if they say no, i can arrest or release. i don't have to have that to make an arrest. if the motorist submits to teh he device, i allow 15 minutes, making sure i look at the driver and to monitor them. i use the machine as prescribed by the manufacturer and putting every machine. i would give the first reading to the person, having them blown into the machine. i would document what that reading was. i would also administer that same test. i would document, agianain, what

the readings were. it would just add them by investigation. if i felt the person was still under the influence, i would arrest them and take them to mission station, san francisco general, or county jail i where they can draw blood or use a breathalyzer machine to determine the blood alcohol content. after that, we book them for driving under the influence. >> to sum up, the reasonable suspicion to detain is at the onset. the probable cause to arrest is developed to the field sobriety test. the pass screening from the device we have withdrawn ads tdo probably cause which had already been formulated. in the final test is not

optional, after the person makes their choice. then they go through the booking process. again, unfortunate that the circumstances presented itself. measures were taken to address the situation and we will make sure that it does not happen again going forward. >> i will say that not every single dui case the pass device is used. it is not a requirement that we have to or shall use it. it says that if it is available, we should, but it is not a requirement. quite often, we don't have that available so we go off of the initial observation of tehe test. >> it brings back a little bit of my flashback as days o as a young d.a.

the most important piece of evidence is the results of the blood, breath, or urine taken. it is one of the field coordination tests, and the final one. if it is a field coordination test, most judges hold it is not admissible. i am glad you found that and pick it out. it is important that the evolution dui starts with red, watery eyes, slow and slurred speech. having a hard time getting out of the car or pulling documentation. stumbling, performing badly in the field coordination past, they are on their way. commissioners, any questions? commissioner turman: thank you, deputy chief and sgt.

yamaguchi. a couple of questions. i want to make sure i understand, reasonable suspicion, field sobriety test, circumstances failing the sobriety test would lead you to initiate the pass. and from there, breathalyzer, urine, or blood. >> generally, yes. >> as i make the initial contact, i am constantly evaluating if this person is under the influence or not. i go to a battery of the field sobriety test. the final field sobriety test given is if the person agrees to it, the pass device. commissioner turman: in the field. ok. >> he makes a good point. the p.a.s. can be refused.

it's not like the presumptive test where you are required to give a sample of your blood, breath, or urine. commissioner turman: deputy chief, can you walk us through the certification of the p.a.s. device and how often we are supposed to certify it? >> we did the calibration in the recommended time frames, but that was only one of the two tests we should have been doing. we were doing the calibration but we also should have been doing the accuracy. the question of the calibration comes in, due to the fact that at least in the last year when the gas was expired hall by a year or so -- expired by a year or so.

the vendor says just about anything else, the expiration date is an expiration date, it would be questioned in court, but whether or not it had a direct influence on the calibration is probably negligible. so to recap, what we will be dealing from the vendor is to get recertified over the last 10 years. we lost a part of the test. commissioner turman: the accuracy part. >> we will train the officers, look at the policy, rewrite the policy if necessary, making sure we are not dropping to one of the two required tests. commissioner turman: in the timeframe that the calibration test will be done, they will also be doing the accuracy test? how often will that be done? >> i believe every 10 days.

>> a traffic co. can only do it every wednesday. they are brought to the traffic co. and they are retested. commissioner kingsley: my questions have been answeredthao our attention. >> onexd quick question. what was the actual difference between the test results from the past device and the blood, breath, or urine? was the difference is significant? >> i could not tell you, that will be part of the investigation. >> we are working with d d a's office and the public defender's office. -- the d.a.'s office and the public defender's office. we will follow-up accordingly.

>> that concludes that part of my report. we have a presentation now. >> good evening, chief, president mazzucco, commissioners, command staff, and the public. i am the commanding officer of the police department's special victims unit. i will give you a general overview of the new unit that came into existence as of october 20.

each of you may have copies of the presentation. the svu presently consists of 60 members, 49 sworn in, 11 non- sworn. there are 12 investigative disciplines. it was the reorganization of vision that we implement -- reorganizational vision that we implemented this back in 2008 and make it a reality. investigating victims on a type- based investigation. our mission, as you can see, is rather simple. to investigate crimes of abuses committed against the most vulnerable. when we say forms of abuse, we are not only looking at physical abuse, sexual abuse, but financial abuse which is very

common amongst elder abuse cases that we investigate. our goals we kept rather simple. we wanted to improve access to police services and advocates services for the public. this was very key and made a very high priority by the chief's office. in that respect, not only can you come into the from svu of tnt office of the svu, in that lobby, you can speak with an investigator from any one of these 12 investigative disciplines. you may not wish to speak to a police investigator, you may wish services from one of the advocates that are housed in that lobby. this particular one has been housed within the domestic violence unit since the beginning.

