mail through the court to that violater and she has been notified that citation was issued and we also received a call from a identify other people that want their issued. our audit is the same and ongoing and we will get the backlog cleared up. >> and not have one going forward. we had a little bit of violence but the officers did a great job on january 18th at approximately 10:30 four suspects approached a victim and one of the suspects shot at the victim, striking the victim, the suspects fled and the victim was transported and is in stable condition, the officers observed the vehicle in the park and the suspects fled two were later ap prehended and the firearm was recovereded as well. there was a stabbing on the embarcadero on the 19th, at a quarter to 2:00 in the morning and the suspect was stabbed and placed him under arrest and that victim is also in stable

condition. we had a second shooting, at turk and tailor. on the 19th, at 9:00 p.m. the victims were standing on the street, heard the gun shots and two of the victims realized that they had down struck and the responding officers located the suspect and placed him under arrest and recovered the firearm and the third was at jennings and gilman in the bay view and there shots were fired from the vehicle and striking the driver, and the suspect fled the scene, the victim is in stable condition, and the officers were able to locate and pursue and arrest the suspect vehicle, without incident, and the suspect is discarded the firearm during the per suit and it was recovered, and the events not happening at all, and all four events the suspect and the weapon responsible for the injuries was taken into custody. and no one was more thankfully, nobody was more seriously hurt than to be in stable condition

and no officers were hurt, so great job. and then, finally, on martin luther king day. there were many events and a lot of officers out. and we were at the labor breakfast in the morning and we were at john mirror school kiaser and a lot of volunteering went on and wenlt to the african center and closed with a freedom march at the train with at least the whole command staff and just about every member of the ofj and numerous other officers and great time and perfect weather and i think that all in all, we did right by dr. king in holding him in the memory that he should be, and so with that i will make the first introduction of the presentation if there are no questions on those, items? >> thank you, chief. >> and i am going to ask, lieutenant fong, and gracie to come forward. we have a joint presentation

this year because both of these fine lieutenants were at some point in time 2013 the officer in charge of the joint terrorism traffic force and i thought that since fong is the current officer in charge and that i would have him make the presentation, but gracie is here should you have any questions about turning her tenure before she switched over to be the night commander at southern station. >> good evening. president mazzucco, and fellow commissioners chief, and director hicks. i am the lieutenant in charge of the special investigations division. i will be presenting the annual report on the san francisco police department involvement with the federal joint task force, this template used to develop this presentation was based on input and discussion with the members of the coalition for a safer san francisco, and resulted in a subsequent request and responses and i will read off

the list of requests and i will provide the related responses in the numerical order. and number one, the number of times that uncover officers were pursued with the sfpd joint terrorism relationships, no member of the san francisco police department was used to perform under cover work in the year 2013. no member of the sfpd was used as an infiltrater in the year. no requests were made of the members to perform in either of these capacities, in the year of 2013. number two. number of officers and number of officers working with the joint terrorism task force in the prior calendar year and the total number of hours served in that capacity and the sfpd staffing of the joint terrorism task force in 2013, consisted of two full time employees, a full time employee of the san francisco police department

works approximately 2080 hours per year, number three, a complete description of violation and possible violations of the ordinance and there were no violations or possible violations of the ordinance in the year of 2013. 3a, the causes of the violations on possible violations and sections of the ordinance that were violated and 3 b, the actions taken as a result of the discovery of the violation or the possible violation including whether any officer has been disciplined as a result of the violation or the possible violation. and 3 c, recommendations of how to prevent the recurrence of the violation or possible violation of the ordinance that were discovered during the prior year. this was not applicable based on 3a. number four, a complete description of how the ordinance was being implemented in terms of the federal government's cooperation with the ordinance. and the f.b.i. is familiar with

our department's policy and procedures, specifically, san francisco police department guidelines for first amendment activities which is governed by 8.10. the general operator, on operations, and the ordinance and they are aware that members of the san francisco police department must comply with the provisions contained there in. >> the members of the san francisco department are subject to these guidelines, in any circumstances where sfpd policy is more restrictive than f.b.i. policy and sfpd officers have and will continue to comply with the policy. and 4 a. including whether the ordinance has imp inged the ability for the department to receive terrorism related information from the federal government. i am not aware of the ordinance impinging on any ability of the san francisco list department to receive terrorism related information and however it is

possible. 4 b, whether it is the federal government has been cooperative in the san francisco police department's effort to implement the legal standards of the ordinance and whether and how the ordinance is effecting the sfpd, f.b.i., joint terrorism task force relationship. and the federal government, understands through the restrictions, placed on members of the san francisco police department. and he had been respectful on the insistence that the officers assigned to the joint terrorism task force follow the san francisco police department policy. the sfpd maintains a close professional working relationship with our colleagues within the f.b.i. 4 c, a complete description of any issues in relation to sfpd's process of insurancing that the ordinance is being implemented and there were no issues relating to the san francisco police department processes in insurancing that the ordinance is being implemented. number five, a complete description of any sfpd funds used in the sfpd and f.b.i.

