Captain Wayne A. Maddox was born and raised in Panama City, Florida.  he attended school locally and earned his criminal justice certification from Gulf Coast Community College in 1993.  He then joined the Panama City Beach Police Department's Auxiliary / Reserve program that same year and started his mission to become a full time officer.  In January of 1996 he was accepted as a full time officer and assigned to the Uniform Patrol Division.  While in the Patrol Division, Captain Maddox served as a Field Training Officer, Traffic Homicide Investigator and as the Field Training Coordinator.  He worked his way through the ranks of Uniformed Patrol achieving the position of the Patrol Division Commander on January 9, 2012 and later being promoted to the rank of Captain on February 2, 2012.