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Then-Deputy Chief Ron Bacy assists La'Niyah Burris during the Oklahoma City Police Athletic League's "Shop with a Cop" event at Academy in 2023. Bacy was named the department's police chief on Friday.
Thompson began his military career when he enlisted in the Oklahoma Army National Guard on December 13, 1983 in Oklahoma City. Thompson received his commission in 1986 through Officer Candidate School as an infantry second lieutenant. Thompson is currently assigned as the chief of staff for the Oklahoma Army National Guard.
In 2006 he was appointed chief of staff to Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, where he served until his election to the State Senate. [9] Holt was Cornett's chief of staff when Oklahoma City successfully lobbied to attract a major league basketball team, gaining what is now known as the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.
OCPD officers with Chief Charles F. Colcord. The Oklahoma City Police Department was officially formed following the Land Rush of 1889 in central Indian Territory. [4] [page needed] The department began as a small collection of officers. The department's first Chief was Charles F. Colcord and municipal court was held in a small tent near ...
The Oklahoma City Council is non-partisan and its nine members are elected to four-year terms. Oklahoma City is divided into eight wards, and voters in each ward elect a council member to represent that ward. The mayor is the voting member who is elected by all voters of the city, and is the Chief Executive of the City and President of the Council.
After city officials announced that all members of a small Oklahoma police force resigned, the former chief has spoken out, attributing the move to a lack of support from public leadership.
Support staff at Oklahoma's public schools would receive one-time $2,500 stipends under a proposal approved Tuesday by the Oklahoma Senate's education budget subcommittee.
The city, in a statement, thanked the former chief and officers while wishing them well and said an interim police chief has been chosen and that the Blaine County and Canadian County sheriffs' offices will assist in patrolling the town. “We would like to let our citizens know we are conducting business as usual,” according to the statement.