MIAMI – Two new candidates have declared operates to be Miami-Dade County’s upcoming sheriff.
John Barrow, a native of Carol Town and 17-year veteran of the Miami-Dade Law enforcement Office, and former federal agent Susan Khoury have announced they ended up coming into the race.
A constitutional modification demands that Miami-Dade elect a sheriff up coming yr. The county has not had an elected sheriff considering the fact that 1966, when the situation was removed immediately after a corruption scandal.
John Barrow
Barrow joined the Miami-Dade Police Office in 2007. In the course of his profession, he’s been a patrol officer, neighborhood resource officer, patrol sergeant, field teaching coordinator, investigations device commander. and held several administrative posts in the department. Barrow was promoted to Big in 2020.
“Sheriff is not a career for a politician. It truly is a job of professionalism and management. I will make Miami-Dade more robust and safer by inspiring our rank and file and making a crystal clear mission framed by strengthening the relationship among the law enforcement and the public,” reported Barrow in a statement. “We are going to put additional officers in our communities, strategically struggle gangs and violence, get guns off the streets and align our finances with our priorities.”
Susan Khoury
Khoury, who lives in West Kendall, serves as a board member of the Miami-Dade County League of Gals Voters. She rescinded her federal placement on September 15, 2023, just after formally filing and asserting her candidacy.
“Combating crime is regulation enforcement’s mission as lengthy as it can be executed in a fair, equitable and clear method. The standing quo is not suitable or Alright. That is why I utilized as a guidebook the 21st century Policing finest tactics to develop my system. With God’s grace and the community’s assistance, I strongly consider that we can make Miami-Dade County the golden typical and an example for the rest of the nation of what policing should really search like in the 21st century,” she explained in a statement.
Khoury was a person of the leaders of the work that led to the reinstatement of the Miami-Dade County law enforcement oversight board in 2020. The board was renamed the Independent Civilian Panel and has the authority to inspect all shut Miami-Dade Law enforcement Section interior affairs data files and make suggestions about the police department’s policies, processes, instruction, and recruitment.
They join a significant pool of candidates which features Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez.
Ramirez was to start with appointed Police Director in 2020 and commenced his career with Miami-Dade Police as a beat cop in 1995 and has worked his way through each rank. He went from getting Law enforcement Director in 2020 to Chief of Community Basic safety involving February and July of 2022 and then returned as Law enforcement Director.
On July 23rd, he was included in a domestic dispute at the JW Marriott in Tampa wherever he was staying with his spouse for a legislation enforcement convention. He later endured a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head through the push residence.
Deputy Director Stephanie V. Daniels was appointed interim director through Ramirez’s recovery.
