>> good morning. thank you for being here this morning at the san francisco police academy. i want to introduce some of the folks behind me. obviously our mayor, ed leigh. the president of the san francisco police commission. ron conway, caroline, the director of global human engagement for hewlett packard. our chief information technology person here at the san francisco police department, leo solomon, director of project i.t. management. adam, founder of arc touch. zach, product lead, arc touch, and the newest classes of the strans police academy, lateral and spri level. the entry level officers are starting today. without delay i am going to introduce mayor leigh to explain why you are here. it is a very exciting day for

me as chief of police as we step into the next stage of progressive technology for the san francisco police department. mayor ed leigh. a [applause] >> thank you, chief. thank you very much. i am glad to be here this morning and certainly the very first thing i want to do is challenge the chief and thank all of the men and women of the new class, who will also share in the responsibility of taking care of our citizens. i want to thank you for your sacrifice and the work that you will be doing with us. our police department of course is essential to a safe city. when the chief and i first did our interviews when he was coming in to see me, we talked about the technology, and i had said in my previous role that we were part of the effort to help sue and her efforts to modernize our police

department. of course within months sue was coming in to the city administrator's office telling us what the department did not have set up. with commission president mizuko and the chief, as they have come together during this administration, we wanted to take care of that in the most passionate way. a couple of weeks ago we were up here already announcing our city's support and efforts to create multiple classes for the future to make sure that as we see so many other of our officers retire, that we fill those ranks. i think that our new recruits are completely reflective of that effort, and we will see more and more of our recruits in the months to come as they help take care of the future ranks in our city. today we are announcing a very special endeavor, one that reflects so many of our

administration's effort to modernize our police force. as you know, i have been very much focused on our openness in inviting technology to help us solve problems, social problems, communication problems, challenges that each of our departments have. and i'm thrilled because the formation that ron conway led with the creation of sf-city and the promise that not only would it be a voice for technology and innovative companies to tell us what we could do to help the industry succeed in our city, but there was also a promise that we mutually made together, which was how could we help our technology companies help us become a better city to help us serve our residents, smarter and more efficiently.

we identified quite a number of projects in our city. some of them are being baked, if you will. this is one we wanted to put out front and center. six months into this new administration, we are ready to announce today that in partnership with sf-city and one of the key members, arc-touch, and h.p., hewlett packard, we have formed a two-phase project that will address something that we have identified for many years that has hampered our police department's efficient use of time. one of the things that the street officers do on a daly basis is they have to write instant reports and get the data to do their job. most of that is done by the officers leaving the streets and returning to their stations or to the downtown office to

access the ready computers that are there so they can get the data there. we don't have the mobility, if you will, to have the officers access that information while they are in their cars or on the streets. so in a two-phase process what we are doing today is announcing a partnership with h.p., who is donating some 60 of the initial first-class laptops to be used by this particular class to train them, and sf-city is donating $100,000 in that effort with the whole training program. combined they are working with arc-touch to develop application soss that once these officers -- applications so that once he these officers are trained, arc-touch will be then in phase two developing

applications so that various mobile devices in addition to the laptops, and eventually it will be tablets and then mobile applications that might be on their phones, to be able to access crime data, be able to utilize new technology in order to transfer speech and video into written reports that will make the officers very versatile in the field. that is important to stress. one of the problems we have always faced in both limited budget times and even robust times, is whenever you have to have an officer remove him or herself off the street, out of the the presence of the community, in to a station to write reports for several hours, that presence is missing. in order for the officialses to be had, we have to develop

innovatively technology that offers access in a mobile way. that is what this relationship will do for us. it begins with this donation, but the essential part that will take place in these walls is the actual training to utilize the accessed abilities from the h.p. lap tomas into the crime data warehouse and have the applications developed over time. it's a wonderful program. it is one i think that reflects exactly the relationship that ron conway and i discussed months ago when we started this, how we can be a more efficient city, how can we save time, and how can we still have the officers perform the essential service of being physically there in the neighborhoods on our streets, protecting our citizens and visitors. so this is a wonderful announcement. i am fully endorsing this.

