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Now item two announcements from subcommittee members. We'll start with Anybody who looks like they want to make one Nope All right, then Uh approval of minutes councilmember rogers. Do you have any amendments to the minutes? Okay, nope councilmember should all right. We'll uh adopt those as submitted without any changes Item four public comments, uh any person may address the His body for members for items that are not on the agenda But which are in the subject matter of the jurisdiction And the public may be called on do we have anybody wishing to make public comment online? All right, then item five, uh, this will go to Chief cregan or designee for a brief update on current topics Good morning chair foaming and the rest of our public safety subcommittee I just have two brief updates. We're partnered with our community engagement team here for the city of santa rosa In this saturday, we're going to be having our first ever gun buyback program in the city of santa rosa So it's going to be from 11 a.m. Till 3 p.m. This saturday october 22nd and it's going to be located on the private property of the bridge church, which is at 301 Fulton road So there's some instructions online on our social media platforms about If you have a firearm that you want to get rid of here that you can bring them No questions asked no identification are going to be asked for And if you secure the unloaded firearm or the trunk of your vehicle and bring it into the parking lot There are the bridge church on saturday and we'll have some staff and and they're going to be Private donations were raised to fund this program And there's going to be $200 for any functional handgun rifle or shotgun And $300 in cash for anything that's classified as an assault weapon under the penal code And are a ghost gun, which are the unserialized firearms So those are going to be this saturday So we encourage our community to come participate and the goal is to be able to get Some firearms off the street that are less accessible for being stolen in residential burglaries Or used in domestic violence or other violent crimes or even in suicides across their community So it's a kind of a pilot program Honestly for us to see how it works and see what some of the benefits are But we're really excited about and appreciate our partnership with the community engagement team And another fun exciting police department program that we have is our trunk retreat program That's going to be next wednesday the 26th at the veterans hall building And that's going to be starting at 4 p.m So encourage and there's some more information going on social media And that's where you drive through in your vehicle We're going to have dozens of community partners and certainly our officers and our team are going to be out there participating I'm able to hand out some treats to the children and other community members So there are two updates Well, those both sound like excellent community engagement efforts. Thank you so much for that Item. Do we have any public comment on item? 5.1 There are no public comments for this item Any questions or comments from subcommittee members? Chief if you haven't already done so if we can get a brief Email stating the gun buyback information I was not able to write it down during your report and I would like to share it on my social media channels That'd be very helpful Item 5.2 axon fleet camera system This looks like it'll be chief cregan and lieutenant philp philp Yeah, so we're going to turn it over to lieutenant kyle philp Well, lieutenant philp manages our investigations bureau and each one of our detective teams And he also has the exciting responsibilities our fleet manager So manages the hundreds of different vehicles and all the complexities with come of that So he really is one of our subject matter experts on our Automated license plate reader program that we want to introduce with our new axon fleet program that will be Getting installed next year. So I'll turn it over to lieutenant philp Thank you chief. Good morning. I will be presenting on our alpr and fleet three cameras this morning So just kind of a brief overview. I have a presentation Ready the alpr presentation. Do I need to share my screen or somebody has it correct? Yes, we have it. I'll be sharing that shortly. Okay So I'll just start um the first slide will come as we go. Um, basically what is uh, alpr Automated license plate readers is what alpr stands for and it is a system of cameras and computers that can detect license plates and will uh, record information Retaining to specific vehicles What this does is the information assists law enforcement And agencies in their investigations Into stolen vehicles missing persons, etc alprs are used by both government agencies and private companies within the u.s So the next would be talking about the axon fleet three camera itself. We have um We're getting axon cameras between april and june of next year. Hopefully Supply chain issues that could be extended. I don't expect to get them any sooner They'll be installed in every one of our marked patrol vehicles It is uh serves multiple purposes the first purposes that it records. It's a dash cam It records video of officer and citizen interactions Um, it has alpr capability. So it does have license plate reader capabilities um, and It'll have an application on all of our patrol mdc's which