Sgt. Bobby Simpson of the Chattanooga Police Department talks to a group of realtors at the Chattanooga Association of Realtors in 2005.SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. — After a few weeks without a police chief, the South Pittsburg City Commission voted unanimously in February to offer the job to Robert “Bobby” Simpson.
He has been on the job for about a month and, this week was introduced officially to the town’s citizens at the board’s regular monthly meeting.
Simpson, a retired Chattanooga police officer, said he loves South Pittsburg already because everyone has been so nice and welcoming since he arrived.
“It’s just been amazing,” he said. “I really appreciate how smoothly everything has gone.”
The town has been working recently with just six officers to fill two 12-hour shifts, but the board hired a seventhofficer earlier this week.