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New Taraval station captain outlines decentralized community-policing plan and stepped-up traffic enforcement
Summary
Captain Chignell of Taraval Station told the commission he will assign sergeants as points of contact to community organizations, expand a daily email bulletin to the whole district and begin pedestrian stings and more moving-violation enforcement using existing resources to reduce injuries and fatalities.
Captain Chignell, newly assigned to Taraval Station, told the Police Commission and residents that his station will emphasize a decentralized model of community policing and stepped-up traffic enforcement.
Chignell said Taraval covers roughly a quarter of San Francisco and about 150,000 residents. The station is staffed by approximately 100 officers; he reported 59 officers identified as minority and 17 female officers. To strengthen neighborhood ties, he said the station will assign about 15 sergeants as points of contact, pairing each sergeant with two community organizations initially and expanding as…
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