Vice mayor thank you, your honor map and marshall and commissioner kingsley and khan. And commissioner lost tuesday. We have a quorum mr. President , and also with us is the chief of police chief suhr thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the First Police Commission wednesday, december 4, 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, i want to start before we move into our hearing totally tonight before the general Public Comment tonight were going to adjourn this meeting in memory of Michael Howard who is going to be buried tomorrow. He began with the sheriffs department. He joined the sfpd january 9th, 1990, and served with great pride in the southern station and now his last assignment in the police station. He was awarded two accommodations. Officer howard passed away monday november 19th. Were going to adjourn in his honor for together for one of our Fallen Police officers item number one the public can address those items in the jurisdiction and speakers shall address the commissio
America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. President , 0 id like to call roll. Vice mayor thank you, your honor map and marshall and commissioner kingsley and khan. And commissioner lost tuesday. We have a quorum mr. President , and also with us is the chief of police chief suhr thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the First Police Commission wednesday, december 4, 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, i want to start before we move into our hearing totally tonight before the general Public Comment tonight were going to adjourn this meeting in memory of Michael Howard who is going to be buried tomorrow. He began with the sheriffs department. He joined the sfpd january 9th, 1990, and served with great pride in the southern station and now his last assignment in the police station. He was awarded two accommodations. Officer howard passed away monday november 19th. Were going to adjourn in his honor for
Right reason. They are against it for a lot of the wrong reasons. Weve done a lot of it. Weve had tremendous success with choice. We had choice in a lot of ways. We have choice in the military. You know before i came here, the vets would wait in line, pastor. It wouldnt be acceptable to you and i know it wouldnt be acceptable to the bi bishop. But they would wait for company, five, weeks to get in line where they were sick and feeling bad badly. And they got in line to say there is a six day week, a month wait. And you would have people online that werent very ill and they would be terminally ill before they would get to see a doctor and they would die. And for years and years, they have been trying to get veterans choice. That means if you cant get to a doctor reasonably quickly, you go outside to a local doctor around where you live in the government pays the bill. By the way, it sounds expensive but its very cheap by comparison. Its actually much better. We take care of our vets, by
Sankar Sen
Ex-Director, National Police Academy
It is difficult to expect that the new directive of the apex court to install CCTV cameras in police stations and interrogation centres will usher in a new dawn and put a stop to the use of third-degree methods by the police. Even now, to avoid public notice, police torture often takes place in police barracks, quarters or safe houses. Thus, the installation of CCTVs, though a welcome check, will not do away with the evil practice unless there is strict surveillance and commitment by senior police officers.
The directive of the Supreme Court that CCTVs have to be installed in all police stations and outposts in order to ensure that police officers do not indulge in torture and resort to