He took part in the stakeholder members of the committee as well as prove body cameras a couple of things to point out regarding what we saw with the new policies we feel that the current 4. 01 and 2 policies in place is a Good Standing policy not only protects the public but protects officer and over safety one of the key issues that was brought up midmarket first suggests the car rod needs to be taken out now the can rod can be used like the video we saw im not attacking a person with a knife youre putting officers in dagger danger thankfully an officer didnt get hurt but how many times has angle officer tackled someone with a knife and got hurt. Lets respect every speaker we want to replacement everybody lets treat people how we want to be treated im not going to tolerant someone interrupting others speaking go ahead. I can tell you from experience and gardener he encountered respond with a sickle it is pretty much a u shapes machete we got that person into custody but wear encareta
And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. For all who. Commissioner president loftus airline pr commissioner suzy loftus commissioner Vice President turman is excused commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus commissioner mazzucco commissioner wong. And just walked the door and commissioner melara present. Commissioner president loftus you have a quorum also present is chief greg suhr the police chief and director joyce hicks director of office of citizens complaints well to the wednesday, april 6, 2016, meeting first thing ill make some change to the agenda bans information kraushgs to item 3 it says update and use of use of force and rectify of dodging the doj needs month are time no presentation on the registrations in addition given the number of people and making sure we have time for that everybody Public Comment is limited to 2 minutes. Sergeant, next line item. At this time, members of the public may address t
Item one Public Comment. The public can address on the items that are not on the tonight agenda but that are win the subject matter of jurisdiction orphthe commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or had department or occ personal. Under Police Commission rules ofordser during the Public Comment Neither Police orocc penchlal, nor the commissioners sheryl davis. I just wanted to take this timethe last time i was here was with a group of young people and just wanted to come back and say we really want to follow up with the chief and make sure the work done this summer continues throughout the school year and wanted to publicly thank the commission and the chief for supporting the efforts and give a special shout out tothere has been so much going on not just nationally but within our city and sometimes for you all it gets very difficult to do the work you are doing and continue to do it sometimes even e in the midst
They tend to interfere with the equipment in the room and can we please rise for the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Call roll. President loftus, here. Vice president s therman, here. Commissioner marshal we believe is in route. Commissioner dejeess, here. Commissioner mazzucco, here. Commissioner hwang, here. Commissioner mu lera, here. You have a quarpm and also here is chief suhr and joyce hicks. Good evening here. Sergeant please call the first line item item one Public Comment. The public can address on the items that are not on the tonight agenda but that are win the subject matter of jurisdiction orphthe commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or had department or occ personal. Under Police Commission rules ofordser during the Public Comment
Friday night for a couple hours and welcomed the director of the hartford Va Regional Office as well as the director of the Va Connected Health care system to listen to our veterans, and not just about the delays, but the more fundamental gaps in care that we have right now that we are all working hard to fill. Just one example, k. Robert lewis, a veteran Service Officer from the veterans of foreign wars, shared with the audience very compellingly his understanding that many veterans with the vfw has received outstanding service, but that there is a lack of providers, nurses, doctors, staff that have caused the delays and hindered veterans access to care. I know that the veterans access to care act authorized 5 billion to enable the va to hire Additional Health care providers and clinical staff, but secretary mcdonald, you have identified the practical obstacles to meeting the needs and hiring more doctors and other professionals, and that is one of the central challenges of our time,