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Central Station captain outlines staffing, foot beats and crime trends
Summary
Captain Paul Yip told the Police Commission Central Station has 149 sworn personnel, doubled foot‑beat officers this year and reported mixed crime trends: some violent crimes down while auto burglaries and robberies remain a persistent problem.
Captain Paul Yip, commanding officer of the San Francisco Police Department’s Central Station, told the Police Commission that Central Station has 149 sworn personnel and has expanded community foot‑beat patrols this year. "Central Police Station has a 149 police officers," Yip said as he described the station’s organizational breakdown and language capabilities.
Yip said Central handled 155,748 calls for service in 2016—an average of 426 calls a day—and that calls were running roughly 900 higher year‑to‑date compared with the prior year.…
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