i want to thank the chief and the president of the commission and the whole commission. i want to give a strong shutout-out to sf-city and the members, who have stepped up so quickly to identify this area that will have endless, i think, solutions to giving us the ability to be even more efficient. the time-saving aspect of this is so critical because the more police presence that we have as we invite and have events in the city, we have to have the officers out there even more. so over a short period of time, you will see the absorption of this technology into our officers presence out there. i think in a very short time the ability to have mobile applications will be a very, very good answer of efficiencies for our officers.

again, i want to thank h.p. their team is here today. arc-touch, and their leaders are here. of course sf-city. this is just one. we have so many other departments that are asking for modern technology. as we go through other things, we will come out of our baking oven and on to modernizing our whole city government. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i can't tell you how exciting this is for the san francisco police department. much has been made in the media that we are currently down between hundred and some-odd officers, and we will be down 300-plus officers by this time next year before we catch the bounce from these new officers hitting the streets. by being able to have these officers remain in the field through mobile technology, it will increase their time on the street 3-4 hours a day, 30% to

40% a day. multiply that times the well over 1,000 officers we have in the field, and you can imagine the efficiency that promotes for the police department and contribute toward public safety. i have to tell you though, mayor leigh is all about efficiency, technology, public safety, and public-private partnership, and we are lucky to have as our mayor. with what a friend of mine saw in 2003, and we are naming this the michael j. homer initiative. his mom's sister and niese just walked into the room over here. so i am going to ask them to come forward. mike was a tech giant, one of the starters of net escape, and bill campbell, ron conway, and todd bradley of h.p. we would often talk about

having to make san francisco and the police department the most technologically progressive police department in the country. and if we could ever be in a position to make that happen, we would do that. then we were blessed with a mayor who wanted to see that happen and an i.t. director that could make it happen. so going forward, this initiative, however it can help the san francisco police department be connected and then hopefully eventually grow it regionally, to make it simple, this is in fact the bat computer. we can punch a single piece of information into a google search system to tell us what we need to know, whether it is a car, a person, a description like that. we can find it out like that. you would think we would have been able to do this already, but that has not been the case. we just got e-mail

department-wide last year. so we have moved tremendously just in the last 13 months, and we have left the note post-it days, and we are now into a google searchable web base data warehouse and now have a partnership with sf-stit, h.p., arch-touch and a mayor pushing the whole thing forward with his full sort. and these officers behind me will never know a desk top computer. they will only know mobile technology, and that includes the three classes a year for the next six year and two classes a year after that. so eventually we will be the most tech no logical progressive police department to make this -- not only san francisco, but the entire bay area as safe a community as there is in the country.

so i think you, and again i want to recognize mike's mom, irene homer, sue homer, and sue's gorgeous daughter. [applause] for giving us mike for as long as we had him. there wasn't a smarter guy on the planet. we will try to carry on in his memory. our next speaker will be president thomas mizuko of the police commission. [applause] >> thank you. i will be brief. you noticed some emotion with the chief. he was good friend with mike homer. he was very successful in the computer industry. yet he never lost his friend who were working and serving the city as police officers. i know they were very dedicated to him. so i want to thank his family. when i first joined the police commission four years ago, we were having a meeting regarding crime mapping, and it was

important to us to have the community able to go online and see what is going on in their area. then i asked the chief, "well, when the officers get to work, are they able to go on line in their station and see what has been happening in their car sector?" the confer was no. i said what is going on? we don't have internet capability at the police stations. that was a shock. that has changed thanks to mayor leigh, chief conway and folks before him and sue. we set out and hired the first director of technology, who reported back to the commission and told us there was no technology. so we have made great strides. i want to thank the members of the community who came forward. we talk a lot about community policing. we wondered about our neighbors in silicon valley, what can this do to make our officers more efficient?

