Tampa Police Chief Mary O’Connor was put on leave after she flashed her police badge to get out of a traffic stop last month while on a golf cart.
The Tampa police chief was put on leave after she flashed her police badge to get out of a traffic stop last month while on a golf cart. Chief Mary O’Connor was on a golf cart in the neighboring city of Oldsmar on Nov. 12 when she was pulled over by a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office deputy for not having a tag. According to, O’Connor pulled out her police chief card—that is, her literal badge—in the hopes the officer would let them off.
The deputy allowed her to leave, and O’Connor and her golf cart driver drove off. “It was poor judgment on our part to be driving a golf cart on a public roadway without the appropriate tags,” O’Connor said in a statement Friday. “This was the first time we had exited the golf-cart friendly community in which we own property with this vehicle, prompting the need for a license plate.
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