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Commission hears civilianization plan as budget uncertainty forces trade-offs
Summary
San Francisco Police Commission received an update on efforts to convert some sworn positions to civilian roles and pressed department leaders on costs, background checks, and whether civilianizing now would be cheaper than recruiting and training new officers amid a projected city budget shortfall.
The San Francisco Police Commission on Monday heard an update on a multi-year effort to "civilianize" certain Police Department functions, a program staff say could free sworn officers for patrol work but that is constrained by funding and background-check limits.
Alice Villegas, the department's Human Resources director, told commissioners the civilianization initiative stems from city-charter directions and management audits. "The goal of civilianization is to appropriately identify jobs that could be converted from uniformed police to civilian in the police department, enabling uniformed police to be reassigned to perform peace officer work," Villegas said, summarizing budgeted positions and hires across fiscal years.
Villegas outlined the…
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