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Of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all commissioner president loftus id like to call roll commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus is in route commissioner hwang and commissioner melara commissioner president loftus we have quorum we have present with us police chief greg suhr and contracosta alameda thank you sergeant good evening and welcome everybody to the final wednesday, february 17, 2016, Police Commission meeting sergeant, next line item. Item one consent calendar q the police chief forceps 5 new tablets if the gorilentrepreneu sought into the richmond valued at 700. Colleagues you have in your packet this is on this consent calendar im trusting ....
Police Commission Meeting sergeant, next line item. Item one consent calendar q the police chief forceps 5 new tablets if the gorilentrepreneu sought into the richmond valued at 700. Colleagues you have in your packet this is on this consent calendar im trusting you read it was wonderful this gorilirl t troops are using their money for the richmond that is used by the Community Groups and this troop is incredibly generous excessive anything. We want to thank the troops for giving back a Community Room that is used by many groups the girl scouts use it the most and like to look nicer theyre doing something about that and the first one is at least appears to be 20 years old that is great to see a problem and fix it thank you to the girl scout troops i will welcome a motion on this with the consent calendar and so mov ....
Enforcement will create a stronger, more vibrant community where we can feel proud and assured that our children will grow up and also feel safe in their interactions with Law Enforcement. So i thank you for your diligence and i strongly encourage you to continue to support the efforts and to really consider that this is Just One Team in a league that you have colleagues at the department of Public Health who work so hard every day with the mobile crisis unit that there is room for engagement and it is not really necessarily the funding it is just about communication and that there is an opportunity to support interdepartment relationships. And so that we can shift the burden of first responses away from the potential lethal out come that my sister encountered two years ago. So i thank you for your time, and i sincerely a ....
Posttraumatic stress was activated in the early 90s, and she attended a Community Clinic for over a decade. She was a known patient at this facility. And a volunteer. And she had a psychotic episode at this Mental Health facility down in southern california, and the emergency dispatch called this place from the clinic to the local station where two officers were dispatched. And this is an agency that does not have a formal Crisis Intervention Training Program or any sort of Training Program that deploy deputies that are specifically trained to approach a situation with known or with individuals who have known mental conditions. And within eight minutes of the caulk placed my sister was shot dead and this was within eleven seconds of four dep ....
Along. But we have quite a ways to go and we have a huge Mental Health crisis in San Francisco and like it or not, Police Officers are very often the First Responders to those crisis, and it is often times the very first interaction with the system that someone is having in psychiatric crieses and sets the stage for that lifetime and that person and help to relate to the recovery and further traumatized and whether they are developing trust in the system and they are engaging in the treatment and so the Police Officers do really play an absolutely Critical Role in that and, and so that kind of leads me back to the whole part of us all working together and ....