we felt it was very important to give them from stage situation there with an office in the lobby. we wanted direct access to the public to be successful. we used a three-phase development process in order to employment the svu. we started with the very basic logistics', where are we going to locate this particular unit and how are we going toç situae it -- how are we going to set it up to flow business was for the investigators that work very close with the public? once those discussions and decisions were made, the layout of the office was agreed upon. you have to physically locate these units, such as juvenile,

into this new location. we were centralizing all of these decentralized investigative units. it was important to integrate them into the front lobby area. along with the physical and logistical organization, we had to organize the command structure. it was important to have an accountable and hands-on type of reaction. i speak of management and o the oic's lieutenants. with me tonight is the lieutenant that oversees the financial crimes and elder unit of use. he oversees the sex crimes -- and she oversees domestic violence. they're very interactive on a daily basis with the

investigative units. it was another critical thing that the chief had, to make sure that the commanding officer was embedded with those units. it is important, i believe, in my experience, the four months that it has been located in room 500, the commanding officer has direct contact with the oic's and investigators. especially if you have a high priority type case or a high- profile type case that you need to be brought up to speed on on a very daily basis -- no on a daily basis. some of these are critical decisions that have to be made. you have decision makers that can provide resources there with the investigators. it cuts down on the thought process and it speeds whatever resources those investigators the access to. -- need access to.

we put juvenile and sex crimes which used to be under to respective oic's into one. it was natural given that the focus of these investigations sometimes -- the abuse was literally defined by the age of the victim, whether we had an adult or juvenile. each one requires special training or handling. when you are dealing with the interview of a juvenile, there is a special process you must adhere to. we wanted to make sure everyone was comfortable in this process and no one's rights were violated along the way. this was important in putting together the best cases for the district attorney's office. we also established a long time request by the advocates, a stand-alone elder abuse unit. and a human trafficking section. the attention to human

trafficking is growing by leaps and bounds. you might start off with a case that could be a domestic violence case, sexual abuse, or juvenile abuse. as you delve further into it, you may find that these victims are living in the world of human trafficking. not only do we look at the sex trade, we aggressively pursue labor investigations. we have many partners that assist us with this. it has been very successful so far. phase ii of the development of the special victims unit, as you can see, we wanted to facilitate the verse training. we want investigators to be well versed in various types of investigations as well as we wish to enhance their ability to cross train, to investigate cases that are somewhat similar. just by putting a juvenile and sex crimes together, we put them

on call together as well. they will handle those types of service after hours, respond to those crimes with each other, learning, so to speak, on-the- job training of how these cases will be investigated. it has been very successful, so much so that we are now implementing a 60-day rotation of two investigators of domestic violence to team up with sex crimes in a juvenile to do on call and have a small caseload as well. as i get further into some of these investigations, it has been very successful. once again, a force multiplier. that is what we did as far as a shared assignments and shared responsibilities. let me give you an example of this type of success that we have had. i will give you a brief overview of a particular case that was very well covered by

the press. during the month ofç june, november, december of 2011, three sexual assault-robberies were committed along the twenty fourth street corridor. these occurred during the dark early morning hours within the later half of the week. each sexual assault was extremely violent, the victims were robbed just prior to the suspect fleeing the scenes. in less than 30 days, we went from a still photo of a suspect to a name of a person of interest, a dna match, an arrest, and admissions to 03 horrific crimes. -- all three horrific crimes. weekly strategy meetings and additional resources were added. some of these resources were patrol and plainclothes officers from mission station. a violence reduction team.

gang task force, narcotics, robbery taskforce, for rent i 6,.t.ensics, i.t., the fbi. there was a highly trained and excellent crime analyst, and san francisco safe. the key was the community, both residents and businesses of the twenty fourth street corridor utilizing multimedia's blob such as blogs, twitter, and facebook. the coalition acted as the lead contact, meeting organizer, a distributor a helpful information, and established a survivors fund. they collected a substantial amount of money in a very short time. elected officials like scott wiener and david campos also

attended a very large community meeting at st. james' church with us. there were approximately 300-400 residents, concerned citizens, saying that they were scared. we want to help you, what can we do to assist you? it was very encouraging, it was a delight to work with these individuals. the bonds that were made just in the neighborhood, and neighbors getting to know neighbors during this incident, it will probably last a lifetime. we wanted to ensure that during this investigation that there would be no additional attacks, no additional crimes committed like this. obviously, we had that area highly patrolled by uniformed and plain-clothes units at all times.

