OCALA, Fla. – It’s a special bond decades in the making. Tara Woods saw an ad for an Ocala Community Service Officer at a church in 1990. “I saw there was one position open at the Ocala Police Department.
What I was most intrigued about was you got the police car, you get to wear the uniform, but at the time you weren’t a sworn police officer, but you got to work at the police department,” Woods said . “It was a great way to give back to the community I grew up in.” Robin Ford entered the Ocala Police Department the same year as a Patrol Officer.
She had previously been an officer in South Florida. “My father was in law enforcement and my husband was in law enforcement.