is the mobile data computer that is in our cars That people can look at the video. They can view the video. They can start and stop the video They can label their video and it loads directly into our evidence.com which is the same For our body worn cameras and on the presentation. There's a picture of the actual camera I apologize. We're having trouble with the presentation No worries. I have it On my computer if you want me to try and share my screen That would be great. Thank you Just want to make sure that it is up and you can see the axon fleet three cameras We can see it Okay, so that is the actual camera that will be one of the two Cameras that will be in the car. It faces forward. It has multiple views. I will go Slide. So this is the actual view that you will see that the officers will see on their dashboard The third view at the bottom is a separate camera That is for viewing the back seats so you can see People who are in there you can monitor them and make sure that They're not in any distress. They're not trying to destroy anything and that they're comfortably seat belted in The top view is the same camera But the first one it shows is a the actual view of the camera and the second one is it's zoomed in And as you can see here, it has a record button right in front But this is what the officers will actually look like the The Application will look like on their desktop and on the right. You see other buttons their settings The play is they'll actually be able to go back in and watch their videos in real time And then the third one is the license plate reader application that they'll be able to go back and see what plates were in there. Sorry So alpr uses what do we use alpr for what is What is the sole purpose of them? The main use for automated license plate readers is locating stolen vehicles Wanted vehicles or vehicles sought for investigative purposes and what that means sought for investigative purposes. Those are Usually related to felony investigations such as Homicides if you have a a license plate related to a suspect in a violent felony crime You can put that into The system and then if that license plate is seen by a license plate reader It would give an alert to the officer So it's also used to locate and apprehend individuals Who are subject to arrest for warrants or soft lawfully sought for law enforcement purposes It also helps us in locating missing persons Children and elderly individuals all of the alerts that you can send out for missing persons Abducted children all of those things they can be put into the alpr system And if someone comes across a license plate related specifically to that individual they would get an alert if it's in the system It would assist in the investigation of sideshow activities and allowing us to gather license plates Directly related to the sideshow activity Also develop investigating leads into ongoing and active investigation So ours We will be able to retain some of that data and then that data will be Stored only on our evidence.com. So I know that some of the questions people are going to have are about the data and the data retention Our data and the fleet three camera only stores the data On our evidence.com server. It is not searchable by anyone other than Member of the Santa Rosa police department who has access to it anyone else who would want access to that data would have to Send basically get approval through the chief of police to access that data because we would have to provide them access To our axon evidence.com System which you have to have chief approval for that Um, we've also applied for a grant to get a fixed alpr cameras And when people hear fixed alpr cameras, they think, oh, you're going to put cameras all over the city but for the most part In researching fixed cameras and their best use is I put some of that on here the cameras are Better used strategically where you're having areas that you've identified specific criminal activities such as catalytic converter thefts burglaries Stolen vehicles areas that are getting hit really hard at the time Taking some of these fixed cameras placing them in that area and then being able to see common Vehicles that come and go from that area during the times that the crimes are happening It integrates really well into what our chief would like to do with the real-time crime center Authorized use and data access. I kind of went over some of this already but All people who would like to use the alpr system in our agency must be trained They have to go through a training and be certified That they are allowed to use it We have a specific policy that uh dictates what who can access it and what they can access it for And it states in the it will state in the policy that we're still it's not finalized yet But the policy will state that the no authorized users shall access the alpr without a legitimate law enforcement purpose And so when somebody goes in and accesses the data or searches the data There has to be a reason and they have to list the reason as to why they're accessing the data Investigations manager which happens to be mean will have to do regular audits At least at a maximum six months Could be less than that. I have to go through and continually audit and figure out why people are using it and alpr hits Are not the sole purpose For a traffic stop if someone were to be driving and they get a notification from the system that the license