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VIERRA: Yes . DUNCAN: Okay. BETHEA: Let. . . if I could follow up on that, because I think that' s a very good question. You said that you didn' t object to the sentence, as I understood it, the Police Department shall come under the general supervision and control of the mayor and that he had to report to someone. Well, if you take this far enough, you could be subject to the control of the mayor such as he says, chief, I don' t want you to conduct an investigation on so-and-so or to do this or to do that. Do you think the control and supervision goes that far? VIERRA: It hasn ' t been my experience since I 've been here. I 've known it to go that far in other jurisdictions . But I haven' t experienced that yet. BETHEA: Well, what I 'm asking because I think it ' s a follow-up to what you were talking about, is there some limit on this statement? In other words , if you have a commission set up that is supposed to be somewhat more politically 'independent, I don' t know what it means when it says it ' s under the general supervision and control of the mayor . If it really means everything, then it would be the. . .you would have to respond to an order to quash a particular investigation or to dig up the dirt on someone or something of that nature. If that ' s what it means , then I have questions about that. As a safe. . . is that. . . is that what you were getting at? DUNCAN: Well, I guess:-what I ".wanted .is some kind of clarification. Again, I get the role of the commission and the role. of the mayor , I mean, you don' t want to see a commission at odds with the mayor ' s policies , or the chief receiving mixed directions in policies . You know, it works I think if the commission is in, again, separate from the mayor and the chief operates with clear direction of where the County should go. However, I think that if you run into a commission that does not want to see the term expire with the mayor , or you see a chief that may not want to see interference by the mayor , you have in that line there. . . it doesn' t work. Either it ' s off to the side of advisory. . .but when it comes to policy, there ' s got to be some kind of line organization where policies come from maybe not necessarily. . .either it comes from the body or it comes from the mayor directly to the chief. I don' t know that the chief should have two bosses . BETHEA: That is one .point .I think that should be. . . I think it should be clear,, because if you trace the line 208