kids who come out, the smart well versed people in the sciences in their schools and we have presentations about that. there are people that are very curious about this and like you said, it is sort of the csi generation and people are very curious about how these things go. we try to be as receptive as we can to try not to disrupt the work flow. when we talk about the backlog, we reached out to several of our bay area partner laboratories to try to garner this information and they are not set up to capture that kind of data and the complexity of the different cases, the nature of the cases being very straight forward and complex, it s hard to put a target or a number on them. thank you very much, captain. you did a great job out there. commissioner kingsley. sergeant prea. it was excellent. thank you very much. you didn t catch me at my best. sorry. you did a very fine job. thank you to your staff. i just want to echo the president s recognizing the chief in foresi
enforcement and this shows how much you have come so far with the department. as commissioner hammer made significant progress on this issue but we have seen crisis intervention and there is constant demand with juries in our folks in san francisco expect the evidence that we can produce and the fact that we are using technology and signs in the best way possible. we are going to have to look at the crime lag lab to improve our time to go provide additional funding to be able to out source these. justice delayed especially for a victim of sexual assault. i know certainly under chief s leadership we can always do better and do more. i would continue to support how this support is made and just not stop. in closing, the work is actually by the folks who do it. i have to give a heartfelt acknowledgment to now retired to you. the mayor s office, the budget people, city hr and the department of hr for getting this funding and the right people in place to create the program and
there is an issue as to whether or not it s an act. is there a difference between those two? captain fox would be the best to address that commissioner. yes, in suspect cases where the suspect is known to the victim, if there is any discrepancy about whether any sexual act occurred, absolutely, that dna is prioritized to the level of an unknown suspect because we need that to move forward to get justice for the survivor as quickly as possible. that would be request from us to the lab to place that in his cue for testing. in the case for the known suspect where the survivor knows her attacker, a lot of times evidence for the dna would not be incriminating because both parties admitting that they have contact with each other. those are not prioritized testing because the probe ative value of that test is really low and it s not needing to make a case. but we do test those kits, but it could be up to 5 months, is that what i m hearing? the kits for a known suspect where
and 13 at the crime lab in our biology unit. they have 20 people assigned just to property crimes and they have another team equally as that can dough crimes against persons. so the amount of work that we can send them, again the amount of turn around time that it takes to complete these cases is reduced significantly. captain, there are a lot of people that maybe watching tonight that aren t in the room and on tv and so on, in terms of victims of sexual assault, do they need to go to a particular hospital in order to have an evidence swab? how does that work or are there particular designated hospitals? i want to give you the correct information. officer fox is here to give you that information. if they are in county, the sexual response team comes out there and if they are outside of county, they have another county collect that for us. the sexual response from other counties will handle the kit in that county that way the victim can be served right there that way t