plate That a license plate has been recognized as a stolen vehicle Missing person someone wanted for a felony. They have to investigate that and determine was the license plate correct Is the vehicle correct? They have to verify the data before they can make any stop It is not the sole reason or purpose for someone to be able to make a vehicle stop The last one here data collection and retention Uh, just some of the points from a policy data should not be retained unless it's being used in an ongoing criminal investigation Part of a legal proceeding or subject to discovery or request SB 34 governs the operation of alpr data basically states that you have to have a very secure process In place for people to be able to access it and another question is that I've answered somewhat already but No law enforcement agencies are prohibited from sharing data with non law enforcement agencies and again our system With the evidence.com system You would have to get approval if you're not a member of the center of the police department to even Search our data or look through our data And questions Thank you, sir. I will turn it over to subcommittee members who would like to start All right Thanks, lieutenant for the presentation a couple of questions on the technology um So reading the license plate is it two-way traffic in other words cars coming towards The police vehicle as well as going away from it Uh, I believe with the axon fleet three camera It's only cars in front of our vehicles because that the camera points directly from the front of the car So unlike some alpr system that'll have a camera in the front and camera in the back I believe the fleet three camera it only uh collects vehicles coming from the front So I get that let's just say yes, you're going down stony point road four lane highway How many vehicles would it be capturing in those license plates of? I believe it can capture three lanes of traffic Okay And who would I'm interested in about other allied agencies when they issue stop and holds for some of the vehicles Obviously, it's not many of those don't get into clets. How does that? What's the timing of that? So I think that um For our alpr data in the way we have it somebody who's going to have somebody would have to manually enter hot lists Stop and holds Wanted subjects and that and that type of information somebody's going to have to manually enter those And keep it for the amount of time and then have this I think you I believe you can set the system up to how long you enter a plate for say Uh, a stop and hold which our stop and holds are we are only 10 days it would then remove that plate after 10 days And is that something we're planning on doing we say someone is that a police department san rosa police department employee? Yes, I believe it will be a san rosa police department employee. Okay, and then um, not really clear about PRAs Because you say uh law prohibits agencies from sharing data with non-law enforcement. Is this subjected to public records act requests? Um That I actually I'm not sure about I believe anything that we would retain like that would be subject to a public Records request, but I don't know for sure. Okay. Thank you Calls of ever rogers. Do you have any questions? Yes, thank you chair So I I wanted to know about the The fixed cameras um How sturdy are they and if they're moving from place to place? Does that mean um, someone can Remove like how easy is it to remove the camera? Uh, I have not physically Seen one of them. I have I'll I have the picture in the slideshow where uh, those are called flock cameras It's a company that creates these cameras. They're solar power cameras and uh, I believe that you would uh attach them to Uh, a fixed object like a maybe a telephone pole a light pole or something of that nature They also come with uh metal Stakes that you couldn't fix to the ground, but I believe you would put them out of the reach of Of people, but I haven't actually seen the camera. I have spoken with Several agencies who use them and they have not had Problems with vandalism or theft, but I didn't ask them. Where do you actually physically attach the camera? Okay, and um, if we're looking at the the vehicle stops and it's saying that the al pr Um, should not be used for sole purposes of vehicle stops. Um, if it is public record will people Uh, do you think we'll get a lot of inquiries when people get? um stopped To see if that technology was used To stop them know that I can answer that question Um, I would assume some people will Ask but so basically what the camera does is if it notices a license plate say of a stolen vehicle It is on the officer to not just use that hit from the system to say well That's definitely a stolen vehicle They have to do a little follow-up pay attention to the thing to the uh to the hit because as with all technology It could be wrong They could have picked up a plate that it thought Because it's just recognizing the letters on the license plate and then pulling it up is what it believes it is So it's on the officer to say, okay That's the plate. Is that the plate that's matching on this vehicle? If so Is that the car that I'm that I'm looking for so it will it that you can't use it as the sole purpose for a stop And last question, um, if an officer does pull someone over, um Because of the assistance with this technology, do they have to disclose that? I don't believe that they are required