If youre interested in being recognized, raise your hand function. And if you have any technical issues, put them in the notes in the chat box. Im honored to be the chair this committee. And i recognize all those who are with us. And vice chair is here. In the vice chair from border policies. Also the vice chair, and vice chair for community policing. And vice chair for emergency management. Thank you all for being here. In the business of this committee is a core function of this role. The safety release communities. As although, as mayor, as the center of probably one of the Biggest Challenges we have faced not only is mayors, and communities but also as global communities. This year has been incredible roller coaster, the challenges and also opportunities. This many will take on the responses of the covid19. And since the date, our communities have changed. The aftermath of the murder of george floyd on may 25th. And the countries undergoing important conversations about the role of
In richmond station, we have a high need for a language thats not certified. And that we are having we have hinn hindi and arabic. There is a plan Going Forward and ill brief you more on it when i get a better handle of the details. Two other things though is even though we are working on certification and language interpretation, that is different from translation. And we do have instances where the victims were right in their own language, a statement, and those statements technically, i think there was a bulletin out that they had to be translated or at least the gist of it to put in the police report. She said he didnt do it. And we had something worked out but it fell apart. So theres no way to translate what a victim statement is. And many times not be incorporated in the report. And that could be a liability actually for us if a victim is saying i was the one who was attacked, and we charge the victim as the attacker because nobody could read the statement, and it wasnt translat
Things she does in order to ensure our mediations are successful. The other is the central core of our mediations and those are the skilled and trained mediators and as a matter of fact we have a couple or several of them in the audience tonight. Without the mediators, we could not function. And it was very surprising to me when i came on board a year and a half ago to learn that all of our mediators are volunteers and they come from as far away as sacramento. And a person who comes to the 6 00 a. M. Is usually the person coming from sacramento. They are very dedicated. They are experienced in california. All the mediators have to be trained 40hour Training Course is required. But they are also skilled and very experienced. And when she and i first came on board a year and a half ago we were very new to the mediation process and Mediation Program. I was recruited from the department of justice by Paul Henderson who was my boss when i was a prosecutor at the das office so this is the se
Thank you. Commissioner dejesus. So i just want to get clarification. When you say the sro officer should have training and the chief says they do have training im not following what the concern is on the training. So yesterday we had a conversation our transformative justice committee, had a conversation with lieutenant yolanda williams. Try to make sure im not saying peoples names wrong. It was that when she had took over the sro program or whatever, and 90 percent of the officers were untrained on a very specific training that related to engaging with the young people in schools, i forgot exactly what she called that training. But kind of problematic. So that was your concern . Yes. That was very directly our concern. They arent trained to interact with youth and they are already in the schools interacting with youth that may be a problem. Maybe you can find out what lieutenant williams was focusing on. Yes chief. I believe what ms. Jones is talking about, the understanding teen tra
The department of Human Resources. And we have other officers paying out of their pocket to get individual certification. So this is an issue thats ongoing. You can have somebody from your office who is there so she probably knows better than i do. There was a discussion. And how are we going to move forward. And they came up with a plan. Theres a plan in place they are going to move on. But there may be a timeline with the department of Human Resources setting it up. I say complicated because its tied up with budgeting too. When you get certified you get stipends. Part of the plan is to look into this and perhaps perhaps try to estimate if theres going to be a six month, 18month gap from the department of Human Resources getting it together to certify and that maybe we can put in the budget some training for officers to get outside certification while they are waiting to get certified by the department of Human Resources. The other thing we have is remember the bakery incident we had