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Sarasota News Leader 'CALL ME SAL' Salvatore Ruggiero spent nearly 30 years with the Tampa Police Department, retiring in Sep- tember 2011 with the rank of major. While he has no experience with a civilian oversight board, he did want to talk about a follow-up program he devised to make sure juveniles under court supervision are going to school and returning home. Ruggiero is 53 years old and a veteran of the Rhode Island Na- tional Guard. He drives a Cadillac SRS, one of Amer- ica's finest road cars. GREGORY ANDERSON Anderson spent 27 years with the Aurora, IL, Po- lice Department, rising to the rank of deputy chief. Aurora is Illi- nois' second-larg- est city. He then moved to Comp- ton Hills, IL, to become the vil- lage's first police chief, establishing the department from scratch. In 2010 he took the Bernadette DiPino October 12, 2012 Page 42 job of chief at the Oak Forest Police Depart- ment, a town of 28,000. He helped start a civilian police advisory com- mittee in Aurora, but he said he did not know if it still existed. Anderson is the oldest candi- date at 54, and he is not a veteran. He and his wife, Dawn, drive a Hyundai Santa Fe SUV and an Infiniti sedan. A FOURTH-GENERATION COP Bernadette DiPi- no's father was a cop, as was her father's dad and his dad before him — all cops. She's proud to say her daughter car- ries on the family tradition as a po- lice officer in Bal- timore, MD. DePino was se- lected at age 37 to be the chief of the Ocean City, MD, Police De- partment, a job she still holds but not for long. "I'm in the DROP program," she said when asked why she aspired to be Sarasota's chief, referring to