actions of these officer. however, i will stand down for officer solomon. i would be remiss if i did not mention and acknowledge that this is the last medal of valor award ceremony that mark will attend as an active member of the standards as the police department. mark is retiring next friday after a 32-year career. at present mark solomon. [applause] >> please, it is not about me. it is about them. thank you. thank you. it is my distinct honor to stand before you and speak on behalf of these fine officers, sergeant scott ryan, a albertalbert lieu and reyes. tuesday, june 7, 2011, the fbi contacted the san francisco police department robbery abatement team providing them with specific information about two incidents that occurred in irvine, california. an armed white male suspects driving a gray bmw had committed to armed bank robberies. the suspect had already proven himself dangerous and desperate when he attempted to run down responding deputy sheriffs in order to effectively escape from one of the bank ro

he then quickly pointed a handgun toward officer griffin. officer tursi yelled gun.he return fire to stop the deadly threat. the suspect appeared to a bid struck as he stopped firing and continue to drive away from officers. the suspect drove across all lanes and struck parked cars. it took a position of cover, not knowing the suspect had been injured by returned fire. when additional units arrived, it was discovered the suspect had been seriously injured and was found unconscious. officers rendered aide, called for an ambulance, and retrieve the hand and the suspect had used. tonight officers patrick grant and michael tursi are being recognized for their efforts. they are being awarded the gold medal of valor. [applause] >> captain paul chignell, along with officers tastings ahastingd lopez. >> good evening to you all. my pleasure to introduce richard hastings and that lopez. -- matt lopez. saturday, july 16, 2011, officer richard hastings and asked matt lopez were on duty and in uniform. their primary assignment was to be on a fixed post detail on the imminence of

officer. officer jones, seeing the threat to the officer and everyone else nearby, fired a shot to protect an officer. almost immediately after that, officer tapang was able to catch up with the suspect and wrestle him to the ground, and they were able to take the suspect into custody and secure the pistol. when they checked the weapon they found it had 22 rounds of ammunition in the magazine. so it was clearly a catastrophe waiting to happen as these officers took action. they could have taken a defensive position. they could have taken cover and employed officer safety tactics, but instead, the move to forward to take action to protect their lives, the other officer lives, and hundreds of others on broadway at that time. clearly what they did was an act of heroism and very courageous under the circumstances there were facing. they were outgunned. so without a doubt, officers tapang and brian jones prevented serious injury or a life that night. for that reason they are being presented a bronz

sgt josh espinoza, officer ha, and officer solorzano. december 31, this batch had a call that a vehicle was on fire at 1645 folsom street and indicated -- they did not indicate if anyone was in the car or not. sgt espinoza was the first unit on the scene. he arrived on the scene, did a quick survey and then notified dispatch of what was going on. while surveying the scene, he realized an individual was trapped in the driver's seat in the car was engulfed in flames. fully knowing the danger that was in front of him, he did not hesitate. he immediately ran to the car and began to attempt to remove the individual from the burning vehicle. once he reached the vehicle, he realized the person was unconscious and still strapped in his car. at this point the flames began to blow over the windshield. the fire department was still not on scene. even though the heat was intense and possibility of the gas tank could explode at any time, sergeant espinoza did not retreat. at this time, officer ha and solorzana arrived on scene. they were amazed at wh

an elected officer as "any person who holds an elected office or has been elected to an elective offices not yet taken office." >> how can an act of domestic violence be transferred into saying that is in its conduct in relation to his office? it may well be a violation of the second clausez it be an act that is in relation to the duties of the office to which he is elected? >> because his own conviction in paris his ability -- >> [unintelligible] >> there are some jurisdictions that say you cannot take misconduct that occurred before an election and in charge it afterward. but even those jurisdictions have a principle that when someone is convicted of a crime, it is the date of conviction that matters. the reason for that principle -- there are two of them. one of them is that the goal is to protect the office and to protect the public. having a role that when you have something as serious as the conviction of a crime where the conviction occurs during the term, it is to protect that office. the second reason is that the actual conviction is conclusive evidence that the conduct occurre

numerous responding officers arrived on the scene and observed the officers

many of officers recognize are not first generation san francisco police officers. four of the six are not first generation san francisco police officers. can i get the other generation of police officers that gave us these police officers to stand up and be recognized. [applause] >> talk about raising your kids right. another recognition i want to make is we are going to experience in the next 30 days of record exit of police officers, especially commissioned officers due to the sun setting of the retirement program. many of the people that are going out red nominations tonight. if i could, all officers that will be retiring and leaving us, they we think you for your service by getting you to stand. [applause] that is going to close our program. know that all of these officers when they get back to work, they will go out again looking for trouble and probably find it. i trust they will demonstrate again what these officers do every day, and that is keep this city safe. the command staff and commission will be available for pictures. family and kids for sure. if you

or her office.st paragraph clearly says whenever that wrongful misconduct was, it has to be in relation to his duties to which he was elected. if he has

