Florida A&M University’s Police Chief Calvin Ross is announcing his retirement. Ryan Benk reports Ross had planned to retire earlier, but stayed to oversee the multiple hazing investigations at the school.
After forty years of serving in law enforcement, with eleven of those years at FAMU, Police Chief Calvin Ross is returning to civilian life. The announcement comes less than a week after reports surfaced that the school's police department did not inform Tallahassee authorities of an off-campus hazing incident. Ross says he had planned to retire more than a year earlier. But elected to stay until the investigation into the hazing death of one of the school’s drum majors had concluded.
“The Fall-out from the Robert Champion case and some of the other hazing investigations, it just was not a time to retire and leave the department under those circumstances. So, I put it off until we got to a point in the investigation, a point of conclusion of the case. and as you well know it’s been turned over to the state attorney’s office.”
Assistant Chief of Police John Earst will take over as acting Chief until a permanent replacement is found.