TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) -- A former detective with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is calling for Sheriff Chad Chronister's resignation.

On top of that, a community activist is demanding an independent FDLE investigation into the agency. It comes as top officials face academic cheating allegations amid internal affairs investigations.

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A former HCSO detective and a community activist separately wrote letters to state leaders calling for independent investigations.

“This circumstances of late have opened this, this door for us to actually show the public that we've been talking about for several years,” said James Stahlschmidt, former HCSO detective.

Stahlschmidt is a former HCSO detective who served from 1999 until

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