Little bit more than 50 . Some sections have a little bit less than 50 . And that was for december. As of today, june 2020, we have surpassed 50 . Every station in the San FranciscoPolice Department has more than 50 of their officers trained. It is a hard task to do. When we talk about training and how we get this training going, i know back in 2016 we had a few incidents that pushed this Program Forward and asked the department to look back and see what else we can do to improve the program. And took over the program in 2015, we had 250 officers that were trained in c. I. T. As of right now we have over 1200 officers and 40 hours. I think thats a big statement that the department has done as far as how much we care about our officers providing the training that they need. Not only do we do that every time we do the training but we want to get the best of the best. So a little history on this, we have people that volunteer, and do not get paid to come and train our officers. So honestly, i depended a lot on their specials in what else they were doing in their lives and if they have time for the Police Department, they will come and do the training. We were holding about three or four trainings a year. After 2016, we revamped the program and i asked the commission at that time to let me pick the people for the program. I know there is a lot of good people out there, but i have people in mind. And he was gracious enough to say pick whoever you want for the program and i was able to get my unit. And that is sergeant anderson, sergeant colleen, and several others. This team really cares what about they do. They care about the officers and care about the community. And theyre collective their collective effort has made the program what it is. You can see by the numbers and i want to remind you best practice is 20 of the force should be trained. We are over 50 . And i know chief scott promised to the commission and made a commit tonight the commission to train 100 of the department. But that is what takes time and money. So with that said, we are still doing it and because of the pandemic, we had to cancel a coup of trainings. And as of right now, we have rescheduled the training. We had a training scheduled for march and may and unfortunately dedidnt do it, but i asked my two sergeants and they have been able to reschedule the training and will make up the classes. I think its important to do that. The officers really want the training. And its great and once again, i am asking you guys to come and join us. Please come and sit with us and see what the officers are learning and how we have this off the wall conversations about what really is going on out there. And to hear the realities in the street. A lot of people dont know what officers go through and once you come and sit down with them and they understand what the process is and what it takes to be a Police Officer and now days. And you understand a little bit more about our officers. And get their perspective for how things are being done and what they need to do. Like i said, always room for improvement but once again, come to the training and come and ride with us so you get to know who we are and how we do the training, and my unit and how rerun the training. We do home visits. We go to peoples houses. During the pandemic, it was a little bit challenging because there was so much going on. And sometimes because of what was going on, the department of Public Health didnt go out with us. And we talked to the officers and it was up to the do the well being checks on people who are not taking the medications and by diagnosis and they are bipolar or schizophrenic and have a monthly medication and usually we assist the Public Health nurses to go and do there, but officers were creating time and waiting for the nurse and to make sure the nurse is safe when they do this process. And go check on people that were not taking their meds. We go check on kids that were acting out in the house because they were locked up in the house and had nowhere to go. So it was very difficult time. We had a list of the unit and to the officers who had to do it and they kept doing it. Can you move on . Next slide. So to hyland light the c. I. T. Program that you pass on december 221, 2016 and you, the commission, adopted this policy along with the use of force policy. They are married to each other. They call this the same, sanctitity of life. And that is what we strive for mt. Police department and value life. We all value life. And that is the message when we do the program and have an officer in each district session and the primary duty is to identify people that might have personality issue, or constantly calling 911. We work with e. M. S. To help the folks and set up appointments with the department of Public Health and to get the resources they need. That is important and is good to have two officers assigned to the duties and is something they do above and beyond every day with the regular duties. And they send reports back to us and call us and say i went to jeremys house and he is acting out and hasnt taken his meds. Can you do a field visit . That is how it is supposed to work. We want to be preventive and proactive instead of reactive. Having this program is an awesome tool for the San FranciscoPolice Department. And we are responding more often. And we work along with clinicians and have m. O. U. That is still in the final stages that would allow me to have at least two or three commissions work with my officers hand in hand. We saw this working in l. A. And it worked wonders with the Mental Health unit. They have 52 clinicians and 