MIAMI – A new contender is leaping into the race for Miami-Dade County Sheriff in 2024.
Florida Freeway Patrol Trooper Joe Sanchez declared Tuesday that he’s submitted to operate.
“As a longtime resident of Miami-Dade and a regulation enforcement skilled, I am fired up about this
option to provide the community that has supplied my family members and I so significantly,” mentioned Sanchez. “If elected, I
appear ahead to serving all the inhabitants of Miami-Dade County, though making sure we hold our streets and
communities risk-free.”
Sanchez reported in a statement that he’s stepping absent from the FHP while he strategies.
“I consider in transparency, and it is not ideal for regulation enforcement officers to be campaigning though on the taxpayers’ dime,” he mentioned in the statement. “I question all the candidates who are at present operating in any ability for a federal, state, county or municipal law enforcement agency, to observe my direct and take a leave of absence quickly.”
A resident of Miami-Dade for 52 yrs, Sanchez is a proud graduate of Miami Senior Higher College and Miami Dade Faculty.
He served 8 many years in the Army Reserves and 11 decades as a town commissioner. He joined the FHP in 1987.
In 1996, he was awarded a Medal of Valor by the county for his management as a member of the Price Jet Research and Recovery Team that participated in the lookup for the victims of the Everglades plane crash.
There are at minimum a dozen other candidates in the race which includes longtime PBA President John Rivera, previous Miami-Dade police Big Ignacio “Iggy” Alvarez, and former federal agent Susan Khoury.
Currently, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava wields the electricity of sheriff in the county for the reason that Miami-Dade County is the only one particular in Florida in which the mayor has twin accountability. In other counties, the sheriff is an independently elected posture.
A constitutional amendment required that Miami-Dade elect a sheriff this yr. The county has not experienced an elected sheriff since 1966 when the position was removed as a consequence of a wide-ranging corruption scandal.
The principal election for the write-up is scheduled for Aug. 20, which will be followed by the general election on Nov. 5, 2024.
