Sheriff: Collier sees sharp crime drop; office requests $285.68M to sustain operations

Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambos used his presentation to link recent declines in crime to investments in technology, organization and training and to explain the department's FY27 budget request of $285,682,800. Rambos described the unified policing model and a real‑time operations center built over the last 18–24 months that, he said, "on average, monitors maybe 6,000 crime or calls for emergency response a year" and provides deputies with roughly 2,700 additional information elements en route.