commander oh sullivan, he's not going to be able to be here. we have a problem at the hotel with our president. my name is mario molina with the san francisco police department. currently the oic, the officer in charge of the behavioral science unit and cit coordinator for the department. my job entails assistant program for police officers, cit is under my umbrella. today we are going to give you a brief overview of the san francisco police department and what it's doing in the community especially with people with disabilities. terry birn is going to start the powerpoint. >> what is cit, it's a

partnership between the sfpd and mental health providers and tries to fill the gap in the mental health care by identifying areas of the system which need improvement. >> [inaudible] >> cit stresses, [inaudible] >> i'm sorry. >> i'm at the age now. i can't wear my

glasses. >> the cit identifies mental health illnesses. it dispels myths surrounding illness and identifies systems set up to help. cit stresses the use of time distance, and verbal persuasion to reduce the use of force and maintain the safety of both individuals in crisis and officers. as a new member to the san francisco cit workgroup, my predecessor michael gous, he's moved up to santa rosa. so now i'm working the cit which i love. it's a fantastic group of mental health providers. we have some volunteers from the community that are very concerned about the state of

relationships and it's a really dynamic group of people. what i really appreciate is collaboration. we are constantly looking at the curricula that the officers are getting the training and we have the evaluation that we'll talk about. constantly looking at it. it's not like here is the curricula, we'll never look at it again. it's constantly being revised and evaluated and worked on. so, thank you. >> as she was saying, the san francisco police department is a big supporter of establishing relationships between the police department and the community especially community with disabilities. so our focus goes to what are the office being taught. what do

they need to know? what tools can they have in the toolbox to utilize when they are called for a crisis. that happens in the police department. we get a bunch of calls everyday to deal with mental health crisis. cit focuses on that and as terry mentioned before. we have a great faculty and they are all volunteers which is great because they have their heart in it because they don't get compensated. they come in. we have a 40-hour class from monday through thursday, a 10-hour class. it's a little long. but officers are used to working out their shifts. that's the main reason we have it like that because they are used to do it. we have it at the boat house in lake merced which is a very appealing scenery. we have the lake and we have to create that type of atmosphere for the training. they are dealing with mental

health issues and approaches like suicide. we have a section that deals with suicide. they are here to talk about that. we deal with the elderly. we see how it's like to walk with a cane so they can see how it's to walk that way and we have pills to sort out pills as an older person. we have them tie their shoes, button their shirts to see how hard it is. we assimilate

glaucoma. we have a lab that allows to bring some machines and assimilate a person's voices in their head as you are talking to them. this might be going on in their head when you are trying to ask information from them. that's probably why they are not answering you because they are hearing something different than what you are saying. it's a very interesting class. it's a great class and they get great reviews and instructors. they also tell what's not working for them. which is what we want. we want that straight feedback. is this working for you. is this something you need on the street. how can we prove it. recently we had a faculty meeting. 12 board repetition.

it's working, it's great because it's a group effort. it's not just the police department, but everyone. >> i think it's really important to mention that we had our first san francisco cit annual award ceremony just in may. it was a beautiful event and we will make sure that you all get invited next year because we need the disabled community present as well as all the other citizens. another shot out to mr. molina. i have been working in stigma elimination for years. i appreciate in all of the trainings he's now talking to officers about the rate of suicide among the officers and there is great stigma in that culture of reaching for help. we can get officers, police to seek counseling. they have the most stressful job in the world and many of them don't seek

treatment and it's a high incidence of divorce. it's extraordinary rates of divorce and substance abuse and suicide. so i really want to thank you for that. >> thank you. i wasn't expecting that, but thank you. all right. going back to the history, the san francisco police department is not a stranger to caq, we had a program like that in 2001. in that training about 900 officers. around 2011, we decided we needed something more structured that can be a model across the nation. so some members, citizens from different organizations in the city took a trip to memphis. they looked at their model and what they were doing and came back and said this is what we want to do. this is the type of program we want to implement in san

