[Wallace T.]

As the Pinellas Park PD are a municipal force, are they answerable to Governor Bush, as, say, the Florida State Police would be? If they are not, then Judge Greer's order cannot be countermanded by Governor Bush. He may then need state troopers or the National Guard to support social workers removing Terri Schiavo.

[MplsSteve]

I also wonder if there are Pinellas County sheriffs there too?

I wonder how that figures in as well.

[middie]

There is no such entity as the Florida State Police; never has been and never will be. Florida has only the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement that's without power in this case, county sheriff departments and local police. The governor has no, repeat no control over any uniformed police agency except the Highway Patrol, and they have no enforcement power unless an event is connected to traffic. All this talk about a show of police force is nonsense. And, oh yes, don't even suggest the national guard, that would outrageous even to the governor.