The mission of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is to safeguard the public and support Florida's agricultural economy by ensuring the safety and wholesomeness of food and other consumer products through inspection and testing programs; Protecting consumers from unfair and deceptive business practices and providing consumer information; Assisting Florida's farmers and agricultural industries with the production and promotion of agricultural products; and conserving and protecting the state's agricultural and natural resources by reducing wildfires, promoting environmentally safe agricultural practices, and managing public lands.

The Bureau of Investigative Services handles cases involving unfair and deceptive trade practices against consumers, theft and related crimes against the state’s agricultural industry, food safety, wildland arson investigations and protection of the state’s natural resources. It enforces both criminal and civil violations.

The Department’s Bureau of Uniform Services is the first line of defense at Florida’s borders in protecting agriculture. The Bureau operates 23 agricultural interdiction stations located on every paved highway, crossing the natural boundary of the Suwannee and St. Mary’s rivers. Agricultural vehicle inspections are conducted at each location around the clock, 365 days a year, by 224 law enforcement personnel.

The Attorney General is the constitutional, statewide elected official who serves as the attorney for the State of Florida. The Attorney General is responsible for the enforcement of state consumer protection and antitrust laws as well as civil prosecution of criminal racketeering. In the area of criminal law, the Attorney General represents the State when those convicted appeal their convictions, including capital murder cases.

This unit polices Florida’s $12 billion per year Medicaid program.  Medicaid Fraud can take many forms and cost Floridians hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The most common involves doctors, dentists, clinics and other health care providers billing for services never performed, over billing for services provided, or billing for tests, services and products which are medically unnecessary.

In addition to investigating fraud committed by health care providers, the Unit also investigates the abuse, neglect and exploitation of the elderly, ill and disabled residents of long term care facilities such as nursing homes, facilities for the mentally and physically disabled and assisted care living facilities. The investigation of corruption in the administration of the Medicaid program is another important responsibility of the Unit.

The Child Predator CyberCrime Unit includes law enforcement investigators and prosecutors whose primary mission is to target child predators, child pornography, and Internet-based sexual exploitation of children. This unit is dedicated to investigating and prosecuting any crime perpetrated or substantially facilitated using a computer, the Internet, digital media, cellular phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), or any other electronic device. The investigators and the prosecutors in the Unit are specially trained in current technologies, tactics, and the law, and share their expertise through educational programs and community awareness efforts.

The Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco licenses the alcoholic beverage and tobacco industries, collects and audits taxes and fees paid by the licensees, and enforces the laws and regulation of the alcoholic beverage and tobacco industries, pursuant to Chapter 210, Chapters 561-565 and Chapters 567-569 of Florida Statutes. Florida has approximately 71,000 active alcoholic beverage and tobacco license holders. In Fiscal Year 04-05, the division generated over $1.13 billion in license fees, taxes, fines, etc. With over 372 employees, these responsibilities are carried out through three bureaus within the division: Licensing, Auditing and Enforcement.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Division of Law Enforcement is Florida's oldest state law enforcement agency, dating back to 1913 when the Legislature created the shellfish commission to supervise the newly emerging commercial fishing industry.

Now, nearly a century later, the Division oversees the bureaus of Emergency Response, Environmental Investigations, Park Police and the Training Center. Together these bureaus are responsible for protecting the people, environment as well as Florida’s cultural and natural resources through enforcement, education and public service. In addition, the Division of Law Enforcement provides assistance in disasters such as hurricanes, oil or chemical spills, or other threatening conditions that endanger life or property.

The 138 officers and investigators within DEP are sworn state law enforcement officers with full powers of arrest. As the uniformed law enforcement representative of DEP, the Division’s officers are the guardians in the field, responsible for the enforcement of Florida's environmental laws and regulations for the detection and investigation of suspected violations. Each day, Division personnel assist in emergency response, conduct environmental investigations, patrol 161 state parks and educate the public to ensure that Florida’s environment is protected for the generations to come.

Managing fish and wildlife resources for their long-term well-being and for the benefit of people.

The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission came into existence on July 1, 1999 - the result of a constitutional amendment approved in the 1998 General Election as part of the package proposed by the Constitutional Revision Commission.

In the implementation of the Constitutional Amendment, the Florida Legislature combined all of the staff and commissioners of the former Marine Fisheries Commission, elements of the Divisions of Marine Resources and Law Enforcement of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and all of the employees and Commissioners of the former Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission.

Field Operations consists of two bureaus within the Division of Law Enforcement that are divided into a North and South Operations. The Bureau of North Operations contains the Northeast, Northwest and North Central Regions.  The Bureau of South Operations contains the Southwest, South and the SEA (Special Enforcement Area).  These Bureaus house most of the uniform patrol functions within the Division as they relate to wildlife, saltwater fish, and freshwater fish resources. The uniform patrol functions are designed to provide law enforcement protection to the natural and human resources of the state. The Bureaus contain 902 positions, 722 of which are sworn positions, which are organized in military rank structure.

The Florida Highway Patrol's (FHP) mission is to promote in a courteous manner a safe driving environment through aggressive law enforcement, public education, and safety awareness; reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes in Florida, preserve and protect human life, property and the rights of all people in accordance with the constitutions and laws of the United States and the State of Florida; design and implement prevention strategies and aggressively enforce DUI laws and other violations identified as crash causation factors.

It is the mission of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement "FDLE" to promote public safety and to strengthen domestic security by providing services in partnership with local, state and federal criminal justice agencies to prevent, investigate, and solve crimes while protecting Florida's citizens and visitors.

Through seven Regional Operations Centers, fifteen Field Offices, and seven Crime Laboratories, FDLE delivers investigative, forensic and information systems services to Florida's criminal justice community.

FDLE provides many prevention and crime information services to the public including criminal history record checks, the seal and expunge of criminal history records, sexual predator and career offender tracking, crime statistics, and a missing children clearinghouse.

The Motor Carrier Compliance Office was created in 1980 by merging weight and safety enforcement functions from the Florida Highway Patrol and the Florida Public Service Commission. Staffed by both sworn law enforcement officers and regulatory weight inspectors, MCCO assists the Florida Department of Transportation in fulfilling its mission of providing a safe transportation system by performing commercial vehicle safety and weight enforcement.

In an effort to reduce the number of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) related crashes MCCO officers perform safety inspections on commercial vehicles and perform traffic enforcement with an emphasis on violations by CMV’s and passenger vehicles interacting with large trucks. In 2007 OMCC officers conducted over 100,000 inspections.

The primary purpose of MCCO’s weight enforcement program is to protect Florida’s highway system and bridges from damage from overweight vehicles. MCCO conducts vehicle weighings at its 20 fixed weigh station locations and mobile enforcement with portable scales statewide. In 2007 MCCO conducted over 20 million vehicle weighings.