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Police Commission revises priorities, schedules officer mental-health follow-up for Sept. 14
Summary
After a lengthy review of a three-tier priorities list, commissioners kept language access and mental-health work high, discussed codifying a Brady policy, and calendared a September 14 follow-up on improving mental-health and counseling services for officers; public commenters urged focus on violent crime, POA finances and racial-bias concerns.
The San Francisco Police Commission spent a substantial portion of its Aug. 10 meeting reviewing and revising a multi-tiered priorities list adopted at a previous retreat. Commissioners debated which items to keep on the top tier, which to move down, and how to calendar long-term reviews for outstanding items.
Commissioners voiced consensus that language-access implementation and mental-health issues for civilians remain high priorities. A recurring theme in the discussion was the difference between adopting department general orders (DGOs) and ensuring those DGOs are implemented and audited; commissioners…
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