bringing the teachers on board. that is something i think all made a good deal of sense. the other part of it was redistributed a manual, a governing document for the police advisory boards for everybody to provide feedback. the goal obviously is to continue to institutionalize this process of community policing in all the 10 stations. i have to tell you that initially was scheduled this about six months ago, and we have been working on it really hard. i mentioned to president marshall months ago. initially, i was going to bring lapd in because i did not think we're ready to pull it off. when i looked at the work southern and northern were doing, i backed out, because we already had these incredible examples.

our captains and communities are being creative. one of the kids really blew me away. >> thank you. president marshall: before we move on to the communications, let me check in. >> how are phone calls going? president marshall: all right then. >> we have a medal of valor that is going to be issued to the family -- the purple heart certificate -- to officer charles king, who died on june 7, 1931. his wife released the details of the event. >> if i may. commissioner, members of the

commission, you may recall that we had a similar presentation to this a number of months ago. this comes from the fact that in 2000 for the police commission authorized the posthumous award to all officers who had given their lives in the line of duty in the history of the san francisco police department, a posthumous award of the san francisco police department's purple heart. at that time, there were able to organize a ceremony and locate family members of officers who its lives were lost as far back as 1955. more recently, we were in contact with the family of an officer who died in of duty in 1937. -- who died in the line of duty in 1937. the officer, charles king, we learned that his great-grandson surge with the police department to this day. the department records are a

little sketchy going back that far. however, we know that officer charles w. king was born march 17, 1880 in san francisco. he was appointed to the san francisco police department on october 18, 1906, six months after the great earthquake and fire. he served for 22 years until june 7, 1931, when he was killed directing traffic, as the family tells us, as he was directing a group of children across the street. he was on traffic duty when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver. we know that his -- he had four children, the youngest of which was his 16-year-old daughter of virginia -- dauaghter virginia.

virginia king is the mother of heather hart, who is the grandmother of our officer jack hart. so we are pleased this evening to have the two grand children of charles w. king, have their heart and jim macleod -- heather hart and jim macleod, and grandson john hart. i would be pleased if they would join us at the podium. >> president marshall, would you like to join us here? i have to say that it is an incredible moment for me to be able to be here and share the sense of history.

i think the hallmark of a great organization is a sense of history. the san francisco police department has an incredible tradition. quite frankly, i am humbled by the fact that we are here honoring someone that died in of duty so many years ago that we have a family member -- another member of the family that continues in his position. i am very honored by it. president marshall: i guess i will read this. it is a great picture. this is from the san francisco police department purple heart award. the san francisco police department purpleheart award is awarded to officer charles w. king, who died in of duty on june 7, 1931 -- who died in the line of dugty on june 7, 1931.

the department is proud to present a certificate and a purple heart medal to his family. why don't we start with the metal? -- medal? [applause] >> thank you so much, chief, members of the police commission. my family is very grateful. i am glad to be following in the footsteps, if i can possibly tillich's shoes. he was with the mounted unit. i am about 400 ways away -- 400 names away. he was born on st. patrick's day. he always went on is some patrick's de horse. the pictures were always so far away you could not tell who he was.

he would always tell his head to the left with a very tall hat so the kids could always pick out which one was he. in fact, he could not swim, but he rode his horse to save someone's life who was drowned and offer the tale of his horse. if he had gotten off the horse, he would have drowned and there would have been to casualties. i would like to thank the widows and orphans and everybody who looks after the family members of those who were killed in the line of duty. it was a powerful political figure in san francisco who was driving under the influence of alcohol and struck and killed my great-grandfather. the kind of swept it under the rug and did not take care of the family and did not offer the pension to the family. in fact, he is buried at holy cross in an unmarked grave, which i am rectifying myself. that being said, for all the families that are taken care of today, thank you so much for all of them. can't you very much.

