Henderson. Im jason sawyer, lieutenant at northern station, coming here to talk about the general order, revising for underwater diving operations. We currently have a general order, 6. 03 which we are seeking to replace the prior general order, it goes back to at least 1999. There have been no revisions since then. If you review the prior general order, virtually none of it other than the concept of water applies today. The old system has virtually no its a page and a half where our divers used to use their own equipment. There was no real chain of command or any type of medical protocol. Ive been diving for over 30 years. Many of the years with the department. And i wish Something Like this would have been revised for all the time ive spent in the water. This goes very well hand in hand with what the sergeant was speaking about regarding the r. O. V. And the concept of there are so many ways a diver can get injured in black water or overhead diving. This new general order at least laze out a general policy qualifications, training, medical requirements, the personnel, basically who is in charge, the equipment, again, which is now purchased and maintained through the police department. We have so much highquality equipment now and spelledout dive operations. And one of the key advances that ive noticed in my time with the dive unit is go back 20 years ago, we did not have a very robust marine unit. The marine unit and dive unit were separate units. Now our marine unit is extremely robust, one of the best on the west coast. Our dive unit and qualifications of our divers is also the same. If you go back to one of our most famous incidents with scott peterson, if you remember, and lacey peterson, i was one of the primary divers in that incident, and we were not consulted initially, but the other departments did not have the capabilities of doing the dive. We were consulted, and we went down instead. Many days of time in the water to ultimately find and locate lacey peterson. Because our unit is so robust, we are called upon by many other outside agencies, both in San Francisco and outside of San Francisco just because of the capabilities of our divers. We ask that we can just get some type of policy put in place to help protect the divers and the department. Does anybody have any questions . No questions from commissioners . Move to adopt. Second. Thank you for what you do. Getting in those waters i can tell you, its a lot different than going to cozumel. Any Public Comments before we move for a vote . I dont see anyone. All right. Want to vote . All in favor . Aye. Anyone opposed . All right. The motion passes. You get to play with the mini submarine too . I tell you what, we used a piece of equipment like that in locating lacey peterson. It was phenomenal because like the sergeant alluded to, instead of having us down there, if we were trying to search an area the size of this room, it would take days. Like you are on your hands and knees crawling, because you have no visibility. To use a piece of equipment like that while the divers sit on topside is a tremendous asset as opposed to you drop a diver in, they stay in 30 minutes, they are cold, they have to stay out of the water for a certain amount of time. By the time you come out your core temperature has dropped so much and you have to come back the next day. Its an incredible amount of divers you can put in. It takes time when but it saves the fatigue on the divers. One last question about the equipment. What happens with the old piece of equipment . Do we utilize it for training . No, you cant have it. Do we use it in conjunction so we can send one out . You cant afford that. Optimally it would go to an inland agency that can use it because it still has a usable life. So whatever the procedures and protocols would be, ideally, if we could transfer it to an inland agency that doesnt have the current issue. The time ive been down there, weve gone from mutual aid as far up to lake shasta to assist them with drowning victims because it is hundreds of feet deep. We can send a piece of equipment down. And theres almost zero risk other than maybe an entanglement hazard. But hopefully we can give it away to somebody, whatever the policies and procedures would be. That was more of the question. In lieu of the question that phil asked, also ensuring that as it is an investment that we really get the entire life span of it. And it was purchased through grants funds as well when we did receive it. All right, cool. Free federal money. Thank you for your time. Next line item. Line item 5, general Public Comment. Public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d. P. A. Personnel. Under Police Commissioner rules of order, during Public Comment, Neither Police or d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners, the police and d. P. A. Personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comment. Good evening, commissioners. Chief scott, director henderson, im deputy public defender brian cox. Im here to raise two points related to sb1421 records they have a legal mandate to produce. I would like to thank the Commission Commission for its wisdom in asking both departments to report on the progress of complying. I think thats a great idea and is going to help add clarity to our process. The first point i want to raise is about tracking mechanisms. D. P. A. Has created a tracking mechanism as new complaints and investigations occur. We havent heard from sfpd on whether it plans to do the same. As we heard last week, identifying and locating these records can be challenging. Some of that problem could be helped by creating a mechanism to immediately identify new sb1421 records as they are created by the departments. The departments should make their systems operational as quickly as possible, even if the Technological Infrastructure is currently in development. With as much transparency as possible to save time and effort later on. My second point is about ongoing public incidents. Both departments should publish sb1421 records with new incidents without waiting for a request. Publishing on a online database can streamline disclosure. The public should hear more about both processes in the database departments intend to build. These two common sense procedures that will make future sb1421 efforts faster and make sure the public gets what it is entitled to. The public should encourage the departments to create the tracking mechanism and release new public incidents on their own. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is sean jones. My it please the commission, i wanted to tell you that i really wanted to hear out hear what the woman in the gray sweater had to say earlier this evening. The fact that she was told to sit down and shut up was rude. I think its an abuse of discretion not to grant her an additional minute or two to complete her thoughts. Think if you will, for a minute, how that incident would play out if put on tv in moscow. What would they think of the Great American democracy if they see citizens treated like that . I ask you, just think about it. Sir, i have a question. Who was told to sit down and shut up. I dont recall that happening tonight. Im sorry . Who was told to sit down and shut up. Thats what you do. What does that say . Sit down and shut up. All you had to say, not addressing you personally, madame Vice President , but all you had to say was take another minute, we want to hear what you have to say. This commission never does that. Its always, we are going to listen to you because we have to and we are going to get on to the more interesting stuff later. Thats what it looks like. Call me wrong. I could be wrong. But its terrible. Its just bad theater. People come up here because they want to be heard. Its scary to talk in public. You are not dealing with people who have the skills to organize complex thoughts into a two twominute presentation. Thats difficult to do, to develop over time. So what im telling you is you want to know why people dont come . Thats a reason. Thank you very much. Good evening again. I wanted to say thank you for mentioning the anonymous number that you do every time i come here. I need that. I need it to be continued. I know its repetitive and i keep saying it. I feel the same way when i come here every wednesday that im just saying the same thing over and over and over again, but i need to do this for myself. Its not for anybody, its for myself. And i do want the public and sf gov television to see this and to know that im hurting and that im in pain. I bring my granddaughter with me when we should be at home studying, but im not. We study but not like we should. But i wanted to thank you guys for and please continue to say that number. And im hoping that if you are no longer here, the next person will say it and the next person will say it until i get justice for my son. So thank you. Thank you so much. 415475444. Is there any additional june Public Comment . She doesnt have your skills yet. All right. Sorry. It happens. Good evening. Im wondering when and where will the information be posted regarding the meeting regarding what evidence shes going to produce about the shooting, like when and where will that be at and where will you post it . Do you want to again this coming tuesday at 6 00 p. M. On cesar chavez elementary school. If there are any changes where can people find that information . On the website. Well also post it publicly. [please stand by] closed session including Public Comment on items a seven. Vote whether to hold item eight in closed session. Is there any Public Comment online item eight moving into line item seven, moving into closed session . No Public Comment. Vote on whether or not to move into closed session . Second. All in favor . Aye. Before we go into closed session, i would like to vote on whether to invoke the attorney and client privilege for those items as well. Is there a motion . So moved. Item nine, vote to elect whether to disclose what was discussed in closed session. Aye. Is anyone for adjournment . Aye. Can i have a motion and a second, please . Second. Aye. [laughter] the office of controllers Whistle Blower Program is how City Employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in City Government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of City Government that. 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