where we are 28 across the country that identify with the cit program that started there. i can tell you things we are doing here are consistent with their stuff and better in some ways and i think we are going to have a program that fits san francisco's needs. >> if i can highlight a cit, an 8-year-old girl was beyond the control of her mother. the officers were engaged with her in conversation and later they were able to get the girl to give up the knife with police stickers and taken into child protective services. >> thank you, again, for the members of the public this was a project for commissioner chan and myself. what officers are dying is we are making them

street level psycho therapist and giving them the training where they can intervene where they can talk to these folks without going into immediately with the use of force. i want to thank the chief for having the courage and want to thank the officers who are willing to do this. i know the lieutenant that is cit buttons they wear for crisis and intervening training and it a different ways of policing and we need to per effect the program and we are getting there and thank you for agreeing to take over and getting through this process. >> i would like to acknowledge the the department of management. when i started this, i was told with all the constraints that make it possible that take an especially trained officer that are fully integrated with the uniform patrol force and somehow get to particular calls and but i can tell you over the months that we are working with

them there are real solutions and we are going to be able to do that. that's one of our goals and that is the quarter to finalize that so we get a call that is determined to be cit appropriate and send to dispatch to a cit trained unit if one is available and for us to pull the data because we identify which of the calls were assigned to a cit unit. it's a pleasure working with us. we have a complicated world and they are bending things to make it work. >> commissioner loftus was first. >> no, i'm just having been through a number of community meetings and hearing folks that had concerns about people with mental health crisis. i have to commend chief where in a month you took the helm and dealing

with the changes in dealing with mental health patients. oftentimes that requires leadership and i saw across the city the gratitude to you for that and it's a matter of making sure officers are trained and continually unpredictable and that's something that we have to keep doing and keeping them safe as well as having them have the best information at the time to make the best determination. i just want to commend you for this work. it's going to continue to develop. it good to see. >> this you for your presentation and hard work . when we first start there were a lot of people and as we were growing this, i think the

providers are seeing more and more departments and now you are seeing an entire team of people to make this come true. it really wonderful. i wanted to connect the cit pieces that we had prior to this situation. what we are doing now is having the training, setting up the system with d e m and creating an approach. that's the building blocks of the cit. the long-term goal of the cit is strengthen the department and to basically not be pitted against each other when it comes to for example budgeting because all the budgeting issues comes to everybody when it comes to mental health and for the sf p.d. to get where the systems are and the police department needs more funding and for the department to say that we know these and these

type of out patients need more funding and that is a long term goal and longer than that is a one stop shop, a place where officers can hand off people and that can refer people to the right services. so there are a bigger loftier goals and the team that commander has assembled we are going get there. that's exciting. i want to ask if officer pine is going to speak here. i'm just curious. >> thank you for being here tonight. i want to mention one last authentic is the mental health association mentioned to me that they are working on a start of this idea on in between special psych services

to mental health services and looking into a cries center which is going to be modeled by santa cruz where people can just rest and be in a neighborhood type location where you have the different ranges of serves. something they are working on and of course finding the funding is the hard part. that's it. thanks very much. >> one final thing, is there any rms, recommendation, i don't want to give the officers anymore work but when they find people who are dirty and they are not providing to themselves. i don't know the to add to 9-1-1 calls. what do you suggest we do. in the city of saint frances it's in humane

when we see people lying in guters. >> that's a 9-1-1 call. >> we can tell you that we are just back from memphis and they have a single point of entry where everybody goes of everybody who has a mental illness or needs respite care or needs detox. i was there for a couple hours and the officers were in and out in 15 minutes. it's an ngo. i can tell you, it was really a one stop in and out and so someone that needed to maybe rest for a day, there would be a bed available for them there. they can stay up for three days. a very

complicated environment and 5 different levels of care availability in one facility and state hospitals nearby. although they ultimately told us that somewhere around 60 percent of the people that go to the state hospital four blocks way are not accepted there and released back out but the initial intake offered a lot of services for folks. >> anything further for the commander? thank you very much. >> i apologize for the length of this but our next presentation is commissioner loftus will be on the state of sexual assault dna testing and captain dan prea.

