Start. Most of you should have copies of this if not, it is up on the board. Northern station, for those that dont know encompasses a fairly large area of the city and council of San Francisco. But when you look at that map, you can see that northern station really starts at the corner of church and market. And it goes all the way down Market Street to larkin, from there, everything north all the way to where you hit water is northern station. So, we have the lower hate, we have the haze valley and the middle fillmore and the western addition, and upper fillmore and Pacific Heights and the marina, and it is a large area and as you can see within the Northern District there are ten districts and a number of smaller communities that we encompass. This is number two. One of the things that this picture shows you here is the five district sectors that the Police Department polices during a normal workday. The northern is broken up into five sectors as you can see the largest one is the yea
Last year the occ mediated 62 cases. Those 62 cases that the occ mediated report the work of one investigator it was 8 percent of the cases that we closed last year. It allows them to resolve the issues with the accused officer in person in a dispute resolution format. It goal is to bring the parties together in an effort to achieve Mutual Understanding and we have a partnership with the Bar Association who provide us with neutral mediators for the program. We have conducted medations in languages other than english through interpreters. Our medation program is voluntary, both the complainant and the officers have to agree to mediate pi am proud to report that in 2012, eligible officers participated at a 90 percent rate in our medation program. In addition, the office of citizen complaints the member of the Community Boards 2012 excellence in adr practices award. Now, i would like to share a few statistics with you about the cases that the occ received. In 2012. And how we resolved the
This is a 6 percent reduction in complaints they received in 2011 when we received 784 complaints. Last year we sustained allegations in 60 percent of the cases we closed. We found proper conduct in 31 percent of the allegations we investigated and we found that 4 percent of the allegations were unfounded or not true. The largest percentage of allegations we received were for unwanted action, 33 percent of the allegations followed by the conduct reflecting discredit. 29 percent of the allegations. Unnecessary force comprised only 3 percent of the allegations we received and last year we did not sustain any of the allegations of a necessary force. In 2012, approximately 26 percent of the complainants were african americans, cacasions and other percentage declined to state their rates. Additionally, Asian Americans at 7 percent, latinos at 12 percent, native americans and Pacific Islanders at 1 percent and 3 percent other. The occ is located on the 7th floor on the corner of sanes and ma
Languages including can toe knees, man da raoen and spanish, two of the investigators are bi lingual speakers and that is important because the largest number of our nonenglish interviews are conducted in spanish. For languages other than the ones that i previously mentioned, we will obtain the interpretation services, last year we conducted 14 intakes in spanish, and five intakes in can toe knees, one in russian and one in american sign language. We have a website, which is www. Sfgov. Org occ. And if any of you would like Additional Information on the occ, this evening, in your investigation dennis max um is in the back of the room there and we also have brochures available on the table. And that concludes my remarks. Thank you. Thank you very much director hicks. Any questions for director hicks from the commission. Just want to tell you a little bit about the medation and it is a real helpful process. When the people interact with the police the officer use the persons voice as the
Good evening, im Sharyn Alfonsi with a western edition of the broadcast. The search for flight 370 and the 239 people on board continues to expand by air, sea and now significantly on land. Investigators have searched both pilots homes looking for any evidence the pilots could have done this on purpose. Authoritiesing say they have evidence that someone deliberately disabled the planes Communication Systems before the flight was redirected. Seth doane is in kuala lumpur tonight and begins our coverage. Reporter when police searched captain Zaharie Ahmad shahs home they found a flight simulator. The 53yearold pilot who is seen sitting in front of a simulate never a video he posted online. At todays press conference Authorities Say the simulator was confiscated and rebuilt at the police station. Officials from the Royal Malaysian Police visited the home of the pilot. They spoke to family members of the pilot and experts are examining the pilots flight simulator. Zaharie who had been flyi