AgdaPkt 2016-11-28 Closed and Joint SA PFA

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devices. Available officers had either the choice of not wearing the device or the limited number of BWC devices were not plentiful enough to capture the event; adding a different level of mistrust, the opposite achievement of what the BWC was to accomplish. Full deployment will occur after the completion of the initial field-test and when all relevant corrections to the system are made and functional. The distribution of the BWC and iPhone will occur at the beginning of each watch. 17. First Year Expenditures Complete During this phase of the implementation plan, all building modifications, IT systems upgrades, cell phone and BWC equipment purchases are paid for to reach full deployment capability. 18. FTE Property Clerk Placement The production of BWC video evidence for court filings and California Public Records Act requests is a new requirement for evidentiary production that will immediately exceed the capacity of dedicated staff currently handling evidence production. In conversations with other departments, the demand by the District Attorney’s Office (DA) for “all BWC evidence” related to an event is now a standard request. The steep increase in evidence production is an unprecedented increase in the dedicated time it takes to locate, redact images where appropriate, burn to CD and deliver video evidence on time sensitive requests. In the past, only evidence related to the involved officer’s actions and documentation of an incident (written reports, still photographs, interview audio recordings and sometimes CCTV recordings) needed to be presented to the DA for a case filing. With the availability of BWC evidence, time allocated to the production of evidence has dramatically increased. All recordings for officers who came into the event, regardless of their substantive role, will need their video evidence reproduced. Video production for a typical call for service event could average 2-3 officers per case with 15-20 minutes of recording per officer. In one comparative agency with comparable staffing numbers, it was not uncommon to have 4-5 officers to be involved in an incident with more than 20-30 minutes of recording time per officer. The physical task of video file identification and CD burn time can be extensive. A basic time and motion study was done with the current request for court related evidence reproduction and the average projected production time to complete BWC evidence workload demand; it exceeded 10 hours of steady work per day. 6.1.A. - Page 14