francisco. we went to the police commission and the police commission approved it after a few months of litigating the program and they passed resolutions which the san francisco p.d. is an abiding by. so we are working on it and as of right now since the program was established in 2012, we have 344 officers trained. the initial goal was 20% of the police department. among those, there is other agencies in the bay area that heard about it and asked if they can send some officers. they include a few of rpd officers and they are being trained in that. it's getting around the bay area how san francisco is doing the training and how they want to be part of the training. to give you some stats, the san francisco police department has different stations across the

city. we have a percentage of officers to be on duty when they need it. this is a living organism with police officers because in the police department, every 6 months you get the opportunity to shift from day to swing to midnight. so the numbers are only good as 6 months or so. so we have to revise it again and see where they went and who is doing what. but as you can see in the screens here, we are trying to level the numbers of percentage of officers assigned to education. as a patrol distribution, we have 31% apply to special investigations which means investigators at the hall of justice, specialized units like domestic violence, homicide and others. we had 35% applied to the golden gate division which is half of the police

department, half of the city that includes bayview, ingleside, mission station. then we have the other side of the city. we are getting there. how does it distribute among the shifts that we work. the police department has three main shifts. as you can see they watch half the majority as it's working and you look at the calls, the majority of the calls coming during the day time. that changes every 6 months, when they are taken for this slide, day watch had the most. swing has the second most and midnight has the lowest some of the accomplishments

that we have. we have needs to abide by. we have attended conferences. they get certification of training. it's a very good training. we have faculty lesson plans. as terry was saying that is something we look forward for review. implementing assist, which is applied suicide intervention training. we had one in january, i'm planning one within the next 30 days for cit. so

that's working very well. some of our goals. everything in the police department takes time to be implemented like anything else in our government. i will be working on that. we are evaluating the outcome data. we had a meeting a couple days ago on that subject. attend the california cit conference in san diego which is next week. one of our officers is going to attend that we are accomplishing our goals. we are trying to include field visits of mental health providers in a class. we are working on the budget. that's all i have. questions for me? >> thank you, yes, i'm going to

open it up for public comment and the council. i would like to thank you for the cit presentation and the program. i appreciated when you talked about the police officers are able to walk in the individuals shoes when they have a disability. i appreciate that. this way when they interaction with the population they understand where they are coming from and dealing with them from a sensitivity. my question is once they go through the class, do they have a chance to come back and share with you input what they have learned through these scenarios and how this is working with them and give you any feedback and something to take back to change or improve the training or expand on certain aspects of it? >> yes, they have an in fact i

was on patrol. i had a chance to talk to the officers. hey, this is what happened the other day. i was able to use the techniques that you taught us and be able to listen to the individual before i rush to judgment. that's what officers do, they respond to the environment on what's going on and that's how they proceed to things. we train them for 6 months and forget about everything you know. that's what we do, but we are given more tools on how to stay alive. they are suspicious of the people they talk to because that's what they are taught. we need to have these tools to go home every night to your family that you need to survive out there. now with cit and

through other classes of the police department implements with the officers. officers are able to say, wait a minute, let me step back and see what i have. because a lot of statistics show that officers get involved in shootings or the use of force within 90 seconds of arriving to a call. with that small window that we want to make bigger. i want the bay window, not a little window. i want them to step back and say, wait a minute, let me see what i have. i know this person is threatened to commit suicide or hurt somebody. but hey, he or she is by herself the only danger is to her own person. let's step back. the chief has said it. i want you to stop. look at what's going on, perceive it and take a step back. he's

going to step back, order pizza because we are going to be here for a while. don't rush into judgment, don't rush into a house. there is only 1 person attempting to commit suicide. take your time because that's what the research shows. time and distance will help you. that's our motto, time and distance. it's working and we get feedback and that's why we are having the award ceremony because the officers were able to use those tools and deescalation to situations so they don't turn bad. >> thank you very much. councilman harriet wong has a question. >> hi, mr. molina, thank you for coming today. when you discussed the tools

using simulators, i saw how they shoot and interact with the simulator, and the videos are very powerful. when you talk about they are going to be in a role where they are hearing the voices in the head or seniors using their their slow mobile walk. i encourage anyone if they are able to get a chance to see these simulators, i think it's very interesting. my question to you today is are

