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Independent Monitoring Team Ninth Status Report of the Independent Monitor Delphine Allen, et al., v. City of Oakland, et al. May 13, 2006, to November 30, 2006 Page 18 IAD commanders, they intend to use supervision and training to ensure that IAD members write well and conduct adequate investigations. While OPD did not interview the current supervisors and/or commanders of most prospective IAD members, it did review recent performance appraisals which helped to mitigate this deficiency. Because the reviews that OPD did not conduct are not directly required by the Settlement Agreement and because IAD has taken other measures to fulfill the underlying intent of the missing selection criteria, we did not find OPD out of compliance for this task based on these omissions. In addition to subjecting all IAD candidates to this review, the IAD Manual requires the IAD Commander to prepare a list of candidates and consult with the Chief of Police. OPD is in compliance with this requirement. Task 1.2 requires OPD to rotate IAD staff in accordance with the IAD Manual. OPD is in compliance with Task 1.2. Rotations into IAD are exempt from the transfer policy and rotation into IAD provides officers with career development opportunities as required by the Manual. Pursuant to the Manual, IAD is required to consider rotation of personnel on an annual basis when preparing performance appraisals. OPD’s compliance with this requirement had been informal and not well-documented until more recently when it started specifically including such consideration in staff appraisals. Consistent with the IAD Manual, IAD staff may request voluntary transfers and the IAD Commander makes every effort to accommodate such requests as soon as possible in light of the operational needs of the Division and the Department. During the past year, OPD has transferred a number of employees from IAD consistent with the process set forth in the IAD Manual. Task 1.3 requires OPD to ensure that the training and qualifications of IAD staff are provided for in accordance with the IAD Manual. OPD provided the orientation required by the Manual. On the intake side of IAD, the Administrative Sergeant or his designee is providing each intake officer with an orientation that includes an orientation of the facility and training in IAD policies and procedures. As part of this orientation, all of the current intake officers work with an experienced intake officer to complete an “Intake Investigator Training Checklist.” On the investigations side of IAD, the Investigations Section Lieutenant is providing each new investigator with a facilities walk-through. The Lieutenant also goes through a blank performance appraisal with each investigator to discuss his expectations of IAD investigators. Each new investigator is assigned a trainer to complete the orientation process and “New IAD Investigator Training Checklist.” Task 1.3 also requires that intake officers, case management officers, Pitchess Motion officers, and IAD investigators attend a California’s Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training (POST)-certified Internal Affairs course as soon as possible. For the period of our review, 28 members of IAD fell into these categories and thus were required to attend the POST course. Twenty-three of these 28 individuals have