rudy asercion and occ investigator charles r. gallman. >> mr. asercion first. >> so, very quickly, last year, this is rudy. >> hi. >> so, some of the commissioners may remember that in the bay view and in the mission, we had a safe haven program it was born out of when mrs. chin was thrown from the platform on third street and was very successful in restoring the calm to the neighborhood just the mention of the suggestion to him, he brought it to the 6th street area and it has been unbelievable. we have our first, though, example of where it works just as it is supposed to. as on february 21st, there was a woman being assaulted on 7th street. she was aware of the safe haven program and she ran into a designated safe haven where she was provided shelter and kept safe until the police arrived, took the report, with her being completely, out of sight and the suspect was taken into custody and is now facing prosecution. none of this could have happened, had he not taken the initiative to literally in a good way, all of the storefronts along the 6th

rudy asercion and occ investigator charles r. gallman. >> mr. asercion first. >> so, very quickly, last year, this is rudy. >> hi. >> so, some of the commissioners may remember that in the bay view and in the mission, we had a safe haven program it was born out of when mrs. chin was thrown from the platform on third street and was very successful in restoring the calm to the neighborhood just the mention of the suggestion to him, he brought it to the 6th street area and it has been unbelievable. we have our first, though, example of where it works just as it is supposed to. as on february 21st, there was a woman being assaulted on 7th street. she was aware of the safe haven program and she ran into a

to charles r. gallman chief investigator office of citizen complaints. on his honorable retirement from the office, the certificate is awarded as a testimonial of his 24 years of service and dedication of the city and county of san francisco, office of citizen complaints. awarded this day. and again, before i know that director hicks would like to speak but i would like the other commissioners to chime in, you are the ut ultimate professional and you have everybody's respect and not everybody can say that. >> i want to say that from the bottom of my heart and you did a great job, sir. >> [ applause ] >> i want to say that i, congratulations and thank you for your service. i believe that i met you before i was on the commission when i was teaching a class on criminal justice and i invited you to come and speak about the occ and explain how the system works and you did just such a really great job with the students and really engaging and reaching out to them and encouraging them to get into public service and consider also public safety type of jobs and t