to disclose it They would have to give Whoever they stop they they would have to provide a reason for the traffic stop I don't know that they would be required to disclose Because of an ALPR hit Thank you You're welcome Thank you My question has to do with you alluded to it a little bit earlier about the fourth amendment protection So what can you walk us through what happens if an officer does find a match and how We would be compliant with search warrants and due process So if No plate would be Plates are not to be put into the system that don't have at least some form of probable cause to stop The person such as say you have a person who's wanted for a robbery And we know that they drive a specific vehicle with a specific license plate and we're looking for that person is there They're out of custody Their license plate could then be put into the system And then uh if an officer were driving down the road or going through a parking lot, let's say at target And this person's car was parked In the parking lot the vehicle as you drive through would an alert would come up on the dashboard This plate is what uh is in in the system the officers that will then have to look at the plate Verify that the the plate is the correct plate And then why that vehicle and then also verify the vehicle because it provides Uh color of vehicle type of vehicle make a vehicle I don't know if it provides model of the vehicle But so they would just have to do a little follow-up and then obviously More investigation would have to be done to determine is this the person um What are they wanted for and just like any stop and hold if we were to contact someone involved in the stop and hold It doesn't meet me make them Guilty of a crime it means that we suspect that they were involved in a crime and the officer would then have to do More investigation the alpr hit itself doesn't give anyone the right to search a vehicle just Information that this vehicle may be wanted in some type of investigation Missing person or some other reason that law enforcement might be interested in the vehicle. Okay. Thank you very much At this time we'll open this up for public comments Have we anybody I don't see anyone in the chambers besides us Uh, do we have anybody online or running for your recorded public comments? We have a caller All right the first one It's just a phone number Members of the public safety subcommittee. This is jim duffy. I'm an oversight practitioner from roner park I want to thank the lieutenant for his excellent presentation Uh, really helpful to get that information. I do want to make a request To the public safety subcommittee regarding The data collection Use and sharing issues with the alprs and as it regards to public transparency And I would request that you request from the SRPD an annual report on the alpr data use sharing and You know what's it been used for in the last year and who's it been shared with Just so that you know, it sounds like things are really well under control, but just to The lieutenants doing an audit. I'd ask you to audit the auditor kind of thing Also, there's just a lot of surveillance technology out there. You guys got a letter from the aclu this past week asking you to look at putting in a surveillance technology ordinance to globally Keep on top of all the the new stuff that is being marketed to your law enforcement agency By a bunch of tech bros who are creating Rapidly creating new technologies that can be used for public safety And they really don't keep an eye on fourth amendment or any constitutional bounds when they develop them Um, and so that falls to you guys the the elected officials to make sure we're protected Technologies getting ahead of the law right now. And so it's time for the law to catch up Thanks so much for taking my comments. Thank you No, we have omar. Omar.  Yes, we can hear you Okay, my name is omar frigorowa I'm a lawyer and a small business owner parent and homeowner here in sonoma county I'm also on the volunteer board of the aclu of sonoma county and the sabbatical center for the arts But I'm here in my personal capacity and the views I express are my own and not necessarily those of any organization I want to thank this committee for looking at these issues in a thoughtful and deliberate manner And I want to thank the lieutenant for a thoughtful presentation I'm here to speak out in favor of a surveillance technology ordinance as well as to suggest improvements to the alpr policy In particular the data use section of the alpr policy should limit the number of types of non-city partners Who are authorized to access the alpr data with special attention to agencies like Immigrations and customs enforcement or their intermediaries It should also ensure the provisions of senate bill 34 Pertaining the data for automated license plate recognition systems are faithfully implemented and finally ensure that vendors of alpr hardware Software systems and storage are held to the same or greater standards with respect to data access data usage data sharing and privacy concerns Law enforcement uses of surveillance technologies and services post significant risk to our Freedoms and to serve the time and attention of thorough consideration and community involvement We encourage this committee to recommend to city council The adoption of a surveillance technology ordinance to codify best practices for meaningful community engagement And