joint terrorism task force relationship and any issues resulting from those expenditures. and the san francisco police department pays salaries of the task force officers in 2013. and these officers use the personal equipment, and issued by the san francisco police department and the other expenses such as over time, vehicles, and communication devices remain the responsibility of the f.b.i. and number six, a complete description of the oversight system created to insure compliance with the ordinance, and the joint terrorism task force officers, including a, a description of the relevant trainings provided to sfpd officers. and two, sfpd officers, currently assigned to the jttf are the officers where they combine, 56 years of law enforcement experience and there are sergeants who have been assigned to the jttf for several years, one of eleven years and six years.

they are familiar with the guidelines and restrictions in the general order 8.10 and the order 2011,-07 and the ordinance there to adhere to. 6 b, the extent to which sfpd officers enjoy access to legal counsel and questions that arise in the course of the work. the officers have the same access to the city attorney as other san francisco police department officers. the deputy city attorney assigned to the police department is katherine mahoney. >> 6 c. the level extent and the frequency of supervision provided to the officers working with the joint terrorism task force. the officers have frequent contact with their immediate superviser, myself, and the commander and investigations and a deputy chief of operation and number seven, a complete description of the command

structure relating to sfpd officers who are working with the f.b.i. joint terrorism task force, the immediate supervisors of myself and fong of the special investigation's division, who report to the commander of investigations reports to the deputy chief of operations, and deputy chief loftus, and who directs to the chief of police. and after jttf, the officers report to the supervisorry special agents who report to an assistant special agent in charge who reports to the special agent in charge, david johnson. number 8. the number of requests from outside agencies for access to the records of sfpd and f.b.i. and jttf activities including a, the number of requests granted and b, the number of such requests denied.

there will be no such requests for the member of the public for access for the members of the sfpd relating to the compliance and pursuant to the general order in 2013. 9, the number of requests by members of the public, related to ordinances, including the number of such requests for document and information was produced, b, the number of such requests where the documents are information did not exist, or c, the number of requests denied. following the 2012, report to the police commission, in january of 2013, the police department received several requests for members of the coalition for a safe san francisco. the requesting the additional information on the stpd operations they have worked with the members of the coalition to create the template created for this report. number 1 0, description of the role and duties of the member

of the joint terrorism task force, and in 2013, the primary role of the san francisco pd officers assigned in the joint terrorist task force is for the sharing between the sfpd and federal and state and local agencies involved in the jttf. the officers were among the first to respond to he ising mroetion and fire of the counsel of general of the people's public of china on january first, 2014. join terrorist task members worked around the clock and the

colleagues from the f.b.i. until a suspect was arrested on january 3, 2014. sfpd officers of the joint terrorism task force conducted the comprehensive threat assessments and provided the security for many special events in san francisco, including but not limited to america's cup, breakers, and the 49ers and giant's games and outside lands and sf marathon and the strictly blue grass festival and new year's eve. note, the f.b.i. was invited to appear before the commission meeting for the annual on the jttf but it was unable to accept, however, i would like to read a letter that was addressed to the chief dated january 22, 2014, on behalf of david johnson, the special agent in charge of the f.b.i. dear chief, i am in receipt of your letter dated january 16,

2014, regarding your department's annual report to the police commission, i would not be able to attend due to a scheduling conflict, and as you are aware, the federal bureau of investigation, values its working relationship with the san francisco police department and its assistance to the task force, as we have stated in the previous correspondence and numerous personal meeting, the f.b.i. cannot and does not investigate persons based solely on the expression of any first amendment protected activity. >> and we are very appreciative of your department's efforts. and with regard to the jttf, and in keeping our community safe david johnson. >> and that concludes my presentation. >> i would just like to south dakota, that barge, the staff attorney for the national staff and civil right's program for the asian american adjusting justice, contacted our office for a copy of this report, and

