department. >> i am a dispatcher. >> my name is michelle martinez and i am a commander with the san francisco policetment. >> i am a police officer. >> i am a commander. >> i am an officer with the san francisco police department. >> i grew up in new york city triet >> houston, texas. let's right outside manhattan. >> i am a native she said. >> my father was a sicilian man. >> my mother was and italian catholics. >> my mother was from japan. i was a bit of a tomboy. >> things got very awkward and strange for me. i had to start trying to act like one and look like one. >> i would always dress in jeans and converse tennis shoes. my girlfriends would be checking out the guys and i would be checking out the girls. >> i had these close friendships with my best girlfriend and i was hiding from my senior prom date. >> there was never someone i could talk to because i thought i was different. >> by the age of five or six i already knew that i should keep it on the down low. >> i knew, absolutely, that i was not supposed to talk about it. >> i was not honest with myself or my family and. >> you are raised wi

m-15137 between the port and the san francisco police department, to station the san francisco police department marine unit at the hyde street harbor for a term of 60 months. >> good afternoon, commissioners. senior property manager for the real estate division. i am here today to request your approval for the memorandum 15137 between the port of san francisco and the san francisco police department. and the attached resolution. as way of background, the san francisco police department marine unit has been located at hyde street harbor since 2003. as you can see from your materials, they are out there in what has been known as the blue should building. they also have several birds in the hyde street harbor as well. approximately 2.5 years ago, the blue shed building was deemed to be in severe does repair and would need to be replaced. an extensive study was undertaken on behalf of a new replacement facility for not only the marine unit but for our harbour office located at the hyde street harbor. this has public facilities as well. that was undertaken by wendy and alan, project manag

police commission. this is just a tremendous day for san francisco. we have made tremendous inroads in impacting violent crime over the last few years. it is because of our staffing and the community support to do it through the community policing in the engagement of young people. this will allow us to keep doing that. we're going to lose close to 300 officers with the sunset of drop, and maybe another 100 officers before the summer of 2015. this will dramatically impact that. what the academy is is 29 weeks for entry level officers. eight weeks for lateral transfers. that includes a one-week fire arm training, one-week vehicle operation steny, one-week of officers of rival, and then continued use of force and physical training throughout. -- one-week vehicle operation training, one week of officer survival. and community policing. the mayor mentioned gary. none of the efficiencies that we have had could have ever happened without the support of gary and the other members of the board of directors of the poa. the officers have stepped up, worked diffe

many of officers recognize are not first generation san francisco police officers. four of the six are not first generation san francisco police officers. can i get the other generation of police officers that gave us these police officers to stand up and be recognized. [applause] >> talk about raising your kids right. another recognition i want to make is we are going to experience in the next 30 days of record exit of police officers, especially commissioned officers due to the sun setting of the retirement program. many of the people that are going out red nominations tonight. if i could, all officers that will be retiring and leaving us, they we think you for your service by getting you to stand. [applause] that is going to close our program. know that all of these officers when they get back to work, they will go out again looking for trouble and probably find it. i trust they will demonstrate again what these officers do every day, and that is keep this city safe. the command staff and commission will be available for pictures. family and kids for sure. if you

developing news in south san francisco. police officer shot and killed 58th grader during a confrontation at a gas station katie marzullo is live at the south san francisco police department with more. >> reporter: at this point, south san francisco police will only confirm an officer did shoot and kill a juvenile at the arco station 9:00 last night. video we shot a little bit ago. this is what the scene looks like at this hour. a handful of people showing up to leave balloon, handwritten cards and teddy bear at the scene where it happen. police say an officer stopped the juvenile. they've not said why during the contact the officer saw the boy had a again. the officer feared for his life and -- had a gun. officer feared for his life and shot the boy he started cpr but the juvenile died. a woman says her son and the victim were friends she says they are both 14 just graduated from 8th grade. she say the mcdonald's next is a common hang-out for kids. >> my son is 14-years-old. he was with him the night before. i just think about my

on behalf of the san francisco police commission, i want to thank you all for coming here this evening. it is an honor to stand before the police officers this evening, and i am humbled by it. when you hear their acts of valor, a chill will run up your spine. these men and women who have joined the police department to serve the city took an extra step, and i was actually the commissioner president during the voting for each and every one of these metals. a little bit about the process. in this process the only people allowed in the room are civil service capt. and above. id was allowed in the room, and it was an honor to be there. inspector monroe was preside pr. interestingly, after every presentation they turn to the officers and say, do you have anything to add? not one officer added anything other than we were doing our job. we were doing what we were trained to do. i am thinking about how many people watch these action tv shows, things that are not real, and i am listening to what really happened. people watch reality shows where people deucedly games to impress people. i am sitt

