OCC DIRECTOR KEVIN ALLEN RESIGNS

Pub date January 4, 2007
WriterG.W. Schulz
SectionPolitics Blog

By G.W. Schulz

The head of the city’s police watchdog agency announced at a San Francisco Police Commission meeting last night that he would be resigning his post in early February. The Office of Citizen Complaints is one of the few city entities in the nation that independently investigates charges of police misconduct from civilians and maintains the power to subpoena officers. While director Kevin Allen told the commission he’s stepping down for health reasons, the pace of said investigations has at times been slow during his tenure, and commissioner Joe Veronese told us just moments ago that the OCC’s full responsibilities weren’t effectively being carried out.