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Marshall
Frank, 67, is a retired captain from the Metro-Dade Police Department in Miami, Florida, where he spent the majority of his
thirty years investigating murders or commanding those who did. Born to vaudevillian parents in New York City, Frank moved
to Miami, Florida at the age of five in an era when more Seminole Indians strolled Main Street than Cuban-Americans. After
graduating high school, he worked various jobs including ballroom dance instruction and symphony violinist before serving
a short stint in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.
Thanks
to the advice of a notorious Miami Beach bookie, and thoughtful stepfather, he found his niche in law enforcement by joining
the Dade County Sheriff s Office in 1960, serving as a road patrolman for three years before rising through the ranks to captain.
Outside
of working vice, Frank's career covered the gamut of high stress police assignments, including Internal Affairs, Criminal
Intelligence and sixteen years in Homicide and Crime Scene Investigations, seven years as a detective and nine more in a command
status. He also served as captain in charge of Staff Inspections and chief executive officer of a 250 man district station.
About
the Miami-Dade Police Department
The
Miami-Dade Police Department (formerly known as the Metro-Dade Police Department and the Dade County Sheriff's Office) is
a limited-service Metropolitan police department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas, although they have lenient
mutual aid agreements with other municipalities, most often the City of Miami Police Department. The Miami-Dade Police Department
is the largest police department in the state of Florida with over 5,000 employees. The Department is still often referred
by its former name, the Metro-Dade Police or simply Metro. Miami-Dade police are easily identified by their khaki uniforms.
Miami-Dade Police vehicles are identified by their green and white livery. Regular Miami-Dade police officers carry silver
badges, while officers with the ranks of Sergeant and above carry gold badges.
On
Miami-Dade Police badges and ID cards, Miami-Dade police officers are referred to as "Deputy Sheriffs" although in regular
everyday practice they're just called "police officers." The Director of the Miami-Dade Police Department is also occasionally
referred to as "the Sheriff."
The
Miami-Dade Police Department operates out of nine districts throughout Miami-Dade County and has two special bureaus.
Source:
wikipedia.org/Miami-Dade_Police_Department
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