104 officers that go out every day. Obviously l. Amenta. Is bigger than San Francisco. We are not at that level yet, but we have were a different level and we need the services. So we are still working on that. There is a lot of things to get through with technology, confidentiality, and so forth. We are still in the process of accomplishing that, but i think that will become a reality in San Francisco. Hopefully sooner than later. Move to the next slide. That is the liaison program. And so Mental Health and mental ill sns not a crime. We all understand that. And officers are responding to the calls. And we have created a road map for officers to follow. If this is just the Mental Health issue, you can see how that happens and if there is a crime involved and a misdemeanor and you cite the person and take it into treatment. And she or she will go to jail because of the crime that has been commit and my officers will contact the services and the department of Public Health and so as soon as we know that a person is arrested, it has over because of a crime in Mental Health, and the Mental Health component, and we will alert them and let us know when he gets released. And so were apprised of what is going on and work with family and the special person will have support service and a network to contact our clinicians if they live in a certain neighborhood, we can contact the neighborhood clinic and continue Getting Services and continue taking the medications. I know a lot of people think that a person needs to take the medications to do well. It is more complicated than that. And when people say just take your meds, quote, unquote, it doesnt work like that. A lot of the psychiatric medications have various effects and make you gain weight, make you impotent, and really make you like a zombie, so why do you want to live like that . People choose not to take medications and live the way they are or because of the illness, and in that sometimes leads to crisis. That is a choice they make. And sometimes that choice we have to address it. We have to address it with treatment and we have to address it with a. L. T. And so there are options that we have and where we can guide people through the treatment process. That is ou goal in the c. I. T. And in the training and the training for 2020. And the special permit and i know we were already looking at some days and making out the glasses. And we are on target to do these sessions. Im wondering if we have so few officers of colour and theres such an imbalance between the white officers and im looking for why there are so few black officers. Commissioner, i dont have an answer other than i can tell you we recruiting heavily in africanamerican communities and have gone to black colleges and out of the city. The city population is small in terms of the africanamerican, 5 . Were statewide recruiting across the country and were going to keep trying to recruit africanamericans and other groups of color. But right now, just recruiting is a challenge overall right now and its even more of a challenge with the africanamericans. indiscernible . Im wondering what impact and maybe you havent come to the conclusions, but what impact that will have on everything you said. I think thats a great idea. So do i. Its an awesome idea to have that, just by the definition when you check on the wellbeing, thats an officer going to check on somebodys wellbeing and if the person is in Mental Health crisis, as Police Officers, we look at safety. Thats something we discuss in the training, on how we have to go through seven months of training, close to seven months now and how safety is looked at to every call that we go to. I was taught to always have a gun with every call you go to and we treat that with respect. When you have a person in crisis, you might be the trigger to that person. That uniform might trigger that reaction and so having Mental Health specialist or a social worker assigned to these calls would be an awesome idea. I would be welcomed with the Police Department and i think the chief expresses his desire to have that. Now theres a lot of considerations that you have to take, right . Because when you get to those call, you dont know what actually is going on because youre not there until you get there. The information that is provided, it just is provided to you through the 911 call taker and then the 911 dispatcher and theres a twoway process on those calls. And so we have to look into that. My unit has been working in putting something together, especially around safety and what kind of calls we think will be appropriate for Mental Health specialist go to. But not to deviate, we need treatment facilities. Thats what we need. The Mental Health system is a broken system and im just saying that, because im reflecting the frustration that our officers have on the street. We need a Treatment Facility that specializes in Mental Health and substance abuse. We need a place for our officers to take these people that are suffering from an organic Mental Health issue or for chemicalinduced psychosis, to be triaged and a followup appointment and given medication, especially if theyre homeless. How will they follow up. How do they know to keep their appointment the next day . We need Something Like that and we have suggested in the past a Justice Center that heals and there was a proposal done a few years back and we asked for that. Instead of the jail, we asked for funding to create that system here in San Francisco. Florida has it, how can we not have it here . How can we not have a facility where we can take people that are in Mental Health distress