KVIG Informative

Henderson’s top cop and his deputy chief are both being investigated by state authorities. The city won’t say what they’re accused of — only that it couldn’t trust its own department to investigate itself.

The City of Henderson confirmed an active state investigation into Police Chief Reggie Rader and Deputy Chief Matt Murnane, placing Murnane on leave while the inquiry proceeds. City officials have not disclosed the specific allegations under review.

Henderson requested that the Nevada Department of Public Safety’s Office of Professional Responsibility lead the investigation rather than keeping it inside the department’s own internal affairs unit, since the allegations reach the department’s top two executives — an arrangement meant to avoid an obvious conflict of interest.

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Henderson Mayor Michelle Romero said in a statement that the Office of Professional Responsibility is taking the lead on the city’s behalf, with assistance from outside legal counsel specializing in labor and employment law. She said the city needs to let the process play out in accordance with the law as it was designed to do.

Andrew Regenbaum, executive director of the Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers, said he understands the investigations into Rader and Murnane to be two entirely separate matters, and that he isn’t aware of any specific issue that would prompt an investigation into Rader. He said the union has plenty of complaints against the deputy chief that, in his view, should have been investigated long before now.

Rader, a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department deputy chief, was sworn in as Henderson’s police chief in July 2025, following the ouster of his predecessor, Hollie Chadwick, who was fired by the city manager over what officials described as leadership style rather than specific misconduct.

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The department has faced turbulence beyond this investigation over the past year. Internal records showed an internal affairs investigation and related files were ordered scrubbed by a Henderson city employee last year, and Henderson police unions publicly condemned a city councilwoman after she criticized what she called a lack of integrity and professionalism within the department.

Under Nevada’s Peace Officer’s Bill of Rights, a ranked peace officer has to lead any disciplinary investigation into another officer — which is exactly why this one landed with a state agency instead of Henderson’s own command staff. The city won’t say what Rader and Murnane are accused of. It’s already told the public it didn’t trust itself to find out.