projects or incidents or presentations. the day to day forms that the officers typically use in connection with their interaction with the public how many of those forms have been translated and is there a scheduling or a target in terms of getting all of the primary -- >> most of the forms that the officers need are printed in the various languages. the ones i was referring to is as new forms are developed for various reasons. for example the permit department came and said we have a new thing for towing cars and we need one in spanish and we just have english so that was one of them, so i think as units come forward and developing the forms for the public and for information and we need it in

all of the languages of the four in case something comes up. >> good. you're talking about 92 forms. the exist. >> >> existing forms are already? >> some are. there maybe some i'm not aware of and i can't say they're all printed in the four core languages. >> thank you very much for a terrific presentation. >> commissioner chan. >> i will keep it short. thank you for all of your work and it's a testament working with the community. >>i will thank my wife. >> good point. >> and also of course others leadership in making the video possible. it was hours of dedication to get the video done. it must be the best language video on access in the

country and i work with others and i see departments that don't have a policy. i see someone pulled over at two in the morning and the officer said no with interpretation and our department is l -- leagues ahead and i think we should get an award for the work that was done and to be the best for the coming year what i think needs to be done is the continuation of the work and noticing with staff that you pulled together it's really about 90% of the use of language access still through telephone interpretation, language line. only 250 of the total interactions with the officer seems bilingual. that seems low. it could be the data is low or the bilingual officers

are not utilized as often as they could be so there is work to be there and you notice officers not certified and it's not with the department and with human resources and slow and we can push them and it's been years and no reason how slow they have been and also with the civilian employees with the department to receive complaints and certain ones they can't receive and like domestic violence and feeling frustrated that the psa is not explaining the problem and getting interpretation for them so there's a lot of progress made this year and officer chang is doing that and work with the community groups to monitor the situation even the one case where it happens it's problematic and i appreciate the chief is on top of that and

dedicated so many resources to address the concerns and lastly -- i think it's exciting that they have this live -- this much more advanced problem where you can identify officers in real time in the field and dispatch them out and the officer will come faster who is bilingual which is great and i am looking to how that rolls out. i think it really goes live in february. i am curious how will it roll out and a thank you to lisa hoffman who is retiring after a long time with the department so a big thank you to everyone in the working group. i think it's a model example of how the community and the department and occ works together in a really collaborative effort. >> thank you. commisioner dejesus. >> yes. i want to follow up on the thank you too and thank the chief for the leadership and the department behind it and deputy chief [inaudible] and bill -- bill is not here for the word

work and captain lazzaro and his hands on it and all of the department people involved here because it's a serious issue and a important commitment and i want to thank that and thank commissioner loftus and commissioner chan for the hard work and extra time in for something so important so thank you to all. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> chief. >> i guess i will close just to say you're only as good as the folks that do the work so there is a lot of thanking, praise, but no one said i did it but i can tell you from someone that was there everyone did everything. there wasn't ego, just a want to get it done and it came out great and i want to thank the chief and bilingual herself and samoan and the

other chief and he's not here and if that is the swan song he went out on a high note and again thank you to everyone involved. >> thank you chief. >> so next [inaudible] will speak to the traffic enforcement going into 2014 and i want to reassure the public with the situation in the last 10 days with pedestrian safety in san francisco is not lost on anybody. i had a mayor today with the mayor and obviously the top of everyone list. we want to keep the success we had with violent crime but we absolutely need to make an impact on pedestrian safety. we are a very, very popular and destination city. more people are coming all the time. i

know many of the limited english proficiency visitors it's tough to navigate our system especially as we get more crowded so there will be significantly more enforcement and ramp up to staffing with the officers. you will see in one of the slides that the enforcement directly mirrors and 300 officers leave and 300 less to do enforcement but i want to assure the commission and the public if the perception is to have more enforcement we will make that perception changes. giving tickets is not popular. it's expensive. it will create more work for the occ. there is no ticket ever well received however courtesy given so we would like to see a partnership. there's no way we're not going to see more tickets. we are. there will be more enforcement,

especially the intersections to be dangers and we get. complaints and the time to cross the street can be done not on the cell phone or looking down. people shouldn't be texting and it's a expensive ticket and whether uber or regular drivers and pay attention and slow down. we train the officers -- the first thing we tell them on emergency vehicle operations is you have to get there so regardless how fast you can go or in a code three we can safely navigate going through a red light. if you get in a traffic accident and not providing help that is called for you're of no

help to anyone so switching that to the general public and take the 30 seconds to dloa slow down. it takes longer dealing with a police officer giving a ticket or an accident and everyone slow down just like we were taught as kids. look both ways when you cross the street or make that turn we can get back to the safe city they grew up in to cross the street and with they will get to the good commander who i think is technologically prepared. >> thanks chief. i think in light of challenges here we will just use the overhead projector

