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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 24, 2016 Page 16 Councilmember Etten asked Chief Mathwig to describe a rough outline for train- ing officers in carrying out this law, and when to turn on the cameras, and the process for downloading and classifying that information; basically how the poli- cy would be implemented department-wide. Chief Mathwig responded that a working committee, represented by all Police Department crews, had helped develop a Roseville-specific policy as presented in draft form tonight; and gleaned from the LMC model and those of other depart- ments statewide. Chief Mathwig opined that the committee provided a good cross-section of the department, and included conversion of records management related to this policy, with several meetings held and multiple discussion points outlined. Chief Mathwig advised that future video training or tutorial tapes would be made available online for officers to ensure they had a firm understanding pri- or to each employee signing off on the policy. If at that point, the employee felt they didn’t understand the policy, Chief Mathwig advised that they would have the option to talk to a supervisor. However, Chief Mathwig opined that, based on his past experience with this type of tutorial method, they had proven to work out wonderfully. Councilmember Etten questioned the ease of the average officer within their shift to download snippets of PRS. Chief Mathwig reviewed the process to transfer data from a unit to the server or Cloud, and time allotted depending on the size of the cable, with the Cloud taking longer. Chief Mathwig noted this would be similar to taser use now documented; with the Panasonic units in-house going right to the computer and eventually to the server, and time to transfer data taken into account (reference the appendix to Attachment A). Chief Mathwig noted there were eight or nine classifications to perform that download, with the taser put into the docking system (e.g. phone, squad or desk top computers), and usually was classified quickly; with officers currently performing squad videos relatively fast, while data transfer takes time. In a typical shift, Councilmember Etten asked how many such events an officer could anticipate. Chief Mathwig stated he would be surprised if there were more than 10-12 occur- ring in a typical 12 hour shift; and the recorders were only turned on if and when an officer made contact with someone to classify data from that contact and to file their report. Councilmember McGehee noted that the proposal sought 50 units, and asked why the department couldn’t share units among officers from one shift to another. Chief Mathwig responded that the units would be handled as individual units to protect the integrity of the data and officers; and reviewed some of the operational