Deputy Chief Tonja Bryant-Smith
Tonja Bryant-Smith attended Florida State University and made Tallahassee home after traveling extensively with her parents, who were in the Military. She is married to Sherwin Smith and has one Son, Cameron Smith. She started her career with the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) and left the agency after serving 11 years. After leaving TPD, she went to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) where she worked for the past 17 years. During her time at FDLE, she was a Narcotics Agent, an Inspector in the Office of Executive Investigations (Professional Standards Unit), and a Special Agent Supervisor over the Organized Crime Squad, the Public Integrity /Economic Squad, and the Counterterrorism Squad. …She has built a wealth of contacts in and out of the law enforcement community, served as a Co-Director for the North Florida Fusion eXchange, conducted joint intelligence operations for the Governor’s Inauguration, supervised agents across the state, assisted in the hiring and recruitment process at FDLE, and have affiliations within the community and state. She is currently the President of the North Florida Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and has been in this position for the past four years. In this role she has coordinated several gun buybacks, back to school programs, holiday gift baskets, and our most famous program – the Law and Your Community. This program teaches individuals their rights and how to have a positive interaction with police officers. She is excited and grateful for the opportunity to return home as Deputy Chief to assist Chief Revell and serve the citizens of Tallahassee.
