I am addressing. Commissioners i want to be really clear because this is on television. For anybody the lives in San Francisco, we are a sanctuary city. Your status living in the United States is not an issue. We will not report. Please. Trust your San Francisco Police Department. Call us. We are here to help. Commissioner turman thank you chief for pointing that out. We already had a constitutional law here, im not sure that it is hour is the best use. The attorney general did do a lawenforcement bulletin; the issue is whether the local jurisdiction is obligated to use state resources to do a federal detainer; it is specific to the sheriffs department. Part of the notion is that it is not the job of from my Law Enforcement to enforce immigration policy; we are here to keep people safe. We appreciate the chiefs passion. And ultimately where people come is not relevant and using this forum is important to underscore that commitment, and im glad the chief is clear and unequivocal about t
Victims in the city. I want to thank everyone for their leadership to get to this point in my question is, we talked about this a few weeks ago before the police commission. I think you are doing a great outreach to the community. Obviously part of my concern that talk about over the last few weeks is in light of recent events in the city. The concern is that women who dont speak english or are living in poverty will have concerns about reaching out of the Police Department. We want to reassure and reach out. Can you talk about your efforts to reach out to communities through various newspapers in different languages and how the department is getting the message out that we do have access to other languages and can serve diverse populations . Anytime there is a community meeting, and it is based on a certain ethnicity group, we try to have Interpretation Service provided. We will post those signs in that language, so if it is held in chinatown or wherever, for that outreach. It is impo
Least of this, or how is it handled . Commissioner, its been the policy of the San Francisco Police Department since the sanctuary City Ordinance was passed over 30 years ago, before i became a Police Officer, it isnt just something we need to train to. Its always know. I can assure anyone watching on tv at this commission, San Francisco is a sanctuary city. We are here to help regardless of your country of origin or language. We are working hard as you can tell to figure out the language. Chief beal spoke about me doing those interviews. I dont speak korean and chinese. We do spanish radio once a month, speak with Marcos Gutierrez about whatever they want to talk about; sanctuary city has come up more than once. It is not a training issue for us. It is department policy. It is city law. It is what we have been raised on. Does the department have the authority to control that information within its own database so it is and shared with the federal authorities . What information is that
They know they will get to have an interpreter, if they have to wait whether an hour or 45 minutes and during that time the officer is talking probably to the abusive partner, it changes the dynamic. The police come in but theyre not always 100 percent sure that calling the police in the situation is going to be the most successful route. And then you have is a situation where theyre not able to communicate, that dont know what is going on and the city officer talking to the abusive party who a lot of times is a lot more proficient in english and it creates a dynamic of mistrust, we are grateful to the officers who are willing to use their personal cell phones to call Language Line. The reality is, in the resource environment that we are in, getting the bilingual officer to the scene is timeconsuming and elongates the whole process. Not having access to a cell phone for an officer forces him into position to use whatever is available or the personal cell phone. That should not be the c
It is important when the victim makes the police report; it helps if a native speaker is there, eases some of the angst the victim may have when reporting a crime. In terms of outreaching and publications, i dont know everything that we have this is internally where we are trying to streamline and have more officers certified. I know you have been on the job three months, its wonderful progress. I want to add that we are in the process of creating a card that we can all of the stations have, all psas, where the victim comes in, the card explains the process. The card will be printed in five different languages. They can pick the language they speak; point to it, then we know what they need. The officer will get them the service. I want to say that the chief and i especially the chief, he is out there all the time, i work with Public Affairs and recently we did an interview on the chinese speaking channel on the chinese talkshow. Two days ago, i saw the chief being interviewed on a kore