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Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia ,speaking at an event in February 2024 for the planned new law enforcement training center at UNT Dallas [Photo: UNT Dallas]
Fort Worth Names Former Dallas PD Leader as Its New Police Chief
by David Seeley | Aug 21, 2025
Eddie Garcia served as Dallas' police chief for three and a half years before leaving last October to become assistant city manager for public safety in Austin.
by Lance Murray |
Oct 4, 2024
The city said Executive Assistant Chief Michael Igo's appointment will take effect Oct. 18 as current Chief Eddie Garcia transitions out of the role to become an assistant city manager in Austin. Igo's entire 33 years in law enforcement have been spent on the Dallas force.
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by David Seeley |
May 14, 2024
Facial recognition technology is already being used for by the Texas Department of Public Safety and police departments in Fort Worth, Arlington, and McKinney. Now the Dallas Police Department may be next in line to deploy it by partnering with New York-based Clearview AI, based on comments at a Monday meeting of the city's Public Safety Committee.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 8, 2020
Joli Robinson—the former director of Community Affairs and Youth Outreach for the Dallas Police Department and current co-chair of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation—is bringing her breadth of experience to Dallas Habitat as its new VP of Government Affairs and Public Policy.
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Grant Aids First Responders in Managing Behavioral Health Emergencies
by Heather Noel | Oct 26, 2016
A $1.5 million grant will help Dallas Fire-Rescue and Dallas Police Department improve the way they respond to calls with behavioral health emergencies.
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![Erica Kosemund, Chief Brand Officer, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Gillian Breidenbach, Chief Partnership Officer, North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; Chief Gary Batton, Chief of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Monica Paul, Executive Director of Dallas Sports Commission and President of North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; John Hobbs, Senior Executive Officer of Communications, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; and Heidi Grant, Senior Executive Officer of Commerce Administration, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, celebrate Choctaw Casinos & Resorts becoming an Official Dallas World Cup 2026 Host City Supporter. [Photo: North Texas FWC Organizing Committee/Choctaw Casinos & Resorts]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/FIFA-Choctaw-dec-2025.jpg)
