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Custody function and prior audits have focused solely on the custody function, we are a fullservice Law Enforcement agency and we provide penalopy of services that fall under the rubric. For example, we provide Public Security at a number of city departments, in addition, we have staff out in the field, who are looking for people who have outstanding warrants and a k9 unit that conducts bomb and drug sniffing activities. So we take a look at those functions and provide their insight in those areas as well. The civil grand jury focused findings focused on four areas and i will respond to each of those areas one at a time. The first one the first finding and recommendations related to disability. The first recommendation was that the Sheriffs Department should follow city policy for limited time temporary disability ....
Treatment for their workers and early return to work. So what we can look at the ways in which we can bring employees back to work on modified duty, so at least those positions arent open while were paying full salary and we have worked with the Sheriffs Department to help lower its ttd costs by bringing employees back to work on modified duty for longer period as they recover from their injuries. Finally, we would like to chime in and say in recommendation 1b it says the board of supervisors should request an audit conducted by the budget and legislative analysts, and we would certainly like to participate in that. It might be difficult for us to crossreference all of the payments, but we certainly could put the costs of the Workers Compensation, temporary disability payments together with some of the overtime costs and help to do an analysis of that data. Now i w ....
Challenging and timeconsuming process. It takes the corporation of our department with Workers Compensation, with state retirement, as well as city reisolated storm and you can imagine the process. And this is not a problem that is unique to the Sheriffs Department, and is, in fact, shared by most city departments. So we would certainly welcome participating in the citywide solution to this problem. In addition, and i will go into this in greater detail in the next slide, we definitely agree that disability is reducing the number of staff that is able to work on a daily basis and driving up our overtime costs. The second recommendation was actually directed to the board of supervisors and that was that they ask the budget and legislative analyst to conduct review of Workers Compensation payments and rela ....
The input op this issue. The third recommendation is that we should review Safety Programs with Work Development and we found this recommendation requires further analysis. We have already conducted an analysis of the First Six Months of 2014 Workers Compensation injuries and compared those to 1213 and already taken that analysis and moved to make changes to our Training Program and to work with our facilities staff to take corrective action to move the department forward. In addition, we are going to reach out to the Workers Compensation staff to review our findings with them, and come up with some nextsteps that well continue to move ou ....