Making conclusions based on physical evidence and so forth and we have a good number of officers who have a interest in that and they have supplemented our investigative capacity of the investigators who are full time in Traffic Enforcement. Third one was the creation of the traffic collision unit and merging the hit and run unit and the major accident investigation team. That leads me to almost the last one. The last bulletin in terms of vehicle collisions really makes a point that the use of the term vehicle collisions is most appropriate to identify the unintended coming together of bodies on our roadway as opposed to the term accident. We want to create a mind set within the department as well as with the public that these occurrences arent acts of god. They are when theres an element of negligence on the part of one party or the other and so we cant continue to look at them as something beyond our control. Theyre completely within our control if we slow down. If we Pay Attention,
Will open it up to any questions you may have. Thank you very much commander and chief for doing this presentation. Obviously this has been an issue that is in the forefront of the press and what is happening here in the city, and i want to say i have been talking to the chief about this for a few weeks and hes been keeping me apprize of what is happening and hes on top of it and he said earlier a lot of this stuff people just need to disloa slow down and its good advice and there is clearly a correlation between the number of incidents and staffing and i am glad staffing is on the rise thanks to the Mayors Office but in the interim it is possible for us to put more officers on the street doing traffic enforcement, not necessarily motorcycle officers but officers and patrol cars. It never hurts to increase the enforcement and i talked to the chief. Tijts are expensive and i know the money goes to the general fund and not necessarily the department. Can we pull money from the general fu
They will be fully certified to operate our motorcycles in two months, so help is on the way in regards to the use of dedicated resources for traffic enforcement. With that said i will open it up to any questions you may have. Thank you very much commander and chief for doing this presentation. Obviously this has been an issue that is in the forefront of the press and what is happening here in the city, and i want to say i have been talking to the chief about this for a few weeks and hes been keeping me apprize of what is happening and hes on top of it and he said earlier a lot of this stuff people just need to disloa slow down and its good advice and there is clearly a correlation between the number of incidents and staffing and i am glad staffing is on the rise thanks to the Mayors Office but in the interim it is possible for us to put more officers on the street doing traffic enforcement, not necessarily motorcycle officers but officers and patrol cars. It never hurts to increase th
They will be fully certified to operate our motorcycles in two months, so help is on the way in regards to the use of dedicated resources for traffic enforcement. With that said i will open it up to any questions you may have. Thank you very much commander and chief for doing this presentation. Obviously this has been an issue that is in the forefront of the press and what is happening here in the city, and i want to say i have been talking to the chief about this for a few weeks and hes been keeping me apprize of what is happening and hes on top of it and he said earlier a lot of this stuff people just need to disloa slow down and its good advice and there is clearly a correlation between the number of incidents and staffing and i am glad staffing is on the rise thanks to the Mayors Office but in the interim it is possible for us to put more officers on the street doing traffic enforcement, not necessarily motorcycle officers but officers and patrol cars. It never hurts to increase th
The next thing. I dont want to spring on you but the next one in april and continuing these and thank the Mayors Office and the everyone and the more guns off the street the better so thank you. Please call line item 3d. Commission announcements and items for future commission meeting. Announcements. There is not a regular meeting next wednesday but thursday january 16 at 5 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. A joint meeting with the board of Supervisors Public Safety Committee to discuss pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and in the board of supervisors chambers at 5 00 p. M. And we might want to talk about scheduling the Community Meeting in one of the stations, either parker or southern station is up for it. Next is southern or parker. I believe its balboa park station. Chief, do you have any preference you would like to see next in order, Balboa Balboa balboa park station it is. Park. February correct . Yes. Commissioners i know we have a pretty packed agenda coming up here including thursday. Is th