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>> we are calling the meeting to order. please turn off any cell phones or pagers. would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance. taking of roll call commissioners. >> present. >> commission vice president dr. joe marshall. >> in route. >> commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner james hammer. >> in route. >> commissioner angela chan. excused. commissioner kingsley. >> present. >> commissioner slaughter. >> present. >> we have the assistant chief thromace sawyer. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday, april 20th, 2011 commission meeting....

issues. i did not know about them. i have not really heard anything to address these issues. that is the top player here. and in the second layer for us, for me, the compliance issue. it is funny because the department has laid his back on us. it means an oversight of this body. we tried to do some of that oversight. we have a couple of things going on here. the controls report and oversight of his body of patrol special, they have not been successful. i want to know what we're going to do here. what is the game plan? i hoped we can come up with that in the next few minutes. that is ...

>> we are calling the meeting to order. please turn off any cell phones or pagers. would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance. taking of roll call commissioners. >> present. >> commission vice president dr. joe marshall. >> in route. >> commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner james hammer. >> in route. >> commissioner angela chan. excused. commissioner kingsley. >> present. >> commissioner slaughter. >> present. >> we have the assistant chief thromace sawyer. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday, april 20th, 2011 commission ...

with the pension reform there is going to be a lot of retirements. there will be many uniformed people out there. animal care and control, sheriff's department. everyone is fairly similar. the uniforms are little different, but i the one point, the share of's department wanted to change it for city charter. the institutional passage is pretty similar. people respect the uniform. the control specialists were the uniform with dignity. there are a symbol of authority. i am here -- i was at the memorial. person after person gave testimonial to the stuff that she did in the community. and...

after tonight's meeting. that would be fine for me. that is all i have at this point. >> i wanted a clarification talking about the gun holster, how many patrol specialists carry guns and are all required to go to the range? and how do they have the guns. >> they are supposed to qualify twice per year in april and october. >> are they post certified? do they have a license to carry the guns? >> the assistants have guard cards but the beat owners are exempt from possessing a guard card. >> ok. thank you. >> if i may say in october i did attend their qualification. and at the time the ...