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Negotiated Settlement Agreement, Combined Tenth and Eleventh Semi-Annual Report December 2008 COMMUNITY POLICING PLAN Task 47: Community Policing Plan © Settlement Agreement Section XI; page 41, line 17 ~ page 42, line 9 e Assigned Unit: BFO Settlement Agreement Language “By August 1, 2003, OPD must develop and implement a plan to strengthen its commitment to local communities. The Settlement Agreement sets forth particular requirements the plan must include: OPD must host at least one community meeting per quarter in each Patrol Service Area; each patrol supervisor and officer assigned to a regular beat or geographic area of the City must attend a minimum of one community meeting per quarter in the Area to which he/she is regularly assigned; OPD must develop mechanisms to measure its community policing and problem solving activities, OPD must incorporate positive statistics on community policing and problem solving activities in “Crime-Stop” meetings, along with information on citizen complaints and use of force incidents; and OPD must arrange a meeting within sixty days unless not feasible with representatives of an organization active within Oakland, if the organization communicates a concern regarding specific police personnel or practices.” Status: In Policy, Training, and Partial Practice Compliance Deliverables e Departmental General Order B-7, Requests for Meetings and Public Appearances ¢ Bureau of Field Operations Policy and Procedure 03-03, Community Meetings e Training Bulletin III-A.5, Problem-Oriented Policing and the 2003 Reorganization of the Patrol Division Implementation Activities During this reporting period, the Department worked on revising Training Bulletin III-A.5 due to the Department’s structural reorganization and to provide more specific measurements that will be used to measure problem solving and community policing. The revised Training Bulletin was published after the reporting period, in August 2008. 79