. good evening commissioners, public. i'm going to start off by addressing the issue on focus of the five. it was a campaign that we initiated -- the chief initiated in december of 2012. the basis of that focus was a report which was analysis of collisions that occurred in our cities, all collisions from 2006 to 2011. that analysis identified the top five primary collision factors involved in those incidents. this report was a result of a collaboration between municipal

transportation agency, the department of public health and the police department. the commanding officers of our stations have all received this report and use the data as a foundation of their enforcement efforts. in terms of the top five behaviors they are driving at unsafe speeds, basically speeding. vehicular violations of red light signals, failure to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. those are marked and unmarked. failure to yield while making a left u-turn and failure to stop at a stop sign, limit line. those five are for all traffic collisions. i'm going to provide you with more recent

analysis of the collision factors for pedestrian fatalities in 2013. we did see an increase in pedestrian fatalities in 2013. a total of 21 pedestrians were killed on our streets opposed to 16 in 2012. december itself was a very tragic month and that seven -- a full third of the total number were killed in december of 2013. >> i'm sorry and how many in 2012 did you say? >> 2012 was 16. 2013 was 21 and seven in december alone. the analysis shows of the 21 nine

were because they did not yield, three attributed to jay walking and two failure to a boy a traffic control device. two were because of the driver driving under the influence. two were identified for unsafe starting. one was red light violation and one a stop sign. >> can i stop you for a second? let's explain for the public -- it's my pet peeve what it means to not yield in a crosswalk. you make a right hand turn and the pedestrian clears the crosswalk. the rule is no turn until the pedestrians are completely out of the crosswalk. is that correct? >> essentially yes. they have to be out of the immediate path of the vehicle. if the light turns green the pedestrian walks

has the same timing in most instances as the vehicle like the pedestrian goes first. you have to wait to proceed and get in a safe position to make your right hand turn. >> thank you. >> and we also did analysis of bicycle collision in 2013 as well. there were four total versus one in 2012. those four the analysis indicated that a turning movement only when safe and signal -- pardon me. the primary collision factor in two of them were turning movement so you can only turn when it's safe to do so. to give you an example you come to an intersection and there is a bicycle lane on the right side.

as the driver you have the responsibility to actually drive your vehicle only when it's safe and clear into that bike lane at the point that the lines are broken. you take the lane and that prevents bicycles from behind you from gets on your side. if you maintain your position in the lane adjacent to the bike lane and make the turn in front of them you're likely to cut them off, so in two cases we had vehicles that maintained their position in their lane as opposed to taking the bicycle lane before making the right hand turn, so that that's an educational piece. we're finding many drivers simply do not know when you come up the bike lane and it's broken and not a solid lane, a broken lane, and making that turn you're supposed to bring your vehicle into that lane taking it

completely effectively signaling to the bicyclists behind you you're making a right hand turn which won't allow them to continue on the path on the right side and directs them to effectively slow or pass on the left side as you are making the turn. one occasion was a vehicle entering the roadway without yielding to the vehicle already in the roadway and that was in fact a bicyclists who came off of a sidewalk crossing a roadway while the vehicle had been turning and unsafe starting in this case was unfortunately a bicyclists adjaisesept to a motor vehicle. they both received a green light; a large commercial vehicle and the bicyclists lost balance and fell into the path of the vehicle.

so the big question is what are we doing relative to traffic enforcement and making a difference in that regard? the mission of traffic enforcement in san francisco is predicated in large part by the mayor's pedestrian safety -- forgive me here. i am having a need for water but there's none. the mayor's pedestrian pedestrian safety strategy. and the police department albeit a large part of that is an aspect of it. the mayor's strategy is the will and here are some of the goals. with focus on distracted driving -- thank you very much. in just about 2008 cell phone laws relative to usage on the phone

and texting came into light. unfortunately there hasn't been a tremendous amount of study on the impact of the use of cell phones in our traffic collisions. in large part in many instances you don't have people admitting to the use of cell phones while involved in collisions. you have officers who go out to enforce the law but at the time of the collision unless in many instances there is someone that observes the use of the cell phone and we note that in the collision in many instances the party is not going to admit to their use and that potentially the cause of being involved in the collision. we engage in -- the police department engages in significant amount of public service. just spoke to media relations and this month we tweeted, facebooked just to remind people as drivers you

