Advice of the City Attorney, my fellow commissioner had a question in a she felt would be helpful and be dispositive is this. If the information will be helpful and dispositive its something all commissioners should have access to. So im happy to tell it for the record now because without identifying who the person is because hes not been seen on television. His name is in the agenda. Okay. And were discussing a particular persons application. My suggestion thank you, commissioner lostis for asking the question. I take responsibility for any fault. Perhaps we could relate thisi,jz information via sgt. Jesina. Im happy to report to him what was said to me and what i asked. Ask the City Attorney to report to the appropriate procedure when an applicant comes before us when a individual takes them aside and asks them questions whether that is private or not private and i think its a really inappropriate procedure. I recommend whatever the question was can be submitted in writing and whatev
Commissioner loftus spoke to the applicant personally and here and came back up so i dont know if that discussion will be given to us secondhand or not. Im uncomfortable because i dont know what was asked. I think if we want to put it over get it out on paper. This poor guy is trying to get their jobs and we agreed on a process and were dragging this process out and i just want to get it completed. President mazzucco commissioner loftus. Yeah. I was trying to respect the privacy rights of the officer that he wouldnt be pulled up here to answer a question and a question that a fellow commissioner had. So im happy to ill take the advice of the City Attorney, my fellow commissioner had a question in a she felt would be helpful and be dispositive is this. If the information will be helpful and dispositive its something all commissioners should have access to. So im happy to tell it for the record now because without identifying who the person is because hes not been seen on television. His
President mazzucco thank you. Please call line item c for future of commissioner meetings. The clerk schedule of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings, action. President mazzucco inspector monroe, we do have do we have director giffin from our i. T. Department, we have the presentation ready to discuss the new statistics with reference to the crime data and those being arrested . Correct. President mazzucco when is that . January 23. President mazzucco id like to know if we can schedule an update with our Behavioral Sciences unit. I know that weve had they came before us. I know the chief has augmented that unite significantly. But we want to hear from them and see how things are going. I know weve had some issues within the department recently and we want to address that. Also dr. Gayle martin will be 7 and at scottish rights temple on february 8. He gives a fabulous case on Suicide Prevention and the stresses on Law Enforcement. President mazzucco we did re
Manual. Just to name a few. There is a calendar schedule. They come to the meeting on a wns wednesday and know what topic they are going to be taught on. Volunteer hours for level one there be 16 hours of volunteering. Our department mandates that the reserve officers volunteer 20 hours a month. So weve increased it from post. In a few moments im going to talk about our new role out of the training program. Its a little more than a few hours for the first year when they get hired. If you look at the numbers at the very bottom, in 2010, our reserves volunteered 6849 hours in 2011, it was 7020 and when we increased the program, those hours will go up. In terms of assignments, 9 are assigned to the academy. What that means is they are not assigned to stations specifically. When we have a detail request, data breakers, a graduation, those are the folks what well call on to do assignment. In order to hire more reserves, we are going to have reserve officers conducting the background investi
Chiefs plan, the chief came up with this idea the other day where they said im going send a letter to every officer who is pending retiring and ask if they would be willing to stay on as a reserve officer to participate in the program. It a smooth transition. The benefit of getting them before they retire is move them from an officer to a reserve officer so we dont have to go through that investigative process. So we are working on that letter for the drop off officers and other officers not in the program to build that up to make an easy transition. Thats the chiefs idea he recently spoke about. Qualifications, its the same as any person we are hiring to be a Police Officer in our city. The exception is we want them to come to the department with the training. Im going to talk about our plan to have this training here in our police academy. But 21 years of age, meet existing post standards and pass all background investigations and requirements. In terms of hiring, this is where we ar