and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. mr. president, i'd like to take roll. please do. commissioner hwang. commissioner turman. vice president marshall. president gloria's. sxhuch. supervisor tang. we have a quorum and with us are the police chief chief greg suhr >> welcome to the june 11, 2014, police commission without further ado,. >> think public comment of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the

public may address the commission up to three minutes. during public comment neither the police norway commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide comments they should not enter into personal discussions members of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes. time for general public comment. good evening >> good afternoon. i'm mary i was born and raised in san francisco. worked for the city for 24 years. i'm here at the suggestion of mr. brown. she and i have been to the healing cycle together my child were murder in san francisco

november 17, 2007. at that time, there were two investigators ton on the case that retired i've made numerous calls to call the homicide division for an update i've called recently a couple of weeks ago the people that retire were replaced by allocate person those two folks i don't have their names told me i would get an update and seven years i have not gotten it. it is unacceptable i think the least that is investigators can do is call a grieving mother to give an update. i have worked for the city for a long time they've eemgd will with a lot of cases but a phone

call one a year will reinsure me some place is working on the case it's been moved to a cold case department >> it's not lot it ask you're going entitled of a call and the chief investigator about give you his card you're in our thoughts general public comment is closed. listen item two. >> line items and chiefs report and review of recent or recent activities and the is energetic update. >> since the last meeting one of the tragedy stories in the news was that the statute that fell on the 18-month-old child

at the chaffer there is nothing i know is i'll say that captain lazzaro and both the officers at central station that were obviously shaej step forward and compromised the family through the weekend we've been in touch before and after i've tried to call myself a couple of times again san francisco police officers were the finder on the scene there was nothing the fire department could do they were there it was a tragedy. also over the weekend we've had towards the end of the weekend we had a series car collision on market street. in which two pedestrians were injured it was not as have been

event where was it a collision await criminal conduct there was a drunk driver involved that person was taken into custody we suffered a homicide on the block of turkish street the homicide distribution is working on the cased the victim a 40-year-old that was killed with a single gunshot wound to the chest we have video and hopefully, we'll take care of that the 9th homicide in 2014 the tenth contributed to 2014 where the person was injured in 2009 we had good news early in the week i spoke and met with a policing group that was a followup two weeks ago we had major chiefs

from around the city and around the world they're here in san francisco to discuss future issues facing mrorl and there's from all over the world and yesterday we kickoff our future grauts graduate with sf city we have thirty some odd kids 20 of them from the unified school district this is a compliment over 2 hundred kids working with kathy republican so once again, we hope to total about 3 hundred young people that are largely from the southeast section of the city and mission to give them a chance for jobs and busy this is a lessor included of the 7 thousand jobs that go out to kids not good we have another

quiet simmer relative to summers task i'll defer the rest of my time to the colleague. >> good evening commander. good afternoon >> commissioners director hicks and secretary monroe and chief i'm richard cc&r a year ago or december of 2012 the chief called and asked me to get involved in ti t i'll glad to help out. a great education but i'm delighted to be here nobility representing the working group of the c it working group. i will hit my stride to represent them the members of the department the mental health

advocates and the service providers asia other members of the city family that have been worked hard. i want to specifically thank lieutenant of the police department for his work in organizing the curriculum and seeing all the details were attended to. we kept up in the program and classed. to christen the secretary that brought magnificent active prowess to things 0 this is a smooth running machine and to angela wilhelm for the sxhor materials if you need someone to rake our backyard for rocks between the 3 of them we made one full-time employee that was engaged and to the other members of the advocates and the provider let me say it's been a

pleasure 30 work with them i've learned a lot in the last year. major goals of the program is on your power point were to develop and provide a 40 hour coordination recognizing mental illness and that's teamwork. do you have it now >> i have to call downstairs. >> we'll expend our 3 minutes. >> boy if i knew i that had had 3 minutes i would have skipped the intro. members of the community has copies too >> it will probably catch with you. >> i'll read the slides and i don't have to read them the second was to have officers trained to deal with mental

