I also want to mention president yee called for an audit on the staffing and at this them tee at the time the recommendation was 203 to be civilianized. There was discussion by members not on the committee. I think the committee came to an agreement of civilianizing 50 officers within a twoyear period. Well well be discussing that issue when the police come around their budget. Thank you very much. We may call you back but now id vik like to have chief sorry. Supervisor mandelman. I forgot about my colleague. Sorry, chief. Hold up. I had a few clarifying questions which you may not have answers to but maybe it gives the chief a heads up about things im interested in. I think its on page six of your slides you talk about the decrease in Response Time. The two reasons you have there are increased 911 calls and increased in traffic and congression. Im wondering if you were able to drill down further into what is driving the increase in 911 calls over that time period. I dont have the exac
Violate crime occurs and thats part of our strategy. You see the goals with our street Violence Response Team and partnership with the department of Public Health, for support and survivors of Violent Crime and our town hall meeting after traumatic events. Those have proven to be effective in addressing the community and having the community be a part of the solution. In the last year we implemented strategies to address property crimes and were tracking well on property crimes and continuing the trend from 2018. Our theft from vehicles are down 21 . Burglaries are down 15 and larceny is down 18 . Our property crime strategies include proactive and reactive strategies including and i know you have questions about our foot beats but our increased foot beats and increased visibility are part of a prevention effort. Its our philosophy our officers make a difference and when theyre out on patrols we have seen significant reductions in those areas. Operations in hot spot areas and specializ
Staffing and at this them tee at the time the recommendation was 203 to be civilianized. There was discussion by members not on the committee. I think the committee came to an agreement of civilianizing 50 officers within a twoyear period. Well well be discussing that issue when the police come around their budget. Thank you very much. We may call you back but now id vik like to have chief sorry. Supervisor mandelman. I forgot about my colleague. Sorry, chief. Hold up. I had a few clarifying questions which you may not have answers to but maybe it gives the chief a heads up about things im interested in. I think its on page six of your slides you talk about the decrease in Response Time. The two reasons you have there are increased 911 calls and increased in traffic and congression. Im wondering if you were able to drill down further into what is driving the increase in 911 calls over that time period. I dont have the exact specifics but i know that the Department Also mentioned an inc
This is the april 24, 2019 meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am chair sandra lee fewer. Our clerk is miss linda wong, and i would like to thank jason and samuel for sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, madam clerk. Can you please call item one. Clerk item one is a meeting on key safety Public Strategies in the city budget identifying gaps and levels for future spending. Chair fewer thank you very much. Today is the second hearing on matters of priority from members of the board of supervisors. Next week, well have our Mental Health and Substance Abuse Budget Hearing, and on may 8 is a Budget Hearing on secondary priorities including clean and green streets, funding for the minimum compensation ordinance for nonprofit workers and support for all businesses. I said this last week but as a reminder, the purpose of the board in identifying these initial priorities is
Fall short of 1,171. We have a class in the academy and a lateral class scheduled for june and three scheduled for fiscal year 1920. We plan to try to have 50 recruits each in the classes. We average about 95 combined retirements annually not including the airport, sworn or academy recruit attrition. We have work to do here. We are trying very hard to get our staffing up to the mandate of 1971. We have challenges but have strategies in place to address the challenges and pushing forward on staffing the department because everything i talked about up to this point doesnt work without the issue but i have been able to get recruits in the academy and get them out on the streets. Recruitment. Sfpd is implementing Outreach Strategies for Lateral Police officer opportunity we recruit not only locally but over the state and elsewhere across the country. The implementation of an aggressive Advertising Campaign with television and radio and billboard and posting and advertisements and exterior