Shown here, from left, are: Wakulla County Sheriff Jared Miller, retired Seminole County Sheriff Eslinger, retired Wakulla County Sheriff David F. Harvey, retired Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson, retired Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods, and Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter. Harvey was inducted into Florida’s Law Enforcement Hall of Fame during a ceremony Saturday, May 21, in Tallahassee.
Shown here, from left, are: Wakulla County Sheriff Jared Miller, retired Seminole County Sheriff Eslinger, retired Wakulla County Sheriff David F. Harvey, retired Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson, retired Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods, and Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter. Harvey was inducted into Florida’s Law Enforcement Hall of Fame during a ceremony Saturday, May 21, in Tallahassee.
Retired Wakulla County Sheriff David F. Harvey was inducted into the Florida Law Enforcement Hall of Fame in a ceremony Saturday, May 21, 2022, at The Capitol in Tallahassee.
After graduating from Florida State University, Sheriff Harvey began his law enforcement career in 1972 as a parole and probation officer for Franklin and Wakulla counties until 1976. That year, he was elected sheriff of Wakulla County – at age 26. He went on to serve nine consecutive terms and retired 35 years later as Florida’s longest-tenured sheriff. During his tenure, he transformed an office with 11 employees and an 18-bed jail to one with 180 employees and a 350-bed jail, while also becoming one of the state’s first rural sheriff’s offices to be accredited in both law enforcement and corrections.
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