Tenderloin Police Station

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1 Tenderloin District Newsletter February 22, 2008 Captain's Comments: Dear Neighbors: The flu has hit the Tenderloin Station and both my Newsletter editors are off sick so I have patched together a short newsletter for this week. We continue to absolutely bring in as many of the nefarious characters of crime as we can find and still they come from everywhere but here. One operation of the many we ran this week was for violent sex offenders who have disappeared off the map that is failed to register. In a short amount of time (4 hours) your Officers brought in eight offenders. There will be no let up by your Officers, our two a day operations are scheduled and continue to be run targeting auto boosting, robberies, fugitives, narcotics, traffic enforcement including targeting school bus, pedestrian and bicycle violations, and a whole host of neat things to make the neighborhood safer. Your Department is in the process of planning more operations to increase the safety of your neighborhood. On Valentines' Day your TNT delivered love letters to the Board of Supervisors hearing on the Tenderloin's lack of Postal Service. It was a great effort but a lot more will need to be done. Please continue to throw your support for this cause. A great deal of our drug enforcement has been targeting the area around our Boys and Girls Club so that the kids will have a safe passage between their two locations at 115 and 205 Jones Street. I hope all of the community will join our partnership with these great kids by telling the drugs dealers to stay away and alerting us to their presence. Please come to the Captain's Community Forum at 201 Turk Street on 1

2 Tuesday February 26, 2008 at 6PM it should be a great meeting as the venerable Inspector Joe Toomey will be our guest speaker giving a presentation on Cold Homicide cases. A lot of prizes will be given out during our drawing and as always we will serve great refreshments. I have had many inquires regarding our Police Community Room which is still down. An asbestos problem was created while the workers were removing the concrete flooring and now we are waiting for that issue to be addressed. Mayor Newsom and our Chief Heather Fong went to bat for the Tenderloin months ago securing the money to get our room repaired. Hopefully we can get the contractors back to work and the room back to the community soon. Be Safe! If you see a vehicle with registration expired by more than six months on a public street, me and we will remove the car within 24 hours. Let's get the clunkers off the street. Tenderloin Station Resource List: EMERGENCY: 911 Non-Emergency: Anonymous Tip Line Customer Service Center: 311 Cell phone 911: Tenderloin Station: Web: (For Crime Stats, Internet reports, etc.) gary.jimenez@sfgov.org Anonymous Tip-Line Graffiti Abatement Graffiti Fax Tenderloin Events: Sergeant Gaetano Caltagirone Tenderloin Permits: Officer Miguel Torres 2

3 Code Abatement: Officer Miguel Torres Deputy City Attorney: Neli Palma Dept. Parking & Traffic: DPW: Dispatch Quality of Life Liaison: Officers Gary Peachey, Joe SF SAFE Homeless Issues: Officers Gary Peachey and Joe Juarez Tenderloin Station Multilingual Officers Statistics 2007: Total Officers who are multilingual 27 Spanish 9 Officers Tag-a-log 4 Officers Vietnamese 1 Officer Portuguese 1 Officer Italian 2 Officers French 1 Officer Toi-San 2 Officers Cantonese 3 Officers Persian 1 Officer Japanese 1 Officer American Sign 2 Officers District Station Monthly Community Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each month at Tenderloin Station Community Room at 201 Turk Street from 6-7 PM The San Francisco Police Department is currently hiring: The San Francisco Police Department is continuously hiring qualified applicants. Applicants must be 21 years old, have a valid driver's license, must be a US citizen, must have a high school diploma or equivalent, and must not have been convicted of a felony or convicted of a misdemeanor which would prohibit possession of a firearm. For more information or to apply, contact the Department of Human Resource at 44 Gough Street, San Francisco. Additionally, applications are available on-line at 3

4 Megan's Law Website Access: The general public can find out information on sexual predators on line by going to the DOJ website: or at the SFPD link at You may check specific names or zip codes to locate those listed in the database. Join The San Francisco Citizen's Police Academy For more information, including application process, please call Ms. Lula Magallon at (415) , or Officer Maria Oropeza at (415) You can also us at or visit our website: Graffiti Alert: Day Watch Officer Courtney is Tenderloin Station's Graffiti Abatement coordinator. Each month he collects surveys from the various beat officers to report graffiti to DPW and our own Graffiti Unit within the police department. You can contact Off. Courtney at 311 Customer Service Center: What is 311? 311 is a toll free, NON-EMERGENCY phone number that the public can call to access information about government services. A live customer service representative will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a wee, and 365 days a year. The service is available to both wired and wireless customers. Wireless customers should call (415) employees will be able to provide translations services in more than 145 languages and dialects wand will employ a diverse staff of customer service representatives. Additionally, 311 is set up to accept calls form the hearing impaired by utilizing a TTY System. Cell phone 911: How does 911 work on cell phones in San Francisco? If you are on surface streets in San Francisco and dial 911, your call will be answered by the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management Services. Once the San Francisco Department of `Emergency Management Services determine what emergency services are needed, they will then 4

5 route your 911 call to the San Francisco Police Department or the San Francisco Fire Department, including ambulance service. If you are on a freeway in San Francisco and dial 911, your call will be answered by either the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management Services or the California Highway Patrol Dispatch Center. Regardless, your 911 call will be routed to the proper emergency agency, the San Francisco Police Department, the California Highway Patrol, or the San Francisco Fire Department, including ambulance service. Community and Business Groups & Associations: Dial for Flu Shot Information: You and your clients can quickly obtain local information about flu shots by dialing in San Francisco, United Way's community service information line. Callers from outside San Francisco can dial provides information in over 150 languages about where to get flu shots in San Francisco and how much they cost. We encourage you to print the attached flier and post it where your clients can see it. The CDC currently recommends flu shots for people age 50 and older, nursing home residents, children ages 6-59 months, pregnant women, people with chronic health problems and certain health care and day care workers. If you produce a newsletter, please consider including this text: Dial for Flu-shot information Dial in San Francisco, 24 hours a day, seven days a week to obtain local flu-shot information. The call center, operated by United Way, provides flu-shot information in over 150 languages. If you are calling from outside San Francisco, dial from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. You can also visit our website: Zach Dinkmeyer United way of the Bay Area, 2-1-1/HELPLINK 221 Main Street, Suite 300 San Francisco, CA Phone: (415) \ 5

6 Fax: (415) Get Connected. Get Answers. Dial United Way's in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties to connect with community services, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Learn more at 6