A new police chief will be appointed in Papillion. Chris Whitted, a longtime deputy chief of police and the current interim police chief, is set to succeed Scott Lyon. Sign up for our Newsletters Lyon left the department to take a job out of the state. According to the staff directory on the city of Papillion's website, Whitted joined the police department in 1993 after graduating from the University of Nebraska - Omaha in 1992. Whitted.