The police chief of one of Florida’s largest cities was forced to resign in disgrace after she was caught on camera asking a deputy to ‘let her go’ from a traffic stop.

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor announced on Monday that she has accepted the resignation of Police Chief Mary O’Connor ‘following the completion of an Internal Affairs investigation into a recent traffic stop.’

O’Conner and her husband, Keith, were pulled over by Pinellas County Sheriff’s Deputy Larry Jacoby on November 12 at 7.30pm, when they were caught driving a golf cart on a road without a license plate tag.

She tried to pull rank on the deputy, body camera footage from the traffic stop revealed, asking him whether his camera was on before telling Jacoby: ‘I’m the police chief from Tampa… I’m hoping that you’ll just let us go tonight.’