>> thank you. i asked for a presentation from the department on whether or not we are testing a kit whether there is a backlog that exist. i know for a time there was a backlog in the crime lab in 2010 and i asked for an up date from the department and where we are in terms of resources and any improvement we've seen and where work needs to be done so

i look forward to hearing about the department about where we are at. >> good evening, president mazzucco, vice-president marshall. i'm the community for the services division for the police department. my presentation is on the sexual assault crime lab and the improvement that we have made under the chief's administration. the the crime lab is accredited by the national accrediting body that provides the best practices and inspection for crime labs so

everybody that is operating in the same manner and it's required for lab to conduct testing. our crime lab currently uses four scientific disciplines for analyzing evidence. first it's forensic biology otherwise known and dna and the second is firearms analysis and third is gunshot residue and trace evidence which includes questions documents and the fourth is forensic alcohol which follows instruments for the use and dui investigations as well as accident investigations. the scientist that we have are known as criminalist. their responsibility is to analyze evidence and providing reports

and testimony and managing grants and outsourcing of dna testing. some of their other responsibilities include valid dating, calibrating and maintaining scientific implementation and providing information to investigate oris and conducting internal audits and quality assurance management. in 2012 there were questions about -- conducted under the chief administration. we conducted an inspection of the laboratory. that's an involved process. it requires preparation by the lab staff to gather documents, records and be present and available to conduct interest interviews

when the team arrives to answer questions when they are engaged in. we received new accreditation which is good until 2015. the dna analysis -- we faced a number of challenges that were related to capacity cases that the crime lab can analyze. one of the program that we instituted in 2011 was the additional sexual assault evidence program which we call a s a p. the intent of

this program is to gather the most probative evidence swab that we can get when a survivor of a sexual assault has an examination or a sexual assault kit is collected. that sample is collected by the trauma nurses and delivered to the police department within 72 hours of collection. the strategy behind the asap program is we are trying to provide and at some point for the expedited work load for sexual assault cases where the suspect is unknown. the program

that we are using s a c program, the swabs that are collected, every kit we get at the crime lab is tested. the s a c swabs are collected. if they are negative, we still have the sexual assault kit that the hospital collects which we then proceed to test. the dna staff, we have at the crime lab is split up in two teams for the same of efficiency, for the sake of screening and analysis of evidence. we have members that

are assigned to a 3 month rotation for the sac program and the idea behind that is to allow somebody to be fresh, energized and be able to put out the amount of attention and casework related to sexual assaults. all the sexual assault kits that we receive at the crime lab are tested. one thing that is important at the crime lab is partnership. the crime lab has a special partnership with many of the entities involved with service and investigation to sexual assault survivors. we partner

with a special victims unit, trauma and treatment nurses and the first tuesday of every month there was a meeting they call the sart meeting where all the stake holders involved in this process get together and what that provides is an opportunity for people from different sides of this process to talk about what is the best way to serve the survivors of sexual assaults. when we implemented this program in 2011, we had a lot of discussion and collaboration with the sexual assault response team. the nurses, as to how the evidence was

collected and one of the things we accomplished in 2011 was we created a form that all police officers give to victims of sexual assaults. that form is the sexual assault victims rights card. it's double sided. on one side of the card we have all the information of the penal code that delineates all the rights that the victim of the sexual assault has. on the reverse sides there is information about what they can collect from the police department as well as identifying the officers who they are in the investigation. i have an example of a sexual

assault case. the march 2nd. the kit is collected at the hospital. two days later that kit arrives at the crime lab. the following day biological screen is completed and dna is started. on the 12th the analysis report is completed and the report submitted for technical review. on the 14th, the technical review is complete and by notice by way of a report is september to svu. on the 15th, that swab was entered into the national data base. it's searched every week. once we enter a profile for an unknown suspect it is searched weekly. we have a record and number of how many upload that

we put into this for different periods. i can't provide you with a number of hits or matches because there are times one sample, one profile will hit to one individual, but that individual could have been uploaded in other cases and other jurisdiction. it could have samples from previous arrest. it would have more than one hit. that number would not really tell the entire story. after that profile is entered on friday, the search is conduct over the weekend. on monday our crime lab gets e-mail notification of a match. that information is forwarded to the inspector and ultimately it results in the arrest of a suspect on april 2nd, 2013. >> what is coat us stand for.

