Eddie Garcia, the city of Fort Worth’s next police chief, will be sworn in Tuesday night and begin working the next day.
Fort Worth city officials confirmed to NBC 5 on Monday that Garcia, the onetime chief of police in Dallas, would be sworn in as chief of police during a regular meeting of the City Council on Tuesday night and that his first day on the job would be Wednesday, Sept. 17.
Garcia, who is coming to Fort Worth after a short stint in Austin as the assistant city manager for public safety, was previously the chief of the Dallas Police Department for about three and a half years, from February 2021 to September 2024. Prior to moving to Texas, Garcia spent three decades with the San Jose Police Department…