Right by supervisor christina olague, who will be joined shortly by eric mar who is also a member of the committee and our clerk and erica and we are staffed by the sfgtv and could you share with us your announcements . Please, make sure to silence all cell phones and complete the speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, the items acted upon will appear on the january 13th, 2013, agenda unless otherwise stated. Could you call items. Hearing to review the San Francisco Police Department and general orders related to tasers including the departments plan to equipment the officers and the Crisis Intervention Team with tasers. Thank you, madam clerk. We are just joined by supervisor eric mar, this is a hearing that i called forward in the context of having years dialogue about the use of tasers or electronic controlled weapons in San Francisco. This is something that has been taken up in this time, by the Police Commission, but si
The january 13th, 2013, agenda unless otherwise stated. Could you call items. Hearing to review the San Francisco Police Department and general orders related to tasers including the departments plan to equipment the officers and the Crisis Intervention Team with tasers. Thank you, madam clerk. We are just joined by supervisor eric mar, this is a hearing that i called forward in the context of having years dialogue about the use of tasers or electronic controlled weapons in San Francisco. This is something that has been taken up in this time, by the Police Commission, but since, it is discussion that is happening ongoing, with many of our committees across San Francisco, i wanted to bring it forward as a hearing to be able to get some input from the board of supervisors and also to hear what plans are from the Police Department as well about how they want to move forward. In the middle of this discussion, is also the work of the Crisis Intervention Team. There was a resolution that was
Announcements . Please, make sure to silence all cell phones and complete the speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, the items acted upon will appear on the january 13th, 2013, agenda unless otherwise stated. Could you call items. Hearing to review the San Francisco Police Department and general orders related to tasers including the departments plan to equipment the officers and the Crisis Intervention Team with tasers. Thank you, madam clerk. We are just joined by supervisor eric mar, this is a hearing that i called forward in the context of having years dialogue about the use of tasers or electronic controlled weapons in San Francisco. This is something that has been taken up in this time, by the Police Commission, but since, it is discussion that is happening ongoing, with many of our committees across San Francisco, i wanted to bring it forward as a hearing to be able to get some input from the board of supervisors and
Posttraumatic stress was activated in the early 90s, and she attended a Community Clinic for over a decade. She was a known patient at this facility. And a volunteer. And she had a psychotic episode at this Mental Health facility down in southern california, and the emergency dispatch called this place from the clinic to the local station where two officers were dispatched. And this is an agency that does not have a formal Crisis Intervention Training Program or any sort of Training Program that deploy deputies that are specifically trained to approach a situation with known or with individuals who have known mental conditions. And within eight minutes of the caulk placed my sister was shot dead and this was within eleven seconds of four deputies entering the known Mental Health facility and within eleven seconds two tasers were deployed and two bullets were fired. And so, i want you to know, that despite this, in my immediate circle, and you know, i am grateful to you commissioner lof
Along. But we have quite a ways to go and we have a huge Mental Health crisis in San Francisco and like it or not, Police Officers are very often the First Responders to those crisis, and it is often times the very first interaction with the system that someone is having in psychiatric crieses and sets the stage for that lifetime and that person and help to relate to the recovery and further traumatized and whether they are developing trust in the system and they are engaging in the treatment and so the Police Officers do really play an absolutely Critical Role in that and, and so that kind of leads me back to the whole part of us all working together and making sure that our system is not failing people in the psychiatric crisis and is really responsive and that the folks are able to engage in service and get to a place where they are more healthy and they no longer have the crisis that they were feeling. So, any way, thanks again and i really appreciate everybodys leadership on this,