to, 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 control and disciplined response initially and managing the resulting homicide scene, for these actions, the arabs each being awarded the gold medal of valor. [applause] >> commissioner dejesus wanted

to say a few words. >> i also want to thank all of the awardees tonight. i also want to acknowledge our officers give time, energy, and oftentimes money in the community they live in, as well as to the children in those communities. lt. henry parr is the coordinator of the housing authority but is also active in the operation dream, which gives toys to children in the housing -- over $25,000. they will start distributing those toys december 20 through december 23. we are going to post and on the website. i just wanted knowledge, in doing your everyday work, they give so much time to our

community, and this is a wonderful thing to do to give toys to the children of those in the housing authority. thank you. [applause]

>> now we will have the medal of valor presentation for sgt timothy paine, sergeant james o'malley, sgt gregory kane, officer william eleiff, and officer steven stearns. [applause]

>> on may 5, 2004, a round in o'clock p.m., there was an attempted kidnapping of strangers of a woman and her son. the suspect proceeded in a chevy trailblazer and used a large caliber gun and fled westbound on any street. the suspect's description was broadcast five minutes later at 8:05. two minutes after that, officer eleiff saw the suspect vehicle and paged and began following it. as he broadcast, holding a court microphone, his location, the vehicle sped off at a high rate of speed. opposite the live activated his lights and sirens and pursue the vehicle. the suspect drove west on haight

and then northwest on the visitor. the suspect drove northbound in the southbound lanes of the visitor. of azeri live broadcast a license plate as the suspect turned west on hayes. the suspect drove north on broadway and fired one shot at officer eleiff. , -- stearns, and kane. those shots can be heard of the recording of the night. the suspect headed north and again leaned out the window to fire at the pursuing officers. the suspect then turned eastbound on to turkey into oncoming one way traffic. officers paine and o'malley saw

the vehicle traveling up a high rate of speed on to oncoming traffic. officer pain is a specialist. they are more heavily trained in these types of situations. knowing the information, he attempted to halt the suspect by firing at the suspect. the round, but officers hearing the shot at the suspect had fired at them. officers o'malley and paine, knowing that officer eleiff was a single unit, decided to pursue the suspect. the suspect continued into oncoming traffic until he turned north on webster and the east oneddy, sot on buchanan. during this pursuit, officer you lift prop broadcast the suspects route while driving, holding the microphone in one hand.

once in large rally, the suspect drove along the block calling for residents of the housing project to come out and stop his car. officers paid and o'malley not arrived at the other end of the alley. officer of valley got out of his car and ran down the building line toward the vehicle. the vehicle started again. fear of the suspect might get into another altercation with civilians, as this was mayor of the scene of the initial incident, or leave the alley to in danger citizens and officers, officer of valley stopped -- officer o'malley shot one shot. the suspect fired a round at them through his back window. officers came, stern, and the live, returned fire without hitting the suspect. the officers continued their verbal commands to the suspect to put up his hands and leave the vehicles. the suspect got out of the

driver's door, raised his hands, took off his shirt doing a full circle. the suspect then dropped his hands to his waist and took a few steps toward the officers who did not fire at these provoking actions. the suspect then returned to his car and sat on the running board. officers kept up a stream of commands for the suspect to surrender which he ignored. officer pain move down the alley toward the alley, warning people to get out of the street. sgt. paine had arrived at a position parallel to that of the subject -- suspect. the suspect turned in the car and appeared to be getting something. he turned back toward the officers who again held their fire. the suspect turned back toward the inside of the vehicle, appeared to shield his movement. officer -- sgt. kane saw the suspect reached under his driver seat. the suspect then spun around toward the officers.

sgt. paine, believing the suspect would again opened fire, fire three shots. the suspect fell to the ground. officers called for an ambulance and administered first aid. the suspect was pronounced dead at the same. the suspect's gun was recovered in the driver's door. the suspect was initially wanted for attempted to kidnap a stranger and alison son using a gun. this heinous crime testify the pursuit of the subject. the suspect's crimes showed a gravest threat to public safety. the suspect then fired repeatedly at officers. each of these officers had time to make a decision to put their lives at risk for the public safety. each of these officers could have made decisions to not join in on the efforts or to abandon their attempts to take the

dangers of its critics suspect into -- custody. officer eleiff could have backed off the chase as a 1 person unit. officer stearns and sgt. kane could have done nothing. officer came and started o'malley also could have decided not to. each of these officers showed restraint in not firing their weapons where a suspect provocative action would normally end in shooting. these officers were awarded the gold medal of valor. [applause]

>> a sgt. paine, who could not be here tonight, was also awarded the gold medal of valor.

>> it is with great pride that we honor these individuals for their valor.

every day, officers put their lives at risk and do very good police work and we do not do enough to thank them for that. i am brought to be part of a ceremony where we can point to these heroes and thank them publicly, the way that we should do so every day publicly. so thank you again. [applause] the police commission and the park would would also like to think the diversity of california's san francisco for its generous support in co- sponsored tonight's event. we would like to single out the

community relations office and the conference center office for putting tonight's ceremony and their generous support. i also want to thank ms. tom. she is the one that put the packs together and organized the event. she did a lot of work and happy that she could be here tonight. this concludes our ceremony. there will be refreshments out in front. there is a photographer. you want to take pictures. i am going to go outside and shake the hands of some heroes and thank them. i hope that you will do the same. thank you for coming again.

>> ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your cell phones and pagers. >> welcome, everyone to the december 8th, 2010 police

commission. we have one substantive matter and then one disciplinary manner to take care of in closed session. the first item is approval of the consent calendar. >> this is for the period of january 1st, 2010, through november 30th, 200010, and january 1st, 2009, through november 30th, 2009. then the acceptance of an award by the policemen of the year. the police commission disciplinary case summary as of december 1st, 2010. >> we will start with the whole first item. to the commissioners have

anything that they would like to discuss regarding the report? >> thank you, president. no, there's nothing i would like to discuss. >> the second item is the sentence of the reward for the policemen of the year. commissioners, you also have this in your packet. any questions or comments regarding that? >> yes. >> you can donate the award.

how common is it for officers to express even a small amount of questions. >> officers occasionally receive rewards like this and according policies brought to the commission's attention, but they make their own decision based on the merits of the reward. >> any further questions regarding this. >> the statistical summary as of december 1st, 2010, dunhill will note that compared to last year and the year before, these numbers are down significantly and i would like to thank the opportunity to thank the commissioners for working the case loads and the staff for making it possible to have these hearings. thank you for the management control. these numbers are 100 times better than what they have been

in the past. we would like to say a special thank-you to professor hammer who has consistently had hearings on these? >> each case is only assigned to one number slot. for example, is not going to appear in the disposed of year to date column or line if it was a settled case, is that correct. >> sure. >> this is through december 1st. these are included in the total of 19 for that year. >> that is included in the line- item.

is this also included in the disposed? >> these are the different types of dispositions. cunh>> thank you. we have reviewed all three items. progress is being dealt out well the case is continually being defined. this is not like anything stops and you get to jump into the pool. >> in reference to line item one, do i have a motion to accept these items? >> so moved. >> seconded. >> is to any public comment regarding these items? >> hearing none, do i have a

motion? >> so moved. >> seconded. >> all in favor. let's go on to mine that and number two, public comment. >> members of the public may address the police commission for a time not to exceed three minutes. >> do we have any public comment regarding matters which are it within the public matters of the commission? >> i would just like to have a news release document regarding a lecture magnetic weaponry. i thought want to have this information. >> thank you. any further public comment?

>> good evening, commissioners. i am a private investigator from santa rosa, california. this pertains to what we call the achilles heel of the new world order. this is addressed to the san francisco police lt. who is charged of internal affairs, care of inspector teller. we have three other people who are with us as witnesses and also discussing things with them. regarding many violent crimes against young children covered up by the san francisco police department including murders with witnesses.

for the past 25 months, several of those including residences of san francisco and los angeles county, the retired fbi chief of los angeles, has been covering most of southern california. they have been attending many meetings and reporting to the commission, to the chiefs of police and their top management teams that they have repeatedly choose-chosen to not investigate. why did the fbi ordered the investigators to halt their investigations of the army's special forces.

enclosed are copies of the letters plus a list of exhibits including a copy of each exhibit that we delivered and we had many different people here who copied this. why a my san francisco friend, christine harris, has been hit by electronic weapons numerous times in your city by a an officer. you have refused to investigate the crimes. we'll go into great detail. the bottom line is that the chief's deputy assigned two detectives to help us solve these murders and these crimes and yet the detectives refused to contact us for months and so

they assign someone else to investigate. why are they covering this up? >> thank you very much. >> i have some things here for you. this is from the u.s. attorney general. >> line item 3. >> could evening. i would like to echo a comment by mr. have land. you're working on the dna tests, that was your idea, now they will do it. you were for front on the crime lab and the dna and you should

be commended. you should be the next g8. sadly, that will not happen. on another note, the sfc website has listed a personal attack against a reporter from the san francisco examiner on a possible misstatements that she either misinterpreted, contradicted themselves in the chronicle and then they turn around and take a slap at the examiner. i think it is kind of tacky. >> we now move onto line item number3. >> item number3 are reports to the commission. the first is the cheese report. then the revision to the general order. >> good evening, assistant chief. can you give us an brief update of recent activities? >> we have a presentation on the

department bulletin. i can give you a rundown of the most recent crime statistics. they continued to stay down 8%. by the crimes are down 3%. there are 3200 less crimes and there was in 2009. homicides, 46 this year versus 44 last year. >> any questions regarding the crime statistics? now we will move into the discussion regarding the department of bulletin, 10-156 regarding the discharge of firearms. mortared to curly, the issue that has been raised by fellow commissioners about discharging a firearm and moving vehicles.

that can you give us some background on what has been happening? >> good evening, commissioners. i am with the internal affairs division. i just wanted to give you an update regarding the department bulletin and also explain a little further in terms of where the department is at. the department bulletin was a party bolten issued at the department of the general order which covers the use of fire by the officers. this was last