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In addition, another SAPD field supervisor expressed to me similar misconduct allegations that Sergeant Barragan had made.This supervisor is fearful of retaliation by SAPD,personnel so he/she is not comfortable, at this time, to be identified. A few weeks after my interaction with DC Rodriguez, I was talking to Commander Andrew Alvarez. We began discussing the incident at Culichi Town, I told him about my interaction with DC Rodriguez and Commander Alvarez told me that he too had received complaints from some of his officers about the alleged sexual assault at Culicbi Town. Commander Alvarez also told me that he had also reported the alleged misconduct by our officers to DC Rodriguez. On April 6, 20231 spoke to Sergeant Barragan;we discussed the Assessment by the 0111 and his initial reporting of the alleged misconduct. I spoke to Commander Alvarez on April 7, 2023 and I advised him that I was going to make an allegation of misconduct against DC Rodriguez about this incident. Commander Alvarez stated he would be available to be interviewed and discuss his interaction with DC Rodriguez regarding the alleged misconduct of our officers at the Culichi To restaurant. BACKGROUND In March of 2015 through December of 2017, both DC Rodriguez and I were assigned to the Internal Affairs Division as Sergeants/Inspectors.During that time,DC Rodriguez and I conducted numerous misconduct investigations involving our police personnel. During these investigations, DC Rodriguez and I had countless, discussions about SAPD Policies and Procedures specifically, Administrative Investigations and Personnel Complaints. In these discussions, we discussed proper reporting of misconduct and when an Internal Affairs investigation would be warranted, The afbimentioned four recommendations made by the Office of Independent Review,have been in effect by the SAPD since DC Rodriguez and I were assigned to Internal Affairs (circa 2015). The following exemplify how some SAPD Personnel followed established SAPD, Policy: • Once Sergeant Barragans officers reported alleged misconduct to liun,he came directly to me as a commander in Field Operalions,and reported the misconduct. • I then notified my direct supervisor Deputy Chief Paulson of the misconduct • I then reported the alleged Misconduct to the Commanding Officer of our Internal Affairs Unit, DC Rodriguez. • Commander Alvarez was also notified of alleged officer misconduct and he too notified DC Rodriguez- As Commander of the Internal Affairs Unit in August of 2020, DC Rodriguez should have followed established SAPD policy and immediately initiated an internalaffairs investigation. It is my belief that the Office of Independent review was not made aware of the above-mentioned facts, because had they been aware, they would not have in good faith written the following statements in the Assessment: