OPA-LOCKA, FLA. (WSVN) - Opa-locka Police Chief and former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel will announce his resignation from the law enforcement agency, city officials said.
According to a release from the city, Israel will confirm he is resigning at a news conference scheduled for Friday morning at the city’s municipal complex.
Israel’s resignation comes just over a year after he was named Opa-locka’s chief of police.
“It is a true honor,” he said at a news conference back in 2022. “The Bible tells us, ‘With authority comes responsibility.’ I look so forward to the opportunity to become one team with the citizens of Opa-locka.”
Opa-locka city manager Darvin Williams stated at that same news conference, “I think he wants to, from what he shared with me, prove himself as to what he’s capable of doing, prove his record. Let that be a capstone for his career.”
Israel was removed from leading the Broward Sheriff’s Office following the response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. He was widely criticized at the time for his handling of the massacre.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis removed Israel from his post after being a BSO sheriff for six years.
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