to ensure transparency accountability and oversight for all proposals to acquire or use surveillance technologies such as alpr technology I would also note. I have more than 23 years Of experience defending human beings usually peaceful cannabis defendants In the criminal courts and I've litigated dozens of motioners to suppress successfully over the years where the law enforcement Overstepped their boundaries and violated the constitution and the bill of rights And so I am very concerned about dragnet warrantless surveillance without any prior judicial authorization And if you have an alpr system that is conducting dragnet warrantless surveillance without judicial approval that is constitutionally suspect because all warrantless searches are presumptively illegal. So please take a look at that This is an issue that needs to be investigated warrantless searches are presumptively illegal. Thank you for your time Thank you We have no more hands raised, but I do have some recorded comments Yes, hi, I am calling about agenda number 5.2 And uh, I wanted to say that I'm I give you that as a part of the automatic In a surveillance program, I think this is a great idea. Um having it where You're not having to worry about someone reading the you know activity being suspicious to read the place Instead if someone is as a warrant or something like that, they can just Read it right there and they know it or the car is stolen. I might have to have more cars would be recovered I might have We appear to be having some technical difficulties one moment We'll make sure those comments get right into the record All right with that I'll bring it back for comments from the subcommittee Okay, so what I heard today were some concerns around so pretty robust and well thought out Presentation from the lieutenant and the chief With some remaining concerns from the community around how data might be PRA and And also some desire for a future Ordinance around surveillance technology and with that This I think has our support to go forward to the full council So on to item 5.3 Police recruitment efforts this will be Chief cregan and lieutenant brenda herringo herring herrington the cuts off on the line. So I just had herring to So I'll turn this one over lieutenant brenda and herrington. Uh, she runs our Professional standards team and as well as our recruitment team and recruitment is one of the priorities for the santa rosa police department Right now and we've seen a lot of innovation in the last six months With the team and really that's uh, thanks to lieutenant herrington sergeant matt north our background investigator of mandison sarah Our hr technician jay skycle and all under the overall development and uh lead of Captain dan brenda. So I'll let rena kind of take it over and tell us about what her and her team have been doing Hi, good morning. Um, yeah, I'd like to share with you some of the things we've been doing here over the last, uh, year Um, and hopefully we can continue to hire and recruit and Get more police officers and professional staff Next slide, please So we are budgeted at the police department for 260 total employees 181 of those are to be sworn And 79 are professional staff Currently we have 18 police officer vacancies And we have four vacancies in the professional staff side um, we're hopeful in the process of filling those four vacancies, um Pretty soon. Um, I think actually three of the four will be filled shortly. So that's that's um, good news for us Um, but you know, I would love to take the opportunity to recruit anybody who wants to join us So next slide. I'll have you guys play a video for us I think the standards of police department offers a lot of opportunities that many other departments may not offer Our investigations division with the violent crimes team and narcotic team domestic violent sexual assault You find out what your niche is and then you kind of start gravitating towards it DUI accident investigators with motorcycle officers downtown enforcement officers get the cool opportunity to ride zero Motorcycles a lot of times you get shoulder tapped and they're like, hey, we see your work ethic We see that you'd like to specialize in this and we want you to come and work for our unit They're tactical teams. They're SWAT team or Hodges negotiation team There is no like one path you have to follow You can really choose and kind of structure your career the way you want it to go These are unique opportunities to train our staff to become better in their own careers and grow in their own strengths As officers as they progress up the ranks of our organization Next slide please. So as chief pregan pointed out, um, there is a team of us here that work on hiring and recruiting And renziq myself sergeant matt north amanda since there was the background investigator. Um, we have a per diem background investigator cal And two professional staff members also on our team Next slide So some of the things we have done To recruit in the past, um, and then currently is the city website The police department website. We attend local recruiting events. We utilize community engagement team members when they go out to different events We attended the public safety day in march of we will be attending the public safety day in march of 2023 And the employees engagement During outside of normal course of work activities. So when they're outside, you know, coaching their kids