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To garden ers and park patrol officers so we are all day every day interacting with the public in various ways. Currently this year our budget for translation and interpretation was set at 40,000 of which so far we spent close to 30 thousand compared to last year at 15 thousand so doubled the amount of Language Translation Services we provided. Was that deliberate that you started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Sc...

Squad initiative is not waiting for a business to call us and saying i have a problem but being proactive how can we help. And the ada program but also to ensure that were selling other programs and making businesses aware of other programs. The office of Small Business which, supervisor, i know you were a leader in helping to create, continues to provide services to Small Businesses another key area where our Small Business team is focussed is on the implementation of outreach workshops designe...

Started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Scholarship Applications so we now have the Scholarship Application available in chinese spanish russian and vietnamese and tagal will be coming towards the end of the summer now that thats on board there so along with the application for scholarship were also providing some written email communication weve been translating to be able to communicate with our scholarship clien...

Information available or the margin of error places the threshold in question as in the case of filipino where there was a difference in the threshold and certification after we validate the data we issue written notification to all City Departments as with the original amendment in 2009, 18 months to implement citywide. Were very pleased this year to to be able to certify filipino as a language. Now the margin of error is plus or minus 930 and this is the specific reason why ocea wanted to do a...

Automatic gun and bullets into my son all because he helped someone else and all he said was are the run and they turned the guns on my son and shot him. I come here. I bring all the names of the people that were there, the perpetrators that were there that shot my son. This person, Thomas Hannibal, is a person of interest to me and hes still running the street. The paris mafet is in jail but not for my sons case. Some of them are still running the street but my main concern are Thomas Hannibal ...

And anybody that has worked with her, knows that she is right on top of it and it is because of her that we are here tonight because if it were on me, it will be another two years, and i write really slow and i did wear my purple today in honor of Domestic Violence month and so i am going to go right to our presentation. So this is involving our old Domestic Violence unit, the department general order, 6. 09 and what changes we added into there. And so, if you will all have copies of it and it i...

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 over to deputy chief beal, ...

Handled . Commissioner, its been the policy of the San Francisco Police Department since the sanctuary City Ordinance was passed over 30 years ago, before i became a Police Officer, it isnt just something we need to train to. Its always know. I can assure anyone watching on tv at this commission, San Francisco is a sanctuary city. We are here to help regardless of your country of origin or language. We are working hard as you can tell to figure out the language. Chief beal spoke about me doing t...

It makes the victim not want to come back and make a report. Certain refugee groups, particular the cambodian, laotian, and now iraqi women are distrusting of government. I would like to suggest that maybe we can have partnership with our Technology Partners to have particular tablets and face time, and split screen. Often times when we are speaking it is not just that we say or hear, but the body language as well. For these women from wartorn countries they are distrusting and if they cannot se...

Scenarios for our officers to see that include how to deal with limited English Proficient persons and specifically in Domestic Violence situations and they have identified situations where that has been problematic in the task. Another issue that was brought up in those type of meetings was or in those meetings was that our Police Service aids at stations made additional training on limited english professioncy. So we have been in contact with the Police Academy to look over their training regi...