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.

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 after Kate was found, he think that Kate killed her fiancé and faked her kidnapping only to people to believe she was really kidnapped depite all evidence that proof the contrary, unfortunately he doesn't listen anyone and arrest Kate anyway without showing any remorse or compassion and believe he will win in court.

Pierce Sterling
Tommy and Pierce are old friends.

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.

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.