so commander david lazar from the police department is here, and dejon queeny from the department of emergency management is here. and so where here to talk about the healthy streets operation center and both of us have worked on this and i want to acknowledge the fact that there's a number of people within the department who have been putting in a lot of work around this, including our behavioral health services and our transitions population health and so this is a collaborative also within the department. and so i'm going to talk a bit about what a healthy street operation center -- or as it's co-locallit is.it's at the emers center at 1011 turk. it's multiple departments but there's four main lead agencies. those are the department of public health, the department of homelessness and supportive housing and the department of emergency management and then also the san francisco police department. and it was created to really unify and to help us to coordinate plans and to direct the response to people who are experiencing homelessness on our streets as well as other street behavior

i am commander david lazar with the police department's community engagement division.i want to also say good morning to my colleagues and the members of the public and we are grateful to have been invited to today's hearing to talk about what the police department does in response to language access and responding to calls for service and are grateful for the department of emergency management and the great work that they do. they have been great partners for many, many years working closely with us. before i jump right into the power point, i know we are going to put that on a screen in a moment, i want to thank all those that came up for public comment today. especially the first presenter, ma marlene tran, who has been a champion in language valley for language access. about 10 years ago she taught me a lot about working closely with the mono lingual speaking community and communicate with the community and promoting, to your point, supervisor safai, about reporting crimes and making sure that everyone knows that we have language access. so we plan on making that po

my name is commander david lazar, san francisco police department community engagement division and i represent the department for the healthy streets operations center and i want to emphasize in all my years of being in the department, i'm in my 28th year, i've never seen the collaboration just so good in our city. and we are working very closely with public health along with all the other departments represented in order to really, as has been explained this evening, to lead with services. and we as police officers have a role for public safety, but what's amazing this year, the amount of people that have been demonstrated on tonight's power point, the amount of people we have gotten into the community assessment service center and really, the officers are engaging with people and connect being with public health and working with adult probation and working to get people help. so as we continue the model, whether we are involved in the law enforcement assisted diversion or the resources we need, steering more towards that than we are towards the jail, incarceration and the other mod