Dan Alexander was sworn in as Boca Raton's Police Chief on July 17, 2006. He has spent his entire law enforcement career in Florida.
From August 2002 to July 2006, Chief Alexander led the police department in Cape Coral. He served for approximately three years (1999 to 2002) as an assistant police chief and captain in Boca Raton, three years with the Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department and six years as a deputy sheriff in Alachua County.
In 2003, he was named the Southwest Florida Police Chief of the Year by the Southwest Florida Crime Prevention and Community Policing Association. He became a Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) Assessor in 2002 and has been a Team Leader since 2004. Chief Alexander's professional affiliations include the Police Executive Research Forum, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Florida Police Chiefs Association and the FBI National Academy Associates.
Chief Alexander earned a Master of Arts degree in Public Administration from the University of Florida in 1995, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice in 1989. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.
