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SFGTV Mayors July 3, 2024

Security events. We refer as a nsse. Due to the size significance and anticipated attendance. This will be the United States secret service 75 National Security event. This designation is given to insure the full weight leverage talent and resources of the federal government and our state and local partners to this event and other events like this. When an event is designated the u. S. Secret service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for it design and implementation of the Operational Security plan. However, the success of these events cannot be obtained by any one agency alone and i can say it has been a collaborative effort between the u. S. Secret service, the San Francisco Police Department, the california Highway Patrol, the federal bureau of investigation, the federal Emergency Management agency, u. S. Coast guard, San Francisco Fire Department and many federal state and local partner tuesday design the security plan. During the last several months and in fact today, this Collaborative Team has conducted numerous training exercises, one of which we finished this morning a table top exercise to prepare for this event cht this insures that each agency is properly prepared for this event of this magnitude. The number one priority for the secret service and everyone standing here today is the safety of the world leaders, the attendees coming to the apec summit, but as well as the general public here in San Francisco while the apec summit is here in San Francisco. Because of the nature of this designation and impact to the normal daily lives of San Francisco residents and visitors is unavoidable. However, the team here has taken extraordinary measures to minimize that impact where possible while maintaining our obligation to the safety of the attendees oof the apec semt as elwith as the general public. The public will experience increased traffic on both roads and walkways in and around the apec venues. Vehicular Public Transportation and pedestrian impacts should be expected in the downtown area around the muconey center. Around the San Francisco waterfront, as well as the nob hill neighborhood. Residents and businesses generally will have access to their normal residents and their normal businesses, however, they may under go a security screening and mild inconvenience to traverse these areas. Specific road closures and pedestrian and vehicle access information have been provided on a map like the one displayed behind me here that can be accessed online. Also made available to Mapping Software people are familiar with here in San Francisco that they have on their personal smart phones and other devices. Secret service establish remote delivery and vehicle screening at pier 27 that allow all delivery vehicles going into their zones to be screened and then they will be given specific instructions once they are screened. Their vehicle will be sealed and can access the perimeter under certain conditions. Deliveries should occur between 10 p. M. 7 a. M. There will be temporary flight restrictions. This will impact commercial and private air traffic as well as drown operators. The federal Aviation Administration this and notice to all airman for all effected air traffic. Again to include drones. There will be restrictions for commercial and private maritime traffic around the waterfront area. Those restrictions will be communicated directly by the u. S. Coastguard and notice to mariners. The summit security plan is part of the secret service zero no fail protective mission and also a part of each and every state federal local agency participated in this security plan. We have absolute confidence in this plan and we have taken extraordinary measures to minimize the impact to the public and to the residents and visitors of San Francisco. We thank the residents and visitors of San Francisco for their patience. We will do our best to collectively keep the public informed of changes or impacts or incident that occur during the apec summit. I like to personally thank chief scott with the San Francisco Police Department as well as the San Francisco department of Emergency Management and many other federal state and local partners who mentioned for all the work thus far. It is truly a collaborative effort and i thank you all for your continued partnership. My pleasure to introduce chief bill scott. Thank you special agent brown. First of all, i want to thank our partners and like to start with special agents jeremy brown for leadership and professionalism planning the apec alongside the sfpd. I want to thank and acknowledge the partners at the cal Highway Patrol. We have [indiscernible] here and also thank commissioner [indiscernible] for their assistance and commitment of resources to this event. We cannot do this without their help and this is a unprecedented event for the city of San Francisco. We are very excited to take part in this event and putting the global spotlight on the city and county of San Francisco. We are expecting up to 20 thousand people from across 21 member apec economys, ceos around the world and expecting close to 1 thousand media representatives. Our city is ready to meet this moment. The San Francisco Police Department has a full time team working with all Department Bureaus to insure adequate Service Provided to the apec event and to the city as a whole. Our department of Emergency Management headed by director carol and mayor office are working full time to coordinate all city agencies to be prepared for this epic event. The San Francisco Police Department is also partnering with federal, state and local agencies to support the u. S. Secret service, their security mission. Sfpd is working to insure First Amendment activity is properly facilitated and remains peaceful and let me be very very clear, any act of violence against any member of the public or Law Enforcement will not be tolerated. This department has a lot of experience in handling large scale security events. Yearly we have the pride event. The 2018 Global Climate action summit superbowl and victory parade for Golden State Warriors and San Francisco giants. We have experience with this but so do all our partners. That experience will make us successful with this years apec event. Ypt to talk about our staffing. The San Francisco Police Department is staffed up and prepared to make sure this event is safe for everyone. Work wg our department of Emergency Management and will have a joint Information Center to respond to inquirys and get information out in real time. We do not anticipate apec impact City Services by ems or 911. Emergency responders will be available everywhere in the city. Several hundred sfpd officers are dedicated to normal operations, including calls for service and Emergency Response acrauz the city. And we plan to maintain adequate service for the greater city in our 10 district stations outside of the apec conference boundaries in order to handle our routine normal calls for service and provide the Public Safety needs of this city. All of our sworn members will be working. We are mobilized for that week and we will have hundreds of sfpd officers ambassadors, volunteers dedicated to this apec conference to insure the safety of visitors and dignitaries in both the city limits and at the San Francisco international airport. The california Highway Patrol and over a dozen local agencies are providing personnel to supplement the needs for the uniform Law Enforcement as designated apec venues and events. Our San Mateo County agency is supporting the San Francisco