One major finding and recommendation of that audit was that in light of an increase in property crime in our city, with public demand for more officers on the street, the San Francisco Police Department should put as many administrative positions in as possible. This is best practice is recognized by major Law Enforcement associations including the International Association of chiefs of police and adopted by most major Law Enforcement departments in the country, but San Franciscos ratio of sworn officers to civilian staff remains higher than the National Average over its peers. While there is a need for sworn officers with certain administrative and nonpatrol positions, there are also opportunities that we have not taken advantage of to produce cost and operational efficiencies for the department. That is why i asked the Controllers Office to provide us with the analysis of the civilian efforts made so far. That is the sole focus of today s hearing. We will not close this hearing, but
With respect to civilians. Give us a highlevel update in terms of the numbers because right now there were a lot of numbers thrown out and we started at a certain number and then from two years ago, how many of those positions have been civilianized, and what is the subset that is considered seriously to be civilianization but havent gotten there yet . Okay. We did have, actually pulled up a report from the Controllers Office from earlier this year and about 54 positions that had been identified previously as civilianization positions, all of them have been filled save for two which were no longer applicable, meaning the position no longer existed in the format it was at the time, and then the 25 positions from that we got budgeted, and 25 positions in 19 20, so commander ford can speak to the status of those. Welcome, commander. Good morning. Good to see you all. All right. Pertaining to fiscal year 1819, 25 positions budgeted for 1819. Of those, 13 have been filled to date. Another s
Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 24th, 2019 regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am not valemount and, the chair of the committee. To my right i am raphael mandelman. The chair of the committee. I want to thank San Francisco government tv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk, are there any announcements . Thank you. Please ensure you have silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 5th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call the first item . Number one is a resolution declaring a state of emergency regarding pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Supervisor haney . Welcome. Yes. Thank you, chair mandelman and thank you for having me back, committee members. I feel like i am an honorary member of this committee at this point. Thank y
In june of 2018, almost a year ago, the budget and legislative analysis analyst provided the board with a performance audit of the San Francisco Police Department so we could better understand, number one, how to put the police are deploying police staff, that is funded by the general fund, and number two , how uniform staff is allocated to administrative versus patrol duties. One major finding and recommendation of that audit was that in light of an increase in property crime in our city, with public demand for more officers on the street, the San Francisco Police Department should put as many administrative positions in as possible. This is best practice is recognized by major Law Enforcement associations including the International Association of chiefs of police and adopted by most major Law Enforcement departments in the country, but San Franciscos ratio of sworn officers to civilian staff remains higher than the National Average over its peers. While there is a need for sworn off
Please ensure you have silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 5th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call the first item . Number one is a resolution declaring a state of emergency regarding pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Supervisor haney . Welcome. Yes. Thank you, chair mandelman and thank you for having me back, committee members. I feel like i am an honorary member of this committee at this point. Thank you for hearing these very important items. I authored this resolution with president yee declaring a Traffic Safety state of emergency on pedestrian cyclists pedestrian and cyclist fatalities with walk s. F. Immediately after the tragic death of Benjamin Dean and the injury of his wife in the tenderloin after a driver ran a red light and struck them both, but this is about even more than one death i