Brad Richmond named new Airway Heights police chief

AIRWAY HEIGHTS — There’s a new police chief in town and he’s looking for help from the community he is sworn to protect.

“Law enforcement can’t do it on their own,” Brad Richmond, the city’s new police chief, said. “We have to collaborate and work with our community, and all our other partners to effect quality of life in a positive way for all of our citizens.”

It only took 27 years, but Richmond, 53, has come full-circle.

He started his law enforcement career in Airway Heights before leaving to work for the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office for nearly 25 years, most of it as a local investigat...