Before we start with you, we will go through a kick report from the occ director and the commissioners. Good evening, director hicks. Good evening. Good evening, president mazzucco, commissioners, chief suhr, and captain and members of the Mission Police district, community. I enjoy the director of the office of citizen complaints and in fact, here this evening from the occ is senior investigater Edward Mcmahon is standing up in the back of the room. It is a pleasure to be here this evening to speak with you about the functions of the officers of the citizen complaints. We are also known as the occ. We are the Third Largest civilian oversight of Law Enforcement agency in the united states, only surpassed in size by chicago and new york. Civilian oversight agencies. For historical purposes, the board of supervisors, sponsored a Charter Amendment in 1982, to create the office of citizen complaints and we became fully operational in 1983. And i have been the director of the occ for almost
The office was created by the board of supervisors in 1982. It was put into place in 1983. We are nearly 30 years old. We were originally in the San Francisco Police Department, but was later placed under the direct supervision of the Police Commission and is an independent agency. It is separate from the Police Department and the Police Commission is also a civilian body. We conduct investigations to find out what happened. If we follow the evidence by interviewing the person who brought the complaint, the involved Police Officers, and other civilian witnesses. We have subpoena power to compel testimony and obtain evidence. We obtain additional evidence from the Police Department in the form of Police Reports and other documentation generated by the Police Department. We also visit the site of alleged occurrences and may take photographs of the places and persons. Our goal is to complete investigations in nine months. It was limited exceptions, we must complete investigations in one y
Police, suhr. And thank you very much inspector monroe and commissioner dejesus is making her way down, welcome to the wednesday, august 6, 2014, San Francisco Police Commission meeting, and this is we always say is our favorite meeting, we are out in the community, and we usually do our hearings at city hall, but usually the last wednesday of the month, we go out to the community, involving each district station, we have ten district stations and so we moved this a week because we have a lot of commissioners on vacation or in trial. So we are excited about this and obviously this week it is mission station and captain are the main events here and so our meeting will be different and we also do Something Different at our Community Meetings and actually have the commissioners introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about what they do in their day jobs. And so we will start from the left to work the way to the right. Tonight special meeting because we have our brand new commission
And obviously this week it is mission station and captain are the main events here and so our meeting will be different and we also do Something Different at our Community Meetings and actually have the commissioners introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about what they do in their day jobs. And so we will start from the left to work the way to the right. Tonight special meeting because we have our brand new commissioner with us tonight for the first time and i would like you to welcome sonia melara. She is the newest member of the commission and she served on several commissions here in San Francisco and we talking earlier that she is in my opinion is a native and came to San Francisco when she was 14 years old and educated here and has both her bachelors and masters degrees and on the faculty of San Francisco state and she is the specialist social worker, and she works at the Saint Francis hospital and she just a great, great edition to our commission, and she really really
Police, suhr. And thank you very much inspector monroe and commissioner dejesus is making her way down, welcome to the wednesday, august 6, 2014, San Francisco Police Commission meeting, and this is we always say is our favorite meeting, we are out in the community, and we usually do our hearings at city hall, but usually the last wednesday of the month, we go out to the community, involving each district station, we have ten district stations and so we moved this a week because we have a lot of commissioners on vacation or in trial. So we are excited about this and obviously this week it is mission station and captain are the main events here and so our meeting will be different and we also do Something Different at our Community Meetings and actually have the commissioners introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about what they do in their day jobs. And so we will start from the left to work the way to the right. Tonight special meeting because we have our brand new commission