dr. joe marshall? >> here. >> petra dejesus? >> she's en route. >> commissioner angela chan? >> present. >> commissioner carol kingsley? >> present. >> commissioner james slaughter? >> here. >> commissioner julius turman? >> here. >> we have a quorum of commissioners and also joyce hicks of the office of citizens complaints and the chief of police. >> thank you, lieutenant falvey. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the july 13, 2011 police commission hearing. ladies and gentlemen, tonight is what we call our discipline night so we have some closed matters, disciplinary hearings which by law have to be held in closed session so we have a very light agenda before that so we now move to line item number one which is general public comment. >> item number one, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or department or o.c.c. p

dr. joe marshall, and i have been on the commission forever. president mazzucco: my day job is in private practice as an attorney. before that i was an assistant district attorney in san francisco and an assistant united states attorney. again, this is my favorite part, coming up to the community. >> thank you for wealth -- welcoming eyes. my name is julius turman. this is my eighth day. during the day, i am a partner in all law firm. we focus in labor and employment. thank you for having me. president mazzucco: thank you. please call line item #1. >> also for the audience, if anyone needs translation services, we of spanish and cantonese language translators in the back of the room. >> do you want to mention who else? >> [unintelligible] >> i need to leave. i cannot remember anything. >> you cannot leave. we need a quorum. [laughter] >> item 1, our review of recent activities, the chief's report. president mazzucco: good evening, chief. i believe we have some activities over the past week. >> prior to yielding the major portion of my time to c

dr. joe marshall. >> en route. >> he's en route. >> commissioner petra dejesus. >> present. >> commissionerela chance? >> present. >> commissioner carol kingsley? >> present. >> commissioner james slaughter. >> here. >> commissioner julius terman. >> here. >> you have a quorum and joyce hicks at the o.c.c. and commander tim tomioka. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, july 6 san francisco police commission meeting. ened we'll have commander tomiaoka sit with us until the chief arrives. dr. marshall is en route. tonight's calendar, we have a lot of closed session matters we'll be dealing with in closed session at the close of the calendar. they're disciplinary matters. so we'll start with what we need to do at the beginning which is line item number 1 >> the approval of minutes, an action item for the following meetings, june 1, 8, 15th, and 22nd of 2011. >> thank you, lieutenant. commissioners, you have those minutes in your packet with the caveat we had a discussion regarding the fact these commission meetings are recorded and the best record of these me

dr. joe marshall, commissioner james slaughter, commissioner petra dejesus. we are also joined by chief of police george gascoign. also with us are the it assistant chief. this isn't she said of the operation pirro. assistant chief denise schmitt. deputy chief john murphy, enforcement and security at the mta. commander sandra tong of the airport bureau. commander james dudley of the airport operations bureau. commander daniel mahoney, chief of the operations staff. commander daniel lazard, chief of investigations. this is a time when we stop and offer special members of the police department. these are members who have distinguished themselves through their bravery and dangerous situations. it is important to note one of the criteria for the medal of honor this one failed to -- failure to take such action would lead to center. these are actions above and beyond call of duty. at this time, i would like to invite the chief of police, cheif gascon, to come up here and speak. >> thank you, everyone, for being here. this is a special moment in policing movie get t