baseball team Or doing other community events We utilize them and those capacities to help recruit for us Next slide So some of the things we've done over the past years. We hired a recruitment firm which helped And took a lot of photos for us, but they also created videos for us one of which you just saw We have dedicated recruitment videos in english and spanish We have a website in both english and spanish We currently have a contract at Two movie theaters and One of our recruitment videos is played for every movie Um, we do social media advertising youtube google facebook linkedin recognizing that today's world A lot of social media is what people are looking at the Old days of just posting it hoping somebody applies those days are gone. So we need we need to keep up with the times We are doing some bus advertising on our city buses as well as five snowman county transit buses There is a hiring incentive for lateral officers and for dispatchers And those incentives are paid out over the course of three years There's an expanded recruiting team that has a variety of experience and it also includes spanish speakers We have signed up for the 30 by 30 pledge as a police department And the goal of that is to increase representation of qualified women and police recruit classes by 30 by 2030 and ensure policies and culture support There's some support qualified women and other people throughout the throughout their career so they can be successful here And then we also continue to outreach to junior colleges and universities statewide and next slide And then when you go on to our website join san wazapede.com. This is what you see You can go through and watch a variety of videos Highlighting different things within our agency as well There is the button that says apply at the top right corner and that Appears and people can apply and email us and we will have someone our recruiting team respond to get back to them Next slide You know, there's any questions or someone wants to sign up Get a hold of me. Um, my email address is on the screen and then my boss is captain Dan Renzek and his email address is on the screen as well And that's it Thank you lieutenant herrington Do we have any questions health member rogers? Thank you. Um after watching that video, I think I want to sign up. It was really cool But my question was uh for the professional standards team How diverse is that team if that team? I guess we can say is the the face when people are interested in coming onto the force Well, so we have women and men and then part of our recruiting team too I speak spanish, but then there's also a latino personal amount of recruitment team that also speaks spanish And then we heavily utilize our community engagement team and that's made up of variety of assignments in our department and also a variety of faces women men in different ethnicities Perfect. Thank you. Thanks for that presentation brenda. I mean lieutenant herrington. Um, how are the early results? um going regarding the hiring incentives for laterals um, so dispatchers very well and with officers we are in I mean we're in the process of um I don't know how many we've done so far but I would say probably Four to five at this point chief. Do you have a better recollection of that? Yeah, we just did our first three. We had two Laterals from pedaluma come over and one from hayward. They're the first three that actually got the hiring incentive And that was something certainly that was a consideration to and I believe we have three or four other lateral back Officers in the process right now. So since launching it in august three of have already been Signed up for the thing and we have four more who prospects that are still early in the background process So we're excited about the possibilities of it. But for us, we just know it's going to be a multifaceted approach And it's going to be putting out these videos It's going to be raising awareness about just the incredible support and opportunities that we have here at the city of Santa Rosa to join our incredible team So chief, I know you and I had talked about some of the challenges with entry-level positions where we used to get upwards of 500 applicants. What are some specific strategies that we're trying to implement to Incentivize folks to actually go through and be paid by the city. Santa Rosa go through the police academy I mean a lot of we are actually looking at the possibility of doing a Trainee incentive as well a smaller scale than the lateral officer That's one thing that we're still exploring the possibilities right now. It's it's getting the word out more So we signed that uh recruitment or the recruitment team the epic recruitment And we filmed those eight videos of lieutenant herrings and talked about there were seven different videos And one translated in the Spanish how that dedicated website and then so really our focus has been Getting the word out in the community. We also launched a Continuous recruitment initiative. So instead of before it was only for three to four weeks So that's been really helpful part of it But we also been getting feedback sometimes about some of the processes that were put in place that were sometimes causing barriers And so one of the things that we've done is uh in the years pad We had like a video scenario that you had to go through we call the b-pad That was eliminated and we also just recently eliminated our written