Willie Dandridge Assistant Chief in Charge of ROC-East Since joining the MPDC in September 1985, Assistant Chief Dandridge has served in a number of assignments involving patrol duties and criminal investigations. Promoted to sergeant in 1992, he served as a midnight sector sergeant and tactical unit supervisor in the . As a lieutenant, he managed enhanced enforcement and community policing activities in the Third District, and was commanding officer of the Homicide/AWIK (assault with intent to kill) unit from September 1997 to April 1999. When Chief Ramsey reassigned most detectives from centralized units to the seven police districts in 1999, Dandridge was placed in charge of the Violent Crimes Unit in the Seventh District, which achieved the highest closure rate for homicides, AWIKs and sex offenses that year. Upon being promoted to captain in January 2000, he was assigned to the Sixth District. He was promoted to the position of Commander of the Sixth District in May 2000. In July 2004, Dandridge was once again promoted, this time to Assistant Chief in Charge of ROC-East. Dandridge holds an associate's degree from Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Texas, and has completed additional course work at Lubbock Christian College in Lubbock, Texas.