Tommy Walsh

Tommy Walsh, a character in the Veil of Secrets book, is the Chief of the Birchport Police Department. He made his first appearance in Chapter 2.

Appearance
Tommy has blue eyes, short brown hair and has fair skin. He wears an official blue police shirt decorated with a name tag, badge, two golden stars on his collar and another police force badge on his left shoulder, along with a navy blue tie.

Personality
Tommy is shown to be rude, lazy, and looks for any excuse to not do any Police work. He treats his deputies, Jeff and Naomi, very poorly, often yelling at them and assigning them menial tasks. It is heavily implied that he takes bribes from the Sterling family.

In Chapter 5, he is implied to be racist towards African-Americans, as Grant called him Chief Racial Profiling. He is also implied to be sexist given that Naomi states that she is often discriminated against for being the only woman on the force.

In Chapter 8, he states that Kate killed her fiancé and faked her kidnapping, despite all evidence that prove the opposite. However, Walsh ignores all the other evidence and proceeds to arrest Kate without showing any remorse. He does not care about knowing the truth or investigating for the real culprit.

Pierce Sterling
Tommy and Pierce are old friends. It is heavily implied that Walsh is corrupt given that he will only do a task with Pierce's approval.

Your Character
Your character immediately has a negative impression of him due to his reluctance to investigate Kate's disappearance, labeling him as incompetent and lazy. However, Flynn states that he is very influential and is not the type of person you would want as an enemy. In Chapter 3, you can accuse him of being corrupt. In Chapter 11, he tries to force you out of Birchport. He also says that you and Naomi deserve each other for the being a "constant pain in his ass".

Trivia

 * In Chapter 5, he issued an All Points Bulletin for Kate O'Malley.
 * His policy is to not file a missing persons report until said person has been missing for 24 hours.
 * He resembles actor James Gandolfini.
 * He has the same forename as Tommy Phelps, a character in Red Carpet Diaries, Book 2.
 * In Chapter 7, it is revealed that he is campaigning to be the Sheriff of Birchport.