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Daryl Johnston
Interim Chief of Police 
1999

Daryl Johnston was with the Gainesville Police Department from 1974 to 1996.  Daryl Johnston started his career at the Gainesville Police Department in 1974 as a Uniform Patrol Officer and worked his way through the ranks to become Deputy Chief in 1993.  He retired in 1996 to take a Deputy Directors position at the Santa Fe Community College Police Department. 

In April 1999,  Daryl Johnston returned to the Gainesville Police Department to serve as Interim Chief until the City of Gainesville found a replacement for the former Chief Shinnamon who resigned in March of 1999.  Norman Botsford was appointed Chief of Police in November of 1999.