we furnished it in hopes that we could have a better conversation, i think it was a good question by her. >> so i assume that there are people there to do that. >> right. >> okay. >> and so that concludes our report. >> absent any questions that you may have. >> questions? >> he just have one question. >> is there a way to get a copy of that letter from the f.b.i. >> yes, i can provide that to you. >> yes. >> other questions? >> thank you. >> is there a representative that will speak on behalf that the chief just mentioned? >> well, the chief said that there had been a request and orderly, you would be able to speak during the public comment but the chief has opened the door for somebody from your

group to speak a little bit about the request and any information that you would like to share with us. probably should not do this because it is off the agenda. we were going to do it any way. there is not a general representative. >> okay, come forward, please. >> okay. >> >> thank you, for the opportunity to speak, earlier before the public comment and my name is alahi and i am a attorney in the national security and civil rights program. and we are grateful for the opportunity to have viewed the report earlier that gave us a chance to put together some more constructive comments and in a number of other folks from the community will be providing comment later as well. my colleagues and i had the following questions concerning the report that was released today and was presented today.

first, on page 1, section one, relating to the use of enformants. we have asked a number of times for a clarification on whether the san francisco police department officers worked with the informants that are cultivated with the members of the f.b.i. and the jttf and we were hoping for an answer to that and would like a notation in the report reflecting that information and second on page 4, section ten, regarding i think, the report says the primary role of the officers is to establish the liaison and to facilitate information sharing between the sfpd and federal and state and local agencies and i think that some other folks will be elaborating on later, that the entire political environment around this issue has changed over the past half year, with revolution about the national security agency. and the role that nsa collected data has played in forwarding the lead to the f.b.i. and so one of our concerns, and hopes will be that knowing more about

whether sfpd is using the jttf as a way to share and dissiminate information through those programs and we are concerned, given the court rulings that those programs are unconstitutional and that information collected through them might be relied upon by sfpd and another thing that we would like to learn about is whether the relationship with the jttf relates to the sharing and investigation of suspicious activity report and these reports are extremely problematic and we recently issued a release of a number of them not from the san francisco area but from the nearby california, areas, that suggest that constitutionally protected behavior form a large number of reports and a strong trends of racial profiling as well. we have released a number of those on the website but they do relate to the investigation or reporting of people who are

unfriendly middle east attorney neighbors and the likes, that is what raised our concerns >> but not from san francisco. >> but it is a program that we know is participated in by san francisco, and we just have not seen information about what that role looks like here but we have received them from central california, yeah. >> and third, on page 4, section ten as well, describing the activities engaged in, and the officers in, and it mostly just describes the mission of jttf and not the actual work. and we still believe that there is more information that could be shared with the public to shed greater light on that role. in particular, and in 2012 in an interview with excuse me the san francisco examiner, the chief was able to share that jttf, sfpd officers had followed up on 2,000 tips through their role in jttf and so that i think it would be helpful to add more information about the number and the types of activities that are undertaken by the officers working with jttf and also to

answer the questions like whether the officers are involved in voluntary interviews, pursued by the f.b.i. and the jttf that do effect the members of the arab and muslim communities in san francisco. and we do appreciate the progress that has been made in this report in last year and the cooperation of the community's concerns and in collaboration with the police department and that we also appreciate your ongoing commitment to insuring the protection of the civil rights in san francisco, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> commissioner turm an? >> thank you for sharing those concerns. i don't have much more to add, but i will say that i would like the department to reexamine the answers and question number 4 a, number 8 and number 9. for the specific questions the

report was responds to not seem wholly responsive. >> okay. >> so, in number a, 4 a, we are not aware of the ordinance impinging on our ability. >> not to say that we are not aware, just say that i am not aware and speaking for an individual and not the department who does that reference. >> okay. and i will work with them on building out these answers. okay. >> but it is possible with kind of... >> no we discussed that, that is in there in error. >> okay. >> i just want us to be a little bit more clear and speak for the department and not for

the individuals. >> okay. >> commissioner loftus? >> i think that we are on the right track, as a commissioner gives me more clarity, but i appreciate the feedback that we have gotten so far, and i appreciate the follow through, both by the department and by the advocate to really sort of get at what the heart of the issues are and i think that the department and the chief has represented that in san francisco, we do things differently and we are proud of that, and i think that more transparency where we can and important and i find this report much more helpful to me and i look forward to you guys continuing to work on that but i certainly thank everyone that took the time to come here and follow on this issue because i know that it was a big issue in 2013 i appreciate the work that you have done as well. >> and line item 3, the last part of the presentation regarding the sexual assault dna. >> we will do the public comment afterwards. when we finish the items.

