board members as well as law enforcement members from all over the united states, from trinidad and tobago, canada, and jamaica. it covered topics from officer involved shooting to a community outreach to mediation. i was a member of a panel on mediation that also included the mediation director for the new york civilian complaint review board as well as the mediator from trinidad and tobago. two other members from occ staff attended. jason wechter gave a presentation. i would encourage the attendance of some members of the commission as well as members of the police to pardept to attend which will be in october 2012 in san diego. i would encourage any of you who are interested to speak with me about putting up a panel presentation together. they take proposals on various topics and the police commission and the san francisco police department are engaged in some pretty cutting edge policies from the work we're doing around community policing to the work around hour crisis intervention team or also, the juvenile protocols we have in place and other jurisdictions are interested, would be in

board members as well as law enforcement members from all over the united states, from trinidad and tobago, canada, and jamaica. it covered topics from officer involved shooting to a community outreach to mediation. i was a member of a panel on mediation that also included the mediation director for the new york civilian complaint review board as well as the mediator from trinidad and tobago. two other members from occ staff attended. jason wechter gave a presentation. i would encourage the attendance

attendance, one of the attendees was the director of the police complaints authority of trinidad and tobago. following the conference, she came out to san francisco with a delegation to understand how the office of complaints works. she was able to meet with representatives from the u.s. attorney's office. the office only investigates the most serious complaints of police misconduct including criminal misconduct and misconduct involving serious injury. you also have before you of the august comprehensive statistical report. in the report, you will find that 69 complaints with it -- were filed in august. through august 31, 2011, 552 complaints have been filed. as of that date, the occ closed 554 cases and we had 24 pending cases. this is a 10% reduction over the complaints were received in 2010. as of august 31, there was 39 mediations and as of that same time we conducted 33 mediations. on november 9 of this year, i will provide you with the third quarter statistical report. that concludes my report. president mazzucco: thank you and welcome back from new orleans. >> thank you. it is great