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VIDEO: Tampa Mayor names new Police Chief

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor announced Friday that she has chosen interim Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw to be the city's permanent chief. “It's a career I've been doing for the last 27 years,” Chief Bercaw said during a Friday morning press conference. "The only thing that will change Bercaw said his goal was "to enhance community policing" and that the "community wants to feel safe. "It's feeling safe," Bercaw said. "It's not just low crime stats. It's how you feel in the community." Bercaw's words echoed those spoken shortly before by Mayor Castor. "We cannot be successful if our city is not safe and not perceived as safe by our community," Castor said earlier in the press conference.