Former Durham Police Chief Teresa Chambers is back on the police beat. Chambers was sworn in Thursday as the new police chief for Riverdale Park, Md., a suburb of Washington.
Chambers became a cause celebre after she left Durham to head the National Parks police force in Washington. She was removed from her post in 2004 when she talked to the media about budget cutbacks on the police force, and she has been fighting her firing in the federal legal system ever since, reports Barb Barrett.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group helping Chambers with her case, said Chambers’ legal action now is awaiting a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals.
In her new job, Chambers returns to Prince George’s County, Md., where she was a police officer for two decades.
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