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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...

Is handled by the department of human services. They did the testing. Once the announcement goes out, officers have a deadline. They can apply and personnel submits a list of officers to the department of human resources. They also test for the civilian side in other departments. What theyre trying to do with what you cuts is say we are going to test on a certain date we have to wait for more people rather than testing four people now and two later. That slows the process down. As deputy chief beal says, we have 14 in line to take the test, in spanish, and 14 in chinese, 1 in russian. That hel...

Explains the process. The card will be printed in five different languages. They can pick the language they speak; point to it, then we know what they need. The officer will get them the service. I want to say that the chief and i especially the chief, he is out there all the time, i work with Public Affairs and recently we did an interview on the chinese speaking channel on the chinese talkshow. Two days ago, i saw the chief being interviewed on a korean show; he is always trying to reach out to all of the communities that we are approachable, we are here to help, we are trying to provide a s...

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...

Certified, 7 russian, 6 certified, 39 tagalog and 5 vietnamese. There is no lag time to getting information on any type of crime occurring. We do use landline with an interpreter is not available, that is the card. Most of the language services, including interpretation, we had 1800 calls that required interpretation of language services, most of that was spanis, with about 1060, second was cantonese, with about 400 calls. Sometimes, you may be underreported, it can be a lot higher if not put into the database. As required by the City Ordinances, we completed with the lao City Ordinances, with...