telling people for months (before the violence) that we had a problem,” George said. He and others have expressed concerns about the switch from the Police Department to the Fire Department. Safety is the No. 1 issue at the harbor, said Harbor Division Manager Joe Ravitch. “My whole team is on what I say is high alert,” Ravitch said, and police are called quickly when there is a problem. The harbor district was formed in 1960 as an independent agency. It transitioned to a dependent agency in 1995, and since then the Oceanside City Council has served as its board of directors. The district had its own police department until public safety duties were contracted out to the Oceanside Police Department in 2009. San Diego County’s Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO, recently completed a municipal service review of three Oceanside agencies — the city, the Oceanside Small Craft Harbor District, and the Morro Hills Community Service District. The LAFCO review looks at what it calls the “unease” about public safety within the harbor district and suggests further studies of the relationship between the district and the city. Any changes in the relationship would require approval from the City Council and possibly a citywide vote. “While the origins of the unease predate the reporting period (of the five-year review) and the current (harbor district) administration, it has amplified and may be approaching a tipping point where a majority of the core contingency (of people using the harbor) feels disenfranchised in district decision-making,” the review states. A proposed final draft of the review will be presented at LAFCO’s meeting Nov. 4 in San Diego.