-- thank you very much. [applause] >> before we move on, and to the commissioners have anything else to say? i would like to add one thing for the heart family. -- hart family. . you have turned out to be an excellent police officer. i have four to two throughout your career. who would have thought his great-grandson would become a member of the police department, and an excellent lawyer. i have worked with you. you have honored his history and make your family proud. thank you. [applause] president marshall: do you have anything else for us cheat? >> that concludes my report. president marshall: a great note to conclude on. the directors' report.

>> as we discussed last week, since the quarterly report is on the consent calendar, in the future i would like the opportunity to provide you with remarks on the quarterly report. other than that report, no recent developments. >> i agree. i was a little surprised to see you on the consent calendar. i usually wait for you to point out certain things for me. i realized that had changed. i would actually prefer you to make your presentation on that so we can ask questions. president marshall: we decided last week to put it on the consent calendar. >> i was not here last week. president marshall: that is how it happened. commission reports, i have nothing. do you have anything? >> i do.

following up on this presentation we just had on sunday morning, i attended the guardians of the city museum and memorial. it opened in a temporary home on of street. -- on oak street. the museum is dedicated to preserving the history of the san francisco police department, fofire department, paramedics, d 911. there was a ribbon cutting. it is an old fire station on oak street, very old. it was in the 1906 earthquake. it was built just before the earthquake. anyway, they have all this wonderful memory again and items in a museum. in 2000, they lost their space. it was all in storage and they have a temporary space but are looking for park and rec to give

them a permanent space and looking for support in this area. i would like to draft a resolution to support this could cause. we really should have a museum dedicated to the people who protect and serve the city. the resolution hopefully would urge the department to find them a permanent space. if that is all we can do, we should do it. they had an old fire hat there, and it must have been a peanut had. it was made out of weather and they had an eagle on it to break windows. it was leather and it came down the back to prevent the hot water and ash to go back -- to go down the back of the neck. it was so tiny no one could put it on their head. it was interesting. a lot of officers are buying memorabilia on ebay. they have a stash, but they are looking for more donations and stuff. i think commissioner chan and i

also attended the latino police officer association dinner, and the chief did as well. the rays scholarship money for kids to go to school. that was on october 9. then we attended the association dinner in this friday night for asian officers. that was well attended. it was a lot of fun. it is good to see the good work that both of these officers' associations are doing and how they are supporting the community and giving money and time back. commissioner chan: both were awarding scholarships to high- school students, which is wonderful. it was good to see the chief there. i also want to thank you for inviting us to your table. >> i just wanted to say that was a great weekend. it was very fall.

-- full. vice president mazzucco: on thursday, i attended with the chief of presentation at city hall about crime statistics. i think the chief for his hard work and the mayor for having the foresight to bring in a chief that could try new things. the report is an excellent report. it was an excellent presentation. i attended on thursday the medal of valor awards committee at the hall of justice, where we reviewed the great efforts of many of our police officers and there was a voting process that took place. that was excellent. i was very proud to be there. more on that later when we hit the line item. i will try to be bland about this. i have spoken to two commissioners about this issue. during a pre teleconference in a commission matter, an issue was presented, and we will ask for city attorney help. everything is confidential because it was a closed proceeding. it came to my attention that

there was a need to file a motion because the particular attorney had learned through another organization that a potential witness in the case may have [unintelligible] if this information had been disclosed -- i was concerned that this had taken place, that there had been a disclosure to an outside organization, an outside agency. based on that, i spoke to commissioner dejesus, a former public defender as i am a former d.a. i talked to the chief about this and he is working on this. i know the peel away -- the poa is looking into this. our role is to be a liaison to the community, but also to represent and protect the rights of the officers. there may be a violation here. commissioner dejesus had a few ideas i agree with, going

