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Committee presses SFPD on academies, overtime and role shifts as EMS 6 expansion looms
Summary
Police Chief and the BLA clashed over proposed cuts to body-worn camera funding, academy classes and materials, while supervisors explored redirecting officer duties to new EMS 6 street-crisis teams and civilian positions.
The Budget & Appropriations Committee spent a prolonged afternoon session examining the San Francisco Police Department's budget, focusing on three disputed BLA reductions — body-worn camera funding, materials and supplies, and at least one academy class — and on the department's role in a planned shift of certain crisis calls to community-based responders.
SFPD Chief Bill Scott said the department cannot accept cuts to body-worn camera funding this year because the cameras' lithium batteries are approaching the end of their useful lives and the replacement work was delayed by COVID. "The lithium batteries within the cameras...will approach the end of their useful life…
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