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DPH outlines departmentwide security overhaul; commissioners press Sheriff role and staffing alternatives
Summary
The Department of Public Health presented a security assessment across clinics, Laguna Honda and San Francisco General Hospital and proposed a phased five-year security master plan emphasizing access control, alarms and CCTV. Commissioners pressed on costs, 51 reported use-of-force incidents and whether Sheriff-provided security should be contracted or replaced with alternatives.
Basil Price, director of security for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, told the Health Commission the department completed security assessments for roughly 60 facilities and will roll out a DPH-wide security program beginning in July.
Price said assessments classified sites as high, moderate or low risk after reviewing vulnerabilities and existing countermeasures. "Bottom line, the objective is to actually have an effective, cost effective security program, again, that we can standardize and then integrate throughout the network," he said. The master plan would prioritize access control, alarm systems (duress and high-risk patient…
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