A graduate from Hollywood Hills High School, Roni Mangan joined the Hollywood Police Department in 1979 as a Police-Aide Dispatcher. In 1981 she was promoted to Police Officer and served in Road Patrol and Staff Inspections.

Promoted to Sergeant in 1996, she held supervisory assignments in Road Patrol and the Public Affairs Section. Assignments continued in Public Affairs and Road Patrol after promotion to Lieutenant in 2000.

In 2003, she was promoted to Captain overseeing the Investigative Services Section, including Robbery, Homicide, Burglary, Vehicle Crimes, Economic Crimes, Family Services, Domestic Violence, Crime Scene Investigations, Victim Advocates, and the Crisis Negotiations Team. She subsequently was assigned to the Professional Standards Section and the Quartermaster Section. In November of 2007, she became the Acting Major of the Support Services Division, a position that was made permanent in March of 2008.

A “Dean’s Scholar” graduate of the Administrative Officers Course from the Southern Police Institute in Louisville, Kentucky; and in 2001, she earned her Master’s Degree in Management, specializing in Public Administration, from St. Thomas University and a graduate of the 3^rd Florida Department of Law Enforcement “Executive Leadership Seminar.”

Since 1999, Major Mangan has been an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Greater Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, a graduate and continued facilitator for the Chamber’s “Leadership Hollywood XXIV” program; she is also an Advisory Board Member for the Women’s Resource Institute at Nova Southeastern University.

Roni Mangan was the first Police employee awarded the City of Hollywood’s Diamond Service Award, has earned two Lifesaving Awards, the Chiefs Special Recognition Award, six Administrative Excellence Awards, four Community Involvement Awards, Community Oriented/Problem Solving Award, six Unit Citations, the Chamber’s Courage in Leadership and 2002 “Breaking the Glass Ceiling” Awards.