>> sexual assault and dna testing. >> thank you. >> good evening, president mazzucco, and vice president turman, and commissioner loftus, commissioners, chief, director hicks. i am here this evening to provide a report on the department's sexual assault kit processing. there are three areas that i am going to address. we requested that we address the tests that have not been sent to the lab for testing, we assigned the inspecters to review the files in each case, the review confirmed that the kits in these cases were not sent to the lab based on an investigative determination from one of several categories. one, the suspect identity was known. two, the district attorney's office discharged the case,

three, the ada, the assistant district attorney, stated that the dna analysis was not required, and number four, out of jurisdiction incidents where the investigation was conducted by another agency, and in the jurisdiction where the crime occurred, and five, the survivor sought medical treatment only. the second area was an internal audit that was conducted in the property control division. and captain john fenny the commanding officer of the property control division conducted an audit of a ten-year span from 2003, through 2012. his audit counted all of the sexual assault kits that were collected, or excuse me, that were taken into custody by the police department, during that ten-year span. 1707 kits were taken into custody by the property control

division. of that group, 813 cases were sent to the crime lab for analysis. 894 cases of that group were not sent to the crime lab for analysis. however, in that group, 141 cases were the subject of our asap protocol and asap as you may recall is the department created program for, that the asap stands for the additional sexual assault evidence program. and what that does is there is a separate kit and an asap kit that is collected at the time of an examination of the survivor of a sexual assault, that kit is transported directly to the crime lab within 72 hours of being collected and it is assigned for analysis immediately there after. so, the group of 894, minus the

group of 141 asa cases leaves us with a remainder of 763 assault kits that have not been tested. the chief has ordered the testing of these remaining kids and the department will utilize outsourcing services for test and reduce the impact on demand but this will create in our crime lab and the department recently obtained an extension for the outsourcing services contract that we have been utilizing for the last few years. we are also obtaining a contract for the proposal process. and in the final area of my presentation that i want to address, is the department's strategy moving forward, in terms of sexual assault kit processing and effective january first of this year, department expanded the asap program to include all sexual

assault kits that were collected at mission emergency hospital for both identified and unidentified suspects sexual assaults. and we have partnered with the rape, trauma center nurses at mission emergency hospital. to implement this protocol, and it is being done today as we speak. the department is going to request funding to meet the increased demand that this is going to create for testing of sexual assault kits in our asap program for our expansion. last year at the crime lab we had two super vicers and 13 criminals in the dna unit and we hired two additional supervisors in the unit and we are in the process of hiring three additional analysts for the dna unit in the laboratory. once, those hires are completed, that is going to bring us to four supervisors

and 15 analysts in the dna unit. the department also utilized grant funding to restructure our existing laboratory space, in the dna unit, we have added new benches which are work stations for our dna criminalists, and those additions can accommodate up to 8 additional criminalists. and we also have a new microscope area and most importantly, dedicated evidence screening room that accommodates up to 4 analysts at one time and as of this evening, all sexual assault cases at the crime lab are assigned. and in the process of being or in some process of being analyzed. and finally, when i was before the commission, last year, our turn around time for sexual assaults at that time our average was nine weeks.

and looking at all of the cases that we have analyzed at the crime lab for the year we actually reduced our average turn around time for eight weeks which is pretty good. >> i should probably say it a little bit stronger than that, it is actually very good. last year, before, appearing before the commission, we had tried to gather information on or from the other laboratories in the bay area about what the average was for sexual assault cases and the information that we could gather is that it was 12 weeks. and so we are at this point, for the year, four weeks ahead of the curve, which is outstanding. >> thank you, captain, and so we have more bodies now working in the lab and we have increased since the last presentation with more to come, correct? >> yes, how many cases are assigned to each analyst? >> yes. >> commissioners i am sorry to interrupt, but apparently there are technical difficulties with the audio and we have a

gentleman here from sftv who needs to do the adjustments because the television show is not picking up. could we recess for a couple of minutes? or pause for a couple of minutes? thank you. >> sure. [recess] >> we are back on the air now with captain peria and we have talked about increasing the staffing and how many cases are assigned to each analyst? >> analysts in the dna unit can have anywhere from 20 to 30 cases assigned to them at one time and that sounds like a big number, but the reason for that is that again, the process is very deliberate and organized and you can have a group of four cases and you can have four cases in one batch, that go through different stages so they are very efficient and the case is moved through the