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Police Academy to add tenant-rights scenarios and community panels for recruits
Summary
Captain Richard Corea told the Police Commission the Academy is collaborating with tenant-advocacy groups to add contemporary fact patterns, role-play scenarios and a two-hour tenant panel to training; the first presentation is scheduled for the 220th recruit class on March 25.
Captain Richard Corea, commanding officer of the Training Division, updated the San Francisco Police Commission on the Police Academy's tenants' rights training on Feb. 20. Corea said academy staff and tenant-advocacy representatives exchanged lesson plans, developed new, contemporary fact patterns and are building role-play scenarios that will let recruits discover underlying issues during training.
"We've put together a panel of advocates and their clients who will come in as a tenants community presentation for two hours in the academy," Corea said, and he added the first panel will present to the "220th recruit class on March 25 for 2 hours." The scenarios are being designed so recruits watch or act as officers while community members and advocates play roles to surface issues beyond the immediate surface-level interaction.
Commissioner Hamill praised the work as an example of community policing and cultural-competency training and invited commissioners to attend the March 25 presentation.
Why it matters: the revision aims to expose recruits to tenant perspectives and complex landlord'tenant issues in a classroom setting, with the goal of improving officer responses and cultural competency in neighborhoods where housing and SRO issues are common.
Next steps: the training panel and role-play scenarios will be used in academy sessions; the commission was invited to observe the March 25 presentation.
