sergeant herndon is actually in retirement with five months to go. we have a brand new officer who will now be working with animal acare and control. officer hicks. she is a very qualified, very compassionate police officer. she has an outstanding resume working with the community, teaching, and i think she is going to be a fabulous person to have in this position. we also talked about the hearings, which we have never done away with. we want to bring it more in line . we did not have a lot of educational components regarding the vicious and dangerous dogs. now we will be including that in our academy training. officer hicks will start doing this as we work with our academy training. also, working in the community, i get many calls about vicious and dangerous dogs and i call the unit directly and have them come out. but a new department since chief gasgon has organized the department, we have community advisory groups we work with. the speakers will be coming out from the dog units, officer hicks, and officer denny. we take this as an opportunity to

but i went to sergeant herndon and officer denny. they investigated it. they met with all the doge dog owners of the dogs that had died. they followed up with vets to find out what might be the likely causes of the dogs dying. they did investigations, and they helped to allay our fears that we had a poisoner in our dog park. so it isn't just thursday afternoons. it was very important. they did everything that they could to fine out what the problems were. it is not just the vicious dogs, but the work they have done with dogs in other contexts, and i hope that can continue with the dog unit, because it truly is a community treasure and we respect it very greatly. thank you very much. is president marshall: next speaker please. >> good evening, commissioners. i want to thank you all for the dog court. it is a reflection of yet another progressive way of san francisco dealing with social issues. i want to thank the department for clearing up the miscommunication so quickly and so well. commissioner hammer mentioned sergeant herndon for accommodation -- for c

somehow this information -- herndon is retiring in 11 months. weerdog going to bring new people in there. that unit will always be thrfment i will be -- there. we will not be shutting it down. i am giving my word. this unit will not be shut down. it was never going to be shut down. the article in the paper happened before they asked us. this operation was never, ever going to be shut down. president marshall: we can't really engage in public comment about this. and tuling actually it probably should have under the chief's report. you can have dirl questions there. all right. ruent. we can move to item 2, please. >> item 2 is the consent calendar which as presented to the commission was the police commission's third-quarter closed session. disciplinary issues you used. >> these are in your package. -- unless you have questions you want to asking on either of these, the second-quretter record clodse sessions the disciplinary items or the overseas quarterly report, there are no questions. we did approve the consent calendar. we need a motion. >> mo

that's what deny has done and officer hicks will do and what officer herndon did. i think sally stevens said it right. this is the best example of community policing and it is a testament to this department. chief gadown, when he first got the call, hen he first got the call, he said what's this all about? this didn't happen? it looked like bad news, but it turned out to be good news. what i told the community members is that the chief is a man of his word, he did he what he said he would do, and we actually have a better partner in him today. that's a debt e testament to the department, the chief, and the community members who spoke up and said how important it was. officer denny, you have terrific work for many years. thank you so much. sergeant herndon, there comes a time when everybody moves on, and that's the way it goes. it is not our position to dick dathe at a time personnel to the police department. that's the way it goes. at the end of the day, all community members wanted the unit to continue. i think this has been a good opportunity to publicize the cit

this is done mainly in our headquarters in herndon, virginia.ose workshops, look at additional proposed rulemaking, or policy changes. when of the last thing the agency has -- one of the last things the agency has is the agency can take actions on those, and follows up with subsequent civil penalties. that is one of the questions that has come out through the course of this investigation and multiple other investigations. why do the investigation reports not recommend issuing violations and civil penalties? the investigation group, the pelting, is somewhat hamstrung, i guess, by the regulation. regulations that govern all work says that our investigations will be fact- finding, with no adverse parties. this decision was made prior to becoming to work for the agency a 11 years ago, and has been passed down from everyone that has been my predecessor. that term "no adverse parties" was interpreted by the solicitor at that time to mean that the panel investigation team should not be doing an investigation for the sole purpose of finding violations,