DALLAS — Friday marks the first day for the new Dallas Police Department interim police chief.
Eddie Garcia will remain in Dallas until Nov. 1, though, and starts his new job as assistant city manager in Austin on Nov. 4.
Dallas Interim City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert announced Friday that Dallas Police Executive Assistant Chief Michael Igo will serve as interim chief of police effective Oct. 18, replacing Garcia.
According to Igo’s offer letter, his interim base salary is $265,000, according to his offer letter.
Igo has worked for the Dallas Police Department for 33 years. He became a senior corporal in 1997 and went on to become a sergeant, lieutenant, major, deputy chief and assistant chief before he was appointed to executive assistant chief in January 2024.
The news of Garcia’s departure and retirement from law enforcement came just a few months after he’d inked a new deal to remain Dallas’ police chief. As part of that deal, as of September, with the retention bonuses included, Garcia would have been making a salary of about $326,440.40, a little more than $1,000 less than his $327,600 annual salary with Austin.
Garcia became Dallas’ first Latino police chief in 2021. He previously served as the police chief in San Jose, Calif., where he had spent nearly 30 years with the department.
Watch our full interview with Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia here: