Senate Bill 2730

    Florida Senate - 1998        (NP)                      SR 2730

    By Senator Hargrett





    21-2248-98                                         See HR 9545

  1                    Senate Resolution No.     

  2         A resolution honoring Sergeant William Rousseau

  3         and the Tampa Police Department.

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  5         WHEREAS, Sergeant Rousseau, the Domestic Violence

  6  coordinator for the Tampa Police Department, is recognized as

  7  an expert on domestic violence by the United States Department

  8  of Justice, the Florida Governor's Domestic and Sexual

  9  Violence Task Force, and the James Harrell Center for Domestic

10  Violence at the University of South Florida, and

11         WHEREAS, Sergeant Rousseau created and administers a

12  three-day Domestic Violence Investigator School in Tampa for

13  law enforcement, victim advocates, and social service

14  providers, which school has trained over 600 domestic violence

15  investigators throughout the state, and

16         WHEREAS, an active member of the Hillsborough County

17  Domestic Violence Council, Sergeant Rousseau has coordinated a

18  three-day training conference in Tampa for the United States

19  Department of Justice, has spoken on domestic violence issues

20  at C.O.P.S. seminars in Boston, Phoenix, and San Diego, and

21  has lectured at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Bar

22  Harbor, Maine, and

23         WHEREAS, Sergeant Rousseau, in conjunction with the

24  Florida Law Enforcement Research Coalition of Florida State

25  University, participated in the development of the model law

26  enforcement policies for domestic and sexual violence and, in

27  1997, was awarded a S.T.O.P. grant to teach the model policies

28  to law enforcement officers throughout the state, and

29         WHEREAS, Sergeant Rousseau was honored by the

30  Hillsborough County Bar Association in 1997 as its "Law

31  Enforcement Officer of the Year," and, in 1998, he and the

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    Florida Senate - 1998        (NP)                      SR 2730
    21-2248-98                                         See HR 9545




  1  Tampa Police Department received the Governor's "Peace At

  2  Home" Award from Governor Lawton Chiles for their outstanding

  3  work in preventing and controlling domestic violence, NOW,

  4  THEREFORE,

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  6  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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  8         That the Florida Senate pauses in its deliberations to

  9  express its appreciation to Sergeant William Rousseau and the

10  Tampa Police Department for their accomplishments in

11  addressing the problems of domestic violence.

12         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

13  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Sergeant

14  William Rousseau and to the Tampa Police Department as a

15  tangible token of the sentiments of the Florida Senate.

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