San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr plans to reintroduce the contentious issue of equipping officers with stun guns at next week’s Police Commission meeting.

The chief said after Wednesday’s meeting that conductive energy devices — better known by the name of the most popular brand, Tasers — will be referenced in the new draft of the department’s revised use-of-force policy that he will present next week.

Though he would not provide specific details as to what he is proposing with Tasers, he has tried in the past to arm only officers trained in crisis intervention, to use on subjects in mental distress with whom officers can’t reason.

The revival of a stun gun plan has long been anticipated in the wake of the fatal shooting of Mario Woods, a 26-year-old man whose family said he suffered from psychiatric issues. The review of the department’s policies is part of a series of reforms the city has proposed following the Dec. 2 incident.

Suhr has said he believes that if the five officers who shot Woods had a Taser, Woods would not be dead. He said the officers had no choice but to resort to lethal force when less-lethal beanbag rounds and pepper spray failed to persuade Woods to drop the knife he had allegedly used in an earlier stabbing.

In the days following the Dec. 2 incident, which drew public outcry after it was caught on video, showing what critics called an unnecessary killing, Commission President Suzy Loftus opened the discussion on the department’s policies, setting an early February deadline for a solid proposal.

On Monday, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice’s community-policing office announced that they would be entering into a collaborative review of San Francisco police to ensure that city officers were employing the best practices in policing.

Loftus said Wednesday that she hopes to form a group of community stakeholders, similar to the working group of police officers, prosecutors and public defenders that delved into the body camera debate last year, to look into the chief’s proposal after he presents it next week. This process, she said, would allow for even more community input.

She said she met with Ronald Davis, a former East Palo Alto police chief who now heads the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, and he has committed to working with the commission in developing the policy and providing experts in the issue when needed.

“There is an urgency for us to keep moving, but this is something we want to get right,” she said. “We have community members saying they want to weigh in on this.”

The reintroduction of a stun gun plan is sure to be met with resistance. At the commission meetings in the weeks after the Woods shooting, hundreds of community members spoke against the weapon, saying better training and compassion were needed, not a device that could be abused.

Police chiefs before Suhr tried to bring stun guns to the San Francisco force and each time were rebuffed by the same argument.

Mayor Ed Lee said he would support equipping the police department with Tasers. In a Jan. 6 memo, he set a Feb. 15 deadline for the commission and the department to bring to him any budget or cost concerns of the new use-of-force policies.

Loftus said Wednesday that next week’s meeting will include a presentation of the department’s budget. She said she believes the commission will still meet Lee’s deadline, though with very preliminary estimates.

Any department plans to equip officers with stun guns will have to be approved by the Police Commission before the devices are introduced into the force.

Vivian Ho is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: vho@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @VivianHo