there any training classes open to the general public for viewing. >> in our classes, if you want to come and watch, please do. we have an open door policy. i have my second training that i put together. but we welcome public comment, because that's what we are serving. if we do not have their input, we are not doing it right. we need to hear if we are doing it right or wrong. that's great input. we welcome people to come out. the only issue is that police officers are okay, who is that person, why are they here. we are all like that. that's how we react to things, including myself, we try to always be on the look out. that will be no issue, as long as they call us and say can i come and sit down for 4 hours and see the training. you are welcome to watch us. >> i think a lot of the

alliance clubs would be very interested in that because they have a lot of disaster preparedness and helping others and something about learning about crisis and intervention is very important. >> thank you, you also mentioned the video simulators for police officers and they go through different scenarios. our goal is to put our faculty through that too. if you want to us walk through your shoes, we want you to walk through our shoes so you understand where we are coming from. how you respond to these calls and this is what we are supposed to do. this is supposed to follow policy so with our faculty through the police department, i have your walk and you walk mine. we have an agreement to disagree which is another tool we use. it's a great program. you are all welcome to see it. our next training is july

13th-16. we'll be at the boat house. mario molina is my name. you are more than welcome to do so. >> mario.molina at sf gov.org. >> thank you. we learned a lot. i have a question. how much involved are people with disabilities in the planning of the curriculum? >> the curriculum was set before i got there but we have people from the community that come and teach us. we had sole, door, namei. they bring their own guest speakers that come speak to

police officers. >> [inaudible] >> are they present during the training? >> they stay and listen to what's going on and they do presentations and they get feedback by officers. what i like about that is it brings the faces to it. it's the person talking about what he or she went through when the police contact happened. we don't get to see the other side. so now we have speakers coming and saying this is how i felt. this was what i was going through when the cops came to talk to me. it makes it personal. >> it humanizes. >> how do transfers work. i understand that police officers might transfer stations and you have new crews

coming up. how do you keep up with the training of the officers in the cit? >> it improves it. it might affect it a little bit. i might have more officers assigned to a specific station that i may lose some of my officers. it's out of my control as far as the police department. it's something they have a right to do as far as transfers. our goal is to look for the new officers that are going to be at that particular station for a while. we say let's get you to the training. i know he or she will stay there for 3- 4 years. that will keep that spot safe. >> another quick question, i'm sorry. on this pie chart that gives percentages of officers who are cit trained. it's hard to read the shades of gray. which neighborhoods

were the 20% and 10%. which were the highest percentages? >> 20 percent is nordic station. >> it looks like ingleside. >> council member kostanian? >> i have a couple of questions. in terms of community input, i'm concerned about the community who have issues and

speaking english. family members, schools, the elderly and the legal community. i think all those should be involved in seeing what transpires and the feedback and the balance exchange. i think there is a lot of people who tend to see things on tv and don't really realize the extent that you go out to find answers for your officers, but also how it will in turn really give a profound statement from the police department and get that return back from the community so both feel they are walking together. >> yes, as a matter of fact we had a presentation done by linda

miller from bayview hunters point area about trauma and youth in that community. we continue to reach out to different agencies. i have worked in the mission district most of my career, for 21 years. i have done most of my work in the mission district, i'm fully bilingual and worked for the police department and i have no problems working with the mission district and work with undocumented and day laborers who work. and those who might have police contacts. i'm glad to work with them. if you say i want to work with cit, there are organizations

and advocates that reveal what they will teach the officers. >> i'm very familiar. i used to host groups of the uc hospital to help people with trauma. i see something in there that needs to be addressed. i don't think it's being looked at. >> will you send me the contacts that you have for those organizations and i will reach out to them. >> a lot of them are really hesitant because of what they have gone through and they don't want to express it. they feel better with supportive people going through that or similar issues. >> okay. whatever we can do. we are open to any suggestions or any organizations that want to come and talk to us. >> thank you. >> council member roland wong? >> yes, thank you for coming out and