or chemical induced distress . We need that and i understand the call was ring responding but where do you take them . You take something to a Mental Health assessment, sometimes theyre out of the er before our officers come back to the station. That needs to change. It needs to change. We can no longer do this. Officers are frustrated because as a Police Officer, you go to those calls and you says the person and you believe that he or she needs a Mental Health evaluation and they need the treatment they deserve. Unfortunately, theyre released in four to six hours and that brings a lot of frustration. So when we talk about social workers and clinicians going to these calls, we have to address them, where will they take them and what will happen . How will we connect to the services . Thats the plain, simple reality in the streets right now for our officers. We dont have places to take them. Talkinjust to give you an examp, Police Officers get called to a Mental Health clinic that provides assessment and triage to going to elevate a person having a crisis and how does that happen . How can a Mental Health clinic call a San FranciscoPolice Officer to go to an evaluation and to remove that person from the clinic and take him to a local hospital for assessment . Theyre supposed to be doing that. Our officers get called to do that and transport the person to er and then a few hours later, the person says, hey, im still suicidal, i was kicked out and they have to go to another hospital. That needs to change. We need to change the system. Its not working. So when we talk about officers not doing this or that, we have to look at the system and, unfortunately, were in the frontline on Mental Health we we havhave to look at the rooted problems with humbold mental hed the lack of facilities. Thats something the civilian group i work with, who are awesome, by the way, and they want to change that. They want to get behind this effort that we need to provide treatment facilities. Im sorry, im getting off topic here. Ill ask you to come back and present and i 100 agree that officers should not be the firstline reimportanterresponsr homelessness and bringing a gun to those types of situations and sending to people to jail is a stopgap measure with to place to take them does nothing to solve the underlying issue. I agree with you and im ask you to followup once the mayors proposal for a decree is implemented. I have other commissioners that want to ask questions and i dont want to take all of the time. Commissioner hamasaski . Thank you for the presentation. Good evening. So, you know, nobody has mentioned her name yet, but this is all a program that started under one of our former commissioners, angela chan. She was the president at the time. And i dont know if she was the president , but angela, this was her baby. Angela told me many times about all of the work that was put into this and getting this up and i notice shes still proud of the work that she did in bringing this to San Francisco. And i know commissioner de jesus was a big advocate, fighting for it back in the day, which reminds us how long commissioner de jesus has been on this commission. So let me ask you a couple of questions. Slide three is a really helpful chart because following up on commission taylors point, you know, theres 50,000 calls that the Police Respond to and it seems like theres a very, very small percentage of them that are primarily policing calls. Is that fair to say . Yes. Its fair to say, commissio com, once you see the breakdown, some of the calls, the person might be gone already or the person is not able to be located. I broke down at the end of the year report, youll have the breakdown on that, the section with the data and the statistics and now that was broken down. But yes, youre right, some of the calls should be handled by somebody else other than an officer. Shouldnt it be most of those calls . I would say the majority, yes. You have to have a criteria, right . And as a matter of fact, i want to share this with you, im a part of the task force that the mayor started a few months before and were looking at this. We were looking at how we can respond to those calls using civilians instead of officers and we had the wheel going on this. I think what transpired, it just catapulted this innovation and this reform and i think this is a great idea to continue with it. Thats great. Whats the task force . I hadnt heard about that one . Yeah, it was with the department of Public Health, the Police Department and some members of the department, Public Health, Behavioral Services and we are looking at analyzing police reports. Look at the police reports. Because we have to look back and we have to analyze the information and then, we will come up with a recommendation of that criteria and so when the 311 call taker or 911 call taker can make the best decision according to the information given to them. Are you working with the department of Emergency Management . I belong to the cat work group and the department of dem is part of that group and we meet monthly and we have a representative from the Training Division that comes to those meetings. Thats how we created the criteria for cit and i think thl new, having civilians respond. So i have to contact my contact, dem, trying to schedule meetings and see how we can work together. I said that to the chief today, we need partnership. Its not only the department of Public Health, we need hsa and we need all different City Partners to get this. We cannot do this by ourselves. I dont think anyone imagines the dph will be staffed to take over the 50,000 calls t