To implement this protocol, and it is being done today as we speak. The department is going to request funding to meet the increased demand that this is going to create for testing of Sexual Assault kits in our asap program for our expansion. Last year at the crime lab we had two super vicers and 13 criminals in the dna unit and we hired two additional supervisors in the unit and we are in the process of hiring three additional analysts for the dna unit in the laboratory. Once, those hires are completed, that is going to bring us to four supervisors and 15 analysts in the dna unit. The Department Also utilized Grant Funding to restructure our existing laboratory space, in the dna unit, we have added new benches which are work stations for our dna criminalists, and those additions can accommodate up to 8 additional criminalists. And we also have a new microscope area and most importantly, dedicated evidence Screening Room that accommodates up to 4 analysts at one time and as of this eve
Survivor of a Sexual Assault, that kit is transported directly to the crime lab within 72 hours of being collected and it is assigned for analysis immediately there after. So, the group of 894, minus the group of 141 asa cases leaves us with a remainder of 763 assault kits that have not been tested. The chief has ordered the testing of these remaining kids and the department will utilize outsourcing services for test and reduce the impact on demand but this will create in our crime lab and the department recently obtained an extension for the outsourcing Services Contract that we have been utilizing for the last few years. We are also obtaining a contract for the proposal process. And in the final area of my presentation that i want to address, is the departments strategy moving forward, in terms of Sexual Assault kit processing and effective january first of this year, department expanded the asap program to include all Sexual Assault kits that were collected at Mission Emergency hosp
What the senator is asking for. I did read the bill and i can tell you that the administrative code, 28. 89, that mandates what the policy will be for the Police Department in terms of testing for dna, our standard is a lot higher, that we meet. We have, we are required by the administrative code to collect kits within 72 hours, which we do. We keep track of that collection and we have never missed that mark not once. And our time goal in the administrative code is that once we take the collection of those kits, we analyze them and if there is an eligible profile we enter into it the kotus within 14 days and that is a lofty goal and we have met it on many occasions. But it is tough. The Assembly Bill, said that the language says that Law Enforcement agencies are encouraged to collect Sexual Assault kit evidence as soon as practical or within five days at the most and Law Enforcement is also encouraged to submit those kits to a crime lab. The, there is one carve out in there that is dif
Supervisors desk awaiting approval to have the report signed off and the report, or the report signed off and issued to the investigator. And so, while that is going on, they have this additional cases that they are working on and that process it continues, throughout the year. That is great and that is an improvement and i have a question for you if you dont know the answer that is fine. I saw on the news that a state senator from the east bay is asking for legislation to expedite the testing of all rape, trauma kits throughout california, given our current state of our protocol, if you have seen what the senator is proposed do we fit in that and what the senator is asking for. I did read the bill and i can tell you that the administrative code, 28. 89, that mandates what the policy will be for the Police Department in terms of testing for dna, our standard is a lot higher, that we meet. We have, we are required by the administrative code to collect kits within 72 hours, which we do.
Outstanding. Thank you, captain, and so we have more bodies now working in the lab and we have increased since the last presentation with more to come, correct . Yes, how many cases are assigned to each analyst . Yes. Commissioners i am sorry to interrupt, but apparently there are technical difficulties with the audio and we have a gentleman here from sftv who needs to do the adjustments because the Television Show is not picking up. Could we recess for a couple of minutes . Or pause for a couple of minutes . Thank you. Sure. [recess] we are back on the air now with captain peria and we have talked about increasing the staffing and how many cases are assigned to each analyst . Analysts in the dna unit can have anywhere from 20 to 30 cases assigned to them at one time and that sounds like a big number, but the reason for that is that again, the process is very deliberate and organized and you can have a group of four cases and you can have four cases in one batch, that go through differ