After-action report on San Bernardino terrorist attack due in late summer

A report detailing law enforcement’s response to the Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Beardino, looking at lessons leaed from the incident, should be ready by fall, a govement spokeswoman said Friday.

“We’re expecting the report to come out in late summer,” said Mary Brandenberger, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in Washington D.C. on Friday.

The Justice Department-funded report is being compiled by the Police Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based law enforcement think tank that did an after-action report on the police standoff with disgruntled former Los Angeles police Officer Christopher Doer in February 2013.

Since January, representatives from the Police Foundation have interviewed dozens of police officers and sheriff’s deputies from 10 local law enforcement agencies that responded to the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Beardino, where county environmental health services specialist Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in an act of terrorism the FBI declared the deadliest strike on U.S. soil since 9/11.

Among the agencies whose officers or deputies have been interviewed include the San Beardino Police Department, the San Beardino County sheriff’s and probation departments, Califoia Highway Patrol, and the Colton, Redlands, Rialto, Fontana and San Beardino City Unified School District police departments, according to San Beardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan.

Burguan said Friday he provided a spreadsheet listing his department’s roughly 100 officers who responded.

“They came to the station and interviewed our people,” Burguan said, “As far as I know, they have reached out to every organization involved and pieced together a collective report of what happened that day.”

Additionally, six local fire departments responded to the shooting, Burguan said.

Probation Department spokeswoman Kimberly Epps said her department has already submitted its findings to the Police Foundation and is also working on its own inteal, historical report of the incident.

David Bowdich, former assistant director for the FBI’s Los Angeles field office who headed the San Beardino shooting investigation until his promotion in February to associate deputy director in Washington, said Friday he and agents from his office were interviewed within the last two weeks by Police Foundation officials.

Succeeding Bowdich as assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office is Deirdre Fike, who previously served as special agent in charge of the FBI’s Anchorage division.

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