supervisors and it was a great group and on friday i attended the last day retirement party for deputy chief john loftus who has been before this commission on numerous occasions and he is well known for his very brief, presentations, sometimes too brief, commissioner chan? >> and i teased him because sometimes he gets up to speak and the chief would turn and goes here comes the voice and he put on his voice but he is a great leader and he served almost every capacity in this department. with honor. and he was a perfect gentleman, a great investigator and i heard a little story yesterday, i was talking to an individual who works in the police gas station and he told me that department loftus, said thank you for everything that you do. thank you for everything that you do. and that is the leader. and just sort of sums it up and he is going to be greatly missed and enjoy his

retirement, but he was a good guy. >> commissioners? >> commissioner chan? >> i will certainly miss deputy chief loftus and two of my favorite police officers and since i joined the police commission and the yuf nile justice policy and i am sad that i think that they look too young to retire because they object to that. and i know that they are going to do a lot for it and going forward as the alumni of the department and so a couple of things, we know that commissioner kingly is no longer to the commission and she reorganized her house and did the detailed and commissioner turman and all of the things that we need to do and commissioner kingsley is also the one on the commission that asked the very detailed and very thoughtful questions and she listens to every word of every presentation here. and she is something who is very compassionate and very hard and committed to the city.

and i am sad that she is not on the commission any more but i know that she is moving on to bigger adventures and two more things and one is a couple of weeks ago on valentine weekend, on the lum nar parade, goit to walk with the chief. and the line members of the department and it was the coolest percent ever and hundreds of thousands of people and i was waving and my husband joined me and how exciting to with in the city and, i assume and it was quite exciting and lastly, the crisis intervention team and i wanted to mention that mental health association and which is a major association here in san francisco and in the mental health policy issues. and at their banquet this friday and i just learned about this, and he is going to train up the cit officers and to really get it going, this

apparatus of connecting our cit offices with the need and there is a lot of need to be done and the commander took up that work and is engaging in it and he is recognized and that is exciting. >> there will also be a panel specifically about the san francisco cit program this coming friday at the dignity and recovery conference and i will be on that panel and support the work that they are doing and the mental elth providers and it will be on this friday. and around and is there anything further? >> okay, if you like to call item... well if you call line item 3 d. >> i would like to make an announcement. >> okay. >> do you want to go? >> i did not see the button. >> i don't have a button, that is okay. >> in between buttons that is okay. i will use this mic, that is more important. and more dangerous. and i would like to thank the

chief to come from that and highlights that the police department goes to our organization which is one of the three in the building and we worked with it in the health center and to create a response wrapped around the pediatric home for kids and familis in the bay view and the on the third floor is the children's advocacy center. and this is one of the best practices in the child abuse investigation and what it means is that instead of a child having to go to five different place and get interviewed in five different rooms, there is one child friendly location that they go to and they can get the short term counseling right after that and it is really going to help the city and the department and the da's office and hold the folks accountible who hurt kids and it is an important part of the space and it was great to have you there and thank you for your ongoing support for kids in san francisco. >> and i just wanted to clear up the record, loftus is neither my dad or my husband and i did not actually meet him

until i was already a district attorney and i married into the loftus family and i will tell you that i was able to benefit from marrying into the loftus family because the police officers who got a subpoena from district attorney loftus thought that i was his daughter or something and so they were very quick to respond and he just had an incredible reputation not only as a gentleman and a professional and just a really good officer who took the job seriously and valued the public trust and good at investigating case and that is mourned by me despite being married to him and having him as my dad. >> commissioner turman? >> i wanted to join, commissioner chan as well as yourself and mr. president, and congratulations deputy chief, loftus, on his retirement and thanking him for that. and i want to acknowledge that kingsley will be greatly missed and i did do a great deal.

i know that she is pursuing other activities, to make it even more committed to san francisco, and i wish her the best of luck. for i would be remiss if i did not say what a tremendously brilliant organization that john irvine foundation is for awarding loftus who is a tremendous san franciscan, and an advocate for children and an advocate for her community and she is just, fabulous to serve on this commission as well. thank you for all of your work. >> thank you. >> and thank you, commissioner loftus and we are going to set aside a date where we are going to honor commissioner kingsley and i am not sure whether or not her regular resignation has gone through. >> there is an announcement

that turman and i put together. and basically it is meant to explain to the public, what the commission can or cannot comment on regarding this. and as you are well aware that after the joint investigation, and a very important factor, the joint investigation between the san francisco police department and the f.b.i. and an indictment was returned from the us attorney's office and here in the northern district of california and commissioner turman i have talked about this and we are both federal prosecutors. and so we understand the process, and we ask you the public is to understand and appreciate and respect the process, the process of both the criminal system and the civil system and we cannot about the specifics of these charges because those charges i will be before this commission and it will be unable to comment on them, but what we

can comment on is that the public does not rely upon hearsay rumors or gossip and let it play out, those officers or the five officers are the current officers of the police department and one that has been terminated by this commission as this sit here today, they are innocent proven guilty and that is a premises that all of us have been part of. having said that when we are interviewing for the police chief last time, one of the questions that came up during the process is that we were made alleged of the possibilities. and we asked the captain sir, what would his strategy be for this situation and then the captain would have the best answer and the best strategy and now he is the chief.

and what he did was implement and the four that were assigned to work on the investigation and he gets credit for that and the fact that there was more training for the under cover officers, and a significant amount of training, and bruce was brought in to train them and in the fine arts of under cover activity. and more supervisor vision was provided. and there are sergeants out on the searches now, and finally, there is rotation, out of those units and that is what the chief said that he was going to do and he is doing it. and the last piece of the puzzle, hopefully it will be any day now, there is a glitch, but the officers will be fitted with cameras, during those searches. and so, that is what the chief has done, and the commission we deal with the policy, and procedure, and that is operations. and sometimes, operations spills into the policy and procedure, but i just wanted the public to know that the chief has addressed those issues and i do not want any

sort of negative publicity to hurt the pride and the courage of the 2,000 officers that risk their lives on a daily basis, responding to the calls on service and we should not let that taint their reputation and those officers, remember, you are the guardian of the public trust. and we talk about standards. and we do hold you to a higher standard. thank you. >> 3 d, commissioner announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings, action. >> we are here at 5:30 and dark the 19th, and no meeting on the 19th and then on the 26th we will be in the tenderloin district and we don't have a location as of yet. but by the march 12th meeting we will have a location. >> any further announcements or

identified items for consideration from the commissioners? >> i just have one, inspector monroe, you are the head of this and i might be behind, did we pick a date for the discussion of the bicycle pedestrian an safety resolution? >> next week. it is the 12th commissioners. >> great, thank you. >> okay. so now it is time for public comment and all of these line items come on forward. thank you for waiting we appreciate it. >> i apologize, before i didn't know how you were doing it. so i am still michael and i am still here. i wanted to address a few things that came up in the chief's report. specifically about the 6 officers, five who were on the active duty one who is not. and who are indicted last week, the first question that i have is do many of my friends, what did the former chief, know? we are talking about george

gascon who is now the district attorney in my opinion is very ambition politician and will be running for office and why didn't he notice what was going on under, his watch and the question has to be raised that are these the only cops who were or who allegedly acted badly? are there other cops who are harassing the residents of sros? or otherwise, not acting in good faith as police officers? and i asked that question because i can't recall what or whoever got held accountable for what we called the fajita gate. you know? a lot of us see law enforcement as one entity. the sheriff the cops, and the da. we don't distinguish one institution, one agency from another per se.

and we see you, altogether and when we see things like it took years to get those cops indicted. we are like, wow, i guess that you better not take a picture of a supervisor in the bathroom, that will move fast, but if you are going to harass the residents of sros and you are a cop and they are going to capture that on camera, it is going to take years for some accountability. >> now, there is also this issue of the fire department guy who was drunk and created an accident, almost a year ago. still no indictment. what this has to do with the rogue cops is a rogue fire officer. we don't see the criminal justice system gearing up to take those folks into the criminal justice system and hold them accountable. and i think that one thing that the police department really needs to look at, is putting

george gascon before the cameras, putting him in the hot seat, to answer questions of why did all of this happen on your watch, and on the day that the indictments are coming down he is holding a state of the district attorney's office. and excuse me. there is an attempt there, i believe to obscure his role in what went down. >> thanks for the public comment >> any further comments on these issues. >> hearing none, the public comment is closed and call the line item. >> four, hearing on a disciplinary charges filed against assistant patrol special officer john barry file number alw iad 2013-0154 of discussion or possible action

or sustain specifications. >> ashley on behalf of the san francisco police department, good evening. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is a hearing with reference to the charges that were brought against a patrol special officers john barry and the matter was set for hearing tonight and these matters are public and i will note for the record and i will ask, is patrol special officer john barry present? >> i will note for the record by dr. marshall that he is not present. and do you have anything to share with me regarding this, the attempts to serve or conversations with patrol officer barry or should we have officer brown come forward >> i think that he has information but i will provide. when we actually suspended patrol special officer barry we sent him notice by certified

mail and express mail, it came to the department certificated mail and the u.s. postal service, attempted twice to serve the letter on patrol specialist and he did not accept service of that letter, however, he was aware of the hearing, that was schedule, for february the 19th in the morning and he was aware of the hearing because he called officer brown and told her that he would be unable to attend the hearing, due to car problems and realizing that i notified him that i would need to set it for the police commission and it was set for this date at 5:30, i believe that recent from the office sent a letter to officer barry for the certified mail and we