test because there were other ways of capturing that data There's a a statewide test that applicants have to take first So we that those are some of the things that we're doing is reducing those barriers of being successful through the process And we're working with our community engagement team right here in the city of santa rosa The host of public safety day and early 2023 We're trainees and people who maybe want to know more about the process can come out and practice like climbing the six foot wall They have to do they have to do a 500 yard gash do a Drag like a dummy on the ground like 175 pound dummy or so And these are basic requirements of the state academy So we're going to start saying like okay now We'll help you be successful in that and maybe take away some of the exact anxiety that applicants have to applying with us So those are some of the things but we have a lot of positive energy going forward with our team right now And we're we're hopeful to send a pretty large group of at least seven to ten Trainees to the january academy if we're successful with our mission, but that's what our goal is Great and I know in previous years Local high schools used to have a current pathway for public safety specifically at lc allen Is that still in effect or um did that go away with the sRO program? It is in effect And so we haven't been as engaged with the loss of our sRO program But it's something that we're uh continuing to work with And one of my goals that I have for my first year as chief is to launch an explorer program here for the city of santa rosa So that's one of the things I think it's a tremendous community engagement tool as well as a future recruitment tool So those are some of the things that we're looking at and it's certainly on my goal is for us And we're just right now Working on the capacity to launch some of those programs because we have a lot of moving parks going on police department right now Great. Thank you Thank you for the the fund video and i'm really excited to see the number of open recruitments come down from 21 to 18 and it looks like it's going to go down to 14 I'm just curious to know a couple of things one is what stops other jurisdictions from taking and rebranding the video Which speaks to councilmember schwedel's point about growing the pot and not just Taking people from one jurisdiction to another which i'm glad we're doing But could be done to us pretty easily as well And the other question I have is what are we doing to retain our officers? Are they eligible for any sort of retention support? Because I could imagine, you know, you stay here, but another jurisdiction does what we're doing and they're like, well I could jump ship and get a retention or a Transfer bonus if I do what what someone is doing here I think one of the things that speaks volumes is for some personal reasons We had a couple of our officers in the last two years leave and then they returned because they Really loved working here and loved working in this community I think we as a department as a command staff Keep a pulse on what's going on with other jurisdictions And if as long as we are competitive in our pay and we are competitive in The type of opportunities is and additionally in providing the wellness opportunities to our employees We're a good thing people want to stay because we do support our employees and we do support Them creating a career path that they enjoy And I think that does make us unique to some other agencies that are smaller and don't have the same opportunities in this area So we've been very fortunate that we are you know, we have the set team Which you're going to talk to them a little bit where we've been able to provide our Our officers the opportunity to do To that assignment as well as our my link primes our property primes Our traffic division doing motors As well as all the collateral assignments we offer that a lot of the other agencies in the area cannot So we're very fortunate in that capacity Well, this is tremendous and it's no surprise that people are wanting to come join our team I'll now go to public comment We have no zoom public comment We have no voicemails for this item All right. Well with that very well done and thank you so much lieutenant Oh Health member writers. Yes. Sorry So I just wanted to thank the the chief the command staff and the officers for you know Trying to reduce barriers the community engagement In the alternative recruitment efforts I think that they really will pay off and I think this is what we needed to do In order to heighten the spirits of of our officers that we do have to bring other people here And I think lieutenant was right Like this is why people will come here and they will want to stay here because we're a great department So I just wanted to personally thank you guys for everything that you're doing In thinking out of the box Well stated any other comments? All right. Thank you so much With that we have one more item. I believe Actually Item 5.4 officer highlight the special enforcement team Yeah, so this one we're really proud about and we just brought up the screen right here We have in one of our zoom rooms. We have our special enforcement Team officers. So this team was actually started Uh last year in in 2019 we saw our gang unit disbanded Due to some staffing concerns in the department and other priorities in the city And so we saw though a void being filled our