Caribbean Ship Chandler, Inc. v. Metropolitan Dade County

The trial court properly granted Dade County’s motion to dismiss Caribbean Ship Chandler’s amended complaint alleging that Dade County was negligent in failing to provide Caribbean with adequate security protection from criminal acts of third parties. Notwithstanding the allegations in the complaint, both the permit application and sections 2-56.1 to 2-56.10, Code of Metropolitan Dade County (1959), provide that off-duty officers remain employees of Dade County acting within the course and scope of their ordinary employment. Because the county could not be liable for an on-duty officer’s…