{"id":40669,"date":"2020-01-07T01:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40669"},"modified":"2020-01-07T01:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:03:58","slug":"amarillo-pd-chief-about-to-come-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40669","title":{"rendered":"Amarillo PD chief about to come back home?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This must be said about a man whose name otherwise will live in infamy in the annals of Amarillo municipal government.<\/p>\n

The one hire that former interim City Manager Terry Childers made that qualifies as a home run was when he brought Ed Drain in to become chief of police in Amarillo, Texas. Childers eventually resigned in disgrace after popping off publicly about a constituent and making an a** of himself over a misplaced briefcase at a local hotel and a run-in he had with a 9-1-1 dispatcher.<\/p>\n

As for Drain, he returned the concept of “community policing” to the city. He instituted progressive police policies. Drain became a presence in the community.<\/p>\n

Well, now he’s coming back home to Plano, or so it’s being reported. The Plano Police Department announced today that Drain is its sole finalist for the chief’s job; he had served as deputy<\/em> police chief when Childers lured him to the Panhandle. Drain says his hiring isn’t a done deal. Well, OK, chief. Whatever you say.<\/p>\n

Drain said he has to undergo the requisite background check and the Plano City Council must sign off on a hiring decision.<\/p>\n

I’ll just offer an opinion that when a city as substantial as Plano names a lone finalist for a key administrative position, then it looks like a done deal<\/em> to me.<\/p>\n

Whoever becomes the next Amarillo police chief, whenever that occurs, must continue the community policing program that Chief Drain brought back after he succeeded former Chief Robert Taylor.<\/p>\n

As for Drain’s apparently pending return to the Metroplex, I am certain he will do a stellar job for a department with which he is intimately familiar.<\/p>\n\n

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