Chief Floyd Simpson today announced the promotion of Commander Mark Schauer and Commander Mike Markle to the position of Assistant Chief.  Schauer and Markle will join current Assistant Chief J.V. Garcia as the Corpus Christi Police Department’s second highest ranking police officials. Schauer and Markle will fill the vacancies created when former Assistant Chief Steve Mylett left the department in November of 2011 to become Chief of Police in Southlake, Texas; the third Assistant Chief Position was approved by the City Council last week.   One of Chief Simpson’s first goals as Chief was to create a new organizational structure that ensures that all facets of the department were given adequate attention, and that units with similar goals, such as the Gang Unit and Narcotics, work together under the same command.   This new command structure will ensure that important operations such as recruiting and training will be given the attention they deserve, and that potential problems can be identified and corrected before they become major issues.

Commander Mark Schauer is a 30 veteran of the police department and has served as the Commander of the Support Services Division since January of 2011.  Schauer has also commanded the Uniform Patrol and Narcotics/Vice Divisions. Schauer is a graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy, the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT) and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, where he teaches as an adjunct professor. Schauer has supervised in almost every division in the Department, including Training, CID, MetroCom, Narcotics/Vice, and Traffic. In addition, Commander Schauer is in charge of the City’s Public Integrity Team, a specialized group of Police Department and City Officials who are assigned to investigate complaints of public corruption by city employees.  Commander Schauer was recently tasked with overseeing the reorganization of the City’s Animal Control center.

Commander Mike Markle is a 22 year veteran of the CCPD, having served as Commander of CID since January 2011. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Saint Leo University and has served most of his career (17 years) in the Uniform Division. He spent 7 years on the SWAT team, has served as a Field Training Officer and was a member of the Police Department Honor Guard. Markle has received a Lifesaving Award and a Community Service Award from the Housing Authority.   In his previous role as a Captain in Support Services he played an important role in the updating of the Department’s 911 system, upgrading the dispatch area, and assisted in obtaining a federal grant to remodel the outdated communications center.Schauer and Markle will begin their new assignments next week.  A formal promotional ceremony will be held Monday May 7th at 2:00 PM in the fifth floor auditorium of the  Main Police Building.