Tampa Adult Entertainment: A Tampa first: Mayor names woman as police chief

September 17, 2009

Incoming Tampa police Chief Jane Castor
Personal: Born in 1959 to a cabinetmaker father and a receptionist mother, the fourth of five children. Raised near Tampa’s Lake Magdalene. In high school, lettered in basketball, swimming, volleyball and track.
Children: Two boys, both age 10.
Education: Chamberlain High School; University of Tampa, bachelor’s degree in criminology; Troy State University, master’s in public administration; graduate of FBI National Academy.
Career: Joined Tampa department in 1984. Worked in the narcotics bureau and the sex crimes and child abuse squad in the mid 1990s. Oversaw a crackdown on adult businesses. By 2001, was a major in charge of multiagency drug investigations. As assistant chief since 2005, oversaw crime-reducing tactics and managed a $56 million budget for the Department of Homeland Security’s Tampa Bay Urban Area Security Initiative.

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