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I am addressing. Commissioners i want to be really clear because this is on television. For anybody the lives in San Francisco, we are a sanctuary city. Your status living in the United States is not an issue. We will not report. Please. Trust your San Francisco Police Department. Call us. We are here to help. Commissioner turman thank you chief for pointing that out. We already had a constitutional law here, im not sure that it is hour is the best use. The attorney general did do a lawenforcement bulletin; the issue is whether the local jurisdiction is obligated to use state resources to do a...

Victims in the city. I want to thank everyone for their leadership to get to this point in my question is, we talked about this a few weeks ago before the police commission. I think you are doing a great outreach to the community. Obviously part of my concern that talk about over the last few weeks is in light of recent events in the city. The concern is that women who dont speak english or are living in poverty will have concerns about reaching out of the Police Department. We want to reassure and reach out. Can you talk about your efforts to reach out to communities through various newspaper...

Least of this, or how is it 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 those interviews. I dont speak korean and chinese. We do spanish radio on...

They know they will get to have an interpreter, if they have to wait whether an hour or 45 minutes and during that time the officer is talking probably to the abusive partner, it changes the dynamic. The police come in but theyre not always 100 percent sure that calling the police in the situation is going to be the most successful route. And then you have is a situation where theyre not able to communicate, that dont know what is going on and the city officer talking to the abusive party who a lot of times is a lot more proficient in english and it creates a dynamic of mistrust, we are gratef...

It is important when the victim makes the police report; it helps if a native speaker is there, eases some of the angst the victim may have when reporting a crime. In terms of outreaching and publications, i dont know everything that we have this is internally where we are trying to streamline and have more officers certified. I know you have been on the job three months, its wonderful progress. I want to add that we are in the process of creating a card that we can all of the stations have, all psas, where the victim comes in, the card explains the process. The card will be printed in five di...