have to adhere to the rules of the road because you have a greater stake and the harm you can cause operating a vehicle but as pedestrians and bicyclists as well we have to guarantees our own safety. when we cross the street even with a green light look over your shoulder to see if a car is coming. get off the phone when crossinglet street. not wearing ear buds when operating a bicycle and so forth. these are all things that will ensure your safety. one of the things that was very much and important and identified through this analysis of the collision data from 2006 to 2011 was the identification of the post problematic intersections and speed corridors in our city. this report actually broke down by police district so in every district the captains are aware of the five most problematic intersections where they have

the highest concentration of collisions as well as the speed quarters within those districts as well. those being the foundation obviously as things occur in terms of collisions and input from the community on a monthly basis there maybe adjustments by the captains to redirect their enforcement efforts. speed enforcement with electronic devices -- i have liedar here, light detecting and ranging. it's a device effectively replaced radar guns. it's much more accurate. the challenge in our city is that with 10,000 plus intersections, 1200 miles of roadway not all the roadway has been surveyed by the department of engineering, so that these devices can be used. an example we had two

collisions on bush street, one at hyde and one at lefon worth and although speed wasn't a factor both cases were pedestrian violations we wanted to make sure to use the device in those areas so it's surveyed by the department of engineering as well. part of the roll off was the hand held devices by motorcycle officers to issue citations and sharing of a data base for collisions. that has been put in place. the data sharing is between the police department, the department of public health as well as municipal transportation agency and we're still in full roll out of that as well. mta has full access to the department. hph is getting on board with that and some

issues there. we're hoping by the end of the quarter they have full access to all of the data that is now going in almost on a 30-60 day turn around opposed to a reliance on the state wide integrated traffic system which in some cases had a turn around time of 18 to 24 months of traffic data. here are the citation totals and as the chief pointed out we had a decrease in traffic citations issued and we issued the amount here on the slide and breaks it down into districts and identifies the first five categories are the

focus on the five, the speeding the stop sign and failure to yield when turning or u-turn. another category we think is important to capture in terms of enforcement is the enforcement of cell phone laws. as you can see the officers have written over 4600 citations for cell phones. as the annual month for distracted driving -- particularly cell phone violations is april so we're gearing up for that as well. currently we have a downward trend as it relates to citations but it's in accord to staffing. now we're in upward trend relating to staffing i am v

optimistic and the chief is as well and see an increase commensurate with the increases in the department that we see. here are some of the policies and resources guiding the department in our traffic enforcement and education efforts. as you're aware we have general orders specific to traffic enforcement, vehicle collision, investigations and so forth. in 2013 a number of bulletins were issued that actually supplement the direction that officers receive relative to traffic enforcement. the first one as you can see was the a directive to officers how to and what to do at the scene of a traffic collision. in essence the directive is that officers treat collision scenes as they would a crime scene,

particularly when there is a potential loss of life and you have the potential for criminal charges to be at play. the next unit -- the next bulletin was an announcement for the creation of the traffic enforcement investigation unit associate program. we have officers who have a penance if you will for traffic enforcement, for traffic collision investigation. it requires a high degree of y geometry, physics and not just getting the facts but making conclusions based on physical evidence and so forth and we have a good number of officers who have a interest in that and they have supplemented our investigative capacity of the investigators who are full time in traffic enforcement. third one was the creation of

the traffic collision unit and merging the hit and run unit and the major accident investigation team. that leads me to almost the last one. the last bulletin in terms of vehicle collisions really makes a point that the use of the term vehicle collisions is most appropriate to identify the unintended coming together of bodies on our roadway as opposed to the term "accident." we want to create a mind set within the department as well as with the public that these occurrences aren't acts of god. they are when there's an element of negligence on the part of one party or the other and so we can't continue to look at them as something beyond our control. they're completely within our control if we slow down. if we pay attention, if we get off the phone while

driving and stop at stop signs and red lights this will lessen the issues. that's the driving force behind getting rid of the word "accidents" and obviously i -- i skipped over one. dealing with bicyclists involved and collisions. one of the concerns that we're not capturing all of the incidents involving bicycles involved in collisions. a bicycle driving -- riding down the roadway hits a pot hole and the rider actually takes a fall. that say traffic collision as defined by state law and we have made that clear over the years and we reemphasized that mainly in large part because of concerns it's not taken seriously so we wanted to make sure all of the officers are clear on the topic

when a bicycle is involved it's a traffic collision to be taken as you would any other vehicle collision. and as i rush through this i want to kind of leave you with some good news here. as you're aware the departments is on the upward trend with staffing and also on the upward trend with officers and primary mission is traffic enforcement and the motorcycle officers. we are in tune with projected in staffing levels or goals as you can see. we have february 2014 the goal was to have 24 members at traffic company that are stationed at the hall of justice. we are right there. the district stations we currently have 24 and the airport we currently have three. the good news is

we just started a class on