Police commission hears detailed briefing on officer-involved shooting investigations

Sergeant Crudo presented the San Francisco Police Department's process for investigating officer-involved shootings (OIS), defining an OIS as “an intentional discharge by the officer of his weapon” and outlining two concurrent but separate lines of inquiry: a criminal probe led by homicide and the district attorney's office, and an administrative review that evaluates policy compliance.

The department treats OIS incidents as critical incidents and triggers broad notifications from the Department Operations Center. Sergeant Crudo said the criminal and administrative investigations run side by side: “Two separate investigations begin,” he told the commission, with the criminal investigation developing forensic evidence, witness interviews and a homicide report that the DA will review and on which charging decisions depend. The administrative…