Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger retires Friday, after rebuilding department in wake of Capitol riot
Source: CBS News
May 28, 2025 / 12:00 AM EDT
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger, who took charge of the department in the difficult months after the U.S. Capitol siege, is retiring from his position Friday. After the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, he helped rebuild the department's shrunken staff, beefed up recruitment efforts and bolstered the agency's intelligence operations and communications to fix weaknesses revealed by the breach of the Capitol.
Manger told CBS News he faced stiff challenges when he arrived on the job in 2021. "The department as a whole had lost confidence in the (prior) leadership as a result of what happened," he said. "And there were big things that were identified as things that needed to be fixed as quickly as we could fix them: Things like the intelligence failures, the communication failures, the equipment failures, the training failures, the leadership failures — all of those things needed to be addressed immediately."
Manger, a former local police chief in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland, successfully advocated for increases in funding to improve hiring, equipment and operations. The department was blasted by critics for intelligence failures that contributed to the violation of the complex on Jan. 6, 2021.
"We now have a world class intelligence operation. We are significant players in the intelligence community in the Washington, D.C., region and, frankly, all over the country," Manger said. "Whereas before, we were basically just —... we were consumers of information. The FBI would give us intelligence, other agencies would give us intelligence. Now we are gathering our own." The U.S. Capitol Police Board will select a new police chief, which Manger predicts will happen soon.
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