SPD Wins Policing Media Award

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The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services announced the Sarasota Police Department has been chosen as a winner of its 20th anniversary ‘Community Policing in Action’ photo contest.  The Sarasota Police Department is one of 12 law enforcement agencies in the country to be chosen in the first-ever social media photo contest.   The photo features Officer Carmen Woods and Lieutenant Kenneth Castro dancing with residents and visitors at community barbecue on January 4, 2014.  The photo was taken by the Sarasota Police Department Partnership Policing Communications Coordinator Genevieve Judge during the event.

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