forward. i do not know how we can facilitate this. i am being very vague because it is closed session issues and disciplinary matters. commissioner dejesus: basically, what i understand is this was disclosure of confidential and permission. that was to a third party who has disseminated that information among private parties, which i have to say is mind boggling. i still have a difficult time getting my mind around this. it seems to me that this dissemination is improper, that it violates a lot of rules and acts in our own policy. i guess my suggestion was with certainly need to investigate how this was released. we should do a basic investigation. the weight -- the city attorney should bring a motion to retrieve the impression that was improperly disclosed. i do not know if it is inadvertent disclosure or what, but it is information that needs

to be retrieved as well as a motion for a protective order, if not a gag order, on the third order disseminating information i believe they have a violation of so many different things in policy and law. i am stunned to hear this. i still am having a hard time grasping misinformation -- grasping this. we set up a policy and procedure to protect this information, and someone is disseminating it as they see fit. my understanding is that on an individual case by case basis a judge would look at the information in camera. if any of the information needs to be disclosed, the judge would decide that. and people would have rights to prevent the information from going forward if they think it was wrongfully put on the list. there is so much wrong with this that we need to move quickly. need to bring a motion to superior court to stop this.

vice president mazzucco: again, we're being vague because this involves disciplinary matters and confidential information. thank you. >> [inaudible] commissioner dejesus: i am happy to work to stay on top of this. we need to get it back quickly. commissioner hammer: i just wanted to report to the other commissioners. commissioner dejesus and i met today with the head of the patrol specials. vice president mazzucco was not able to come. we passed on the problems that the boston report pointed out and told them in straight terms the things you have to do to address those concerns. we are hoping to have their response and put this back on the commission agenda sometime relatively soon so the commission can address these things. i think it was a good meeting. other commissioners had

expressed their interest in this. that is it on that issue. president marshall: thank you very much. if there is nothing else, will take public comment on item three, please. >> reinhardt, director of san francisco open government -- ray hart, director of san francisco open government. this is on the chief's comments and on commissioners dejesus and kingsley. there is an expression -- none of us is as smart as all of us. getting members of the bay area community, one of the most creative places in the world, involved in the police department offers immense amounts of resources to the officers that otherwise would not have. it gets people in a position where they can participate in government and the actions of the police department, and

obviously will foster to some degree of understanding of the community as a difficult job that officers have out on the street, and the constant questions that are raised. at some point, we will also address some of those questions so that people understand those questions are raised and get some sort of an answer. nebraska after the department makes on those lines which gets people involved and harnesses -- and the effort to the department makes on those lines which its people involved and harnesses their efforts should be charged to continue. one reason i feel so strongly about open government is because i feel getting people involved is the responsibility of all commissions. getting them so they understand, listen, and to split in government, and actually encourage them to -- getting them so they understand, listen, and participate in government, encourages them to get involved,

which cannot do anything but foster what the commission is trying to do. president marshall: further public comment on this item? >> my name is barbara gross. i am very proud san franciscan and resident since my date of birth. i have been proud of the police department. i do not understand why there has been such a move to tear it apart. the think tanks that have come forth from back east, townshend of all places -- there happens to be a state park called town's end outside of their city limits. i believe they know that very well. but the police research forum and public strategies group both come from the same location. this fine city has been in operation since the -- since

1849. the police have been professional all the way down the line. they are not johnny-come- latelies. to have some little town come in and tell these police officers that are dummies i find amusing. thank you. they are a fine department. by the way, i went out in 1976 and have made an official report. my police start number is still outstanding. i believe it is in the hands of my ex-husband, a civilian station officer. his wife has changed her hair color to mine. i believe you will find it with him. thank you. i know they can do the police investigation, but i am sure he is out of town. i cannot seem to locate him. thank you. president marshall: further public comment? hearing none, would you please

call item 4? >> item 4 is approval of the awards committee recommendation. president marshall: in our tab under item four, right? we have a -- i have to find it. here we go. at the meeting of the awards committee on thursday october 14, the following members of the police department were awarded. do we approve these names for awards? vice president mazzucco: thank you, president marshall. i was present at the awards, as i said earlier, at the medal of valor committee for the recommendations were made and the presentations were made on thursday the 14th. ordinarily, what we do is we go

