Four Dallas police officers were fired following disciplinary hearings with Chief Daniel Comeaux this week.
The terminations included a 16-year veteran accused of evidence tampering and a rookie officer arrested for drunk driving, according to reports.
The dismissals highlight ongoing integrity concerns within the department as officers face criminal prosecution. Both cases involved arrests that violated department policy and public trust.
Senior Corporal Joseph Robeson, who joined the force in June 2009, faced multiple violations, including evidence theft. He was arrested for tampering with physical evidence, a third-degree felony charge.
Robeson also failed to investigate a shooting incident properly and violated off-duty employment rules. Most damaging were findings that he gave “untruthful statements during an investigation,” according to the termination notice.
A second termination involved Police Officer Elijah Walker from the Central Patrol Division. Walker, hired in March 2023, was fired for “engaging in adverse conduct” when he was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
The Class B misdemeanor charge ended Walker’s brief two-year career with the Dallas police.
Police Dispatch Analyst Kenyon Campbell of the Communications Department was fired for causing a workplace disturbance. Campbell had been with the department since 2008.
Police Officer Jason Bower, who had been employed by the department since 2001 and worked in the Auto Pound Unit, was terminated for “failing to complete departmentally mandated training courses before their assigned end dates, having an indifference toward work through loafing, sleeping, inattention, and failing to remain at his workstation,” according to a DPD statement.