Message From San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos - 8 Can't Wait

Press release from the City of Millbrae:

June 12, 2020

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office and the cities to which we provide contract law enforcement services have received many inquiries about our policies and how they may or may not meet some of the guidelines being advocated for by police reform organizations. The Sheriff’s Office has and continues to work very hard to build relationships and trust with the communities we serve both in our Corrections and Operations Divisions. We recognize that maintaining this trust is an ongoing effort. We train our deputies in fair and impartial policing, implicit bias, responding to hate crimes, crisis intervention, communications, cultural diversity, and racial profiling. In addition, the practice of de-escalation represents a critical component of our arrest, control and defensive tactics training. The following is a summary of the current San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office policies as they relate to the “8 Can’t Wait” campaign.

Below are informational graphics of the San Mateo County Sheriff's 8 Can't Wait policies. Please click here to read Sheriff Bolanos' letter to the City of Millbrae.

This press release was produced by the City of Millbrae. The views expressed here are the author’s own.