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SFPDcommunity policing order draws praise and questions about how it will be implemented
Summary
San Francisco Police leaders and the Police Commission discussed a proposed community policing Department General Order; supporters called it a long-overdue codification of community policing principles while commissioners and public commenters pressed for concrete implementation steps, language access and performance measures before the Sept. 28 adoption vote at the Mission community meeting.
The San Francisco Police Commission heard a multi-part discussion Sept. 21 about a proposed Department General Order that would codify community policing as department policy and move it to the front of the general orders manual.
Chief of Police (as announced on the dais) and staff said the order is the result of months of drafting with input from the Board of Supervisors and community groups and is intended to make community policing a formal department policy that all officers must know and follow. "By putting this in, every officer in the San Francisco Police Department is accountable to it," the chief said, describing the document as a policy, not a stand-alone program, and noting a complementary…
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