how can they help us? that is a form of community policing. they came forward. from the bottom of my heart i want to thank everybody, mr. conway, h.p., sf-city. this is an incredible accomplishment. and i want to thank our new officers. this is a sight for sore eyes. this is what mayor leigh made possible through his work with the board of supervisors. this information technology is going to them. they are more second knowledge sandovaly. look at them. they are younger. they were raised on laptops. i want to thank everybody for being here and making this possible. thanks. [applause] >> i want to reasure everybody that even though we couldn't share information, we are a

very chatty police department, and we told everybody what happened the day before. our next speaker is no stranger to really anything that is progressive in the bay area. he has been a great friend to the city and to me, and that would be ron conway, chairperson of s.f.-city. [applause] >> thank you. it is an honor to be here. i represent sf-city, which is an organization that i founded in january. it is kind of a product of the election of ed leigh as mayor of san francisco and more specific engagement in the city. sf-city has approaching 300 member companies in the city of san francisco. these are all tech companies that now represent well over

90% of the tech population in san francisco. so we are very representative of the tech commont. we adopted five pillars where we are going to be involved in san francisco. the first pillar is jobs. the second pillar is transportation. the third pillar is philanthropy. the fourth pillar is policy, and the fifth pillar, which we are here to talk about today, is public safety. sf-city got involved last week with the future grads program, which is going to take kids off the street and give them internships during the summer. this is a program founded by greg sur and the sfpd. but we thought it would be very appropriate for sf-city to get involved in helping san francisco's police department

leap row frog -- leapfrog technology and be a national showcase for the use of technology. why not do that right here in san francisco, which is the innovation capital of the world as stated by mayor ed lee at your inauguration. and we are going to make that happen. going back to 2003 when make homer visited greg sur here is he sfpd and would ridicule him for how backward the police departments basically across the country were in technology, it may have taken us a while, but today we are here to announce that we have fulfilled mike homer's dream. his dream was to be ahead of technology, not along with it or behind it, but ahead of it. by equiping these cadets, soon

to be police officers, with technology, as greg sur said, 30% more time on the streets of san francisco with the distance of -- the citizens of san francisco. that is a material change. like greg, i want to honor mike, mike's mom and her family who are here, who live just down the street, i think. so with that, sf-city is honored to be here, honored to be included, and i think we will help the city of san francisco continue to stay ahead of technology and utilize technology first and be a national showcase for technology in police work. [applause] >> our next speaker is

caroline, director of global community engagement for hewlett packard. it is their general that has really gotten this program off the board in taking ron's phone calls. [applause] >> good morning. i am delighted to be here. i just want to thank the chief and the sfpd for this opportunity. your passion for making this commitment, innovating and updating the department will make our city safer and i want to thank you for that. i want to thank the mayor for creating the innovative capital . this is something we are very appreciative of. i also want to thank and congratulate ron conway and san francisco city. sf-city is really the embodiment of a collaboration across the sectors. for us to address some of the

biggest social challenges about face today in this city and across the nation, it is critical for us to cut across sectors, and this is a perfect example of doing that. ron, thank you and congratulations for bricking together the partnership and making it possible 0 for us to turn this vision of the chief into reality. when sf-city approached hfment p. for this opportunity, we were delighted about this idea. really, bringing our technology, our straight-of-the-art projects and the power of that technology into the happened of the sfpd officers and what that could do to mike our city safer as we talked about. we are excited to announce today that h.p. is donating over 60 ultrabooks to this program, to the sfpd and in conjunction with the academy

for training these future officers to enable these officers to be able to do training on the street, which increases their efficiency. anywhere they are at any time, they will be able to access the crime data warehouse. we are delighted to be able to have the tech nol to that. thank everyone for the opportunity, and hopefully this will be the first of many ways we will be able to partner with the city of san francisco. we'll turn it over to susan to talk about what this means to the department. [applause] >> good morning. when the chief first took his position as chief of police, i think it was his very first day, and he was still moving into his office. he said to me i would like for police officers to be able to enter police reports in the field without having to return to the office, and i would like

