and lieut. molina can speak further on that if you like. back in october of 2015 we made some changes in our training at the san francisco police academy. it was called a non-safety healed tactics course were officers were meant to [inaudible] but we added a de-escalation component to that , which was a non-shoot scenario. where officers were faced with a person encountered a person with a edged weapon and the gold that was de-escalation, back out of the situation, maintain and assess the situation to negotiate a peaceful resolution to that encounter. which we mixed in to a course that was primarily the firearms tactics course. so, we switch it up on their grades so that they have to understand that use of force is fluid. it's dynamic. it can escalate and de-escalate and they have to respond appropriately and as we learned in washington and from the uk, after respond proportional. with the use of force proportionate to the situation that presented itself to the officers? in addition to firearms training de-escalation, the department has als

and lieut. molina can speak further on that if you like. back in october of 2015 we made some changes in our training at the san francisco police academy. it was called a non-safety healed tactics course were officers were meant to [inaudible] but we added a de-escalation component to that , which was a non-shoot scenario. where officers were faced with a person encountered a person with a edged weapon and the gold that was de-escalation, back out of the situation, maintain and assess the situation to negotiate a peaceful resolution to that encounter. which we mixed in to a course that was primarily the firearms tactics course. so, we switch it up on their grades so that they have to understand that use of force is fluid. it's dynamic. it can escalate and de-escalate and they have to respond appropriately and as we learned in washington and from the uk, after respond proportional. with the use of force proportionate to the situation that presented itself to the officers? in addition to firearms training de-escalation, the department has als

lieut. melia what you have to add? >> [inaudible] >> we will hear from the community. >> [inaudible] >> you have an opportunity. in a two-minute interval. the molina would you be brief i appreciate it. >> on the officer in charge of behavioral otto. also accorded her for the office otto. a brief history of it, we have a program modeled after the -program the police commission [inaudible] we have been implementing training everson. we trained about 300 new officers as of today. as of tomorrow night would've had 39 more officers. that's a class that graduated last friday. would have 342 officers on the streets of san francisco that have received the training. the training is very comprehensive. [inaudible]. to talk about the neighborhood culture and officers about fences between the police department and the community. so, we have a conference of program. we have a community-based program. we have people from-with experts in the brain. the first day is devoted to how the brain works. developing. we talked about diagnoses. we talked about behavior. this is very important to address the behavior of the person. i don't expect our officers to go in diag

lieut. melia what you have to add? >> [inaudible] >> we will hear from the community. >> [inaudible] >> you have an opportunity. in a two-minute interval. the molina would you be brief i appreciate it. >> on the officer in charge of behavioral otto. also accorded her for the office otto. a brief history of it, we have a program modeled after the -program the police commission [inaudible] we have been implementing training everson. we trained about 300 new officers as of today. as of tomorrow night would've had 39 more officers. that's a class that graduated last friday. would have 342 officers on the streets of san francisco that have received the training. the training is very comprehensive. [inaudible]. to talk about the neighborhood culture and officers about fences between the police department and the community. so, we have a conference of program. we have a community-based program. we have people from-with experts in the brain. the first day is devoted to how the brain works. developing. we talked about diagnoses. we talked about behavior. this is very important to address the behavior of the person. i don't expect our officers to go in diag