San Francisco Patrol Special Police
Patrol Special Police Officers (and their Assistants) are not members of the San Francisco Police Department. Patrol Special Police Officers (or Patrol Specials) receive their appointment from the Police Commissioner, which has oversight responsibility for the entire Patrol Special Program. They are required to sign in at their assigned police station before each shift. The sign-in stations are located in the vicinity of their corresponding police beat or patrol area.
Obligations
Patrol Specials are required to participate in annual firearms qualifications at the San Francisco Police Department shooting range, located at Lake Merced.
Funding
Patrol Specials were created under the City Charter, who contract to perform security duties beyond what the city may provide.[1] Such services are provided to private police persons and businesses within a geographical boundary set forth by the Police Commission. The use of contracts shifts the financial load from taxpayers to the recipients of such services.
Applicable regulations
San Francisco Patrol Special Police are sanctioned under the City Charter No.# 4.127. The requirements, training as well as background checks, which are preformed by an outside agency who then sends the report to the San Francisco Police Department for review. This ruling is from 1946, Commission number 101-211.
Reference to Popular Culture
The movie Kuffs, starring Christian Slater, had, as the plot driver, Christian Slater's title character of George Kuffs inheriting his brother's Patrol Special business.
References
- ^ Police for Hire an article from Time Magazine, dated January 24, 1977