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Police commission urges limited lateral hires to allow chief to appoint outside command staff
Summary
The San Francisco Police Commission adopted a resolution urging the Board of Supervisors and mayor to authorize the chief to appoint qualified sworn officers from outside the department to command staff under specified limits, including a five-year sunset and a cap of one outside appointment at a time.
The San Francisco Police Commission on Aug. 26 adopted a resolution urging the Board of Supervisors and the mayor to authorize the chief of police to appoint qualified sworn law-enforcement officers from outside the San Francisco Police Department to command staff, subject to “appropriate limitations.”
The resolution, read into the record by a department lieutenant, asks the city to amend the San Francisco Administrative Code, which currently restricts command-staff appointments to SFPD incumbents at the rank of…
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