Pedro Toledo Dávila | |
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Born | 1943 Ponce, Puerto Rico |
Died | December 23, 2012 (aged 68–69) Hato Rey, Puerto Rico |
Police career | |
Department | Puerto Rico Police Department |
Country | Puerto Rico |
Rank | Superintendent (1993-2001, 2005-2009) |
Pedro Toledo Dávila (1943–December 23, 2012) was a former Superintendent of the Puerto Rico Police Department. He is known for serving as such for two non-consecutive terms, under two different administrations (1993-2000 under Pedro Rosselló; 2005-2009 under Aníbal Acevedo Vilá). Toledo was also a former attorney and FBI agent.
Pedro Toledo Dávila was born in 1943 to Pedro Toledo and Gladys Dávila at Hospital Dr. Pila in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He lived with his mother in Juana Díaz, until his father returned from World War II. After that, they moved to Ponce, where Toledo attended elementary and secondary school, graduating in 1961.
Toledo enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez where he obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1966. Toledo then went to work for the NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as an air conditioning systems engineer for the Saturn V and Apollo missions.
In 1968, Toledo was accepted into the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Toledo has said "I had finished the career in engineering but there are a lot of lawyers in my family, and I believed that [by joining the FBI] I could indirectly enter the field of law." As part of the FBI, he was assigned as an agent to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he worked until November 1969. That year, he was transferred to Miami, Florida.