A RECOMMENDATION FOR CHANGES
City Manager Tom Barwin congratulates Police Chief Bernadette DiPino after her swearing in in
January. Photo courtesy City of Sarasota
FORMER SARASOTA POLICE CHIEF JOHN LEWIS REPORTS HIS FINDINGS FROM
INTERVIEWING OFFICERS, INCLUDING A YEARNING FOR MORE TRAINING
By Stan Zimmerman
City Editor
Last November former Sarasota Police Chief ment agency in Florida and the southern
John Lewis was asked
United States,��� City
to provide a ���compreManager Tom Barwin
hensive report in 30
said in a press release
Very little training has occurred
days detailing what
at the time.
for the last two or three years.
changes need to occur
It took Lewis about
at the SPD to make the
John Lewis
Former Police Chief
twice as long as exdepartment the best
City of Sarasota
trained law enforcepected, but his 24-page
