Outback Jack joins metro police

Why, because nothing in the article indicates that he is a citizen, and that is a legal requirement to be a certified officer? I'm sure he's a nice young man, but I have to wonder how he rose to the top to get hired when so many local young men and women were passed over. Remember, Meloche wasn't a U.S. citizen, and I don't trust the administration to actually care about following the law in this instance. They couldn't even manage to swear in the police chief correctly, for heaven's sake, they had to go back and do it again, quietly.