Herald staff
BRIER — Brier Police Chief Gary Minor has decided to put down the handcuffs and pick up a textbook.
Minor resigned from the job he’s held since July 1997.
"I’m going into teaching," Minor said Monday, adding he’s already lined up some work teaching on-line classes for Internet-based universities.
Minor said he also hopes to continue his studies with the aim of earning a doctorate in criminal justice. He has a master’s degree in business administration and also is a lawyer.
"We wish him all the luck in the world," Mayor Wayne Kaske said.
Minor’s departure was effective Friday, allowing the former chief to take accrued vacation, Kaske said. The mayor appointed an interim chief from within the small department’s ranks, but he said it is unlikely that the next chief will be an internal hire. That’s because none of the department’s officers have sufficient supervisory experience, he said.
"It’s a definite setback," Kaske said. "I don’t have a backlog of deputy chiefs or lieutenants to move into a department-head status."
Minor came to Brier from Redmond, where he had served as an officer for 18 years. Prior to that, he’d worked for two years as a Washington State Patrol drug investigator.
Minor said his decision to leave law enforcement has been long in the making, even though his departure from his chief’s job in Brier was sudden.
"I’ve been thinking about it for awhile," he said.
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