COCOA, Fla. – Cocoa officials are set to announce the selection of Evander Collier IV, who served as a lieutenant with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, as the riverfront city’s new police chief, News 6 partner Florida Today reported.
The formal announcement from the city manager’s office is expected later in the day, but Thursday evening, several city councilmembers took to social media to offer congratulations to the 24-year veteran of law enforcement. [TRENDING: Fla.
to soon have ‘anti-riot’ law | Tragic: Sleeping boy killed by bullet | Herd immunity by the fall?] Collier, who left the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in June 2020, is also set to make history, becoming the first Black police chief of a municipality in Brevard County. “Evan