Miami Lakes Town Manager Edward Pidermann has appointed Lt. Eddy Ulloa as the new commander of the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s District in town.
“With the support of our residents, the town council, the sheriff, the men and women of the Miami Lakes MDSO District and the entire staff of Miami Lakes, I am sure that Lt. Ulloa’s tenure as major will be a complete success,” Pidermann said in an email released Tuesday.
Ulloa’s new job becomes effective when the current commander, Maj. Jose Gonzalez, retires in a few months, Pidermann said. Gonzalez mentored and prepared Ulloa for the new job, Pidermann said.
Ulloa, 43, will be promoted to major.
“I’m looking forward to the opportunity, obviously, to keep on serving the residents of the Town of Miami Lakes,” Ulloa said Tuesday.
It’s a good time to take over the department.
Gonzalez’s final report to the town council in November showed robberies dropped from four in 2024 to two, and those were domestic cases; larcenies fell from 66 last year to 21 in 2025; car thefts were reduced from 73 to 39.
“There was one commercial burglary and one residential break-in this year,” Gonzalez said then. “One rape was reported; there were no murders.”
Ulloa will supervise 38 deputies, six of them are women.
During an interview on Nov. 19, Ulloa said of the department he hoped to lead, “All the work we’ve been doing, it’s pretty much turnkey. I don’t see any major concerns, with crime rates going down and obviously the traffic improvement.
“For me, it’s more management and mitigating and making it more efficient,” he said. “I didn’t see anything blaring that has to be addressed immediately.”
In 2003 Ulloa joined Miami-Dade Police, now the Sheriff’s Office, as an officer patrolling the Northside District. He has worked in Miami Gardens; Seaport Operations; Internal Affairs and the Intracoastal District.
As a lieutenant Ulloa commanded General Investigations in the Northwest District, which is where Pidermann said he “became very aware of the expectations of the residents of Miami Lakes.”
He then worked in Neighborhood Resources; Field Training and since 2023, as Executive Officer for Gonzalez in Miami Lakes.
Ulloa has a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Management from Union Institute & University. He lives in Miami-Dade County and is a divorced father of an 18-year-old son.