uh our city with violent crime increasing Seeing shootings related to side shows and other events throughout our city seeing a lot of gang activity So in august of 2021 we were able to start this special enforcement team to kind of fill some of those boys and we started with just one sergeant and two officers and then in uh Early this year in the beginning of uh 2022 we're able to put two more officers So now we have the four officers on this team. It's uh the leadership of sergeant terry white And then we have officers jeff badger jason jucatan dain schindler and bret right were on the team and You can see some of them sitting in the back here. I'll turn it over to terry in a second But I wanted to highlight some of the things that led to the creation of this team If we could bring up the power point if you have that and I'll highlight some of the stats that we're on here We'll go to the next slide So some of the kind of startling stats that we've seen that help lead to the creationist team And this we went back five years looking at the data and we saw since 2027 We've seen a significant increase in reported shootings throughout the city of san erosa So in a five-year span we saw those reported shootings go up 147 percent here and then at the same time we've seen as ghost guns have been more Prevalent easily accessed and young offenders learning about these things We've seen an unbelievable increase in the ghost gun seizures of 633 percent increase in over the last five years And that was because in 2017 2018 We were seeing just a handful of them and and now we're seeing hundreds of them seize like so went from seizing Four to five a year to now seizing 150 to 200 a year Which is just an incredible Increase and something that really is alarming to us to put more resources not only with the enforcement Whether in some of the community engagement and working with our legislative partners on some of the legislative loopholes that are out there This year. We've also seen a lot of violence in the city of san erosa. We have had 10 reported homicides so far Just in 2022 We're setting the and that's the highest since 2018 and actually the highest we ever had in the city of san erosa is 11 homicides in 1986 So we're tapping on a record that we do not want to create here in the city of san erosa But we're seeing a lot of those related to gun violence and out of the six homicides we've had so far this year in 2022 Six of those have involved a firearm Next slide please Now we start talking about our credible special enforcement team So we have the stats when they prepared this presentation was going back to the first 11 months of their Team and just this team right here starting with the two officers and the sergeant For the first six months and then now for the last six months being with four With just this team has made 146 arrests throughout the city of san erosa Seized 43 firearms off the streets of san erosa and 16 of those firearms were ghost guns of these Unserialized weapons which have a much higher chance of being used in crimes by uh criminal offenders in the streets of san erosa next slide So now it has kind of turned it over uh to terry I don't care if you want to can say anything Disrepresenting the team and and what you and your incredible team has done under your leadership First I thank you so much for all of the support We can't do our job if we can't get funded to do it. So thank you for supporting law enforcement Thank you for the recruitment team because the more officers we get the more that we can get on the street And the more that we can use in special enforcement And really thank you to the city manager for stepping up and helping us Every day that we go out we look forward to Making san erosa safer by trying to get the illegal firearms off the streets And all that work really is these guys. It's not me. I manage it Thank you terry you're an incredible leader in the team and we appreciate it Another thing that I did mention is congressman Mike Thompson has noticed even at the federal level about how this team Is really setting themselves apart with their woke woke with our work with ghost guns So just several weeks ago congressman Thompson did a congressional recognition for this team We were honored a special event and the special enforcement team was For that are now in the congressional record for their incredible works It's just one more way to highlight what a tremendous team out there are doing and really the impact they're making in the city of san erosa I'll turn it back over to the chair filming Excellent. Thank you. Any questions or comments? in the subcommittee No, okay anything pre-recorded or live on zoom No live on zoom and nothing pre-recorded All right, well with that I do believe that we have come to the end of our Very exciting agenda well on time. Oh, nope one more item future topics anybody wishing to place anything on our future agenda Okay, and with that we will not be holding a december meeting We will be getting uh next year have our public safety subcommittee meetings quarterly As I think that that would better match the amount of content and engagement that we are seeing Um, and so with that we will now adjourn Thank you to the chief and the lieutenants and officers for your help as well as our tech staff our clerks And our subcommittee members. It takes a team. Bye. Bye


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