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March 03, 2008 

The investigation will begin Monday where the controversy began: inside the Orient Road Jail, in the same booking area where all but one of seven inmate abuse complaints against deputies came from.

Dr. James Sewell, one of Florida's best known lawmen, will lead the top to bottom review, and he says no punches will be pulled.

"I think people are concerned when they see what comes out as several incidents - I think were up to seven - that have been reported in the media, and people have a right to be concerned - to make sure that their jail and their law enforcement operations are behaving appropriately," Sewell told FOX 13.

Sewell says the commission will also investigate possible steroid use by deputies. He calls it a national law enforcement concern.

"I think throughout the profession right now - and again not speaking before we get in and look at this - I think there is a professional concern in all agencies right now about the use of steroids and the impact of those steroids and its use on the way they do business. So as we look at it, that will be a logical - one of the questions we will ask," said Sewell.

Sewell's credentials range from leadership jobs with FDLE (Florida's FBI), to expertise on child protection to campus security. He's been a police chief, and helped with - 30 years ago - the investigation that convicted Ted Bundy, the Florida State sorority killer.

Sewell has also written textbooks and over 50 articles on officer stress.

"When law enforcement officers and corrections are under stress, some things occur that wouldn't normally occur," Sewell said. "I can't say that's the case now, the issue for us is we have not yet begun our hearings, we begin them next Monday."

While four of the seven cases saw deputies cleared of wrongdoing, all the cases, Sewell says, will be scrutinized.

The most important thing is transparency Sewell says, and that's why the hearings are open to the public, and may well be broadcast on government cable TV.