Chair has called the meeting to order please turn off the Electronic Devices and please rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Commissioner hillis id like to call roll. Please do commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus commissioner mazzucco commissioner melara commissioner hwang commissioner president loftus we have quorum and also with us the intern chief of police the office of citizens complaints joyce hicks you. Well to the monday, december 21, 2016, thank you for being here ill start off by welcoming our newest supervisor commissioner hwang well get to hear from you it is great to have you here and change a little bit of the order of agenda so if youre following along ill move up items 4 and 5 up to after 2 the consent calendar is well go in order one, 2, 4, and 5 and then sergeant, next line item. Item one presentation of certificate presentation of the California Department of alcohol abc significant Achievement Award to the abc liaison unit alu. Hello and thank you for allowing us a few minutes im the acting director the alcoholic beverage for the state and here to acknowledge the work of the San FranciscoPolice Department and ill ask them to please come up here we definitely want to acknowledge their hard work we develop programs i to paint the picture two hundred agents on the street and manage 90 thousand liquor licenses we couldnt do that without the help of agencies in San Francisco over 4 thousand liquor licenses we video telephone people that not only handle San Francisco but at bay area communities we recognize the San Francisco met the goals by over one hundred and thirty percent the Community Outreach they reached the county 6 hundred percent more than they first acknowledged so your hats off to San FranciscoPolice Department for the community gavin newsom but the ability to help us do our job a big round of applause and present first to david lieutenant offer that unit we absolutely, absolutely appreciate his hard working r hard work and others thank you for helping us do our jobs thank you. Thank you, everyone and thank you for all your hard work and for abc to recognizing the San FranciscoPolice Department thank you very much. Thank you. Sergeant, next item. Item 2 consent calendar receive and file request of the chief of police to accept the nomination of 2,000 in the sfpd Wilderness Program. Colleagues in your packets a memo from the officer with the donations from the officer program is that a motion. Move to approve admit Public Comment on the consent calendar. Good evening and welcome. Those that looked worried and Smiling Faces 2000 explores for the sfpd Wilderness Program i strongly suggest that you encourage more such documents instead of having trees with falling branches causing problems you could adopt a living Defense Program my nickname is peter and ill donate you a bunch of cactus and the most food on land a firewall food and flower and fruit and medicinal and frost resistant and they produce more food than anything on the planted month black and white people dont know that but talk to people south of the board an amazing opportunity and ive never heard of a cactus falling down and hurting anyone the lawyers will losses so i want to suggest to you regarding the Homeless People you you know people think why are we giving them money they can garden and i happen to be at the 14 garden before they were torn down and the hispanic no black and white just the low end hispanics and they should some of the most beautiful gardens and they were surrounded by cactus thousand of pound ever contact news no running out of food encourage a situation with our outlying areas using the cactus those beautiful knowledge that has not been demonstrated in college but shown to work and offering Small Business for everybody to do that makes everyone happier. Ill recommend the comments are not the opinion of the commission so any opinions i think are offense not the policy of the city or the commission thank you, sir any further any Public Comment . We have a motion and i. Opposed . Sergeant, next line item. Item 4 presentation regarding the Crisis Intervention Team cit department general order from the cit working Group Discussion and possible action. Okay. Colleagues a tremendous momentum for the commission and the department i see lieutenant melinda what is a tremendous way to start the meeting take it away. Thank you chief and commissioners with great pride to come here before you to talk about cit we finally did that a joint effort i happen to be joining the team a few years ago he met a lot of people out there from now and then i consider my friends so mary ann is here will give historic facts and ill talk about the training that were 0 doing. Okay. Thank you lieutenant. Welcome ms. Merriam. Commissioner president loftus and commissioner Vice President turman and members of the commission and members of the public im excited it is a long journey i want to give a brief overall the history he if we talk about the history well be here quite a bit time with the Police Department and lots City Departments and also an important and critical part have been the families that lost loved one have been severely injured those individual fueled our commitment to make that Crisis Intervention Team program a Remarkable Program to be a different kind of response for people in crisis in terms of history it comes back to the commission because if we looked at what happened in 2011 there had been commissioners who went to commissioners brought Community Organizations and went to lake to look at what is going on across the country and what are some of the best practices and the communities organizations and Police Department and youve heard testimony from the people if memphis in 2011 lots testimony for hours how to put together a road map of crisis intervention and this commission passed a resolution on that date february 2011 a fabulous road map of having a crisis intervention officer coordinator and it had all the details of a Crisis Intervention Response Team looks like we have officers as First Responder the kind of training and Data Collection and a key part of it included having procedure in place those are procedures that the department of justice just look at it and elevated the cit program that is fabulous so many officers that are cit trained and needs to be protocols in place tonight we brought to you a general order that general order represents 18 months of collaboration so again, the working group and many members of the working group their organizations of the Coalition Homelessness and Suicide Prevention autism and advocate a groups that are involved and in terms of the department the District Attorneys Office and the our own agency i know im leaving out organizations we have a working group of over 39 representatives we put together a document and started out were trader to 5 pages id like to highlight a few of the 5 pages starting with the introduction when you look at the introduction you might see it reflect the use of force policy we wanted to pick those aspects that underscore the sanctity of life and the Police Departments commitment to the deesclation and using communication report building and other desolation take i can see in working with people in crisis other consultants of department general order terms and independence weve defined what a Crisis Intervention Team is to that that is not just individuals there is a Crisis Intervention Team members there are Police Officers that have done 40 hours of training and gotten the cit pin and learned about scientists of individual that have Mental Illness they are learning about mental disability and alzheimers the full range of reasons people might be in crisis and the training is about how to do hands on deesclation tactics we defined what a cit officer is we defined what a team is that