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Congratulations to Detective Raiza Mardis, recipient of the City of Coral Gables “Detective of the Quarter Award,” for the Second Quarter 2021.
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ACTION I RECOMMENDATION:
I would like to nominate Detective Raiza Mardis for the Detective of the 2°d Quarter Award.
BACKGROUND:
During this quarter, Detective Mardis was successful in identifying and arresting a total of 3 offenders and clearing a total of 9 cases by arrest (21-001282, 21-001283, 21-000354, 21-001377, 21-001747, 21-001769, 21-001771, 21-002021, and 21-002025) during her brief time in the Criminal Investigations Division. Below is a breakdown of all her investigations leading to arrests.
Detective Mardis was able to link an offender that was arrested for retail theft at the CVS on S. Dixie Hwy., to two of her package thefts cases (21-001282 and 21-001283).
She was later assigned a retail theft case at the Neiman Marcus (21-0013 77) that she linked to another assigned case (21-000354). She networked with Coral Springs Police Department and Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office. Both agencies had 2 subjects that matched the description of the subjects in her cases. The vehicle description in her case matched the vehicle description in the Coral Springs case. Through her investigation, she was able to identify a second involved vehicle, which was a white 4 door Maserati. Detective Mardis initiated an operational plan to conduct surveillance at a couple of possible locations in Hialeah resulting in locating the offender. She was able to clear both cases by arrest.
During the beginning of quarter, Detective Mardis was assigned several graffiti cases where a total of 5 locations were defaced with anti-Semitic messages. Detective Mardis took a proactive approach and reached out to all our surrounding agencies to determine if there were similar incidents within their jurisdictions. She learned that there were several cases that were reported between February and March in Miami-Dade County, City of Miami, a...
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