he fires at more police officers, the city police officers. there is a female who has died , a civilian female. the earlier report from the scene was this female was a mom who was there at the a and m campus to help one of her children move in for the coming fall term which is just about to begin at a and m. whether that is the case or not we have no way of knowing because police have not yet been specific about her. but we do know that the constable's name was brian bachman. he was a long-time member of the force and he was a peace officer since 1992 and a constable with the sheriff's office or an employee with the sheriff's office since 1993. it is our understanding that he is survived by a wife and young children. a man who had gone to do what the boss said to, and that was serve an eviction notice is now dead along with a female civilian. two others are in the hospital although their injuries are not life-threatening, and another man is shot as well. conflicting reports now, not conflicting, but we have

across the board, we will train officers. we train officers to not to reinvent the wheel. if it works in one situation, if you do not have to think through the process in a different situation. the dynamics were you would be confronted with the resisting subjects, if you would resort to a taser in that situation whether mental help was an issue or not. i would ask you to consider this pilot program. >> thank you. >> how long have you served in the police department? >> 22 years. for years with the sheriff's department. >> you have been involved in risk-management? and the aftereffects? >> yes. >> it is no easy task. the officers had asked you for another tool. have they come to you and ask for another tool before using their firearms? >> yes. the officers have mentioned at the scene of a shooting, i wish i had a taser or an option other than lethal force. >> you do not take this lightly. you are a paper way from your ph.d. in psychology from stanford? >> yes. >> thank you for your presentation. >> i asked a number of questions in terms of how we would structure a policy in

based on the actions of these officers on that fateful day, officer thomas minkel and everson will be awarded the gold medal of valor, the highest department medal of honor. [applause] >> again, it is my honor to present you the heroic acts of officer patrick prevent and michael jersey -- patrick giffin and tursi. there were called to an apartment the man who is threatening to kill those who stood in his way. he was a former tenant. he was gone before officers arrived that day. later, friday, june 24, officers were called to the same apartment building after it was reported someone had fired an assault rifle. no suspect was present, but it was determined an assault rifle had been fired into the sidewalk. the officer was signed -- they were assigned as members of the street crime unit. they developed information that led to the identification of the weapons owner who had an extensive criminal history. they continued their relentless investigation into this event and identified the criminal, determining an additional possible home address and weapons. on the early morning hours of wedne

shall be removed from office.perhaps we are just parsing words. it may be, theoretically, that you think there is a realm of official misconduct that does not justify removal from office. that probably also means you should not sustain the charges. recommending sustaining the charges, it seems to me you are recommending removal from office. t(chairperson hur: are you sayig that we could find official misconduct and recommend the charges not be sustained? >> before tonight, i had not thought of it as a two-step inquiry. before tonight, i thought you would pass that recommendation on to the board and the board would decide whether to sustain the charges. the charter says that if the board systems the charges, the suspended officer shall be removed from office. i am trying to square that with the inquiry you are talking about. i feel like we are trying to pound a bit of a square peg into a round hole. >> commissioners, with all due respect, i think you are over complicating your requirement. it says you will make a r

"official misconduct means any behavior by a public officer in relation to the duties of his office, will fall in its character, including any failure, and neglect, or refusal by an officer to meet duty required by law, or conduct that stands below decency, good faith, and right action required of all public officers, including a specific conflict of interest or violation of a governmental ethics law." commissioner renne: that is option 2 below? -- option two? chairperson hur: that is option two . if you will indulge me, i will summarize my view. i think you understand it. perhaps i can give one last shot at explaining it. i think this charter provision was meant to be narrowed. i think it provides the mayor with an extraordinary tool that can be very useful and very consistent with how the public intended it to be used. but given the force of the tool, i think that people wanted it to be interpreted narrowly. to me, the best way to interpret this provision is to have as clear a line as we can as to what it means to relate to the duties of his or her office. while i appreciate sugges

it puts a lot of these officers back on the street. i see no expansion of that whatsoever in terms of the city's budgetary problems and the problems associated with salaries and pensions associated with the police department. i have seen advertisements by the police officers association about the expansion had a great job they are doing. i agree that for the majority, they are doing a great job. the problem remains that in this commission, the police department has not learned how to control the expanding pension and salary situation. you can't expand the school much more than you are doing right now. the special police can help with that. some of these guys are college- educated and it is not like college-educated means smarter. a lot of the firms believe that if you have a background, you are trainable and teachable. you can learn faster and you have already proved it. i would like a discussion of why and how they can be implemented in various monday in tasks on the force where they don't have to use a lot of the extensive police pow

>> officers. >> the officers declined. >> thanks for confirming that. >> 33% of the officers to homemediation was offered declined. now on to our second quarter. you have the report in your packets. we have posted it on line -- we have posted it on line. during the second quarter, the occ received 882 complaints and closed 227 complaints. there were feared to take actions -- failure to take action in 23 cases. our staffing remains stable with 16 investigators. one of them is a temporary investigator, left because his six months were just about up and he had obtained permanent employment as a lawyer. in the oakland city's attorney's office. we continue with our strategic plan for training and the police department offered two trainings, led by lt. joe mdfadden and representatives from cfi. the commander also gave trainings on mta. i have spoken to several times about the budget and what happened in the second quarter. the occ had an enhanced budget which one investigator had. the city comptroller for the first time in five years gave the occ a clean bill of health. on the numerous aud