this to be a web-based system. and i want to meet with you an hour a day until we can meet the on stack it is. he did that. that commitment level and the commitment of the mayor and all of the command staff that has enabled this day and success, thanks. the crime data warehouse is our new state of the art web-based portal and data warehouse used to prevent, solve and manage crime. it is a multi-phase project. we have implemented the first two, which are are the most part, starting with search in october of 2011. we baskly loaded in more than a decade's worth of historic alpolice reports with a search capable. we are just finishing the implementation of incident reporting into all of the district stations. we have rolled it out for all of the district stations as of june of this year. what does that mean for san

francisco? how has that improved the way we manage crime? i want to talk about three things. there are a lot more, but i will go through three, and we will show you the system live. first of all, timely and visible information about crime . so today, because police officers are entering their reports directly into a data warehouse, when a crime happens in the tenderloin, it becomes visible in the mission, the bayview and everywhere else instantly the minute the report is finished. that is huge in terms of identifying crime trend, suspects, m.o.'s, et cetera. secondly, the search capable. as the chief mentioned, you would think we would have already had this type of capable. not only do we have a google type search capable, most of them require you search based

on a way the city is set up. you can search on hair color, but the person should have blonde hair, black hair, blonde hair or other. what if they have purple or red and black hair? this allows you to search on specific hair color, specific anything. the importance of this search capable became important before we even went live with the city. we were in beta test, and we gave it to our robbery investigations team as a test. one of the lieutenants in robbery -- i asked him to be here, and he couldn't be here. he tells it better than i do. we had a serial robbery suspect, and we only had a nickname for that person. it was you unique nickname, but all he had was a nickname. we weren't even live yet. he loaded the information, did a search on the nickname. he found a field interview that an officer had done a couple of

years prior with that individual's name. he took that name out to the social site, and that person had posted a picture of some of the property in question associated with the robberies on his social warehouse. we were able to use it before the system even went live. we will show you the search in a moment. the final thing i want mention about this system is it is web-based. the chief through mike homer's recommendation that it be web-based. why is it important? you have to install a particular software on a particular computer and use it on that computer. here it is where you can get access to the internet. obviously there is security involved, but it allows our officers to enter incident reports anywhere. that is very cool and flexible, but i think the mayor mentioned we still didn't have computers

for the officers. so that is where the significance of what sf-city has done and what h.p. has done. we actually have an h.p. ultrabook sitting here. it is cool, weighs two pounds, titanium enclosed. i keep thinking we should hold it up to see if it would withstand a bullet, but i don't think it does. that allows our officers to have access to the crime data warehouse, but also acksdz to the 24 other criminal justice systems, such as mug shots, f.b.i. most wanted, d.m.v. and all that. essentially they are carrying around a district station in their hand. it was a very important step for us. i want to mention arc-tech's contribution. they can do a better job of

mobile distribution. by the way, there are many people. i would like to recognize the whole team involved. the project director was leo solomon. he is here today, and he is going to work with the inspector who is responsible for training more than 1,300 officers on the system. [applause] >> thank you. what we are going to show you this morning is a couple of screen shots of the crime data warehouse system which will allow you to see exactly what the officer is going to see either on the street or at their computers they are working on now. so here what you have is the search field which, as you can see here, we can search for

anything. description, nicknames, tattoos, partial license plates, hair color and et cetera. this search tab basically functions just like a google type search that you would do at your home computer. when you put in the key word, it searches the entire internet. this searches exactly the same thing, but only our police database which has information to 1981. in this example here we typed in giants hat. so if we type in giants hat and hit search, this is the result that we would get from searching the giants hat. on the first part of our screen basically it shows the text portion, which basically searches for any type of words containing giants hat in a police report. to view that incident, all we would do is click on the incident number, which would give us the actual