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Item one Public Comment. The public can address on the items that are not on the tonight agenda but that are win the subject matter of jurisdiction orphthe commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or had department or occ personal. Under Police Commission rules ofordser during the Public Comment Neither Police orocc penchlal, nor the commissioners sheryl davis. I just wanted to take this timethe last time i was here was with a group of young people and just wanted to come back and say we really want to follow up with the ...

They tend to interfere with the equipment in the room and can we please rise for the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Call roll. President loftus, here. Vice president s therman, here. Commissioner marshal we believe is in route. Commissioner dejeess, here. Commissioner mazzucco, here. Commissioner hwang, here. Commissioner mu lera, here. You have a quarpm and also here is chief suhr and joyce hicks. Good evening here. Sergeant pl...

40 minutes ago when someone asked about online testing. They said you have to go to the facility. So you dont to have worry about that. We would get up dates all the time. If im no. 9 on the list and they have 10 people take the test today. When its refreshed, they plug in with my list. We continue to get the updated list all the time. I can be 10 today and next week 19 because some people slid in between me. Thats the way its going to happen. My concern with that is that some people are great test takers. Doesnt mean they are going to be great Police Officers. Its a different skill. I, like t...

The requirement . They come in annually and they look at every background packet of every applicant that we hire that graduates from the academy. If the applicant does not graduate from the academy, the point is moot, they never look at that candidate. However, if they graduate from the academy, they look at the packet and its separated by tabs and they look at things like citizenship verification, medical, that can only be 1 year old or no more than oneyearold and psychological evaluation that can not be more than 1 year old and they look at areas that we have to comply with and there is not ...

Significant increase in female applicants, upwards of 80 percent more. Its significant. We knew that was one of our weaker areas if you will and there was a focus on our recruiting effort. African american was low, they improved as well, not at the significance of the female applicants but we are seeing representation in both. Its still early. There is an improvement shown. Thank you. Thats helpful. Commissioner sherman. Thank you for the representation. Its great that you have female officers because im noticing 50 percent more of your psa are women than men. And that seems odd to me. Whats t...