The Escambia County Sheriff s Office and the Pensacola Police Department have formed a new partnership to better fight drug trafficking and violent crimes across both jurisdictions.
The new partnership, which officials announced at a news conference Thursday at the Pensacola City Hall, will formalize an agreement that allows law enforcement officials to work across jurisdictions on certain cases. I can tell you this has been 30 years in the making, said Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons, who took the helm of the agency earlier this year and made the partnership a top priority.
In the past, investigators with both agencies worked their respective cases without much coordination across the two departments, Simmons said.