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March 1981: David Wray joins the Greensboro Police Department as a patrol officer.

August 1986-November 1996: Wray promoted to sergeant, lieutenant and captain through the years.

January 1998: Police Chief Sylvester Daughtry retires; city searches for a new leader.

June 1998: Robert White hired as chief from Washington. There were 12 internal applicants.

June 1998: Wray promoted to chief of staff in White's office.

1999: White divides Greensboro into three districts and decentralizes the department.

December 2000: Wray assigned to be the assistant chief of District 2.

December 2002: White resigns to become head of the Louisville-Metro Police Department in Kentucky. Fewer than 12 members of the department apply for the job, including Wray, then the assistant chief.

July 2003: Wray named chief, announces plans to alter the department's structure.

August 2003: A battle over overtime pay surfaces when 76 officers sue the city.

September 2003: Wray changes police car logos.

January 2004: Wray adds a fourth patrol district, creates a centralized administration and changes officers to a controversial rotating shift schedule.

June 2004: Wray gets money from the City Council to hire 32 more officers.

May 2005: The city says it will start paying overtime to police in exchange for their dropping the lawsuit over comp time.

June 2005: The police association surveys officers about Wray's leadership.

June 2005: An African American police lieutenant finds a tracking device on his patrol car. Supervisors say they were investigating complaints that he was using it for personal business. But the officer, Lt. James Hinson, says he is one of several black officers targeted by the Special Intelligence Section, known to rank-and-file as the "secret police."

June 2005: Wray clears the special intelligence unit of misconduct and suspends Hinson with pay. Wray later hires an expert to examine Special Intelligence's organizational structure and recommends Internal Affairs should be responsible for investigating officers.

August 2005: The city manager's office launches a review of allegations into Special Intelligence and hires a consultant to help with the investigation.

November-December 2005: Two high-ranking officers in the Greensboro Police Department retired.

December 2005: City Manager Mitchell Johnson strips Wray of full authority to fire or transfer.

Jan. 7: Johnson changes the locks on Wray's office doors but says Wray is still chief.