>> it's the combined -- i want to get you the information. big moments call for big response. the purpose of code us is there is a national data base that is monitored, not monitored that is exiled compiled by the fbi and purpose is to enter sexual assault profile cases from property crimes, homicide so that if an individual isn't identified locally by witness es or other investigative tools in many cases a burglar who has done this before, has been arrested, the profile is

contained in that data base. now what i didn't tell you initially, i will tell you right now which is this here is a very tight perfect world example. the process to get to this stage is very complicated. the dna analysis of evidence out at the crime lab is not as straight forward as a let news test. the police report and often with the investigation that is required and the second part is screening of evidence, physical evidence, swabs to determine if there is any biological material present that can be tested. we move on to extraction, amplification and then finally a report has to be

written. that report undergoes a peer review. once a criminalist completes a report one of their peers is task with viewing it. some of those reports can be hundreds of pages long. there is calculations in there. someone with a college degree could hope to sort out. after that is done t report moves on to one of our supervisors who does the technical review, so basically a second check. once all of that information is confirmed, a report can be issued to the investigator. so in the case where we have a match, code us will have a profile on record and we have a different number of markers alleles that are coin attained -- in the helix.

the folks who work at the crime lab all scientist have a very methodical scientific approach to everything. this is not work that can be rushed. so what happens is that once we get a match from code us that has to be received, we have to look at the information we have that we entered in this case 3 days before, before we can report back to the inspectors. this is our goal. this is what we are striving for at the crime lab. this chart shows the number of sexual assault cases that we have received out of the crime lab. again collecting number from the group of criticismist

criminalist in our lab reports. they want to get the most correct true answer they can give you. these are the number of cases that we got. but what you have to consider is that with every sexual assault case there can be multiple request. every case has a different level of complexity. we can have a sexual assault kit where we get an asap swab and we get a match and there is no need to proceed to other items. we have that match and they can get to special victims that they can follow-up on and possibly make an arrest. our crime lab like any other crime lab in the

country has a challenge of capacity. there are only so many cases that a criminalist can do, even that number which is 60 also requires some explanation which is if i had 60 burglary cases or 60 case if i had a suspect with a gun. they get a swab, we swab the gun and we get a reference sample from the suspect, two swabs. that's as straight forward that a dna gets. in a sexual assault, we can have up to 20 swabs in a sexual assault kit, we can have bedding, undergarments, other physical evidence that has to be tested, so with a number of evidence we get, we have to do the most that we can with the resources that we have. this chart the lower dark blue bars are sexual

assault cases. the taller bars that we got from the dna analysis that we do at the laboratory. the little numbers are included in the bigger bars. so we have 441 request from 2010. 539 from 2011 and this year we are up from 264. if you do any kind of review or searching on the internet or talk to any of the scientist that we have from a number of california association of criminalist or other professional working groups, the training they go to, are everyone will tell you there is one truism in this profession and that is the demand for dna analysis has increased exponentially with the public knowledge of this science being available. there are many cases where the majority of cases where the system district

attorneys, d. a.'s office request this evidence because they know that jury 's demand it. they go into a courtroom they expect to see dna evidence. one of the challenges that we face is a number of criminalist that we have. in 2010 we had 3 criminalist that were available to do independent casework and one supervisor. that's four people. that year we had 441 request for dna. what you have to consider about criminalist is like police officers, there is a training period and a probationary period. the criminalist have a philosophy that speed kills. there is no, while the chief was able, as

you can see through 2012 to expedited hiring. there is no way to expedited an individual's training. we have the guideline that mandate the type of training and efficiency that criminalist have to demonstrate when an individual is eligible they can be signed off to do independent casework. the last part, from 2010 we have 3 and 1 and today we have 2 supervisors and 13 criminalist. the lead supervisor she's part of a lot of working groups from one of the training seminars she went to. she go the the idea of creating two teams. you have a group of people doing screening

and moving on to the group of criminalist who do the dna analysis, the quantity fiction and amplification. the increase in the numbers that we have is going to increase the amount of cases that we can turn around at the crime lab. this year we are hoping to add to our staff again by four criminalist. the polls that we have for the crime lab we are going to add two supervisors and criminalist and continue the regime that we have with three individuals that we have 3 entry level criminalist and they can move on to the next step and do independent casework.