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The FSA established the Florida Sheriffs Accreditation Assistance Program in 2021 to support the Florida sheriffs’ offices in achieving and maintaining law enforcement accreditation from the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation (CFA).
Becoming accredited is time-consuming and requires the commitment of agency staff. There are often expenses associated with the improvements an agency must make to comply with the standards. For these reasons, sheriffs in Florida’s rural or fiscally constrained counties are particularly challenged with achieving accreditation.
Recognizing this, Florida’s sheriffs committed in 2020 to help these agencies become CFA accredited by authorizing the FSA Accreditation Assistance program. FSA Accreditation Coordinators provide direct assistance to these agency staff with policy review and revision, facilities inspections, and training. FSA added additional staff to support this, and this is the only program of its kind in the United States. Twenty-four agencies are currently working with FSA’s Accreditation Assistance Program, with many more to come.
