GETTING RESULTS TOGETHER

After receiving a federal grant for almost $600,000, the Flagler County sheriff converted two sections of the jail to begin helping inmates with their addiction - if they agree to take the help.

The driver's license designation helps avoid miscommunication with law enforcement.

Every day, a group of local detectives go to work with the FBI at the FBI offices in Maitland to tackle the growing problem.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood’s answer to fixing a major problem in his county—taking care of teens in trouble and keeping them off a path to prison—is a long-needed Juvenile Assessment Center.

Every week, John Girard and his fellow intervention officers (who are civilians, not deputies) meet with six Markham Woods students that the school identified as high-risk for dropping out or getting kicked out.

Detectives at colleges across the country are building their cases against a 24-year-old accused of recording women in bathrooms stalls at several different schools, thanks to the University of Central Florida Police Department.

The Seminole County Fire Department is speeding up response times deep in the woods.

The number of first responders committing suicide continues to rise, according to leaders of the first comprehensive statewide task force representing firefighters, EMS, law enforcement, corrections, training and behavioral health services across Florida.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has received $1.2 million of federal grant money to hire two counselors for the next four years specifically for young people 25 and under.

In a climate where fewer people are choosing to become police applicants, hiring is difficult.

Pastor Alice Mae Faison became the department’s first Black female police officer at a time of discrimination and divide in this country.

In the decade since Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, and especially in the last couple of years since George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, policing has rapidly evolved — perhaps the most ever in a short amount of time.

When a retired Marion County principal suggested the idea of purchasing an ice cream truck for community outreach, the Ocala police chief loved it.

The Daytona Beach Police Department is among the first law enforcement agencies in Florida to have live-streaming-capable body-worn cameras.

Since the Orlando Police Department's Overdose Unit was created a little more than a year ago, it has made almost a hundred arrests of drug dealers who've sold deadly and potentially deadly doses of opioids.

Project Hope was founded in Ocala more than a decade ago specifically for homeless women with children because there was nowhere for those women to turn.

A Central Florida police department is putting its money where its mouth is.

2021 was one of the most successful years ever for Orlando Police Department school resource officers.

Officers can now continue handing out auto repair gift cards instead of tickets.

One Central Florida police academy begins body camera training.

When Corporal Lee Sahs pulled over a young man for a broken brake light, the young man immediately got out of the car.

When University of Central Florida police get a call from a suicidal student, it’s often from the same place: the top of a UCF parking garage.

All new Orange County Sheriff’s deputies undergo an intense, day-long autism awareness training program that includes conversations with those with autism.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood was searching for a way to find better recruits and make better cops so he created the first police academy in Central Florida to be entirely run by a local sheriff’s office.

For Osceola County's first Hispanic Sheriff Marcos Lopez, it's important for him to speak to his county the way a large and growing portion speaks to him -- in Spanish.

Baker-Acting is not always the most effective treatment for someone in a mental health crisis, and an Emergency Room is also not the most effective treatment location.

Students at Bethune Cookman University in Daytona Beach headed back to class with a new opportunity: A chance to get results for Central Florida's troubled teens.

Osceola County is taking SROs out of charter schools and replacing them with guardians, certified security guards trained by the sheriff’s office.

News 6 reporter Erik von Ancken shows how agencies get results in Central Florida.

Sheriff Staly says meetings aren’t all talk.

News 6 reported on Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young's efforts to “change the narrative” when he first took over at the end of 2020 and had to combat a rash of shooting violence.

Bryan Selzer, a retired Jacksonville Sheriff’s sergeant, believes that tracking an officer’s actions and complaints is the answer to better policing.

The Tourist Policing Unit at the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office is dedicated to protecting the most precious piece of Central Florida’s economy: tourism, as the eponymous name implies.

As part of field training at the University of Central Florida Police Department, all recruits are now required to visit the Wells’ Built Museum of African American History and Culture.

The SAFE ID card and the DREAM tracker are for anyone in Sumter County with any sort of disability or ailment.

The new system allows system managers to immediately revoke keycard access to anyone who has left the campus or should no longer have access.

What most people saw last year in the protests and riots that swept across the country was a call for police reform — for officers, everywhere, to get it right.

UCF Computer Science Professor Dr. Yan Solihin said the frequency and scale of cyber attacks are increasing at an alarming rate.

So far, in 2021, 581 people have overdosed and 81 have died, a 20% reduction compared to last year's pace.

In 2020, Flagler County’s crashes dropped. But crashes with injuries and fatalities more than doubled.

In January, mental health counselors from Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health hit the road with Orange County deputies.

K-9s, it turns out, are just as effective in locating hidden cell phones, memory cards, or hard drives.

When a family with an autistic adult son moved into the city of Lake Mary, officers had no idea -- until they were called to the home by 911 dispatchers.

As part of his field training, Orlando police recruit Officer Wakens Leonard was required to meet virtually with the people he will serve in his community before serving them.

When Ocala Police officer Jordan Decker was confronted with a gun in his face at a front door last month, the officer chose not to draw his weapon but instead go hand-to-hand.

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Flagler County Deputy Sheriff Sierra Held has only been a school resource deputy since last summer, but she already knows she doesn’t want to do anything else. “I was ready to leave law enforcement and ready to be done to start a new career,” Held said. I love it so much.”Held said her first challenge in school is teaching her students what to call her. Staly said the teaching and mentoring is important but the priority is building trust between the students and law enforcement. Every morning, the boy finds Held at the school to give her a hug and a thank you.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The police department calls for service log at Daytona Beach’s Sun Plaza Motel on U.S. 1 for the past three years is 17 pages long. [TRENDING: ‘Manatee graveyard in Fla. | 6 major announcements from Disney | Fla. woman charged in US Capitol attack]Capt. Police said they even arrested the owner of Sun Plaza -- twice now -- because he was allowing the crime to occur. “We were looking at a crime data compared to where we were getting complaints and we were starting to see these pockets of problems,” Lee said. “The whole idea was we want to take a group of our officers and we wanted to focus on community problems, problems that existed in the city,” Lee said.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – When Florida implemented a sweeping overhaul of statewide police training last year, all Defensive Tactics instructors at Daytona State College’s School of Emergency Services had to learn the changes in a 24-hour-long update class. “When someone is on the ground, you either have to control their head, pin their head to the ground, or pin their hips to the ground, to keep them on the ground,” Walker said. AdMany of the recruits and trainees that come to Daytona State College will end up at police departments and sheriff’s offices across Central Florida. Daytona State offers an entire law enforcement academy, Defensive Tactics training being one of the courses. All instructors must complete around 80 hours of training and Defensive Tactics instructors have to undergo an additional 80 hours of training.

ORLANDO, Fla. – The first time most Floridians heard about forensic botany was during the Casey Anthony murder trial in 2011. Hardy said he knows of at least 60 cases where forensic botany has been applied. “Forensic botany is the application of plant evidence to legal matters,” Hardy said. AdAnd researchers are investigating if forensic botany can help locate a body in the woods faster by looking for differentiation in treetops. Hardy said forensic botany is an ideal investigative tool because it’s always unbiased.

Jonathan Bigelow oversees OPD’s Special Enforcement Division. “They have nothing to focus on but the assignments we give them and the complaints that come down,” Bigelow said. “TWO FOR TWO: The Special Enforcement Division heard from citizens concerned about drug activity in 2 areas near Millenia and Downtown. Last week, several citizen complaints about an apartment on Raleigh Street uncovered drugs, cash, a handgun, and ammunition, among other items,” read another. Last week, several citizen complaints about an apartment on Raleigh Street uncovered drugs, cash, a handgun, and ammunition, among other items.