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"Instead,lite incident was documented in a cursory fashion and did not rise to the attention of the Department's command staff. Yhefailure of the handling officer to notify his chain of command about the allegations received was a serious misstep that also should have been considered as part of the eventual administrative investigation that did occur". "As a result(and in conjunction with the handling officer's relegation of the incident to "call notes, "SAPD's command staff was not formally and contemporaneously apprised of file incident and allegations. Had that occurred, the retrieval ofsurveillance video from the restaurant and the pursuit of other investigative leads would obviously have been more effective". "...Had an investigation been initiated more promptly, relevant evidence would have been, more readily available. CONCLUSION In the INTRODUCTIONAND BACKGROUND portion of the Assessment report the Office of Independent Review made the following statement: "OIR Group had full access to, both completed investigations and was able to make informed judgments about their adequacy; the findings listed below are accompanied by systemic recommendations for improving SAPD administrative processes in the future. " Up until the Office of Independent Review published the Assessment, I believed that SAPD's Internal Affairs Investigation would account and accurately explain the seven-month gap from when misconduct was reported(August 2020)to DC Rodriguez to when SAID received the anonymous complaint(—March 2021). It is my belief that if the Office of Independent Review, was made aware that Commander Alvarez and I had indeed followed SAPD policy/procedure, with regards to the reporting of officer misconduct, they would not have made some of the assertions and recommendations they did. Additionally,had an Internal Affairs Investigation been initiated in August of 2020 instead of 7 months later, our Internal Affairs Unit would have had the ability to conduct a more thorough and accurate investigation. This 7-month delay impeded and interfered with the alleged sexual assault and Internal Affairs investigation. On 4/11/23, 1 met with DC Rodriguez and we discussed the OIR's Assessment report. DC Rodriguez did not deny that I had reported misconduct to him shortly after the Culichi Town incident. I asked him why an Internal Affairs investigation was not immediately started. DC Rodriguez stated that the reason he did not initiate an investigation was because I had not followed the proper SAPD protocol of completing a BLUETEAM entry about the incident.I asked DC Rodriguez if he had told Chief Valentin about the misconduct I had reported. DC