illness in crisis and deploy those officers for calls to services involving mental illness in crisis and create a working group. this all arise out of the police commission resolution that's a lengthy dwoment that contains 48 deliverables and items that goals and objectives for the working group >> the course focuses the 40 hour course focuses on mental health disorders and consumer peaceable that are folks in the memory health services that subtle their personal story to the officers the behavorial declaration and suicidal things

we talk about the consumer panel for officers they find interesting that removes stigma and urban legions and helps people explore their bias. i went through the program and a future 5 hundred executive looking in his anywhere in visitacion valley and there was a person talking to him and he you know intellectually it is it fair to say impossible for that person to get there he left home and went to another country and being mentally ill doesn't mean our weak. over and over things like that take away the urban legions that

people are somehow more dangerous that's not true so the consumer panel is part of the program it's taught by mental health professionals advocate services providers a a few cops come through and we bring back officers to come back and participate. we're going to talk about our millstones the millstones the c it working group how did we we developed a model working groups in terms of the police collaboration i want to 34 throw out one way we sat down in the room and had different notions about what the other was about the notion of competing narrators the police go to the use of force two quickly maybe and on the policewoman does the

advocate community we've got a reconciliation what is it is like saying we don't spend enough time together if you talk about that you can remove the issues we'll have a great working group covering homeless advocacy and mental health. next thing we the an magnificent analysis felt program and found it needed organizational structure that will survivor us if the police department and the program passing has structure in terms of what we've done we visited chicago and memphis to visit the university of chicago and spent be time with dr. watson i think that's interesting dr. watson who gave

us direction to make san francisco the model for the united states. we applied for d o y grant funding and the members of the working group filed for silicon valley tech money we've revamped the curriculum and several team members tenant the region c it convention so take officers and sergeants and a police commissioner to represent us at a convention was a remarkably experiences fingerprint 15 of us there the end was somehow i was elected to the state board of crisis interchange training it gave us a statewide voices with sales with a national one.

in terms of really go ahead - quantifyingable results we've issued a department bulletin. the departure of ccii c it officers in collaboration with the management this hapdz happened to me this they were playing with the wires anyway, the chief issued 14th century 14 dash 43 in your packets that is nor the internal deployment for c it officers. that belittling gets the trained officers to the training that are c it appropriate and then

the core letter and the necessary item is the next item in our packet h that has to do with the emergency martin luther king we've developed new radio codes i'd like to talk about the 48 dlirnlz and in one of the first meetings we can treat it as a punch list or guide to do more than what was expected and where we couldn't to recognize what we had to do we came to a we were going to treat f this program as an opportunity to be a fine program. never losing site of the resolution we kicked off a number of items but not like a

contractor finishing a job we had great ass prishgsz i have one thing in the resolution the in the resolution there's a item that requires suggests that c it trained officer should assume a supervisory roll while at the scene we struggled with that bus early on folks said how do we know you're going to deploy them i think they see we xebt the sergeants and higher-ups to get to the scene and use their assets in a reasonable way and ultimately i think it's a question of leadership not a question of range so this issue was a ken continuous one i wanted to put that that on the

road arrest we've recognizing this in leadership. dispatch 2, 3, 4 protocol someone in our home not taken their medication and no weapon in the house. a relative a friend calls the police and says there's a mentally ill person in the house the dispatcher will determine whether it's a ccii c it call the dispatcher uses the c r for countries for response on a 801 a mentally ill call that c r call gorgsz depose to the channel or dispatcher pulls down

a menu of items and send one of the officers to the call. the c it officer will close out their c r t a special disposition code it's important to measure the system we'll be able to pull the data easier in the last twenty-four hours if i started on the midnight last night a hundred and 40 c it officers will be recorded for duty that's incredible it gives up a great number of officers out there. i want to give you a bit of data last year there were 16 thousand 2 hundred and 48 calls for 50 one 50s out of the calls 28 uses

of force all of them minor an incredibly low amount of forces it they amazed to 2 had the 46 of the calls those officers are handling those calls to have the experience for the officers responding to the calls. so rurlts of training one hundred and 18 officers were trained when we took over in 2012 we've run through 5 classes and 2 hundred plus officers trained it's 19 percent of the patrol force if i could have come up with 4 tents or a percentage we would have reached the 20 percent goal.

the classes are you have to thank phil ginsburg he lets us hold the classes at the a nearby park. the po a sponsor lunch one day in the program a week. lessors going to give you i know it's a busy slide had represent where our compliment the officers where their deployed as we go into the other slides the december 2012 vs. where we are now in 2014. and it's important to relocate their wildly described but a number of trained officers and where they're assigned some of the smaller stations have a smaller percentage but a higher ratio in the workplace because

there's fewer officers and more are c i city thank you trained when i get home my wife is going to say something about did it makes sense. in the 2012 distribution vs. where we are now we are have slippage on the 34i79d that is individual of our own success the newer officers go to the midnight and others to the swing watch we only use those c it training for officers with 3 years plus we want to have the basic skills before we introduce sort of some might say a traditional peace officer roll the good thing our coverage in

terms of the swings and day watch are where the calls are coming in. the 12 hour distribution we are 50/50. and this slide i'm going to take a minute to explain that. when i started here in the c it program the notation of team came up and i know that the chiefs vision was a program integrated into the patrol force so we sit down i'm thinking rugby team is not going to work so the chest team is a team they're working and integrated into the patrolled force the struggle dhou you create a sense of teamwork with officers that are not grouped together well, anyway, let me tell you what we did we visited them to the

teamwork officers come and go there's team policy that begins to identify them as specific policy that related to them. recognize of outstanding work we communicate in bloodthirsty e-mails when officers get into the various publications or in the media or in the newspaper we send those articles out to outlining all the officers in the ccii c it program in the e-mail we offer them specialized training for them and then the participation of regional convention for a cop working at midnight it's no a thing that comes up being part of the program you get visited to things i sent out an e-mail visited them to an e-mail i got

50 yes, sir. and it was xhablthd we have a dedicated twitter feed i would like to say we had for followers. the command level the chiefs interested in that and keeping the leadership in the command staff is key the key emblem we consulate on policy and take input back they weighed in on the tazer discussion as a group quite a bit of wasn't weighed in on that. now. goals for the coming year this is a collaborative piece that i sent around to the other folks on the working group i'll run through this. surface mapping you you can have the greatest c i t map but if

you don't have alternatives you're going to have a great program like emergency services and hospitalization and jail or one or two others listed statistically we want to as a group map the services and see if we can better enact the officers. to those services for the people dealing with on those calls we've seen great results with the veterans administration officers reach the case workers and a veteran in crisis can get through to their counselor to streamline those we have to have is a refresher course as a group we want to had had suicide prfths training for free.

future declaration techniques a homeless component we want to incorporate a community component in that nevertheless of the issues they face. and then department policies creating a general order and the current working policies are items on the 11 dash 18 resolution this committee put together as a group we have to start looking at those policies and coming to understand them a little bit better and finally the evaluation of data from our cat system we were limited before and angela did a good job but going forward we voluntary a set of the numerous and sdurmz did we get a c it cop on the

scene and what are the differences in that connections a dr.al person if oakland is here tonight and will talk about a research project he want to do and i think we'll have the raw data san francisco will be the first place in the country is that time for me to stop because i can. we'll be the first place in the country to evaluate the program to see if it makes a difference if not to do something else. i've talked about options we'll hear in director heinecke i did not who was talk aboutlogies a

family member someone might describe as awful full situations. i think the overall positive thing is the officers responding to those calls if they have been vetted by communications has a better sense of what they're going to and can prepare their stress level is lower they'll understand that mental illness folks don't mean that's indicts e it's going to be dangerous and, in fact, calls involving drugs can be more dangerous. we've trained bart and the park rather than i love the fact that people outside of 70 san francisco areare

doing it. and that is the end. we will turn it over to commissioner loftus. >> and i want to have him come up and talk about the curriculum just a little bit for you in case you have any questions, and then they have something to say. >> thank you for the opportunity to present the long road of the crisis intervention training process. and so if you can imagine the giant room when we started and we only had 3 and a half months by the chief's direction to get this done, we started with the very exhaustive literature review of the best practices out there throughout the country and so we ended up with a couple of cities, memphis and chicago and so on and we were able to visit those cities and then we moved into the direct interviews with experts in the field, which also improved the stake holders and the end users and probably the most important piece