{"id":39643,"date":"2025-11-14T17:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:26:41","slug":"volusia-sheriffs-office-buys-billboard-in-new-yorks-times-square-move-to-florida-work-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39643\/","title":{"rendered":"Volusia Sheriff’s Office buys billboard in New York’s Times Square: Move to Florida, work here"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Volusia Volusia Sheriff advertising in New York’s Times Square<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Volusia Sheriff’s Office has purchased advertising in New York’s Times Square \u2014 encouraging police officers and deputies to move to Florida. “Dear NYPD, Sunny Florida is Waiting” and “Serve A Community That Appreciates YOU” reads the digital billboard. Sheriff Chitwood promised to advertise in New York following the election of Zohran Mamdani to mayor.<\/p>\n

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood has a bold message for New York police officers: Move to Florida.<\/p>\n

And he isn’t being shy about it<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports recruiting and funding efforts alongside the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, has purchased billboards in the heart of New York City \u2013 Times Square, encouraging New York Police Department officers to move to Florida.<\/p>\n

Dear NYPD, Sunny Florida is waiting<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ad message posted in New York’s Times Square <\/p>\n

“Dear NYPD, Sunny Florida is waiting,” reads one ad, followed by a QR code that directs to VSO’s career page.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Serve a community that appreciates you,” read another.<\/p>\n

\"\" 80 times a day through January 2026 <\/p>\n

The Volusia Sheriff’s Office posted a photo of the billboard on its Facebook page and said it would be shown 80 times a day through January 31, 2026, which, based on our math, would be more than 6,000 times over the span of nearly 80 days.<\/p>\n

“Wherever you\u2019re coming from, if you\u2019re a great cop then Sunny Florida is a fantastic place to start your next chapter,” read the post.<\/p>\n

VSO said the money used to buy the ads was paid for by the foundation, not tax dollars.<\/p>\n

Volusia Sheriff: Move to Florida <\/p>\n

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood has been critical of New York’s November mayoral election, where voters elected Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is a self-described democratic socialist.<\/p>\n

\"Florida Florida Sheriff Chitwood to NY cops: Come work in Florida<\/a> <\/p>\n

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood is encouraging New York police officers to move to Florida and highlighting some of the benefits: a signing bonus and school choice, among them. This comes after the election of mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Chitwood has touted the Florida Law Enforcement Recruitment Bonus Payment Program<\/a> \u2013 launched in 2022 \u2013 that gives a one-time $5,000 bonus\u2014after taxes\u2014to newly employed officers in Florida. Through the program, more than $58 million has been distributed, an August press release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I encourage NYPD officers to look into that,” Chitwood said. “You’re going to get support here, and you’re going to have a tremendous quality of life.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chitwood, a transplant himself \u2013 who previously worked for departments in Philadephia and Shawnee, Oklahoma \u2013 also said to doctors, nurses and teachers, why not take a look at us?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Source: Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood has posted his thoughts on the New York election on his personal Facebook page, as well as in interviews with FOX 35. VSO shared a photo of the billboard on its Facebook page on Thursday night. Sheriff Chitwood talked with FOX 35 Thursday night via Zoom about the new billboards.<\/p>\n

Florida News<\/a>Volusia County News<\/a>New York<\/a>Politics<\/a>Instastories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volusia Sheriff advertising in New York’s Times Square The Volusia Sheriff’s Office has purchased advertising in New York’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1579,23083,9,11,10,12,56,87,4887,618,22747],"class_list":["post-39643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-fl","tag-instastories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-series","tag-us","tag-volusia-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}