After Miami-Dade’s sheriff announced an end to police security details for the county’s mayor and 13 commissioners, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava plans to reassign correctional officers at the Miami-Dade jails she oversees to serve as drivers and bodyguards for elected officials, the Miami Herald has learned.
The plan would have fewer than three dozen officers at the county’s Corrections Department take on duties currently performed by plainclothes sheriff’s deputies. They serve as personal bodyguards and drivers for Levine Cava and commissioners, who are shuttled around the county in black SUVs that can activate flashing police lights as needed.
In the midst of a budget fight with Levine Cava and commissioners, Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz last week announced plans to pull those security details — known as sergeants-at-arms — starting Nov. 9, saying the $4.1 million service is too expensive. Levine Cava called the move “a significant security challenge” in a written response to Cordero-Stutz but made no mention of a potential workaround…