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They took away a lot of my thunder because a lot of what they say was what i was going to go over. We are making a lot of headway in the short time that i have been involved. That is a good thing. It is important to know that from what i have seen our department does really reflect our community. We have approximately 400 officers that speak some type of foreignlanguage. Of that 400 or so, most of them, we have 173 that speak spanish, 81 are certified; 91 cantonese speakers, 60 certified; 20 man...

But also many of the folks introduced earlier who have been working on something similar to occur for a long time. We have been somewhat puzzled by the fact as we often hear in these chambers and other matters, by the fact that certainly San Francisco sits in the seat of such Technological Developments that are really evolving and reshaping the world on so many fronts, biotech, biomedical, engineering feats. Will could not understand why we could not board and eight with the technology available...

If we can stream that its a great call. I am not sure how the civilian part is; for officers it is scenariobased. Commissioner chan. Commissioner chan i am reminded of what assistant District Attorney jean rolan said, the importance of maintaining trust. From the moment an officer and an inspector encounters the victim. I think the transformation that the department has had, president chu, i want to commend you for your work that started in 1998, none of this happened by accident. The moment tha...

To get the process moving more quickly. On the street patrol officers, theyre using their own cell phones to call Language Line. On a real level of equipment, officers need a better way to ask his Language Line. We are working with the department and think outside of the box. Bilingual officers use digital recorders because of Department Requires them to tape interviews with victims, witnesses and suspects. The department was able to provide 50 digital recorders. We need more. Let me turn this o...

Forward that we will improve upon . I wanted it a sense of the permanency of this, the development of it, and not just the project that is done every 10 years or something of that nature. This is a very historic thing for me. And sitting down with doctor we talked about what is the definition of Domestic Violence and we really do need to go down the list of statutes and say is this in or not. The District Attorneys Office is tracking Domestic Violence cases, the Police Department also. We are us...

Is handled by the department of human services. They did the testing. Once the announcement goes out, officers have a deadline. They can apply and personnel submits a list of officers to the department of human resources. They also test for the civilian side in other departments. What theyre trying to do with what you cuts is say we are going to test on a certain date we have to wait for more people rather than testing four people now and two later. That slows the process down. As deputy chief b...

I want to ask a couple of clarifying questions. It looks like the justis project replaces the cable system. My understanding is that it is a database for local background check, i want to get more of the big picture perspective and also want to find out my understanding is that the cable system was not a system connected to any databases. I am wondering if the justis system will be different, connected to any federal database like the fbi or department of homeland security. I am the justis proje...

A few years ago it wouldve taken longer. I am very excited about this and excited that we can share this discussion with the Police Department commission. As far as the development of justice. Thank you very much to all of that been involved. Very critical. Commissioner kingsley . Ms. Young, thank you very much for your report. It is very interesting. Some of the questions i had have been addressed by commissioner schwatzs comments. I wanted more clarity around the timing and history of this. Is...

Explains the process. The card will be printed in five different languages. They can pick the language they speak; point to it, then we know what they need. The officer will get them the service. I want to say that the chief and i especially the chief, he is out there all the time, i work with Public Affairs and recently we did an interview on the chinese speaking channel on the chinese talkshow. Two days ago, i saw the chief being interviewed on a korean show; he is always trying to reach out t...

Services and social services agencies. Theyre not likely to call occ to make a complaint. I think anything that relies purely on occ complaints or some other kind of data will be misleading. We are grateful to have this partnership. It is not often that Legal Services organizations get to regularly meet with Law Enforcement and learn about their experience. I really appreciate officer hall who is also in eric changs position; our organization has been involved with this commission for six years....