CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Ingleside Police Chief Tammy Burr has been reinstated after being on paid administrative leave for six weeks.
Burr was re-instated Tuesday night, sources said.
Burr told 3NEWS that she is happy to be back at work and resume her police duties.
"I'm just happy to be back," she said. "Do you know we have a lot of work to do and I have a lot of catching up to do. I'm going through my 3,000 missed emails right now, so again, I'm just happy to be back and get back on the job and put this all behind us."
Ingleside residents are still unsure why she was placed on leave. 3NEWS tried to speak with Ingleside City Manager Brenton Lewis about the issue Tuesday, but he declined to comment.
Residents in the area are concerned about the situation where Burr has reportedly collected some $10,000 in pay and benefits without doing any police work.
"No it's not right, we pay our taxes, and if we don't pay them our home's taken away, and so on and so forth," said Ingleside resident Dora Elizondo. "And someone is getting paid to sit at home and they don't let us know why, I don't think it's right."
Thomas Sprave is another Ingleside resident who said the situation has gone on for too long.
"It should've been solved in about two weeks. We all pay taxes for that and why does it takes so long? Do they have something to hide or anything?" he said.
Back on March 24, 3NEWS spoke with Lewis about the police chief's situation. He initially thought he would have the investigation wrapped up by March 30, which is what he told 3NEWS at the time.
"This is just an internal investigation about an allegation that was made against the chief, and since it's internal, there's nothing to do with criminal or anything, because another agency would be brought in if it was criminal," he said.
Lewis did not offer any timeline for his investigation to finally wrap up. Burr said she's hoping that will happen soon so she can get back to work.
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