In the area of bias, the d. P. A. Has been an active participant in the Bias Working Group. And a lot of this work is done by our policy director. Shes been working in the Bias Working Group to redraft the department general order, that deals with bias policing. Weve also made recommendations that would require written consent for searches. The report found and National Studies have shown that consent searches are first of all, people of color are searched more than people who arent. The people who are white. And a lot of times asking for written consent is a Better National practice. So weve made that recommendation in the context of the bias reform sorry. The bias reforms. In the area of community policing, we are working to revise the general order there as well. And then our work in accountability has been revising department general order 2. 04, which was passed by the commission recently. And spelled out the departments jurisdiction, the department of police accountabilitys juris
Clerk you will need to come up here. Dont be shy. Called it exactly, supervisor. I think thats what im known for, is my shyness. [laughter] were just having conversations just this morning, just because everyone was here. I have worked with the justice and the Mayors Office previously and with the d. A. s office in the past. But we have not been incorporated into the new reiteration of the justice yet. But we just started having those preliminary conversations this morning, when i was just talking to linda in the audience. I will say that before we were even able to have this conversation, as many of you may be aware, d. P. A. , when i came over in 2017, was still on the norvel system, which predated lotus notes. [laughter] and we were the only department in the system that was still operating on norvel. We didnt have computers. We didnt have the technology. So now we are all uptodate with our windows systems. Were all uptodate with the computers. We just got our new c. M. S. System a
In richmond station, we have a high need for a language thats not certified. And that we are having we have hinn hindi and arabic. There is a plan Going Forward and ill brief you more on it when i get a better handle of the details. Two other things though is even though we are working on certification and language interpretation, that is different from translation. And we do have instances where the victims were right in their own language, a statement, and those statements technically, i think there was a bulletin out that they had to be translated or at least the gist of it to put in the police report. She said he didnt do it. And we had something worked out but it fell apart. So theres no way to translate what a victim statement is. And many times not be incorporated in the report. And that could be a liability actually for us if a victim is saying i was the one who was attacked, and we charge the victim as the attacker because nobody could read the statement, and it wasnt translat
Things she does in order to ensure our mediations are successful. The other is the central core of our mediations and those are the skilled and trained mediators and as a matter of fact we have a couple or several of them in the audience tonight. Without the mediators, we could not function. And it was very surprising to me when i came on board a year and a half ago to learn that all of our mediators are volunteers and they come from as far away as sacramento. And a person who comes to the 6 00 a. M. Is usually the person coming from sacramento. They are very dedicated. They are experienced in california. All the mediators have to be trained 40hour Training Course is required. But they are also skilled and very experienced. And when she and i first came on board a year and a half ago we were very new to the mediation process and Mediation Program. I was recruited from the department of justice by Paul Henderson who was my boss when i was a prosecutor at the das office so this is the se
Thank you. Commissioner dejesus. So i just want to get clarification. When you say the sro officer should have training and the chief says they do have training im not following what the concern is on the training. So yesterday we had a conversation our transformative justice committee, had a conversation with lieutenant yolanda williams. Try to make sure im not saying peoples names wrong. It was that when she had took over the sro program or whatever, and 90 percent of the officers were untrained on a very specific training that related to engaging with the young people in schools, i forgot exactly what she called that training. But kind of problematic. So that was your concern . Yes. That was very directly our concern. They arent trained to interact with youth and they are already in the schools interacting with youth that may be a problem. Maybe you can find out what lieutenant williams was focusing on. Yes chief. I believe what ms. Jones is talking about, the understanding teen tra