PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 4
Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict Airborne Conflict
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Procedure; Human Factors
Aircraft X departed CLW; VFR; and called me for a IFR pick-up clearance. I gave Aircraft X a squawk code; told him to maintain VFR. I called PIE tower with a point out; which the tower approved. I kept Aircraft X VFR; cleared him into the Bravo Airspace and told him to expect his IFR momentarily. I decided to keep him VFR (not trusting PIE tower) just in case and started vectoring him as he would need to be on an IFR clearance. PIE then launches an IFR Lear jet (which should have been on a 270 heading) on a 330 degree heading. Separation between the PA28 and Lear jet was 2.1. This was not an error since I kept the Cherokee VFR but it would have been if I had cleared him on his IFR flight plan. PIE tower did not protect for the point-out. PIE being an LRAC [Limited Radar Approach Control] facility need to know standard separation between IFR and IFR and what a point-out entails in protecting airspace for that aircraft.
TPA TRACON Controller reported that an underlying tower did not protect for a point out and an airborne conflict occurred due to a release.