airport so we are well prepared for this events. Here is our call to axz. We are asking the public, stay vigilant. If you see something, say something. We should do that always no matter what you see, we will check it out. Dont be afraid to call. Be patient. As special agent brown mentioned, many areas of the city will be impacted by street closures, detours, buses rerouted, Public Transportation rerouted and dignitaries escorts. It will take all patience to get through this week. We will keep you informed and make sure you know what routes you can take for Public Transportation, what routes are closed so you can plan accordingly. We encourage you to take Public Transportation or walk, but most importantly, please enjoy the city as you would normally. This Police Department and our Public Safety partners will be out 24 7 as always insuring our community is safe. Last, lets please be respectful and tolerant of one another. Many people from many cultures and many Different Countries with many different ways of life will be converging on the city of San Francisco during apec. We are that city. We are a welcoming city that respects every culture, so lets make sure that we model that this week and beyond. Lets show the world that we are truly a world class city. The map has been provided. Working closely with City Partners and agencies to assist with road closures. Working with mta on Public Transportation but Pay Attention to the alerts because that will help us get through this with hopefully minimized disruption to normal routine. With that, i like to close by saying, thank you, thank you again to our partners. This will be a exciting time for the city of San Francisco as we will be on the global stage. We are prepared. We have done this before. We have the experience. We have the collaboration. We have partnership and we are committed to making this a safe event for everyone and with that, i like to introduce special agent in charge from the fbi, bob trip. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you chief scott. My name is bob trip. In november, apec will bring together the leaders of nations that account for 40 percent of the global population and 50 percent of global trade. The fbi is committed insuring these leaders, other visitors and the city and residents of the bay area can enjoy these events in a safe and security environment. We are bringing all fbi resources to bear to fulfill our own mission and to plan for contingencies. Our role will focus on crisis management, investigation, and intelligence support as part of our preventing terrorism mission. We will Work Together with partners to collect Threat Intelligence and mitigate any threats in support of this event. A driving force behind the summit is the power collaboration that same principle is guiding the planning and engagement of the federal state and local partners that you see gathered here today. The fbi is proud to stand among our partners and to provide them all with our full support. Ill turn things back over to secret service for questions. We can take some questions related to the apec event. First up. Hi. There. What measure s might the secret service might conduct sweeps to make sure any unhoused individuals in zone may be removed, is that something the secret service will be working on . First off, thank you for that question. I know there is a lot of concern in San Francisco regarding the homeless population. We have a plan that we work closely with San Francisco Police Department on. I will turn it over to chief scott. I think he has more detailed information to answer this specific question. Thank you for that question. First of all, let me say, we are not conducting sweeps. We have a infrastructure in the city to address some of the challenges with our unhoused population and we will plug into that infrastructure to make sure people need help need help. The main thing, the main focus that we are all here for is Public Safety and the safety of this event. There will be places where we wont allow access and we are prepared to deal with that if we have unhoused people that are displaced. They will have opportunities for shelter. They will have opportunities for help, but the main thing is to make sure it is a safe environment, so we will plug into our regular infrastructure. The department of Emergency Management. The Fire Department has a street Crisis Response team. We have shelter beds available. We have the resources to make this work and thats what we intend to do. I want to say this, it isnt a crime to be unhoused. It isnt a crime to be homeless. We are out there to make sure we help people. We are out there to make sure this event is a safe event but we also want to represent our city in the finest light, so all these components and infrastructure pieces we put together over a number of years will come together and help guide us to a successful event. Should people start expecting to see like, [indiscernible] things in the ramp up to this since they are necessary to [indiscernible] heads of state. Thanks for the question. In the days leading up to the period of the nsse, you will see what we would call administrative movement of motorcade vehicles throughout the city to prepare. You will see instillation of various physical barriers to assist with the restrictions displayed on the map here in the days leading up to the 1518 period. It is slow ramp up a few day ahead and culminating the evening of the 14 to Early Morning hours of the 15 of november. On the map, what are all the colors mean . Can someone point out what everything up there means [indiscernible] if i could get a map here i can refer to real quick. I got one with me and will try to talk through it. So, the colors and everything on the map are selfexplanatory. There is a legend at the bottom corner and so im happy to visit privately after this to answer those questions, but for me to explain entirety of the map, there is a lot on the map. There is vehicle restricted zones. There is pedestrian restricted zones. There is closures of Public Transportation routes. There are reroutes available to the public of San Francisco to take in lieu of the closed Public Transportation routes. Those are all displayed on the map. Those are what the Different Things mean, but detailed explanation of the map for the purpose of time here today, not going through from az on that. [indiscernible] for people listening at home. Where can people read and find out the closures that effect them . Excellent question. I know this map is going to be most important to the public so ill differ that question to a San Francisco pd or City Partners. [indiscernible] you are saying there is a [indiscernible] can you elaborate on that . People are wondering [indiscernible] we had the president here. We had a lot of people from out of town. What type of extra security are we expecting, especially 21 leaders . Great question. Again, as i said earlier, this event has warranted full resources of the federal, state and local government, so im not going to speak to specific numbers. What i can tell you is there will be a extraordinary amount of Law Enforcement, military and Public Safety personnel in San Francisco for this event, so well above what anybody has ever seen here before. Can you give us the ideawe have seen the president in San Francisco before. Can you give comparison how much more locked down the city will be . I cant give you a detailed comparison other then to say, it will be much more then a normal president ial visit to San Francisco. We are anticipating not just

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