The police chief of the American Capitol, Thomas Manger, who took care of the department in the difficult months after the American headquarters of the Capitol, withdrew from his post on Friday. After January 6, 2021, Capitol riotHe helped to rebuild the Recruitment Efforts Recruit’s Recruitment Staff and strengthened the agency’s operations and intelligence communications to repair the weaknesses revealed by the Capitol violation.
Eating told CBS News that he had faced rigorous challenges when he arrived at work in 2021.
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“The department as a whole had lost confidence in leadership (previous) following what happened,” he said. “And there were great things that have been identified as things that had to be corrected as quickly as we could repair them: things like intelligence failures, communication failures, equipment failures, training failures, leadership failures – all these things necessary to be treated immediately.”
Eating, a former local police chief in the county of Fairfax, Virginia, and the county of Montgomery, in Maryland, successfully increased the increase in funding in order to improve hiring, equipment and operations.
The department was castigated by criticism for intelligence failures which contributed to the violation of the complex on January 6, 2021.
“We now have a world -class intelligence operation. We are important players in the intelligence community in Washington, DC, in the region and, frankly, throughout the country,” said Mergger. “While before, we were fundamentally – we were information consumers. The FBI would give us information, other agencies would give us information. Now we meet ours.”
The United States Police Council Capitol will select a new police chief, which the predicted crèche will soon occur.
Eating asked for financing for nearly $ 1 billion for 2026, which would represent the last of a series of recent budget readings for the Department. In testimony before a Congress Committee on the justification of its budget request, eating cited a high number of threats against the members of the Congress.
“The current climate of threats has reached alarming levels,” he told the committee in April. Capitol police files show the number of threats Launched against the members of the Congress in 2024 exceeded 9,400.
He added: “Social media and the Internet provide reproductive terrain for threats that – whatever their nature – the ministry must investigate.”
Capitol police and police have also strengthened the operations of the department outside of Washington, responding to potential threats in the national cities of the legislators.
The department has a unique mission among police agencies, protecting elected leaders and securing the American Capitol campus, which hosts 3 million visitors Each year. The Capitol is open to the public and legislators are accessible to citizens.
The crèche criticized the pardon Emitted by President Trump to release rioters from the Capitol who beat, gathered and gasped the Capitol police and other officers during the attack on the Capitol. He told CBS News that when Mr. Trump published 1,500 pardons to the alleged and condemned rioters when he took office, it was “was probably one of my worst days in this work.”
He also castigated conspiracy theories on January 6 which continue to circulate on social networks.
“My parents were here on January 6. They were part of what happened. They were attacked,” said Mangger. “They were in combat. Many of them were injured. They know exactly what happened on January 6. For someone to invent a story that,” Oh, it was not so bad “- it is simply not true.”
“What a scary message to the police, because we have a job to do, and we do not care about the problem,” continued Mangger. “We are not careful what side of the medal on which you are on a particular question because we have a job to do, to maintain public order and maintain peace.”
Representative Joe Morelle, a New York Democrat who is the member of the Chamber’s Administration Committee classification, said about eating, “since he took over at the time of the biggest needs department, he has professionally needed a constant leadership.”
A union representative for the Capitol police officers told CBS News: “The workforce is always a problem, as well as the balance between work and family life for basic officers, who continues to seduce morale within the agency.”
While preparing to leave the department, eating was praised by one of the former Capitol police officers who responded to the January 6 riot. Former officer Harry Dunn told CBS News: “He showed his love for the country, his love for the police and his continuous dedication to the public service.”
