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officers to be able to do training on the street, which increases their efficiency. anywhere they are at any time, they will be able to access the crime data warehouse. we are delighted to be able to have the tech nol to that. thank everyone for the opportunity, and hopefully this will be the first of many ways we will be able to partner with the city of san francisco. we ll turn it over to susan to talk about what this means to the department. [applause] good morning. when the chief first took his position as chief of police, i think it was his very first day, and he was still moving into his office. he said to me i would like for police officers to be able to enter police reports in the field without having to return to the office, and i would like this to be a web-based system. and i want to meet with you an hour a day until we can meet the on stack it is. he did that. that commitment level and the commitment of the mayor and all of the command staff that has enabled thi
i think in a very short time the ability to have mobile applications will be a very, very good answer of efficiencies for our officers. again, i want to thank h.p. their team is here today. arc-touch, and their leaders are here. of course sf-city. this is just one. we have so many other departments that are asking for modern technology. as we go through other things, we will come out of our baking oven and on to modernizing our whole city government. thank you very much. [applause] thank you, mr. mayor. i can t tell you how exciting this is for the san francisco police department. much has been made in the media that we are currently down between hundred and some-odd officers, and we will be down 300-plus officers by this time next year before we catch the bounce from these new officers hitting the streets. by being able to have these officers remain in the field through mobile technology, it will increase their time on the street 3-4 hours a day, 30% to 40% a day. multiply
critical for us to cut across sectors, and this is a perfect example of doing that. ron, thank you and congratulations for bricking together the partnership and making it possible 0 for us to turn this vision of the chief into reality. when sf-city approached hfment p. for this opportunity, we were delighted about this idea. really, bringing our technology, our straight-of-the-art projects and the power of that technology into the happened of the sfpd officers and what that could do to mike our city safer as we talked about. we are excited to announce today that h.p. is donating over 60 ultrabooks to this program, to the sfpd and in conjunction with the academy for training these future officers to enable these officers to be able to do training on the street, which increases their efficiency. anywhere they are at any time, they will be able to access the crime data warehouse. we are delighted to be able to have the tech nol to that. thank everyone for the opportunity, and ho