supervisor wiener: today, i would like to honor one of our great commanders in the san francisco police department. commander lee, can you come up? [applause] lee, who si moris more popular than any of us, retires after 31 years of service. he has played many roles in the san francisco police deparment. he is the commander in terms of transportqatioation and was the officer in charge of the homicide section, where she raised rates. she succeeded in each and every one. you may recall, several years ago, the commander was stabbed in the line of duty performing an investigation. she has been there for san francisco to keep the city safe. lee is also a real leader in the lbgt community, and it is important to look in context, when you look at the san francisco police department, there are quite a few lesbians who have been able to suceed at higher levels, including a number of the command staff level, and not as many gay men. because of hiv and aids, a lot of gay men in the department were no longer there. with so many things in the community, during the epidemic, our lesbian sisters steppe

at this time, officer heppler repeated san francisco police department, come out. hearing the commotion from the other side of the hallway, officer heisen and hernandez were standing. suddenly, from a door on the left side of the hallway, the suspect appeared holding a large knife in each hand. both arms were raised above his head as he pulled it down the hallway towards officers. officer eisen shot the beanbag. in an attempt to put distance between the suspect and himself, he started backing up all shouting, put it down. the suspect refused to obey the commands and quickly continue towards officer heppler with knives in each hand. the only option he had to stop the threat to him and fellow officers was to use the fire arm. officer heppler shot the suspect and save himself, the other officers, and undoubtably the suspect's sister from being stabbed. for these actions they are being awarded the silver medal of valor. congratulations. [applause] >>>> captain feeney, and lt. mak solomon, ryan, lieu and reyes. >> good evening. as commanding officer of park station i wa

developing news in south san francisco. police officer shot and killed 58th grader during a confrontation at a gas station katie marzullo is live at the south san francisco police department with more. >> reporter: at this point, south san francisco police will only confirm an officer did shoot and kill a juvenile at the arco station 9:00 last night. video we shot a little bit ago. this is what the scene looks like at this hour. a handful of people showing up to leave balloon, handwritten cards and teddy bear at the scene where it happen. police say an officer stopped the juvenile. they've not said why during the contact the officer saw the boy had a again. the officer feared for his life and -- had a gun. officer feared for his life and shot the boy he started cpr but the juvenile died. a woman says her son and the victim were friends she says they are both 14 just graduated from 8th grade. she say the mcdonald's next is a common hang-out for kids. >> my son is 14-years-old. he was with him the night before. i just think about my

at this time, officer heppler repeated san francisco police department, come out. hearing the commotion from the other side of the hallway, officer heisen and hernandez were standing. suddenly, from a door on the left side of the hallway, the suspect appeared holding a large knife in each hand. both arms were raised above his head as he pulled it down the hallway towards officers. officer eisen shot the beanbag. in an attempt to put distance between the suspect and himself, he started backing up all shouting, put it down. the suspect refused to obey the commands and quickly continue rd

san francisco police officers know at any time and anywhere they need to put their lives on the lineo do their duty to stop a criminal. july 16, 2011, officer richard hastings and mathew lopez put their lives on the line and did their duty. for that, they're being awarded the most prestigious award,

tuesday, june 7, 2011, the fbi contacted the san francisco police department robbery abatement team providing them with specific information about two incidents that occurred in irvine, california. an armed white male suspects driving a gray bmw had committed to armed bank robberies. the suspect had already proven himself dangerous and desperate when he attempted to run down responding deputy sheriffs in order to effectively escape from one of the bank robberies. using the gps, the getaway car was located in our city at one of this the park. -- beuna vista park. the suspects gray bmw was found precisely with gps. the car was legally parked and unattended. the robbery abatement team maintain surveillance of the -- of the vehicle for hours, but no signs of activity. park station please -- plain clothes officer under the direction of sergeant scott ryan and robert lieu adnd reyes observed. they noticed until lights were on and the sun roof was opened. officer lew quickly executed a u-turn and confirmed it was occupied by the suspect. officers immediately got out of the car, drew their weapons an

. >>> police say a san francisco dayler rights -- gay right anth vist has been arrested for child pornography. police provided us this mugshot. he retired from the san francisco human rights commission in 2010. the case remains under investigation. >>> the san francisco police department has become the first in the country to launch a new technology to help their officers fight crime. officers will no longer need to carry paper, pen, camera or gps. instead they will be rolled into new computers that will put resources at their finger tips. it includes a search engine that allowsorses to track down -- allows officers to track down criminals and other information. >> we will be a leader in the region in connecting to our neighboring counties. >> the new technology will be rolled outlet over two -- rolled out over two years. >>> police say two men were stabbed during the pride celebrations over the weekend in san francisco. investigators say the two men were walking with friends at 5:00 p.m. last night when an argument erupted with another group of people. a man pulled out a box cutter and stabb