Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and Interim City Manager Kimberly Tolbert said they are going to focus on finding a new police chief to achieve the goal of making Dallas a safer city.

Dallas City Council members said they were caught off guard when they found out Dallas Police Chief Eddie García was on his way out to join former City Manager T.C. Broadnax in Austin as an assistant city manager.

The hope is the chief will help usher transformation to the Austin Police Department and have the same type of impact as he has had on the Dallas community.