Is handled by the department of human services. They did the testing. Once the announcement goes out, officers have a deadline. They can apply and personnel submits a list of officers to the department of human resources. They also test for the civilian side in other departments. What theyre trying to do with what you cuts is say we are going to test on a certain date we have to wait for more people rather than testing four people now and two later. That slows the process down. As deputy chief beal says, we have 14 in line to take the test, in spanish, and 14 in chinese, 1 in russian. That helps. But waiting on the street waiting for an interpreter, it is great to have someone who is coming. If we can stream that its a great call. I am not sure how the civilian part is; for officers it is scenariobased. Commissioner chan. Commissioner chan i am reminded of what assistant District Attorney jean rolan said, the importance of maintaining trust. From the moment an officer and an inspector
I want to ask a couple of clarifying questions. It looks like the justis project replaces the cable system. My understanding is that it is a database for local background check, i want to get more of the big picture perspective and also want to find out my understanding is that the cable system was not a system connected to any databases. I am wondering if the justis system will be different, connected to any federal database like the fbi or department of homeland security. I am the justis project manager. Justis is designed to replace the aging cable mainframe system. Each department is in the process or has completed the implementation of the wrong department specific Case Management system. Though specific Case Management systems connect to justis is a way to Exchange Data between departments. Since justis is at that how point, it gives us the ability to all information and roll it up to public data as well as criminal justice data. What was your other question . I am wondering if j
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
Certified, 7 russian, 6 certified, 39 tagalog and 5 vietnamese. There is no lag time to getting information on any type of crime occurring. We do use landline with an interpreter is not available, that is the card. Most of the language services, including interpretation, we had 1800 calls that required interpretation of language services, most of that was spanis, with about 1060, second was cantonese, with about 400 calls. Sometimes, you may be underreported, it can be a lot higher if not put into the database. As required by the City Ordinances, we completed with the lao City Ordinances, with city immigration affairs, that was completed on the chief desk for review to be signed. We are making good headway. That is more to be done and i look forward to working with the commission and do more, thank you. I understand that there is a line item in the mayors budget for 500,000 for Language Access, can you tell me how that was utilized . I can bring you a breakdown. Most of it was for the
More quickly. On the street patrol officers, theyre using their own cell phones to call Language Line. On a real level of equipment, officers need a better way to ask his Language Line. We are working with the department and think outside of the box. Bilingual officers use digital recorders because of Department Requires them to tape interviews with victims, witnesses and suspects. The department was able to provide 50 digital recorders. We need more. Let me turn this over to deputy chief beal, a vital member of our team. I dont know if i am a vital member of the group. I was assigned to represent the chief on this group. Is and as i walked in the door that day and saw the members of the group i knew that i was in trouble. I knew the group was going to be extremely motivated, extremely directed, i immediately began getting homework assignments from these women. Its a great cause. I was glad to help. Upon request i reissued Department Goals to have officers apply for certification for L