our policy director jermaine jones who is here this evening as well is also preparing for the 2025 dgo updates. i know the department is presenting on the item number eight but as part of that preparation mr. jones is attending the various cpd trainings to observe how recruits and officers are trained on the various policies and have that be reflected directly in that summary that you guys will get from us at this week. well since the last time we met our investigator unit has opened up 14 new cases and has closed 15 cases since the last commission meeting. the top allegation is four cases that came into the office this week was again for neglect of duty. also the summaries are going to be an annual report as well so you don't have to track them. you'll be able to see them in the charts that we provide on these allegations as they come into the office. again, these are the allegations, not actual investigations and outcomes from the allegations which report which we report on separately. we currently have 19 investigations that have been open for more than 270 days. and of those 19 six

our policy director jermaine jones who's here with us this evening is currently conducting a review of all of the cases that were closed throughout 2024 that were policy failures. we want to look at trends and we want to be able to track outcomes to determine whether or not there outstanding issues that can be accommodated in partnership with the department to address discipline issues or diminish some of the discipline issues, the investigations unit so far since the last meeting of commission has opened 79 new cases and we have closed 78 cases. the top allegations this week was for neglect of duty. again, these are the allegations that have come into the office we currently have 18 investigations that have been open for more than 270 days and 15 of those cases are told cases. so the we still have one case that is in closed session tonight and we have a presentation that we're looking forward to on the stop data audit for the rest of the agenda there is a senior investigator here in the hearing room with me tonight in case there are issues that come up that need to be handled during c

some time to make sure that we incorporate some discussions i've had with db's policy director jermaine jones on some of the issues that are that were raised in acting president carter over stern's revised draft and hope to have that back before the full commission as early as next week. >> chief, the one thing i want to ask for there's been continued both media and community attention related to the joint terrorism task force. i want to know if i know the last time we spoke you told me that there were no specific asks and moves in that direction but you're sort of monitoring. i wanted to know if there was an update on or any movement and then report on whether or not as a pd will rejoin the joint terrorism task force. >> nothing has changed. commissioner there has been no movement or advancement to rejoin the jta. >> okay. and i want to clarify something that i know that you and acting president carter oberstar. the last time we spoke about this, would you consider an mou to rejoin the gtf under 3.21 as one that would come before the commission? it has to come before the commission. that's w