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CONSTRUCTION ZONES |
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Falkenburg Road Jail & Orient Road
Jail |
| Our Falkenburg Road Jail is
expanding to include new housing areas (general and confinement).
A new video visitation building is currently being worked on to
eventually allow all visitation to occur at the Falkenburg Road Jail
(whether the inmate is housed at the Orient Road Jail or Falkenburg Road
Jail. Additional parking has been added in front of the new
Administration building. Our Orient Road Jail is expanding
its Booking and Records areas. |
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NEW BOSS IS IN TOWN |
| The Department of Detention
Services welcomes Colonel Jim Previtera |
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Colonel
Jim Previtera assumed command of the Department of Detention
Services on October 6, 2007. He first joined the Sheriff’s
Office in 2005 as the head of the Training Division and
Recruitment and Screening Bureau. Colonel Previtera came to the
Sheriff’s Office from the United States Secret Service, where he
served as a Special Agent in the Vice Presidential Protection
Division. Colonel Previtera also served as a member of the
training staff at the Secret Service Training Center in
Beltsville, Maryland, and as an agent in the Tampa Field Office.
Colonel Previtera began his law enforcement career in 1986 as a
deputy with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and held
several patrol and investigative assignments. He was assigned as
a corporal in the Special Operations Division when he departed
for the Secret Service in 1997. Colonel Previtera has also
served as an instructor for the Southeastern Public Safety
Institute and the Florida Sheriff’s Association.
Colonel Previtera holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology from
St. Leo College and is a graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center, the U.S. Secret Service James J. Rowley
Training Center and the U.S.D.A. Leadership Training Course.
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NEW LOCATION:
Criminal Registration Unit |
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The Criminal Registration Unit is now
located in front of the Work Release Center at 1800 Orient Road.
To contact the Criminal Registration Unit, please call 247-8460. |
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