FLOY TURNER began her twenty-five-year career in law enforcement in Miami during the volatile cocaine-wars era as a trooper with the Florida Highway Patrol. After eleven years in this position, she served as a special agent with the elite Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) for the next fourteen years. She has been assigned to joint task forces at the international, federal, state, and local police levels, such as the 9/11 Counter Terrorism Task Force and the Belle Glade Prison Escape Task Force. These assignments have included complex investigations of serial homicides, kidnappings, missing children, child homicides, human-trafficking cases, and illegal narcotics smuggling cases.
As a FDLE Special Agent, Floy served as the Regional Crimes Against Children Coordinator in the Miami Region of Southeast Florida and was also a member of an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Law Enforcement Against Child Harm (LEACH) Task Force, the Miami-Dade County and Broward County Child Death Review Boards, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Human Trafficking Task Force, and Homeland Security Task Force. She assisted in the development of the human-trafficking curriculum for Basic Law Enforcement Training and Incentive Classes for Florida Police Officer’s Standards and has been a guest speaker at many local, state, and federal training sessions, including the FBI’s Women in Law Enforcement Conference in 2004. She was awarded the State Law Enforcement Officer of the Year at the Florida Missing Children’s Day in 2004, for her criminal investigations that located and recovered multiple missing children who were reunited with their families.
She was responsible for coordinating local AMBER Alerts with the FDLE Missing Children Information Clearinghouse and established a Child Abduction Response Team (CART) for the South Florida Region.
After her retirement, Floy served as a consultant for Fox Valley Technical College on the development and implementation of various training initiatives for the National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program, U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
Floy became the AMBER Alert Liaison for the Southern United States and Caribbean and created and coordinated the Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Certification program. She also continued to provide instruction in many AMBER Alert training courses until 2012.
From 2010 through 2013, Floy trained law enforcement officials and nongovernmental organizations in conducting human trafficking investigations for the Organization of American States throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America.
Currently, Floy consulted for the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children in a global AMBER Alert Training Initiative.
In September 2016, Floy was awarded the John and Reve’ Walsh Award at Florida Missing Children’s Day for her continued efforts of protecting children.
Floy is the co-author of bestselling book BEHIND HER MIAMI BADGE: UNDERCOVER, THE COCAINE WARS, AND LIFE IN THE FAST LANE.