Chattanooga Police Chief Freeman Cooper plans to retire, but could stay on under a contract basis, Mayor Ron Littlefield said today.
Mr. Littlefield said the contract would go for three years.
“It would be until the end of my term,” he said.
Chief Cooper wrote in a letter, acquired by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, that his effective date of retirement is March 31.
“Having a job that I have loved makes it hard to believe that it has been indeed 28 years,” Chief Cooper said in the letter.