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Sarasota News Leader August 2, 2013 Page 55 est county in Florida. … Everybody wants to not anything I [asked] for that I didn't rebe here; everybody wants to vacation here." ceive and quickly. … [Knight] opened up his Knight pointed out that the Sheriff's Office department." "doesn't just hire cops. We don't want 'cops' COUNTY DEMOGRAPHICS here. We want professionals that are going to be tolerant, well trained, well educated, that Hawkins pointed out that, with 386,000 resimirror this community." dents, Sarasota County is the 14th most populous in the state. According to 2011 statistics Knight said he hired Carl Hawkins, who retired after 35 years with the Hillsborough County — the latest available when Hawkins underSheriff's Office, to undertake the workforce took his research — its median age is 53.1, study. Hawkins is a professor at the University compared to 41.1 for the state and 37.3 for the United States. of South Florida. Knight's primary concern, Hawkins said, is hiring good deputies now and over the next 10 to 15 years. To enable him to undertake the study, Hawkins continued, "There was For other comparisons, Hawkins noted that the median age in Hillsborough County is 36.4; in Manatee, 45.8; and in Charlotte County, 56.1. A chart compares pay of deputies in several Florida counties. Image courtesy Sarasota County Sheriff's Office