we had to ensure the safety of the victim during this period the particular suspect was . the suspect was arraigned and convicted on several counts of assault and robbery. we utilized svthe svu to bring a very violent sexual predator into custody. we have an excellent working model for these types of cases. our third phase for the svu development, we want to continue to develop with investigators. we want to increase the number of highly trained generalists as opposed to specialists. we want them to stop working in silos and become familiar with the various types of crimes that we are investigating. we want to utilize community and

city partners. there is a great deal of community and city partners that wish to help us. i will give you a slide that has a short list of some of man they -- of the many that help on a regular basis. we recently hired three cpsa's to the svu unit. and we have one here with us today. christina works in the financial crimes investigation, and she is available to assist any of the investigative units within our unit. she also comes from a very well- known police family, and we are very glad that the chief assigned her to svu. we have been planning and as the chief is trying to plan, his strategies for hiring in the future -- i have to plan for any type of personnel deficiencies.

there are a high number of individuals and drop -- in the drop program. we can't turn victims away because we lost specialized investigators. we have to pick up the slack and make sure that those left behind are familiar with this kind of investigation. we are really doing a huge brain dump of the senior people and i am merely exposing them to a high number of the additional younger investigators and so we don't lose some of that institutional knowledge. this slide depitcts the 18 organizations and partners that we presently work with, sometimes on a daily basis. they are in alphabetical order, that is the only order in which they are in. they are not shown here in any type of additional priority. they are very active with us, they have made offers to conduct

training for us regarding their specifics of in dressed or their areas of expertise. -- of interest or their areas of expertise. cath knowledgey - -i wi want th y black. we are fortunate to work with her and a number of other individuals who are really, really champions for their cause and the victims of these horrible crimes. on this particular slide, although it does say questions, the play area within the front office. so many times, it>> [inaudible]

[laughter] >> so many times, the victims of violence that ask for services, they have children with them. before some of those children were seated in the hallways or in the lobby area with nothing toçó do, kids will find a way to entertain themselves. the chief and the command staff said, we are going to find a way to entertain them. through the chief, they provided this outstanding play area for the children of our victims. that was a very gracious and noble thing to do. with that, i will open up to any questions. >> i have to wrap up and acknowledge commander beals, and others that have been heroic in morphing this.

the boat doesn't turn on a dime, but this thing happened quickly, came together quickly, and this twenty fourth street case that the capt. describes -- i know it doesn't come together as quickly as it came together and i don't know if it would have come together at all if it hadn't been for the efficiency of motion that went through the psa -- i mean the unit with the help of psa. >> thank you, captain. commander tong have a lot to do with this. this is better for the community, better for the officers that they get cross trained in different disciplines. it is incredible, we will have a better educated investigator. it is good. i want to thank you for commanding this. for you, psa, your father has a

great legacy at the hall of justice, and if you have half the sense of humor, your welcome aboard. commissioner kingsley: a wonderful job putting together the svu, and thank you for the presentation. it is amazing how quickly this was pulled together. it makes a lot of sense. very impressive the partners that have been created, reaching out in the collaboration with the community. it is key to success, and it is fabulous that you have established that. very noteworthy is the children's play area. it has been an issue with what to do with small children when their parents have had to go to court and we have children's waiting rooms in court rooms in san francisco. it is wonderful to see this in

this unit in particular and the san francisco police department. again, kudos for doing that and thank you for bringing all of this together. statistics, in terms of the types of crimes svu addresses, elder abuse, financial crimes, and so on. what kind of carry over will the department have in terms of statistics kept to date, before the creation of this particular unit? and how svu is going to track those crimes going forward. >> presently, we have the number of years under our belt of statistics of cases, reports received, cases aside, cases investigated, and closure rates. looking at the way we do

business now, in four months, we might have gone to -- our sex crime unit, closure may have gone up from 40% or 45% to 80%. because of the daily contact with the oic's to make sure things are being done, my hats are off to forensics. the dna lab, i know how busy they are. these cases where these creditors are actively on the prowl, they stepped up to the plate on twenty fourth street and helped us out. the science of the day is a video recording cell iss, cell , that nature. it has improved by leaps and bounds. not only are we gaining notoriety, we are recently asked

to address and make a presentation at stanford later this month to their human rights studies. they are having a series of speakers, and we were asked to be one of the speakers. commissioner kingsley: was this modeled after any other similar type of unit in the country? are we breaking new ground? >> excellent question, you answered them both correctly. normally, special victims units in other cities and larger cities focus mainly on sex crimes. we hit the whole gamut. we base it on victims that our children, women, elderly. we look at those crimes were the sexual abuse takes place, where the physical abuse takes place, and the financial abuse.