The Brief
- Former Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia has been named one of five finalists to become the next Fort Worth Police Chief, less than a year after retiring from DPD.
- Garcia left Dallas in October 2024 for an assistant city manager role in Austin, citing a desire for better work-life balance.
- Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker confirmed the finalists’ list would be publicly released on Tuesday.
FORT WORTH, Texas – Less than a year after leaving the Dallas Police Department, Eddie Garcia has been named a finalist to become the next police chief in Fort Worth, sources confirm to FOX 4.
Eddie Garcia
The backstory:
Garcia was the chief of the Dallas Police Department from 2021 until October 2024.
He retired from his role in Dallas to take an assistant city manager role in Austin overseeing the city’s public safety. The decision came just four months after Garcia announced that he had reached an agreement with the city that would keep him in Dallas into 2027.…