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• State Law Enforcement Chiefs Association honors 6 FWC officers at annual ceremony

  Monday, May 3, 2021 -  SLECA annually honors the best and brightest in Florida’s law enforcement community.

• FWC encourages safe boating during Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival

  Thursday, April 29, 2021 -  Law enforcement agencies will be helping keep people safe by looking for reckless or careless vessel operation and enforcing boating under the influence on any impaired vessel operator.

• FWC decommissions offshore patrol vessel C.T. Randall

  Wednesday, April 21, 2021 -  The C.T. Randall served for 18 years directly supporting conservation efforts in state and federal waters operating out of Port Canaveral, Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Marco Island.

• Kelly McKnight and Paul Dontenville, Assistant Statewide Prosecutors, honored as FWC Prosecutor of the Year

  Tuesday, March 9, 2021 -  McKnight and Dontenville serve as Assistant Statewide Prosecutors in Tampa for the Office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and are distinguished professionals who have provided guidance, preparation and prosecution for the most complex organized crime cases of fish and wildlife violations in the state of Florida.

• FWC Division of Law Enforcement achieves reaccreditation

  Thursday, February 18, 2021 -  The FWC was initially accredited in 2009. This was its fifth completion of the accreditation process.

• FWC charges 4 with illegal deer harvest in Walton County

  Thursday, January 21, 2021 -  After nearly a yearlong investigation, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has charged four individuals with multiple hunting related charges.

• FWC and Hillsborough State Attorney announce charges filed in deadly Boating Under the Influence case

  Monday, December 28, 2020 -  Charges have been filed against Andrew Joseph Miltner, age 40, for BUI manslaughter and vessel homicide stemming from the fatal boating collision in May that resulted in the death of 12-year-old Jasina Campbell.

• Why we need to unite against chronic wasting disease and prevent it from entering Florida

  Tuesday, November 3, 2020 -  This infectious disease of the brain and central nervous system is always fatal for members of the deer family and there’s no known cure or effective vaccine.

• FWC invites public comments for Division of Law Enforcement reaccreditation assessment

  Monday, October 26, 2020 -  The division must comply with approximately 240 standards to receive reaccreditation status. If the CFA determines the Division of Law Enforcement has complied with the appropriate standards, the reaccreditation will be awarded for three years.

• FWC uncovers a transnational wildlife trafficking operation in Florida

  Monday, October 19, 2020 -  This group of suspects have been charged with Racketeering, Money Laundering, Scheming to Defraud and other organized criminal laws involving an elaborate organized enterprise to smuggle Florida’s wildlife to interstate and international buyers.