Chris nocco biography
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The man behind the machine
Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco built a controversial data-driven approach to policing. He also built a wide circle of powerful friends who don’t question his tactics.
Targeted | A Times investigationBy KATHLEEN McGRORY and NEIL BEDITimes staff writersDec. 24, 2020
Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco was once asked under oath how he had landed two high-level posts in state government.
“It was the connections that I had made,” he said bluntly.
“I mean, you didn't have to like go and interview along with a hundred other people to get the job or anything?” an attorney pressed.
“No, ma’am,” he said.
Later that month, he told a reporter: “I’m very blessed to have friends that are in high offices.”
Today, Nocco himself is in a high place. A force in local GOP politics, he has twice been elected sheriff without opposition — something that hadn’t happened in Pasco County since World War II. His wife is one of the state’s most prominent Republican
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Biographical Information
| Occupation: | Sheriff of Pasco County |
| City: | New Port Richey (Pasco County) |
Commissioner Chris Nocco is the Sheriff of Pasco County and has dedicated his career to public service, both in law enforcement and state government. He has served the people of Florida for more than a decade and previously served as a deputy with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Chief of Staff for then state Representative Marco Rubio when he became Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and Chief of Staff for the Florida Highway Patrol.
In 2011, Governor Rick Scott appointed Commissioner Nocco as Sheriff of Pasco County. He was subsequently elected Sheriff the following year and then re-elected in 2016. Under Sheriff Nocco’s leadership, the Pasco Sheriff’s Office has been recognized for innovative law enforcement strategies, community outreach and partnerships and support of its members and their families.
Commissioner Nocco earne
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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — It has been nearly four months since Chris Nocco told the world that Roy Halladay was dead, and one of his clearest memories of that day is a moment that no one else saw.
On the late afternoon of Nov. 7, minutes before he held a news conference to confirm that Halladay's ICON A5 plane had crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, Nocco, the Pasco County (Fla.) sheriff, called his parents' home in Northeast Philadelphia. Nocco often made such phone calls to his wife, bro, whenever, he said, "things got rough." A grisly quadruple murder and kidnapping in August 2014. A fatal shooting inside a movie theater last March. I'm not going to be home on time, he'd tell her. Say a prayer.
This time, he called his father, James, and his mother, Linda. They were Phillies fans, too, just as he was. They still lived in the same Brookhaven neighborhood where Chris had grown up. James fryst vatten a retired Philadelphia police detective. Linda has taught CCD at St. Katherine of Siena,