Sheriff Al Lamberti is a 30-year veteran of the Broward Sheriff's Office. He was named Sheriff by Gov. Charlie Crist on October 26, 2007.
He served as the Interim Chief of Police for the City of North Lauderdale from November 2000 until its merger with the Broward Sheriff's Office in October 2001. He returned to the Department of Law Enforcement and assumed command of the South Patrol Region, which includes Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport post-September 11th.
He previously served as the Director of the Training and Organizational Development Division where he oversaw the Center for Advanced Criminal Justice Studies Executive Leadership Program, as well as all day-to-day training functions.
Sheriff Lamberti also served as the Assistant Director of the Bureau of Countywide Services, which encompassed Criminal Investigations, Special Operations and Child Protective Investigations. He served as the Interim Chief of Police for the City of Hollywood from November 1998 to August 1999 and was the District Chief of the Deerfield Beach District, a post he assumed in January 1990 until his promotion to Major in May 1998.
Sheriff Lamberti began his career with the Broward Sheriff's Office in 1977. He started his career as a detention deputy at the Broward County Jail. He worked his way through the ranks as a road patrol deputy in the North Broward and Lauderdale Lakes districts, as a road patrol sergeant and then as lieutenant and captain in the Organized Crime Division. He then assumed his position as District Chief in Deerfield Beach in January 1990.
Sheriff Lamberti was previously assigned as the Deputy Director of the Organized Crime Division, serving there from 1984 until 1990. During his career in the Organized Crime Division, he supervised the Narcotics Conspiracy Section, the Air/Marine Interdiction Unit, Major Case/RICO, Colombian Organized Crime Task Force, Jamaican Gang Task Force, White Collar Crime Unit and the Racketeering/Intelligence Section.
Sheriff Lamberti served as President of the Broward Sheriff's FOP Lodge #32 from 1984 - 1985. Additionally, he was the Chairman of the Regional Coordinating Team of the Florida Violent Crime and Drug Control Council for the Southeast Region from 1999 to 2007.
Sheriff Lamberti is a graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy, Quantico, Virginia. He attended the 167th Session from September-December 1991. He is the past President of the Florida Chapter of the F.B.I National Academy Associates (2004).
Sheriff Lamberti attended Florida State University for two years (1972-1974). He holds an Associate in Science Degree in Law Enforcement from Palm Beach Community College, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from Florida Atlantic University. He attended Graduate School at Florida Atlantic University, where he took coursework in Public Administration and Criminal Justice Management.
Before joining the Broward Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Lamberti served in the U.S. Coast Guard at various duty stations, primarily Miami, Florida. He was assigned as a Special Agent in the Office of Intelligence and Law Enforcement, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.
Sheriff Lamberti has lectured extensively on law enforcement topics. He has instructed for the F.B.I. Academy, Institute of Law and Justice (Alexandria, Virginia), Regional Organized Crime Information Center ROCIC - Nashville, Tennessee), Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement
Network (MAGLOCLEN-Trenton, New Jersey), Center on Organized Crime (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), Metro-Dade County Police Academy, Southeast Institute of Criminal Justice, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Miami-Dade Community College, U.S. Attorney's Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee, the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU), Florida Department of Corrections, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and Broward Community College, Criminal Justice Institute.
He and his wife, Holly, reside in Margate with their son, Nicholas.
