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They took away a lot of my thunder because a lot of what they say was what i was going to go over. We are making a lot of headway in the short time that i have been involved. That is a good thing. It is important to know that from what i have seen our department does really reflect our community. We have approximately 400 officers that speak some type of foreignlanguage. Of that 400 or so, most of them, we have 173 that speak spanish, 81 are certified; 91 cantonese speakers, 60 certified; 20 mandarin, 9 certified, 7 russian, 6 certified, 39 tagalog and 5 vietnamese. There is no lag time to get...

But also many of the folks introduced earlier who have been working on something similar to occur for a long time. We have been somewhat puzzled by the fact as we often hear in these chambers and other matters, by the fact that certainly San Francisco sits in the seat of such Technological Developments that are really evolving and reshaping the world on so many fronts, biotech, biomedical, engineering feats. Will could not understand why we could not board and eight with the technology available, stateoftheart information system. For our citizens. Thank you very much. I am very excited. It see...

If we can stream that its a great call. I am not sure how the civilian part is; for officers it is scenariobased. Commissioner chan. Commissioner chan i am reminded of what assistant District Attorney jean rolan said, the importance of maintaining trust. From the moment an officer and an inspector encounters the victim. I think the transformation that the department has had, president chu, i want to commend you for your work that started in 1998, none of this happened by accident. The moment that someone who does not speak english it is important for us to keep the safety net going for victims...

To get the process moving more quickly. On the street patrol officers, theyre using their own cell phones to call Language Line. On a real level of equipment, officers need a better way to ask his Language Line. We are working with the department and think outside of the box. Bilingual officers use digital recorders because of Department Requires them to tape interviews with victims, witnesses and suspects. The department was able to provide 50 digital recorders. We need more. Let me turn this over to deputy chief beal, a vital member of our team. I dont know if i am a vital member of the grou...

Forward that we will improve upon . I wanted it a sense of the permanency of this, the development of it, and not just the project that is done every 10 years or something of that nature. This is a very historic thing for me. And sitting down with doctor we talked about what is the definition of Domestic Violence and we really do need to go down the list of statutes and say is this in or not. The District Attorneys Office is tracking Domestic Violence cases, the Police Department also. We are using the Management System but as the systems hoping we will be able to show different sets of inform...