Fort Worth has a new police chief. City Manager Jay Chapa announced Thursday afternoon that Eddie Garcia will take over the FWPD. Garcia knows North Texas well; he was the Dallas police chief from 2020 to 2024.

The City of Fort Worth has announced that Dallas' former police chief Eddie Garcia is now Fort Worth's 28th police chief.

Former Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia was selected to lead the Fort Worth Police Department's nearly 1,900 officers over Fort Worth Interim Police Chief Robert Alldredge Jr. and former Dallas Police Deputy Chief Vernon Hale, who most recently served as Prince George’s County Police Department assistant chief of police in Maryland.