YOU CAN CALL HER "CHIEF"

While women have made great strides in the field of law enforcement, in many ways it is still very much primarily a man's world.

But in the small Polk County town of Frostproof, DeAnna Higgins has not just cracked the "glass ceiling", she has shattered it. A second generation law enforcement officer, she was appointed police chief there since January of last year after serving on an interim basis for several months. That makes her the only female police chief in the area, and one of a handful across Florida.

Frostproof, a citrus community in southern Polk County, has a population of approximately 3,000 with a police force of ten sworn officers.

She is the subject of the weekly Monday Profile in the Lakeland Ledger. Not a bad picture of the chief on her Harley, either...