The city's Citizen Police Review Board last night tentatively scheduled a Nov. 10 hearing, ideally to be held on the University of Pittsburgh campus, to hear the complaints of students arrested during last month's protests of the G-20 summit.

The time and place of the meeting is contingent upon arrangements to be made with university administrators.

Review board Executive Director Elizabeth C. Pittinger said the board has received 75 complaints about police actions, a dozen of which involve sworn statements.

The hearing would follow the structure of a similar event in Lawrenceville last week.

"Last week's G-20 meeting was well-received by the community," Ms. Pittinger said. "It was helpful, and it verified some things. Now, Oakland wants to have its own meeting."

Ms. Pittinger said she met with a group called WHAP -- What Happened At Pitt -- which has been pushing for a hearing on campus.

"This is a student-led organization for people arrested or detained" on or near the campus on Sept. 24 and 25, she said. "They're organizing around their legal problems and trying to raise money for their legal defenses."

Board member Malik G. Bankston expressed concern about the university welcoming the board onto campus, but Ms. Pittinger said that if Pitt administrators did not want the meeting there, the parties involved would find another venue. The Nov. 10 date provides time for local businesses and community members also to be invited.

"We've been pounded with pressure on this," Ms. Pittinger said. "The businesses and the community also are involved. We have some people who are still incensed about that ordeal."

Ms. Pittinger said the board also should look into a "very tense situation" that occurred when campus police intervened to stop some city police officers from arresting students trying to get away.

The board also approved Ms. Pittinger's request to begin working with The Densus Group, a Texas-based international security consulting firm, on a report about the summit. She said the firm's "experience and objectivity" would be instrumental in assessing what worked and what didn't.

"The problem wasn't so much on the street level, where the officers acted, but in the higher level of the planning," she said. "Why were they trained the way they were trained, and why did they execute the way that they executed? That's where the problems and the questions seem to be. We want to look at the tactics and equipment that were deployed. There is a lot to learn from this event."

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