State and federal legislators and two likely mayoral candidates are calling for sweeping changes in police department procedures in the wake of the 2006 Sean Bell shooting.

State Senator Malcolm Smith and about a dozen others, including state Senator Eric Adams, Rep. Gregory Meeks, members of the Bell family, and the Reverend Al Sharpton, held a news conference in front of City Hall yesterday to announce the release of the “Report on Improving Public Confidence in Law Enforcement and our Criminal Justice System.”

The report made 15 demands that were culled from five hearings during the last year, including the implementation of drug testing for police officers who fire their guns, videotaping of police interrogations, an end to arrest quotas, and increased funding for training officers in nonlethal tactics.

“This report is a recognition for the need for a different kind of approach to justice,” Mr. Smith said.

The group, which calls itself the Tri-Level Legislative Taskforce, formed a year and a half ago in response to the Bell shooting. Two possible candidates for the 2009 mayoral election, the City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, and the city comptroller, William Thompson Jr., were listed as a co-chairwoman and a co-chairman, respectively, of the task force.

Several of the proposals have been pushed by individual members of the task force, but the report marked the first time some ideas — such as allowing the state attorney general to take over investigations of police shootings — have received such broad support.

A few of the proposals have already been enacted at the city level, and others are under consideration.

In response to the Bell case, the New York City Police Department began administering mandatory sobriety tests in October of last year to all officers involved in shootings. The department does not currently test for drug use.

Starting this week, the NYPD will expand the use of Tasers, which are now smaller and easier to carry, to give its sergeants a nonlethal alternative to using their guns. A spokesman for the police department, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, said the decision was not linked to the release of the report.

He declined to comment on the report’s other recommendations, saying he had not seen it, except to say that arrest quotas for police officers do not exist. He added that the police department could not comment on proposals that are not yet legislation.

The report also proposes giving tuition waivers to police officers who study at City University of New York or State University of New York schools.

The largest police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, previously opposed one effort to entice new police officers with education incentives, a grant program that would have helped rookie officers defray the cost of their school loans. A spokesman for the union, Al O’Leary, also declined to comment on the report, saying the union had not seen it.

“This report is not an anti-police report,” Mr. Adams said. “We reached out to our police unions and had conversations with them, and allowed them to see what direction we were going into.”

One such direction is a proposed broadening of the state attorney general’s powers. The report suggests giving the attorney general jurisdiction over any criminal offense committed by a police officer. The report also called for legislation that would give state police the role of securing crime scenes involving police.

“Currently, the investigation and processing of crime scenes is carried out by local police departments even where fellow police officers may be subject to disciplinary or criminal charges, creating an apparent conflict of interest,” the report said.

Rev. Sharpton said the measures “will remove a cloud of suspicion from the majority of police that do not engage in this conduct, and do not engage in brutality.”

He also announced that he has planned a nonviolent protest against police brutality at the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium on July 15.

“But if the governor can sign some of these packages before that time … we would seriously consider suspending our civil disobedience,” he said.