is part a learning process not just individual officers responding to a crisis but putting together what a team it we have a definition of a cit Team Individuals are not only getting the 40 hours of training but 10 hours of Tactical Training that the officer will talk about and other parts of definitions are those officers that you are regular police cars theyre responding with the department of Emergency Management identifies it doing the regular practical work but the First Reading moving into procedures not just officers are getting training but called out to respond to cit crisis calls that means the collaboration with the department of Emergency Management so that the department of Emergency Management will be identifying those calls the teams will roll out and teem will involve officers making reports of the person in crisis and maybe a requirement a nonlethal cover officer and others individuals that needs to be brought to the scene those are part of procedures that make that a different kind of response a response what individuals have officers have specific training around crisis calls and other parts of department general order deal with the nuts and bolts ill only is when you passed our resolution in 2011 you provided all the responsibility and rules for the cit coordinators so thats lieutenant maling no small task all the things he doesnt including reporting too this commission and collecting data another significant part the cit responsive across the country theyre looking at the response so part of Police Department is doing in combination with the working group to be collecting data that general order lays out the Data Collection and lastly the training all the consultant not just for cit officers but over training thats a really quick speed there this general order ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. And again, thank you for your continuing support and sweat shirt to all the Community Groups and the Police Department and the City Departments been a part of this collaborative process. clapping. thank you yeah, we had lost a life but officers get effected i want to talk about officers also in that regard that everyone is effected by it i like to acknowledge chief suhr he started this program and obviously retired and chief chaplin and continued to support that and other people i want to talk about my immediate boss for a long time go through and chief suhr my new boss and been active in getting this together and now my cit staff that is Sergeant Anderson and others im getting two more officers. What. Great. Next month. Working with us the head of the unit have two officers assigned to her and working as a unit when we deal with crisis so mary will talk about the team process basically, he came before you a few months back and talking about going to seattle so with that information we adapted some of the processes and some of the prursdz that seat belt is doing adapted to San Francisco were different here from the state of washington so im happy to announce we came to an agreement with the San Francisco mraemd starting next month in context ill describe some of the facts and get into the other things as we go. I give you numbers so as far we have total of 200 plus trained officers but and northern station thats a total of 200 and 79 you see the percentages of the trained officers 54 percent midnight at 22 and other at 25. Sorry. Then we have the Golden Gate Division bay area station. Lieutenant i think you can use that will that work its pretty small. Oh, there you go thank you. So the Golden Gate Division you have bay area station, station, richmond and i know side and terryville and the chiefs are. I guess all 3. 52 percent, 22 percent and 25 percent of which nice animation on our power point not gone unnoticed. For the support units that are helping us with patrol officers and Midnight Team a total of 200 and 9 officers those are the narcotics and the officers that do the investigations so so total is seven hundred plus i dont want to speed bump but get to the team that is something we have adapted so when the crisis calls either dispatch dispatch will announce the call and have a criteria that will be a cit call we going to have officers in the late sign we have in the department we reassigned the watches meaning we have a team effort because all the officers we realigned to their supervisors to sergeants and officers are working the same days and notice they can respond so basically, you going to have officers 40 hours of training and the training well implement beginning of next year respond to the call and with the assistance of either the cit trained officers or the patrolled officers will form that team that will its going to be the person that will be doing the talking with the person in crisis youll have the less lethal going to have lethal shotgun or beanbag and a lethal officer if you deployed youll have cover with them and our resource officers backing up that team and the rest not arrest but the resource officer that will be working to go and whether they need to block traffic or assistance and so forth and have a supervisor that will be part of that Team Response and did supervisor will be in charge of all the officers that either doing what their supposed to be doing and so forth so it looks great through the training we were asking the officers what is it you need out there when they taken their 40 hours basically, we need how to deploy when we respond to a crisis based on that we have adapted this new training the Fire Department will guess through within the three next 12 months so in addition to the 40 hours well have 10 hours those ten hours will be announce instructed by mraemd weve identified with the cit training and have the acknowledge of tax ikdz and deesclation were excited about it and looking forward to doing this is a group effort so without saying more i have mr. Johnson that will talk about the training and. Great, thank you lieutenant approximately ms. Johnson welcome back im the Deputy Public Defenders Office and one of the advocates in 2002 and been part of cit working group since 2011 and i was on the trip to memphis with all the officers ive been here since the start and will say this is not been easy and im happy where we have to the place weve gotten today one of my roles on the cit working group as the charge you of curriculum subcommittee we look at the curriculum this is about training and we need a Good Foundation to the officers can implement that when we have the opportunity to do that on the street as part of the curriculum the first thing looked to other communities i got the full curriculum from bear county texas and offering we look at the memphis model to see were not missing anything we were covering the seekers i working closely with the nuru psychiatrists and looking at the best experts to present and presenting the best science around Mental Health is evolving and it is important we treat things at the highest level after that several of us sat in on the training i sat in 3 wants to see how everyday was laid out and to see make sure that the content was balanced between interactive and pretty heavy academic stuff and some days frankly at the end that was too much so we steps back and balanced the curriculum what would be digestible in 40 hours i think that is a lot of information and i credit the officers for being able to go through this program it is really quite amazing and quite dense i will say we i want to point out a couple of things first of all, this curriculum is constantly evolving and a lot of things that have made this Curriculum Development acquit difficult one is that we were changing audience and some days advanced officers and sometimes recruits we need to have the resources behind the curriculum we need to have enough pertinence quality go presenters to be flexible and change the curriculu