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Police oversight office says 8% cuts will leave it short of charter staffing minimum
Summary
OCC Director Hicks told the Police Commission that an 8% citywide cut and a $291 million budget shortfall will force OCC to leave four investigator vacancies unfilled, dropping the office below the charter-mandated investigator minimum and raising retention concerns.
Director Hicks told the San Francisco Police Commission on March 19 that Mayor Newsom’s latest budget action requires an additional 8% reduction across departments and that the city’s budget deficit has grown to $291,000,000, $60,000,000 more than when department budgets were submitted. She said the cuts will force the Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC) to leave four investigator vacancies unfilled and will leave OCC with 14 line investigators—one fewer than last year and, by Hicks’ calculation, one fewer than the charter-mandated minimum of one investigator per 150 sworn officers.
Hicks said OCC had previously offered two investigator…
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