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Serving as Sheriff of Brevard County since 2013 has been the greatest accomplishment and honor of my law enforcement career!! I am truly humbled to wear the same uniform as the amazing men and women who make up the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office as they work hard every day to keep our community safe!!
Brevard County is one of the most unique places in the country to call home as in addition to 72 miles of beautiful beaches, we are also called the “Space Coast” for a very good reason!! Brevard County is home to the Kennedy Space Center and Patrick Space Force Base, where hundreds of thousands of visitors each and every year come to see history in the making with rocket launches from NASA, Space Force, SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Along with that, we are home to Port Canaveral, one of the busiest cruise ports in the world and the Brevard Zoo that is ranked among the top ten Zoos to visit in the entire country!! In 2024, Port Canaveral saw over 7 million cruise passengers and is well on track to break that record for 2025. To top it all off, our community members who are lucky enough to call Brevard County home, have partnered with us to lower our crime rate by over 50% as we all work together to keep our community among the safest in the nation!!
I truly believe that it takes a community to protect a community, and that is one of the main reasons why I speak regularly to our community on topics such as Identity Theft, Crime Trends in America, Active Shooter Survival, Personal Safety, Domestic Violence, Self Defense through Mental Preparedness, and Protecting Our Pets. There is no question that Crime Prevention and education are vital to keeping our crime rate down and making sure our citizens and visitors are safe!!
I also believe that engaging with our younger citizens, our children, is equally as important as speaking with the adults. Fostering positive relationships between our children and law enforcement will only help mold them into successful future residents and leaders!! As a result, one of my favorite presentations is Milk & Donuts With The Sheriff, which allows me to speak to groups of Elementary Students at our local schools where the students can ask me any question they want and of course we bring donuts, or “Power Rings” as we prefer to call them!!
As Sheriff I ask every person on our team to do just four things…come to work and have fun, put bad people in jail because that’s what we get paid to do, do it more professionally than anyone else, and go home safe at the end of each shift!! I can tell you that every member of our team does just that every day and as a result we are one of the most respected and aggressive agencies in America!!
If you or your organization would like to request a presentation by me, please complete this online form. It is requested for the form to be submitted at least 3 weeks prior to the day of the event to allow for scheduling.