have not heard from him sense, and officer brown may have some additional. >> and before officer brown comes forward, let me tell the public that he has been accused of not having proof of commercial liability insurance, and auto liability insurance, which is required for patrol special officers to endemnify the city as pursuant to the procedures. >> and to provide it with the names and address and telephone numbers of the assistant patrol specialist that worked for him or provide a list of the clients that he is charging the fees to for this protection. and specification, number three, he failed to report in person, to the commander at the district station and he is assigned to and that is essentially failure respond and he also on the specification number four and he failed to

attend mandatory range qualifications in other words, the officers are held like our officers go to the range to insure that for safety reasons they qualify that they are safe with the firearm and he has failed to show up. and to qualify with the firearm and to be carrying one. and he failed to attend for the training which is specification number five, could you have officer brown come forward and if we could have her sworn by the court reporter if possible. >> >> thank you, good evening, officer brown, could you state your name for the record. >> officer, carla brown, star number 547. >> who are you employed? >> san francisco police department. >> bha is your assignment in the currently in the san francisco police department. >> i am the patrol special liaison, and the program administrator for that. >> and now with reference to

the charges that have been against and brought against officer barry have you made effort to contact him regarding the hearing that was schedule on february 19th. >> and yes, he contacted me, after the hearing or shortly before a few hours before saying that he would not be able to make it, and that he was suspended and that he would be able to return the id and that was it, meaning that he would surrender his star and id. >> have you had any conversations with him since he failed to appear for the february 9th hearing. >> no, that was a voice mail messages, i have not spoken to him in months, he only leaves me offices when i am not in the office. >> that is non-business hours. >> correct >> how many messages has he left you during the non-business hours snment >> six. >> what is the sum and substance with reference whether he will appear for the charges. >> these were throughout two separate investigations and he would call the night before and

or leave me a message saying that he was not going to make the skeled interview for various different reasons. >> and so, in your opinion has he failed to comply with any of the requests or any of the requests mandated by the interim rules for the specialists? >> yes. >> is it impossible for you to supervise him at this point in time. >> no. >> would he be a danger to the community, out there, without the proper training in advance officers training. >> yes. >> commissioners do you have any questions for officer brown? >> well, my first is that can he be charged with failure to appear for a police commission hearing? >> if he could i would add those to the charges, but, no i mean, me reading this, and unless someone can show me and of course, very different than what i read here and the failure to show tonight, i

don't have any other questions. commissioners anying further. >> at this time we should put this matter up to a vote as to whether or not we should the proper terminology is terminate a patrol special officer barry and rescind any rights as a officer in the city and county of san franciscoer. >> could i ask one question. >> i am a little slow down. >> just the other part that gives me pause, is that there is no one representing mr. barry he is not here and he does not have an attorney and so i am sure that president mazzucco has flagged this, but is there anything that we should consider that he or his representatives were aware of in terms of their perspective about service and maybe, any issues that i could create a bunch of issues but i don't need to. i just want to flag, any of the colleagues is that something that we should consider or not at all. >> we had testimony but from the officer of the court that they made effort to serve them and he left voice mails saying

that he was going to miss the initial hearing and he has been told of this hearing and he is not here. and for me, commissioners so noted >> okay. >> and also, sorry. that they are president of their association has made multiple attempts to contact him and he wanted to help him and represent him but he will not contact them back at all either. >> he is completely awall at this point. >> and all of the notices were sent to the same address and he had actually signed for two previous notices regarding interviews with officer brown at that address and what we sent the notice, regarding the february 19th hearing, and as i previously stated we sent it by certified mail and we also sent it by express mail and the certified mail was returned back to the department but he was aware of the hearing but then he called the department to let the department know that he would not be awaring at the hearing. so, it seems that he is very selective in what he will accept from the us postal service.

>> and i'm assuming that president mazzucco that there is no requirement that he present in person for us to make a ruling. >> great, thank you. >> i have a quick question. what is his assignment or his beat or whatever he call it? >> parks. >> he works out of the park district and owns beat 53. >> and i move to terminate patrol special officer barry and his authority and power in the city and county of san francisco. do i have a second. >> second. >> take the roll call? >> sure. >> president mazzucco? >> aye. >> vice president turman? >> aye. >> commissioner marshall? >> aye. >> commissioner chan? >> aye. >> commissioner loftus?

>> aye. >> motion passes unanimously. >> thank you. >> takes the steps that you need to. >> i have a question, does that mean that the clients in the park district they will be notified how do we make it public that this person is no longer a patrol special. >> we should talk officer brown and the patrol special who came to the meeting in park station, and so that the community will know who he is and maybe we should have both of them notify the clients if there are any clients in that beat and let them know that there is a possibility of well, let them know that he is no longer a patrol specialist and should not be soliciting business or fees from them. >> i will do that. >> thank you very much. >> please call line item number five. >> public comment on all matters pertaining to item 7 below, closed session including public comment on vote whether to hold item 7 in closed

session. >> are there any comments regarding closed session regarding disciplinary matters? >> hear none, public comment is closed. call the next line item. >> vote on whether to hold item 7 in closed session. >> moved. >> so moved, second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> thank you v >> we have a motion not to disclose. >> motion. >>

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