through these, and if there are any questions by the commissioners, we would move to accept his awards and adopt them. the commission has the authority to accept, adopt, revise, or review any of these awards. what is going to happen here is not unprecedented. i am asking that the commission reviews one of the awards. this has been done once before. i was present. these awards were well armed by everyone of these officers. the heroism of our officers is beyond belief. it is an honor to be a civilian in that room when you hear about what they did to earn these awards. however, i am a tad bit embarrassed by some of the people that work in that room that day regarding to particular awards. i intend to be very frank. i was very bothered by something that took place. it is under the commission's authority to review two of the awards. i have spoken to the cheap about

this and i think we are in agreement. i think we were both astonished and surprised by the voting on one of them. i have asked at this point in time that there be a re- presentation of the medal of valor presentation for henry parra and russel gordon. i can do the presentation. i have the documents before me. or the chief can join in with this. before we do that, lieutenant riley -- reilly, can you tell the commission for each level what it takes to receive an award, whether it is a gold, silver, bronze, or a police accommodation? >> this is from the department awards.

where risk of life actually existed and the officer had sufficient time to evaluate that risk. where the objectives were of sufficient importance to justify the risks. where the officer accomplished the objective but failed to accomplish the objective by sustaining disabling injury or death. the second highest award of valor is merited when the following exists. when the officer manifests outstanding bravery in the performance of duty under the circumstances not required for a gold medal of valor. where the officer risks his or her life with full and questionable knowledge of the reasonable danger involved or when a reasonable person who

expect his or her life was in grave danger. when the situation justifies the risk, and finally when the officer accomplishes the objective or fails to accomplish the objective due to circumstances beyond his or her control. finally, item c, a bronze medal of valor, the department's third highest medal of valor, members of the awards committee will evaluate the risk, degree of danger, and determine by their vote whether a silver or bronze medal of valor will be awarded. commissioner, those are the three grades. >> thank you so much. >> chief, would you like to do this, or should i do it. >> i have the report. >> first of all, i would like to say that i agree with the assessment of vice president mazzucco. this particular case is one that i believe that the level of

bravery and what it involves, quite frankly, was deserving of the highest medal. these two individuals, and we'll get into the details in a moment, not only -- they actually drove up on a murder in progress, one individual executing another individual. it was on a very crowded sidewalk. this officer's approach was -- they had no cover. they recognized that if they fire upon the suspect they would place other people at risk, so they restrained themselves and never fired, took the suspect in custody without firing a shot at great risk to themselves, and prevented the potential injury to many others, including them. frankly, i thought this was an incredible amount of courage,

and i was really surprised. commissioner, perhaps you want to read the events. commissioner hammer: i definitely will. this was a memo prepared by denise a. schmidt. captain schmidt is now assistant chief schmidt. on february 17, approximately 16:30 hours, lieutenant henry perra and sergeant russell gordon confronted a deadly situation on the 1800 block of irving street. at that time they were celebrating the beginning of the lunar new year. each and every restaurant on that block was full of people and families. i also note there was a library where children were coming out nearby. for outstanding bravery to respond to what they viewed. their split-second decision-making in an ability to tackcally respond and control

the immediate deadly threat. their willingness to put their lives at risk knowing it was necessary to save the lives of others, their controlled and disciplined response -- it is important it was a controlled and disciplined response -- both initially in it and managing the homicide scene falls well within the guidelines of consideration and department recognition of medal of valor. the 1800 block of irving street is part of a light commercial corridor which runs seven blocks west. it contains many restaurants, small businesses, and is surrounded by residential streets. many of these businesses are operated by asian business owners. february 17th was the start of the lunar new year celebration which resulted in an influx of celebrations. for several weeks several stations had increased the number of foot patrols to provide a point of contact with residents and deter the crimes of violence which have